I'm a truck driver, have been doing it since 1979...Because of a shortage of experienced drivers , the ATA ( american truck association ) says we are short 30,000 drivers nationwide... So what you are getting out there on our roads are new drivers with little to no experienced, some don't even speak english...I tell my wife it is better to keep that truck in front of you, than to have an unattentive driver with an 80,000 lb truck behind you.... Take heed, give trucks lots of space........

 

It floors me how non English speaking people get jobs like trucking here in a English speaking country with road signs, tests, instructions ect, are written in English. How can they operate with out a translator? No wonder Interstate highways are littered with Big rig massacres!

 

A very sad day for sure. Thoughts and prayers to all it has affected.

 

It's not just south americans, I've met russians, arabs, asians, french canadians, you name em, there out there...........

 

It's not just south americans, I've met russians, arabs, you name em, there out there...........

Scary!!!-- more ways than one---.

 

sincere prayers go out to them and the family's

 

not sure how long this link will be valid...video news story about the crash


Richmond bikers involved in horrific I-85 wreck WTVR.com

 

 

WOW---- don't see the truck that hit them did he get away?

 

the truck driver was 'believed' to have fallen asleep at the wheel, got a front wheel flat from the accident and as such, stopped 1/2 mile up the road - according to the news feed

 

God be with them all . Including the driver, he will have to live with it.

 

God bless them all!

 

Very sad indeed. A young life. Condolences to family and friends.

 

You can't just blame democrats ,its both parties(Dems and Reps) Democrats want their votes Republicans want their cheap labor. Americans need some one representing us working class stiffs who pay majority of U.S. taxes.

 

My remark was impulsive and not at all thought out. And I did let my personal feeling about illegals coming into this country and their effect on driving down the wages on some contract welding jobs color what I wrote. This is stuff that I have personally seen happen and I made a crude statement concerning it. Both sides of the political isle are very much to blame.

 

Another of the six bikers died today

 

According to the news stories I just watched (thank you for the link) It looks like the person actually sitting on their bike is the only one who didn't get run down. CRAZY. We truly are invisible. My thoughts and prayers are with all the families involved, as someone who lost a daughter to a violent death I do not wish this pain upon anyone. their lives are forever altered.

the truck driver was 'believed' to have fallen asleep at the wheel, got a front wheel flat from the accident and as such, stopped 1/2 mile up the road - according to the news feed

I also pray for this driver and his passenger. He obviously didn't get the sleep he needed the night before. Falling asleep at the wheel could be so easy. They are calling it a "hit and run". The guy didn't know he hit anyone. manslaughter, yes... :-(

Such a horrible story. That could easily happen to any of us.

 

It is better that 100 conservative leaning motorcycle riders get run over than have one undocumented Democrat driving a truck lose their CDL.

You gonna have to explain that one to me TN1WR,.....

 

After the dressing down I got yesterday for my post, all that I think that I should say is, I apologize. I have never shot from the hip with a firearm, but there have been times where I have done so with my mouth and yesterday I did it with my post. I was making what I was hoping a sharp point. I did this on the wrong venue in the wrong thread, without reading the whole thread, I posted a ham handed comment in the wrong context and in an offensive inappropriate way. To everyone I do apologize.

 

You are probably right. I let frustration and politics from some of what I see happening to some of the industries that support the industry I work in harshen my remarks. It was uncalled for.

The Highways are loaded with dangerous drives from being tired, drinking, and texting. My son was on a two way highway and stopped to let other vehicles pass in the other lane and waiting to turn onto another highway, a car coming behind him from a distance was texting. At the last second the person raised his head and swerved towards the ditch missing my son. He had no where to go and prepared himself to be hit. Thanks God he didn't!!!!

 

Tragic as this scene appears and given it would seem more appropriate to the trailer of the next Mad Max installment rather than an American Highway we can learn from what we are shown. The interstate system has become the land of the hard charger and day dream racer. Add to that mix the over worked trucker hauling overweight loads and extra runs to keep his rig on the road and its a cocktail we should avoid like the angel of death it represents. Every super slab out there has a scenic road that shadows it; yes full of stop lights and driveways, but also rich in mom and pop enterprise and glimpses of when travel ment adventure and discovery. I for one find my calling there and avoid the highways at all costs. Ill take the byways every time.

 

I was a trucker for a brief period of time and got sick of dispatch telling me I had to pick up a load 3 hours from my location immediately when I had already been on the road for ten hours. Ten hours and you are done says the law! Ten hours and there are more in the day says dispatch. No wonder there are sleeping drivers. There are some good companies out there that are actually concerned about the laws and their drivers but there are a lot that don't give a damn... like Smith Transport who shall remain nameless

God bless all of the families of the deceased and ease their pain.