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Quote:...or your dum.

 

I is dum. Your point?

Quote:That's crazy.  You never really think all the bad things that could happen when you step in the car every day, and then you read this.

 

Be safe everyone.

 

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You never heard about car accidents back in the 20s and 30s, yet you people act like it's better to live now than back then.

Quote:You never heard about car accidents back in the 20s and 30s, yet you people act like it's better to live now than back then.

 

I don't think street legal vehicles went over 30 miles an hour back then either haha

Quote:You never heard about car accidents back in the 20s and 30s, yet you people act like it's better to live now than back then.

 

This isn't really the appropriate thread to be making your petty little points in. 

 

One person died, and others are in critical....and on top of that, the despicable comments in the tweet....

 

No class. 

Quote:That's crazy.  You never really think all the bad things that could happen when you step in the car every day, and then you read this.

 

Be safe everyone.

 

Some truckers and professional drivers do indeed have the attitude that they own the road and that anyone else on the interstate is merely an obstacle to them doing their jobs.  I've seen that attitude in action many times on the interstate. 

Quote:Some truckers and professional drivers do indeed have the attitude that they own the road and that anyone else on the interstate is merely an obstacle to them doing their jobs.  I've seen that attitude in action many times on the interstate. 

 

From what I've read, the truck driver of course is at 100% fault for the incident. I have an uncle who is a truck driver, delivers mail up and down the east coast. I remember him telling me once that sometimes, a lot of companies put such a time restraint on a lot of these drivers so much, that 4-5 hours of sleep a day can seem like average. If that's true, something needs to be regulated to ensure that these drivers are getting enough sleep to operate these rigs.

Quote:From what I've read, the truck driver of course is at 100% fault for the incident. I have an uncle who is a truck driver, delivers mail up and down the east coast. I remember him telling me once that sometimes, a lot of companies put such a time restraint on a lot of these drivers so much, that 4-5 hours of sleep a day can seem like average. If that's true, something needs to be regulated to ensure that these drivers are getting enough sleep to operate these rigs.

 

It is regulated.  There are rest requirements in place for over the road drivers who are regularly doing long hauls. 

Quote:It is regulated.  There are rest requirements in place for over the road drivers who are regularly doing long hauls. 

 

Is that universal or just individual company regulations (such as Walmart)?

Quote:Is that universal or just individual company regulations (such as Walmart)?

 

It's supposed to be universal I believe.  At check points and those types of things they have to have logs that show their driving times/sleep schedule to make sure those types of things dont happen.

 

I know there were ways around it. 

Quote:That's crazy.  You never really think all the bad things that could happen when you step in the car every day, and then you read this.

 

Be safe everyone.

This, plus what happened on 95 SJC last weekend.

Quote:This isn't really the appropriate thread to be making your petty little points in. 

 

One person died, and others are in critical....and on top of that, the despicable comments in the tweet....

 

No class.

I was confused as to the post you was replying to, but I agree with your response.

Quote:Is that universal or just individual company regulations (such as Walmart)?

 

There are federal guidelines as to how many hours over the road drivers can go consecutively without rest. 

 

If this guy was indeed up for 24 hours driving, that opens a whole new can of worms come lawsuit time. 

Quote:This isn't really the appropriate thread to be making your petty little points in. 

 

One person died, and others are in critical....and on top of that, the despicable comments in the tweet....

 

No class. 

 

But it is okay for you to force your agenda in school shooting threads when people die? Makes complete sense, TMD.

Quote:Whether we copy/cut and paste or quote, the previously edited word is no longer edited. Sometimes we miss that and the word slips through. I'm not sure what the mystery is, unless y'all think we are just abusing our limited powers.

There's no "mystery"...that was just my smart [BLEEP] way of letting him know his slip was showing!!

Quote:You never heard about car accidents back in the 20s and 30s, yet you people act like it's better to live now than back then.

Actually half of my grandfathers immediate family was killed in a car wreck in the 20's... four brothers, his father and a cousin. I'm thinking they were piled up like cordwood in that car because three others survived it...all from the same car.

You always hate to hear about accidents like these.  There are laws regulating truckers, but most of them have to work when they aren't supposed to if they want to make any money.  I think the regulations have caused more stress, than they've helped relieve.  A mandatory ten hour rest, and the mandatory 34 hour rest between shifts sound like good ideas on paper.  But not so much in practice.  

 

Quote:You never heard about car accidents back in the 20s and 30s, yet you people act like it's better to live now than back then.

Actually in 1895 there were only two cars on the road in the entire state.  And they crashed into each other.  (or so I've heard)

Quote:You always hate to hear about accidents like these.  There are laws regulating truckers, but most of them have to work when they aren't supposed to if they want to make any money.  I think the regulations have caused more stress, than they've helped relieve.  A mandatory ten hour rest, and the mandatory 34 hour rest between shifts sound like good ideas on paper.  But not so much in practice.  

 

Actually in 1895 there were only two cars on the road in the entire state.  And they crashed into each other.  (or so I've heard)

First automobile accident ever recorded, IIRC...

Quote:You never heard about car accidents back in the 20s and 30s, yet you people act like it's better to live now than back then.

 

Im still trying to understand your point on this.

Quote:Im still trying to understand your point on this.

I think that was a point toward the posters that always talk about how great it was back in the day....