When is someone going to say “enough” with the mega-trucks? It’s not just the collisions on RR tracks. It seems that almost every major pileup or endlessly snarled traffic situation on the highways involves a truck that isn’t controlled well in many situations.
You mean you don't like highway multi-lane tractor trailer races up the mountains going 40mph? You don't like your hometown curbs and road surfaces being destroyed by these heavy 53 foot trailers? How about those 53 footers closing off roads and parking lots to make deliveries in congested areas? Fun, fun, fun.
I hope that driver is ticketed and the company has to pay all the legal and property damage expenses. I see way too many people being careless at RR crossings without regard to the safety of other people.
What is baffling to me is that this rig was being escorted by the State Highway Patrol. One
would think they should have a handle on the route and possible problems to be encountered.
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One of the troopers escorting the truck from Clayton, North Carolina to the Virginia border ........