Posted on 08/14/2018 12:06:28 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
LAS VEGAS — Two Boise men were killed in a crash Wednesday near Las Vegas, media partner CBS 2 News reports.
The Nevada Highway Patrol told station KSNV a semi-truck driver admitted he fell asleep before a five-vehicle crash on Highway 93.
The crash happened just before 6 a.m., Wednesday at an active construction zone.
According to highway patrol, the semi was filled with sand, so the driver could not stop in time, running over the car in front of him.
The car was ripped in half, split down the middle. The two men inside were pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities in Nevada identified the men as Robert Jay Barnes, 50, and Christopher Markley, 34. The Boise men died of blunt force injuries.
The wreck is the latest deadly crash involving semi-trucks in a construction zone.
An Ohio truck driver was killed July 3 when two tractor-trailers collided in a construction zone on Interstate 84 east of Twin Falls, creating an explosion.
On June 16 in a construction zone on Interstate 84 near Boise, four people, including a New York truck driver and three Mountain Home Air Force Base airmen, died in a fiery seven-vehicle crash under the Cloverdale overpass.
On Tuesday an Idaho Falls man died when his semi-truck flipped onto its side and burst into flames on Interstate 86 near American Falls, the Idaho State Journal reports, though the report did not say the area was in a construction zone.
“And when she called her dispatcher, that moron insisted she was correct and we were lying, that she should just drive through our gate!”
I noticed the quality and intelligence of dispatchers dropping as well.
It seemed like the people who couldn’t cut the mustard as drivers ended up being dispatchers.
Combine a not too bright driver with a not too bright dispatcher and you have a recipe for idiocy that grows exponentially.
You would figure that in three years someone would set her straight.
“When asked if he saw the “no trucks” and the “truck exit only” sign he said “yes” but then extolled on how it didn’t apply to him.”
Aww, wasn’t he special!
Snowflakes behind the wheel are so precious.
He sounds like the SWIFT driver who showed up at a Wal-Mart distro center at 1:00pm and couldn’t understand why they were turning him away for being late.
His BOL showed his delivery time as 01:00 which we know is 1:00am. No one had told him the trucking business operates on the 24 hour clock.
Another driver and I gave him a tutorial on pick up and delivery times.
I blame a lot of it on the CDL mills that aren’t concerned about teaching but are only concerned with the money. If you can walk and breathe at the same time they graduate you.
I also blame some of the old timers who won’t take the time to help the younger drivers. I’ve seen quite a few who would rather bitch about the youngsters than help them learn to become proper Drivers.
Of course I ran into quite a few who went out of their way to help others because it was how THEY were taught.
Good luck with the new crowd. Just be glad Schneider didn’t import those 2,000 drivers from India some years ago.
That would have been a real clusterscrew of a goat rodeo!
“I also blame some of the old timers who won’t take the time to help the younger drivers.”
On the other hand, you have the newbies who refuse to listen to the experienced drivers.
Seen that too.
As for dispatchers.. “It’s only that far apart on the map! Why can’t you get there in five minutes?!”
“That far apart” turns out to be a two hour drive, and dispatch can’t comprehend this.
Schneider east coast tier did one better, they sent a guy out my way behind the wheel without a CDL.
He was bragging about it, when asked how he got here without hitting the DOT stop he stated that he heard where they were and bypassed the locations.
Plausible in my immediate location.
I just hope he was pulling my leg.
But, seeing some of the things happening, I’m not sure.
Had an “Outwest” driver looking for the Walmart terminal show up at my exit, she backed up just out of sight before flying down the driveway for the third time.
“The cops told me you have to let me in!” she said.
Wally world has their terminal over by the local yellow freight terminal, about ten miles away.
And she refused to listen to me about it.
So she conjured phantom cops to try and enter my truckyard.
Stay safe out there, it’s only going to get worse before there is an improvement.
“On the other hand, you have the newbies who refuse to listen to the experienced drivers.
Seen that too.”
I had forgotten about the boneheads who INSIST they learned everything there was to know at their driving school. :(
“As for dispatchers.. “It’s only that far apart on the map! Why can’t you get there in five minutes?!”
“That far apart” turns out to be a two hour drive, and dispatch can’t comprehend this.”
I hated driving for mid-west dispatchers.
I tried to explain many times that rush hour traffic on the east coast stretched from Boston, MA to Richmond, Va. and on Fridays it stretched into NC.
They couldn’t comprehend it.
They figured once past NYC it was open highway.
“Stay safe out there, it’s only going to get worse before there is an improvement.”
Stay safe yourself.
The gov and trucking companies are creating a perfect storm that blows ill.
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