it does not matter if the road was not cleared then why did you drive on it? you are the professional driver and are responsible for your actions on any road. it’s like stating that mother nature is at-fault but you are not going to sue her, but rather the folks responsible for helping to clear the road. you took the choice of driving on an unsafe road and as a licensed professional driver you took the ultimate chance. in this case, you failed to take proper control of you rig. i think this company has no leg to stand on… i used to be an OTR Driver Trainer for a major company…
If that driver and his company are saying that the state did not treat the roadway, then my question to them is: What was your driver doin on the roadway? He should have used his judgement and parked his truck because the roads were unsafe. That is what most of us responsible driver’s do, Road not safe, park it until it is.
Apparently he was driving too fast for existing conditions. If a safe speed for the conditions is zero miles per hour, then the truck driver was obliged park his rig.
I live on the West coast and about 90% of the speeders in this area are Canadian and a good amount of those are commercial units. There is no way to regulate them once they pass the border in bound. We have enough underemployed truckers in america to handle the situation but it is easier for the state and federal governments to cave in and export jobs. I believe the driver probably was exhibiting lack of judgement and that should be the fault of his employer not the state. That does not absolve the state of their responsibility for highway maintenance, maybe their union was having a meeting and the drivers were not allowed to miss it.
you are actually wrong in your statement about the canadian truck drivers… here’s how that works: a canadian driver can deliver a load into the u.s. but then can p/u a load to return back to the u.s. … we have the same agreement with them as a us trucker… bring a load in, and then out… it’s supposed to work that way with the mexicans, but we have problems because their trucks are not as safe… so the agreement is they bring it across the border to the yard, to either be reloaded onto an us truck or pulled… most cases reloaded since we trust our trailers.. it’s not anything to do w/how much these truckers are paid… it’s a matter of being a professional driver.. like it was said earlier, a pro should have parked if unsafe… i have done it… it was so bad one time, that the dot pulled their trucks off the road because they could not keep up! so whose fault is it? mine if i kept going! same w/this driver… trucking company – pay up!
I’m willing to bet it’s not about the money! $2.5 Million is just not enough, so gotta sue the state where the accident happened. I hope this gets thrown out.
So their “professional driver” lost control of his rig. Poor judgment and totally his fault, Eh. Now the trucking company wants to sue one of our states? Not only should the suit be tossed, but this trucking company banned from crossing our borders.
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it does not matter if the road was not cleared then why did you drive on it? you are the professional driver and are responsible for your actions on any road. it’s like stating that mother nature is at-fault but you are not going to sue her, but rather the folks responsible for helping to clear the road. you took the choice of driving on an unsafe road and as a licensed professional driver you took the ultimate chance. in this case, you failed to take proper control of you rig. i think this company has no leg to stand on… i used to be an OTR Driver Trainer for a major company…
If that driver and his company are saying that the state did not treat the roadway, then my question to them is: What was your driver doin on the roadway? He should have used his judgement and parked his truck because the roads were unsafe. That is what most of us responsible driver’s do, Road not safe, park it until it is.
Apparently he was driving too fast for existing conditions. If a safe speed for the conditions is zero miles per hour, then the truck driver was obliged park his rig.
I live on the West coast and about 90% of the speeders in this area are Canadian and a good amount of those are commercial units. There is no way to regulate them once they pass the border in bound. We have enough underemployed truckers in america to handle the situation but it is easier for the state and federal governments to cave in and export jobs. I believe the driver probably was exhibiting lack of judgement and that should be the fault of his employer not the state. That does not absolve the state of their responsibility for highway maintenance, maybe their union was having a meeting and the drivers were not allowed to miss it.
you are actually wrong in your statement about the canadian truck drivers… here’s how that works: a canadian driver can deliver a load into the u.s. but then can p/u a load to return back to the u.s. … we have the same agreement with them as a us trucker… bring a load in, and then out… it’s supposed to work that way with the mexicans, but we have problems because their trucks are not as safe… so the agreement is they bring it across the border to the yard, to either be reloaded onto an us truck or pulled… most cases reloaded since we trust our trailers.. it’s not anything to do w/how much these truckers are paid… it’s a matter of being a professional driver.. like it was said earlier, a pro should have parked if unsafe… i have done it… it was so bad one time, that the dot pulled their trucks off the road because they could not keep up! so whose fault is it? mine if i kept going! same w/this driver… trucking company – pay up!
I’m willing to bet it’s not about the money! $2.5 Million is just not enough, so gotta sue the state where the accident happened. I hope this gets thrown out.
So their “professional driver” lost control of his rig. Poor judgment and totally his fault, Eh. Now the trucking company wants to sue one of our states? Not only should the suit be tossed, but this trucking company banned from crossing our borders.