The terms “Alabama” and “Trucking Firm” should not be used in the same sentence. Drivers from the south are notoriously dangerous and have an inbred need for speed. After all NASCAR is rooted in the south. Yahoo…..Dukes of Hazard.
I take offense at your generalization of
Southerners. I have no inbreeding in my family! I can not believe someone is so
stupid as to judge an entire population
based upon the action of a small percentage of that population. Many great
things have come from the South other than
NASCAR. After all, the space program did not start in the state of Vermont. It started in the state of ALABAMA.
Perhaps you are just still angry over
the SEC winning so many national Championships over the past few years.
You can take your prejudiced anti-South
comments and place them where the sun
has ever yet to shine, you “Dam_ Yankee”.
While the safety record of the trucking company will come into play as the sure to folow litigation works through the court system, this article would benefit from further discussion as to the history of the driver, not the company.
“The truck had no citations in 2009 or 2010, including a clean roadside stop about a month before the fatal wreck, records show.”
Thus, one month prior to the acident, the truck had a clean check up. Further, the article also states the tire tracks leave the road and go through the median without evidence of braking, suggesting driver error and not a mechancical defect.
Based on this information, the more important question is not the record of the truck, but the record of the driver, and how many hours he had been operating the vehicle, and the entries in the trucks log book. Unfortunatley, this accident appears to be due to a driver falling asleep, which is a common problem for truckers across the nation. Better awareness and enforcement of the current laws with respect to truckers would prevent similar future tragedies and save more lives.
This type of accident provides the Journal with an opportunity to illustrate the issues with sleepy truckers across the U.S. and focus on solutions for the future.
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The terms “Alabama” and “Trucking Firm” should not be used in the same sentence. Drivers from the south are notoriously dangerous and have an inbred need for speed. After all NASCAR is rooted in the south. Yahoo…..Dukes of Hazard.
Gomer,
I take offense at your generalization of
Southerners. I have no inbreeding in my family! I can not believe someone is so
stupid as to judge an entire population
based upon the action of a small percentage of that population. Many great
things have come from the South other than
NASCAR. After all, the space program did not start in the state of Vermont. It started in the state of ALABAMA.
Perhaps you are just still angry over
the SEC winning so many national Championships over the past few years.
You can take your prejudiced anti-South
comments and place them where the sun
has ever yet to shine, you “Dam_ Yankee”.
While the safety record of the trucking company will come into play as the sure to folow litigation works through the court system, this article would benefit from further discussion as to the history of the driver, not the company.
“The truck had no citations in 2009 or 2010, including a clean roadside stop about a month before the fatal wreck, records show.”
Thus, one month prior to the acident, the truck had a clean check up. Further, the article also states the tire tracks leave the road and go through the median without evidence of braking, suggesting driver error and not a mechancical defect.
Based on this information, the more important question is not the record of the truck, but the record of the driver, and how many hours he had been operating the vehicle, and the entries in the trucks log book. Unfortunatley, this accident appears to be due to a driver falling asleep, which is a common problem for truckers across the nation. Better awareness and enforcement of the current laws with respect to truckers would prevent similar future tragedies and save more lives.
This type of accident provides the Journal with an opportunity to illustrate the issues with sleepy truckers across the U.S. and focus on solutions for the future.