What you're doing 85 in a 45 mile an hour zone down the steep grade then you try to stop one of those big trucks really fast what do you think the outcome is going to be?
110 year sentence for truck driver....see?
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Wally
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Feeder guys would know more about this than anyone. Are they trained what to do in failure mode?
He passed up the runaway ramp.
He had an option to avoid that whole entire situation.
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
Apparently he said his brakes failed much earlier and he chose to bypass a runaway ramp just a couple of miles before the crash. He chose to continue on for miles to the bottom of the hill knowing he had no brakes. Dumb.
Poop Head
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Even after the ramp. Point the bitch off the road, not at a line of stopped traffic.
.I wonder how much experience he had behind the wheel?
Poop Head
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Looked young. I think i remember he was like 24? Idk. My guess is next to zero experience. The "brake failure" was prob his fault because he had no buisiness driving 8 class a truck.
Driving tractor trailer is no joke, that's why I never bid into it
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
I got my CDL in 2000, and idk who gets trained for what, as I didn't go to a truck driving school. The process for me was really just reading a book, performing a comprehensive pre-trip, and taking a road test.
No idea what these CDL factories are teaching.
I think if you have enough "cash" You can get your CDL....
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
I'm 100% sure.
Poop Head
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Any info on this guy? I seriously remember hearing that he was an illegal. Was that true? Idk. Obviously, he isnt gonna have any licensing of thats the case.
sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
$6500 for a six-week training course. Ridiculous. "Muh driver shortage."
And I'm sure everyone passes
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
He was 23, Cuban immigrant. Apparently a really good guy, just
ed up really bad.
Poop Head
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Id do it if i could work an 8 hour day shift. We all know thats not the case, pretty much anywhere, much less ups.
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
Six weeks is if you only go weekends. They have classes for $4k around here that are 2.5 weeks and you get your license. 3rd party testers, too, so you don't even have to be seen by the MVD/DOT guy except to go pick up your physical license.
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
Plus changing your shifts when you're at the bottom of the list. I couldn't mess up my sleep schedule again and expect to be productive
Poop Head
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Right. Thats the biggest thing for me. And it seems like all our tdp guys work 12+ hours every day
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