Fatality accident
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MonavieLeaker
Bringin Teh_Lulz
Wow
I read it was a Walmart truck with a trainee driver.
Not sure, it was just playing next to the dispatch window.
stevetheupsguy
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All I have to say is, the person filming sure had one heck of a spotter. Can't believe they made it through so easily.
rod
Retired 22 years
They were probably showing it as a "you made it past the accident and it didn't envolve you so why are you stopping" vidio.
barnyard
KTM rider
Walmart does not hire trainees, though. Last I checked, you needed 5 years OTR experience to work as a Walmart Co. driver.
TB
Hmmm, I don't really know. I think I read that in the comments under the video.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
I have driven tractor/trailers down Donner. It is a pass that you don't want to friend* around on. It is very long, winding and in some areas the grade can be as much as 8/9%. Though those %'s are high at least the length is usually short (less than a mile). It seems to me the overall mileage of Donner is somewhere in the nieghborhood of 50 miles. Beautiful country, but not to be taken lightly.
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becauseican
New Member
Not a UPS truck, no skirts on the trailer and the trailer doors don't match those used by UPS.
UPSNewbie
Well-Known Member
Wowee. No one ever said it was.
tieguy
Banned
I've seen this one passed around by email at work. Pretty sobering to think the co-driver died with no fault to him.
I've played it over and over quite a few times thinking about what I might do different in that situation if it were me.
Obvious answer is to not speed.
Once you get past the obvious answer the only thing I can think of to do would be to use two lanes once you clear the camera truck and then to start slowling up while keeping yourself as straight as possible.
If you look at the video he goes over the center line then pulls it hard left back in his lane. At that point he loses it completely.
But again the obvious answer is to drive the speed limit.
I've played it over and over quite a few times thinking about what I might do different in that situation if it were me.
Obvious answer is to not speed.
Once you get past the obvious answer the only thing I can think of to do would be to use two lanes once you clear the camera truck and then to start slowling up while keeping yourself as straight as possible.
If you look at the video he goes over the center line then pulls it hard left back in his lane. At that point he loses it completely.
But again the obvious answer is to drive the speed limit.
dannyboy
From the promised LAND
tie
i never saw brake lights, not once.
also, if you watch the angle of the trailer as it passes the camera truck, it was already at that time on the right wheels alone. the camera truck almost looks like it kept it from turning over that time.
it makes me thing brake failure more than just a driver that was speeding?
dont you know the car in front had to clean out their pants. just a few seconds more and they would have been under that rig. or it might be, like so many other drivers that never get the big picture, they never knew and drove blissfully onward, without a clue that their angel was working overtime?
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i never saw brake lights, not once.
also, if you watch the angle of the trailer as it passes the camera truck, it was already at that time on the right wheels alone. the camera truck almost looks like it kept it from turning over that time.
it makes me thing brake failure more than just a driver that was speeding?
dont you know the car in front had to clean out their pants. just a few seconds more and they would have been under that rig. or it might be, like so many other drivers that never get the big picture, they never knew and drove blissfully onward, without a clue that their angel was working overtime?
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