Professional Drivers or just any for that matter
 

Well here's what happens when so called "professional drivers" fail to drive with winter road conditions. This happened about a week and a half ago. I got the call that I had
the day off or this could have been me. It was raining around 4 that morning and ended up turning to freezing rain then to snow and cold. The Highways were sheets of glare ice.
The driver of our truck was following two Semi's doing about 35 KM/H,They were all looking for a rest stop or a place to turn off the Highway. The Tractor/Trailer hit our truck from behind,
the people driving said they were doing 60 KM/H...........my question is would there be this much damage at 60 KM/H????? Our drive was fine though shaken and sore,the others(3 of them) 2 were ok the one in the Sleeper was takin to hospital with minor injuries. He had to be cut out of the sleeper.

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WOW! Im a driver also (5 ton) and I do my best to keep everyone around me safe. My pet peeve is when other big rig and dump truck drivers fly by me when im on the highway when Im doing 95k. There is alot of unsafe pro (if you can call them that) drivers. Glad to hear your driver is ok

I drive a Tandem 08 Sterling........they are a little gutless but I cruise down the road at 110
slower if its snowing and whatnot and everyday I get rigs blowing by me at 120 to 140.
I can understand if the roads are bare and dry but this is happening during snow,icy conditions,fog and it seems to be getting worse. I was never a wussy driver but when it hits close to home it really makes you step back and think.

That does look like alot of damage for a 30km/h speed differential. The insurance investigators/police will probably be able to estimate speeds from the amount of damage.

Our roads arent as bad in the winter but our drivers are 10X worse

I think that is a fair amount of dammage, most cube vans i have seen do not have much for a rear bumper so the other truck would have just peeled right into it.


I think it all comes down to basic physics too. truck/trailer combo is pushing a lot of weight.

Impact is equal to mass times velocity so it's possible to cause a lot of damage at low speed if the mass is large enough. Best to leave it to the investigators but I'd say it's possible. Not sure it really matters though.

Looks rough though :surprise:

I only drive a 2010 F450 loaded with welding equipment and have never even come close to a ditch. But I was severally rear ended in 2008 buy some dumba**. There are to many bad driver's with a licence out there that is for sure.

Well good thing the boiler wasn't up to pressure :wink: I went past this on my way to Brooks I can't believe no one was seriously hurt it looked alot worse in person.

Wow glad everyone was mostly ok.

Like someone mentioned there isnt exactly much to cubes, but... the truck that hit yours looks mangled. Wow. Usually they dont even take a dent. That does look like more than 25km/h difference but who knows.

From seeing accidents in my career with the Fire Dept. I would say possibly 60 MPH with that amount of damage.

Thank god no one seriously hurt..

could be about right foe speed, depends on how heavy he was and if his brakes helped at all.

whats that yellow tank in the back og the truck? looks like a good shell for a smoker :biggrin:

Steve

The "yellow tank" is a boiler. And according to the police the load wasn't heavy,they didn't say much but it sounded like a back haul of 2 pallets.

hmm na a boiler isn't to good for a smoker.. to much insulation to clean up :mrgreen:

the truck its self with the trailer.. lot of inurtia there, I could see that kinda dammage from 60ish K but who knows.. I got rearended by a blazer when I was driving my mustang in the 80's I was slowing down to about 35K comming up to my turn and he hit me hard enough to speed me back up to 110 and break the back off my seat. it is amazing the amount of dammage there is in some accidents at a relitivly slow speed.

If they said they were doing 60, I'd bet you could safely say they were doing at least 90. Most drivers will under state or underestimate the speed they were doing before an accident.

Just because someone earns a living as a driver, that does not make them a proffessional. Some of the worst drivers on the road are being paid to be out there. I can't even begin to count how many times I've seen drivers of trucks and semis talking on their cell phones while piloting their rig. Not to mention all the other stupid things I've seen them do. Usually the same ones are driving trucks that are seriously lacking in maintenance too.

Not to paint the entire lot with the same brush. Its just the bad ones that always stand out. The many drivers who are professionals go about their work unoticed.