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An oversize load parked in the Love's truckstop had failing brakes. My truck was at the fuel islands, when he crashed into the side of it. It took over 40 min. to find the driver. He admitted to having faulty
brakes. Scary part is if I had been on that side of the truck at the time.
Turns out his insurance is not valid and it has been a major headache to get the money for the downtime and getting the truck fixed. It still is not settled.
Even though I told the police officer that truck should not go out on the interstate, as I felt they were going to kill themselves or someone else, the officer said it was private property and he only came out as a courtesy. To my knowledge DOT were not called at that time, though the safety director was going to report it.
So what I learned from this is you can never let your guard down, because this could well have been a huge tragedy, not just for me but if anyone was walking across the parking lot at that moment.
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brakes. Scary part is if I had been on that side of the truck at the time.
Turns out his insurance is not valid and it has been a major headache to get the money for the downtime and getting the truck fixed. It still is not settled.
Even though I told the police officer that truck should not go out on the interstate, as I felt they were going to kill themselves or someone else, the officer said it was private property and he only came out as a courtesy. To my knowledge DOT were not called at that time, though the safety director was going to report it.
So what I learned from this is you can never let your guard down, because this could well have been a huge tragedy, not just for me but if anyone was walking across the parking lot at that moment.
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