..1)...So far the 20/20 segment has been eye opening. I never knew the change from a 5" Trinity guard rail to a cost saving 4" could mean the difference between life, death and limb loss.
...2)...K&B trucking and the dispatchers just got a black eye from this story and the driver that refused to drive while fatigued.
I'm sure the ATA will be monitoring this companies practices for awhile.
...3)...I got my sleep! Especially when my students were driving ... I has to sleep with one eye open but I slept, none the less.
first, of course i need to make a correction..
the video HERE in this thread, i saw a Werner insignia on the (alleged) driver's jacket, but watching the farce of a tv report, from what i believe was once a reputable news program, i was mistaken, as he was NOT a Werner driver at this particular time.
Regarding #1)...that being said, with selective editing, 20/20 NEVER mentioned he had already "up to" a 20 hour rest period. i watched the show, and i taped it as well.
that "so-called alleged driver", made charges in the video here, that the general public will never see or hear. that in of itself, gives the industry as a whole, a "black eye"..
i never heard the ATA guy say he wanted to talk with that particular alleged driver for more information. (as dockworker said, there are 2 sides to EVERY story), then there IS the truth (i say that last part).
the scumbag alleged driver at the end of the "fabricated, edited story" was shown with his arms folded across his chest, saying "how proud he was to have exposed this problem"....
he is scum, pure, plain and simple.... a cry baby, that HAD "up to" 20 hours off duty, and the frigging jerk off could NOT get any more sleep..???
again, jerks going to school to then get a job, "making big bucks", but then finding out how difficult an "easy job i can do, or i always wanted to drive, or i like driving" job can be.
i saw IT ALL THE frigging time, those jerk off's in MY classroom saying those and other stupid remarks....
before i go onto the next quote here, i will say this, when I WAS a student, there was this guy, probably a "rich daddy's son", that drove into the yard, in his (back then) shiny NEW BMW... we were in the classroom, and the instructor said how things are on the road, the hardships, etc...
when class broke out for coffee break, daddy's boy, jumped into his NEW BMW, and drove off, never to be seen.....
he made the right decision, back then, and this is something, i will never forget...
i will stand by my bashing of this alleged driver of this thread....he is dirt, scum, a cry baby....now since "he may have been" a former Werner driver, at least he must have had "some knowledge" of working the system, and NOT telling his dispatcher he was tired.......
to me, he will never be a "driver", just another scum sucking cry baby....
Regarding #2)...again, due to "selective" editing, we all got that black eye...
here i sit at just past 7 AM today, and even though MY FUTURE as a driver is in question, (due to my major operation), i am as appalled as can be, of that alleged driver and 20/20....which by the way....in all truthfulness, i ain't seen since Hugh Downs and BABA Walters days......
Regardnig #3)...when i did "some" driver training (on the road, not in a classroom), i never slept with one eye opened....
BOTH my eyes were opened.......
i can tell you (and everyone), some dammed scary situations, that would scare the crap outta the devil himself.......and make him cringe, begging for mercy......
in closing, the scumbag alleged driver, of this thread, is a cry baby, thru and thru, i have NO RESPECT for him, in fact, i had NO respect for him, when i first viewed the video here.
as far as the dispatchers "pushing him" or whatever....frankly, as much as i have no feeling for one way or another for dispatchers, they were doing thier JOB....
they KNEW he had "up to" 20 hours off......to me, they should have given him a "service failure", and anything else....
they had every right to push him, as frankly, for someone that was a most likely former Werner driver for x number of days or weeks, should have KNOWN, how to work the system, AND NOT SAY, he didn't get any sleep, with "up to" 20 hours off.....
i suspect some "strong words" on my part will be "deleted"...or ****, but WTF.....
i am as incensed about this typical BULL SHYTE, from cry babies.........
GET THE "F" OUTTA THE INDUSTRY, YOU BUNCH OF FA*****'S.......(there, i "deleted" myself, saving you one less word)