Trucks and Crashes: A Deadly Combination

Why does it always seem that truck drivers drive like maniacs?  I understand for a trucker, “time is money”, but that doesn’t mean they need to risk the lives of everyone else on the road just to get the load in on time.

I’m not saying the fiery crash that shut down 635 and 35 today was the truckers fault, in fact he claims a driver cut him off, but I am not ruling it out either.  Police even say, “we believe speed was a factor.”

Try driving down I-30 in a rain storm.  While I’m white knuckeled, with my nose pressed against the windshield an 18 wheeler will always come barreling by me doing 80 mph.  I am tired of covering horrific deadly crashes caused by careless truck drivers who were in a rush or to jacked up on no-dose to notice the tiny car in front of them.

Here is my take on today’s wreck.  Even if a car did cut that 18 wheeler off, he was coming up an on ramp!  How fast could he be going?  While driving up an over pass in an 18 wheeler it seems to me, that no matter what happens, jackknifing and spinning over the guard rail then bursting into flames should be near impossible, that is unless he was driving to fast.

Miraculously though, the only thing minor about todays wreck was the drivers injuries, he actually walked away.  But then again, the truck drivers usually do.