12/16/2021
There is a lot wrong with this whole situation. Does this man deserve punishment for this, yes but, where is the accountability for how he even got to this situation?
Think about this, if we are in an accident and one little thing is wrong... ie- logbook, weight, brake adjustment, a rubbed airhose, etc, even if it has no bearing on the accident it is generally automatically our fault because "we may not have been there at that time". Well, how was this driver, that clearly wasn't trained properly, there at that time.
The company is obviously negligent in how they operate and hire drivers, the insurance company that insures them obviously only cares that they pay to have insufficient drivers and not if they are actually safe enough to be insured, and lastly how did someone sign off on this mans CDL?
There's a lot of questions as to how this ended up and locking this guy up for 110 years isn't going to fix it. Clearly we as drivers are ultimately responsible and are the targets, however there's more going on here that needs taken care of. We have way to many under or untrained drivers out here making the roads more hazardous than they already naturally are.
Will the powers to be fix this, or just keep shoving pointless and wasteful regulations at us under the pretense of "safety" without ever having real safety in mind?
Four people were killed in a crash after the driver's brakes failed along I-70 in Colorado. Also: Trucking groups are urging Senators to confirm Meera Joshi as FMCSA's Administrator; CVSA adopts educational driver fatigue management program.
