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It's not the fault of the trucker, however - if the truck getting passed had braked hard when seeing that the idiot stood no chance of passing in the available distance, the moron in the car could have gotten back into his lane before getting clobbered and ruining everyone's day.
It's just not worth the ego or macho nonsense, assist the jackasses to live and not ruin everyone's day by causing a wreck
Arizona, noon, on the seventh of June When they highballed over the pass Bulldog Mack with a can on back And a Jaguar haulin’ ass He’s ten on the floor, stroke an’ bore Seatcover’s startin’ ta gain Now beaver, you a-truckin’ with the Rubber Duck An’ I’m about ta pull the plug on your drain
New Mexico, on I-four-oh Like a Texas lizard on glass One thousand pedals was mashin’ the metal Them bears was a-walkin’ the grass We trucked all day and we trucked all night Big Benny improvin’ our style We could tell by the smell We was headin’ for Hell And the Devil was Dirty Lyle
Now Lyle was a creep He was tacky and cheap But he had him a badge an’ a gun He hated the Duck and he hated his truck And he loved to bust truckers for fun So he followed the line And he bided his time And he watched for his chance to strike Then he picked on a trucker Yeah, a wiry ol’ sucker Yeah, the trucker they call Spider Mike But the great Rubber Duck Sorta run outta luck When he crossed that final bridge There’s choppers and rigs full’a guns an’ pigs They’s wall-to-wall on the ridge He showed no fear as he grabbed his gear An’ he stuck it in grandaddy low Them guns went boom An’ his ass went zoom An’ the Mack took a terminal blow
Well, that big black Mack stopped dead in her tracks When the trailer blew high in the air There was pieces of truck and some pieces of Duck And junk and debris everywhere Then the rig took a drink an’ commenced to sink And there was no Duck no more But that evil smile from Dirty ol’ Lyle Shone south from the north Texas shore
It was the dark of moon on the sixth of June, In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on, And a Jimmy haulin hogs. We was headin' for bear on I -10, About a mile outta Shakeytown. I said: Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck, "And I'm about to put the hammer down.
“We'll put speed governors on all trucks at 65 miles an hour,” Isakson said. [That] controls the speed they'll go [and] keeps them under the speed limit, which is most times 70 [mph] but is far more safe for the people on the highways with them.”
The Department of Transportation has been working for three years on a new rule requiring the devices.
So far, the amendment has passed the U.S. Senate. If the bill passes the Senate and the House of Representatives, the rule would go into effect nationwide within six months.
The former employee, Marion Williams, was carrying a shotgun and a pistol when he walked into the business just before 9 a.m.
Sheriff Ron Hickman said the former employee drove to the West Harris County business, parked in front and walked inside with both weapons.
An employee watched the gunman enter and heard him say, “You ruined my life,” The Williams then opened fire with the shotgun, killing Mike Dawid, his former supervisor, and injuring two other employees, before taking his own life with the pistol.
Knight Transportation is one of the largest trucking companies in the country, with more than $1 billion in annual revenue and roughly 5,000 employees in 20 states.
To boost the Trucking Transition program for U.S. veterans, curb the driver shortage and create immediate jobs for transitioning military personnel, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring our Heroes Program, Kenworth and FASTPORT announced a contest today to give away a fully-loaded T680.
“We’re going to a young veteran driver… who has a tremendous record and really set that young driver off on their own entrepreneurial journey,” said Eric Eversole, president of the Hiring our Heroes program, at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. “It’s really a golden ticket for that young driver.”
The search for America’s top military rookie driver will educate veterans and America about the support from leading manufacturers and service providers that enhance the safety and comfort of the 3.5 million professional truck drivers while performing their duties — and provide an incredible head start to one veteran's entrepreneurial career.
During the nomination period, the truck will be shown at military installations around the country and at other trucking-related events.
The criteria for entering the contest: 1. A driver must be a military veteran or have served or currently serve in the National Guard or Reserve.
2. A driver must have graduated from either a PTDI-certified, or NAPFTDS or CVTA member driver training school and have a valid CDL.
3. The driver must have been employed by a trucking company who has made a hiring commitment and pledge to hire veterans on truckingtrack.org.
4. The driver must have been first hired in a trucking position between Jan. 1, 2015, and June 29, 2016.
The top 10 finalists will be recognized at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas on Aug. 26 and the winner will be selected at the Pentagon in Washington on Dec. 16.
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, announced late last year that all truck drivers will be required to use the electronic logging devices, known as e-logs, by the end of next year.
The FMCSA has said e-logs would help enforce limits on the hours that drivers can spend on the road.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association,OOIDA, has previously won a challenge to a prior e-log rule in 2011, on complaints that the regulation did not provide adequate safeguards to ensure trucking companies wouldn’t use the logs to harass drivers.
“There is simply no proof that the costs, burdens and privacy infringements associated with this mandate are justified,” said Jim Johnston, OOIDA president and CEO, in the statement.
FMCSA spokesman Duane DeBruyne declined to comment about the lawsuit.
Overdrive has shown that a sizable majority of the estimated benefit that FMCSA noted in its required Regulatory Impact Analysis (which showed a net benefit of the rule) came not from estimated crash reductions, however, but from monetary values placed on driver time and paperwork savings.
For the purposes of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court has previously ruled in favor of some intrusions into the business of commercial transportation operators in, famously, the case involving a drug-testing program decided in 1989 that argued a public “special need” in balancing concerns for safety versus the privacy rights of rail engineers. Programmatic drug- and alcohol-testing requirements followed for commercial truck operators in the 1990s.
But drug tests are not ELDs, and OOIDA argues that other Supreme Court decisions, incluing the 2015 Torrey Dale Grady v. North Carolina, affirm that prolonged use of a warrantless GPS tracking device on a vehicle is clearly an unreasonable search/seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
