Shoulder Tragedy TX. Different but the same. | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum

November 6, 2022

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If it had been a car that hit the tow truck, some members here suggest that the tow truck company should be on the hook because it was in the breakdown lane, and they all place 100% of the blame for collisions between vehicles traveling and vehicles in the breakdown lane on the vehicle in the breakdown lane!

Seriously, what this proves is the only constant. No matter why there is a vehicle in the breakdown lane, tow truck hooking up to disabled vehicle, police on pull over, emergency vehicles tending to medical emergency or even the shame, an idiot parked in the breakdown lane for whatever reason, stay in your effing lane, and we won’t have a tragedy like this! I’m sorry, I will say it again and again! Do not say, “well the dope who hit the truck in the breakdown lane gets a pass because the truck shouldn’t have been there!” You know who you are.

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What does it take?
How do you not get this?

Screaming obvious is if the driver never leaves the travel lane all is well. DUH!!!!! If a driver never sneezes, if a driver never swerves to avoid a stalled car in the TRAVEL LANE, if a drivers never in fog, if, if if if if if if if if if. DUH!!

That’s not the frikkn point!

The point is we are in reality not some supertruckers alternative. Reality is there are teenagers, elderly, inexperienced, the temp blinded by early am or afternoon blinding sunlight, the medical issue temp distracted, the bright light blinded, etc… and fckng etc. .

Now, when a driver, tho of course not the supertruckers on this board, you know who you are, have an issue they hopefully simply drive on the rumble strips and correct their path thus saving themselves. Happens everyday. But, when another selfish, lazy, scumbag sprtrckr, having decided fck u and f your family, your teenage driver, “they should stay in lane”, decides I need to save 45 seconds on my time, I’ll just park on the shoulder, they never get the chance to correct and instead slam head 1st into the loaded trailer. 9 out of 10 are fatal. I’ve posted a few.

The latest fatals have all been parked within 5 miles of truckstops. The 55/80 crash was in front of 3 truckstops.

Should the #### driver stayed in the travel lane? Fckng DUHHHH, yes. That’s obvious!!!@@@

Thats the parking side of it. The other issue is the same idiots parking on the shoulders are, unfortunately, the same idiots jumping off said shoulders and into oncoming traffic also causing wrecks and fatalities. Again, F U and your family, I gotta go.

For what? To save 45 seconds of their special supertrucker clock? That’s the common sense side of things.

Now as for the legal issue. The legal system doesn’t give #### what supertruckers think. It only rewards payout.

So because the nitwitted, inexperienced are saying fck your family and any inattentive driving on their part, I’m parking on the shoulder cuz, cuz, well I gotta save myself 45 seconds. How many dead teenagers??
How many would have simply run thru the trees and survived, or hit the rumble strip and survived, but instead are dead from the totally unnecessary, and often times negligent homicidal shoulder parking? It’s totally unnecessary risk. Use a ramp, side street, anything is better than a shoulder. If your truck is broke down, put out the warnings. Get it moved. Years back, A hazmat load of chemical in Kentucky parked on the shoulder, driver went home for an overnight stay. Guess what happened.

There are endless stories of these mindless, preventable tragedies.

Don’t do it. It’s not complicated.

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