Thread: This has to be one of the worst accidents I have ever seen.

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Pretty bad for the driver of the disintigrated vehicle. There are places along hiway 50 going up to Tahoe with no divider between opossite directions of traffic, my mom got hit head on there, by a drunk who was speeding in a 67 caddy, she was driving our 69 mustang. Lucky to have survived that day!

We got that e mail a few weeks back..Still looks as ugly as it did first time round..Not pretty at all..Hope it was quick for the guy.. All our new Western Stars,and a lot of the other rigs down here have been running twin steer for a few years now..Looked real strange to see that setup on an American truck,at first,cos we are used to seeing the Jap trucks setup like that..but not a W/Star..

Hey Guys and Rrumbler; I have seen the super tankers they are running up here in Nevada and Utah.
They is only one private company that runs doubles in tankers down in Florida that comes to mind.
That type of truck {with Double steer axles} I have only seen on the internet before, this is the first
one I have seen in person. I have a CDL that allows me to drive Singles doubles and triples, but in the
30 years of driving and training other drivers I never worked for a company that allowed us to pull doubles.
Florida does not allow triples to be pulled on thier highways down there either.
We or I pulled the long tanker's that were capable of holding about 9200 gallons, but we could only
carry 7,500 gallons of diesel fuel and or 8,700 gallons of gasoline at one time. That's 80,000 lbs per load.
I have seen tons of guys that have leased from Prime walk away, most of them were also dispatched by Prime.
And when the guys got close to paying off there truck, the dispatches either gave them load that didn't pay much
or slowed, thier dispatches making them sit for days with out a paying load. Then the guys can not afford thier bills
or the payments on thier trucks. I have seen it time and time again with them.
Kurt