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What's up with all the trucks over turning recently!
ReplyDeleteDo they come in threes?
ReplyDeleteIt's called "wind gusts" and it turns trucks over all the time, especially empty ones.
ReplyDeleteLOL it's call inattentive driving.....or distracted driving!!!
ReplyDelete5:10 Bingo!! I'm not buying the wind gust theory! Maybe check their text messages, too.
ReplyDelete5:10, 6:04, I bet neither one of you have ever drove a big rig truck and trailer, or know how to drive one. I'm sorry, wind gusts happen all the time, I haul trailers daily and when I get a good gust hit the side of my trailer it's hard to stay straight on the road.
ReplyDeleteMaybe look at the trees in the picture.....no.wind gusts ....
ReplyDeleteJust because someone has a CDL license does not mean they can drive.I work with a few that were handed a CDL and they could not tell you the service side tractor to trailer air line from the emergency side.And this is the truth.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes they belong to the B.L.M. following
Wasn't gusty today. DUH.
ReplyDeleteAt some point, gravity had something to do with it....
ReplyDeleteDerecho winds. Man-made wind.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, tractor trailers do not "turn over all the time"
Jeeez
I was caught in this backup for over two hours. I had to end up turning around and go back to Princess Anne where I took back roads to Allen to get home. It wasn't windy and I do hope the driver is alright and has his CDL license taken away from him.
ReplyDeleteThe great majority were driver errors, including excessive speed in curves, often misjudging sharpness, drifting off road, often counter-steering abruptly, not adjusting to the trailers high center of gravity, being impaired physically (e.g. fatigue, drowsiness) or emotionally (reckless, angry). Vehicle-related problems include top heavy and badly distributed or unsecured loads, poorly maintained brakes or suspension and under-inflated tires, many of which were the driver’s responsibility to check.
ReplyDeleteThe direct cause of any rollover is something that increases the roll moment about the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, generally either turning too quickly or allowing one side of the vehicle to drop or rise suddenly. However each of these is primarily due to an error on the part of the driver, less often some other driver or condition of the truck. It is these underlying causes that can become the object of preventive measures. The seven categories into which these causes were combined are Speed, Attention, Control, Search, Pre-Operation, Other Drivers and Vehicle Truck Components. Each will be addressed individually.
Speed
Speed is the biggest contributor to rollover crashes, being involved in 45% of the crashes making up the LTCCS sample. This greatly exceeds the 23% of all large truck crashes attributed to “Traveling Too Fast for Conditions” (FMCSA 2006)
The majority of rollovers occur in curves, primarily on- and off- ramps where misjudgment leads to speeds that are excessive to the vehicle’s high center of gravity.
Inattention, dozing and distraction necessitate sudden course corrections leading to rollovers.
Three control errors that are relatively unique to truck rollovers are turning too sharply, turning too little to remain on the road and overcorrecting path errors.
A quarter of rollovers result from failure to adjust speed to the height and weight of the load being carried.
Commercial Driver License programs could improve safety through the use of video to expose truck drivers to the situations leading to rollovers.
Simulation can allow drivers to experience the results of rollover inducing errors without the consequences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3256782/
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI was caught in this backup for over two hours. I had to end up turning around and go back to Princess Anne where I took back roads to Allen to get home. It wasn't windy and I do hope the driver is alright and has his CDL license taken away from him.
April 7, 2016 at 9:47 PM
well if you were dumb enough to sit there for two hours..... how do you know it was the truckers fault? some idiot 4 wheeler like you could have hit his truck and made it roll over. I see more idiots in cars that need their licenses taken away than truckers. people like you should stay on back roads and in the sticks like allen.
Well if the State Police didnt call a wrecker from Cambridge to come and recover this truck the back up would have minimal. There are several towing companies in Salisbury that were much closer to the scene than the folks in Cambridge.
ReplyDeleteThat FAIL is directly placed on MSP. They do not care how long a road stays closed. They do not care about back-ups. They would never be able to get away with such slow response times in a REAL city.
3:54
ReplyDeleteYou don't know what the hell you are talking about. I along with many others were stuck in a two hour backup from Princess Anne to Allen. There was do where to turn off. It wasn't until I was near Allen That I was able to take a back road to get out of the backup. The backup was still going on when I was finally able to get to Fruitland through Camden Avenue.
It used to be truck drivers were the best drivers on the road. I can't say this anymore. Maybe you should be forced to drive in sticks so the rest of use won't have to deal with jerks like you!!!