Almost disaster

[rohrmann]

Check out this video of a distracted semi driver

https://screen.yahoo.com/popular/dis...003037392.html

[J-KB]

Close call!!!

[DQDick]

Could have been that sort of thing in the California bus crash. Someone coming across the median is one of my biggest hauling fears.

[Rondo]

That happened in Iowa. Our local TV station also reported it. Guess you don't drop a pen while driving down the interstate! Did you check what that 18 wheeler was that it crossed infront of? It was a gas tanker!! KABOOM!!!

[WeBeFulltime]

quote:Originally posted by Rondo

That happened in Iowa. Our local TV station also reported it. Guess you don't drop a pen while driving down the interstate! Did you check what that 18 wheeler was that it crossed infront of? It was a gas tanker!! KABOOM!!!

Although this was very bad and could have been worse, the tanker he almost hit was not a gas tanker. It was a bulk trailer used to transport dry items such as flour. Spent 20 years as a trucker and pulled them both.

[Rondo]

Sorry Dave! The reporter here was wrong then on the bulk truck. They said the driver of the semi that crossed over had dropped a pen and bent over to pick it up and ........that's the rest of the story!

[K0LCB]

Ron, you just can't believe every thing those talking heads say

[rohrmann]

Got rear-ended some years ago by an 18 wheeler when slowed for construction on freeway. The driver told the highway patrol he was reaching down to pick up a bottle of water. More likely he was driving zoned out or sleeping.

[lostshakerofsalt]

Ok, my question is what was the driver doing that needed a pen while driving?

[rohrmann]

Isn't that old fashion texting?