(WBIR) A portion of I-40 at the Tenessee and North Carolina state line was destroyed by a mudslide on Friday as the Pigeon River raged and flooded. COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. - Interstate 40 was closed between Cocke County, Tennessee and the entirety of Western North Carolina after catastrophic flooding caused a mudslide and washed away a portion of the interstate Friday. The Pigeon River that runs along the gorge on I-40 between Cocke County and Asheville flooded over and raged Friday afternoon, causing a mudslide that washed away a portion on the eastbound side along the river at mile marker 3 on the North Carolina side at the Tennessee state line.
Is someone going to look into drivers being brutally beaten by Venezuela gangs? Or do we only give a damn about not making enough money? This is going unreported and is a emergency situation.
This is the stuff the truck drivers encounter on the road, cars jumping lanes, breaking truckers and forcing the truckers hands….. this is why during regular driving school for a regular driver’s license they explain all this hazardous behavior during class! (Not to drive unsafe & to AVOID Big rigs! ) So glad that truckers have cameras to cover them! Because a lot of car drivers need their license reported for what they do to truck drivers over the road…. Let’s talk about the dangers from the car drivers who constantly endanger the truckers …. Roll those cameras out immediately 😳
i agree..i travel enough to see cars passing and going back in lane with no proper clearance and those who hang right on the tails of trucks..i find the worst drivers are around major cities..seen kids flying in and out of lanes like little hot dogs..maybe their car insurance isnt high enough.
@@ed1658 That would not work! We have truck driver out there that drive think they are still in there own cars trying to put 13' high trailers under 12' bridges!!!!Or turning corners forget that they are pulling a trailer and running up on sidewalks and hitting light poles!!!
Well, I had a “smart” truck driver hit my semi head on a few months ago at 65 mph all because he was in a hurry! As a truck driver I see more fellow truckers drive more erratic and unsafe than anyone else on the road.
I don't swerve for four-wheelers. Merging traffic is required to yield to traffic already on the roadway. That is the law. I will slow down when I can, and I always try not to allow other vehicles to stay in my blind spots.
@Barry-gi7hr that's why I don't swerve. It's the ramp traffic that is responsible for merging safely. It's on them. If you're approaching on an on ramp, look up and see if anyone is at the top starting down it. I ALWAYS do. It gives you a few extra seconds to plan a response.
@@Barry-gi7hryea man it happens to trucks too all the time, it’s okay to slow down a few mph for a few seconds or even if you get stuck behind someone for a few minutes, you will get there within the same minute or two. We all need to constantly work on our patience
That same stretch has collapsed before in 1997 and sometime in the 2000’s for same reason. River flooding. I remember the long detour around it. Looks like East Tennessee to charlotte we will need to go to I-77 at wytheville Va. Then i saw a sinkhole was forming on I-81 in Virginia about 10-13 mile marker. Gonna be tough getting back n forth for a while. Saw I-26 on Tennessee side of the the stateline is gone too. What a mess.
Cars merging need to learn how to do it safely. I’m a retired Truck driver and I tried to help many people merge by slowing or speeding up or changing lanes on a freeway if possible. But in some cases all you can do is stay in your lane and if the person merging drives into a semi they’re going regret it. 80,000-105,500 pounds vs 3000 pounds is a huge difference. Stay away from semis if your in a car.
Semis must stay away from cars! The 500 foot rule! Always tailgating, intimidating aggressive close driving. Slow down!! Drive in a manner commensurate to your weight!!
We did. The Eisenhower Interstate System was put in place to get us off of your secondary roads and school traffic. This highway system was made for heavy commercial transportation to link the states. If you don't know how to merge stay home. This generation can not accept the idea that to merge you have to accelerate. On ramps are acceleration lanes. the main traffic flow does not interrupt itself for your inability to merge. We don't join you in traffic, you join traffic flow. If you can not do it stay home or eat the end of a guide rail. That 80,000 pound 73ft long vehicle is not a yo-yo made up for your indecision and a jack-rabbit lane change. If you are going to go, go. My speed IS commensurate to my vehicle. Make yours the same and go. This is not an R/V and not pulling a horse trailer three times a year. This is commercial transportation for The United States. This is Commercial Transportation linking you and what you drive, wear, eat, read, study and live in to your neighbor. Grow up. That semi owns the spot he is sitting on, moving or sitting. No other options are available for that semi. The end of that guide rail turning that altima into a horseshoe is not an option either. I will not smoke my brakes for your option. If I do? 10 others get involved in something very nasty. For you not knowing how to merge and staying away from semi's? That is you and the guide rail, only.
@@Lazarus-nw1ve They drive them like yo yos and go carts, passive aggressive antics and mean spiritness. Merging is not that cut and dried. Some Detroit, Jersey cut in immediately with no accel runs. STILL..the lane isn't owned by you cart blanche. If you slow or accel to prevent merging, you're at fault. And STILL, if you had knowledge of impending collision regardless of right of way, you must yield or react accordingly. You may not get at fault ticket, but civil penalties are YOU if your defense was, "Well he was supposed to...." True, but you can't just let an crash happen. Truckers always belly ache, we're so heavy, hard to stop, maneuver, see etc, but they all drive the limit and 10-15 over. Tailgating, speeding, defying all logic/physics operating a huge deadly cumbersome overweight rig. Less speed, stopping distance shorter, maneuverability and defensive reaction more precise, less damage, easier on the infrastructure...DUH!!!
@@williamrobinson6680 you should read the comment from Lazarus here. LOL 😂 he’s obviously a Truck driver. I know some truck drivers are bullies and some tail gate all the time. The guy who trained me at my first Trucking job was always on car bumpers. But I always kept a cushion of safety between me and the vehicles in front. A Much bigger gap in winter driving conditions. I drove over 100,000 miles per year 26 years with zero accidents and only 1 speeding ticket. I avoided a bunch of accidents. Mostly from people pulling out in front of me on two lane roads. Everyone should be very careful about that. Look then look again then pull onto the road when it’s safe. Don’t make a semi put on his brakes. It takes a football field to stop a semi. Empty trailer semi’s take longer to stop which you’d think it would be the opposite. But Semi’s are built to stop while loaded. Try to remember all your store’s shelves would be empty without Semi drivers. Sounds like you hate them and maybe you have some good reason but you should appreciate being able to go buy whatever you need because of them.
Get your own truck.pay with cash. Maintain it and do preventative maintenance as well. Operate as lean as possible so when times are lean you can work through it, because your customers can see you have your ducks in a row. Or you can afford to not work so much. And still keep your stuff while being focused on your paid for life.
@paulhunt4690 yeah, I saw last night it got badly damaged. Running loads into SC from the north is going to be rough for awhile until they get it fixed.
I hauled a lot of loads through Price. My uncle used to live there before passing away as well. This crap about, "not trying to evade"? They most likely had around 0.03 of a second to try and move- These people NOT in that situation, have NO clue wtf they're talking about, nor any idea what options that driver had, in that miniscule amount of time.
I live in Western North Carolina and i am glad that my business in Asheville was on Thursday. I live 2 hours away and it was raining all day. My part of NC wasn't so bad.
Always immediately merge into the next lane to avoid on ramp traffic. I think they added that to the CDL book for newer drivers. I think it also says to park your truck at the fuel island and let other drivers waste their time.
Lol, it must be something like that going on cause in the last 5 or so years I've seen an influx of mergers expecting you to move over to let them on like all the sudden the responsibility to merge is no longer on the merger but everyone but them to get them on the highway safely. And they never think about the fact that no one wants to let semi's over so they get mad when we don't move for them not understanding most the time we can't. They need to learn how to speed up or slow down to get in where they fit in.... not wedge and cause a potential collision.
People can say whatever they want they always blame the truck!! As tragic as this is don’t point the finger at the poor truck driver who has to live with this for the rest of his life. You may as say they all 6 people died because a piece of him died that day too! Until your in that situation don’t even say he should have or could have blah blah. Gtfo. The dude driving the SUV is the cause of this accident. This is exactly what happen to me causing me to jackknife I was hit by a merging four wheeler who was screwing around and lost control. I didn’t swerve ahead hit me so hard she spun me around and I was left dangling over the road below the freeway. Thank God I didn’t hit anyone else, I don’t know how but I didn’t. First instinct for most whether your professional or not is to swerve to avoid the situation. That’s even one of the “smith laws” leave yourself an out! He did but his tanks caused him to lose control. Most people on here badmouthing have never driven doubles or tanks or even a damn truck period! Put yourself in this man’s shoes. He didn’t wake up that day and go out the door thinking he was gonna kill Someone and change his life forever.
That is crazy. I have driven that route several times in last couple.of months. Last time something happened in that area, it created pure chaos. Hope no one got hurt on 40? Sad for the 5 ppl.
I live near I 40. Two of our dams have already gave out and one is apparently about to go anytime soon. Things are so bad in Tennessee right now it’s not funny. Oh, and the interstate on I 40 has collapsed.
Keep voting Red and you will never see improvement There more worried about their own pockets than maintaining Interstates and highways. The dams haven't had nothing done to them in 75 years.
And to think that was my go to state if I ever left Florida. I live 20 miles from the coast in Central Florida and didn't even lose power . We hardly had any wind. But of course Crystal River flooded,but they always flood when a hurricane goes up the west coast.
@@Oldschoolrules123 the last picture I’ve seen of pigeon Forge they are completely underwater. Apparently flood levels are dropping, but they’re calling for more rain naturally.
Up in Utah these double belly dump drivers drive like crazy on these narrow roads. and these belly dump trucks are long. I believe they are a 40' and a 20' trailers! I was almost ran off the road by one a while back! And belly dump truck broke my wind shield a couple months back. I am not saying this driver is at fault but it is not surprising that this happened it was just in time this would happen!
As professional drivers were taught to try to avoid an accident at all costs and sometimes it just doesn’t work it’s a split second decision that you make and sometimes it’s the wrong decision, but we make the best decision at the time to try to avoid injuring someone may they all rest in peace And may the driver be able to get over this because it’s some thing you live with forever thanks Alex great video
Just an update to this horrible event. One woman in the SUV that was killed was reportedly pregnant so 6 deaths are reported now. Just wanted to let you know.
Don't forget people in cars always turn in a curve close to or bold to try and get in the lane with the trucks!! Some new truck drivers do the same even when the wind is high!!!
Dave MacMillian has been a great influence in my career as a professional truck driver. I always thought he was of great character who gave us his heart and soul with passion. He will be sorely missed by many others who were influenced by his witty style. He often spoke about the Lettuce King. I am a better driver leaning on his every word-😢❤
I learned 20 years ago in Virginia, it happened to a co-worker. If you leave your lane ( even to try to avoid an accident, and an accident happens anyway), then you are automatically at fault. The family members of the dead are going to go after the trucking company and driver. The truck driver better get a lawyer fast and sue the suv driver, and have the lawyer represent him, because the company that he worked for WILL sell him out.
@@KILRtv Ive been driving fo 39 years. A few years ago a 4 wheeler ran a stop sign, and slammed into my truck. $20,000 damage.I sued them. You can only get about 100.000 out of a cars insurance company. My lawyer got that. I ended up with $48.000 and 2 collapsed. disks,along with nerve damage. Even when not at fault,we get cheated.The insurance rate is much higher for a trucking company, they go into the millions. Ive also been sold out by my own company. A car kept cutting in front of me, its all on video. I changed lanes 3 times to avoid him. The last time he changed lanes he cut so close that my bumper tapped him. The company sold me out and payed thst SOB $30.000. Thats why thst driver better get a lawyer.
@@DrivenA111 It is up to the driver switching lanes to check their blind spots, use their turn signals, and watch all surrounding traffic before they switch lanes. Most lane change accidents are avoidable if the merging driver had been more careful.
This is why I don't vera just to avoid a crash, your better off just staying straight and putting the brakes on and hitting the car if you can't slow up enough because trucks aren't race cars and will go out of control.
Naturally tendancy when we see a road hazard is to try and avoid it. Even if he/she gets away without charges, he/she has to live with the fact that their actions led to multiple deaths.
I'm sure law enforcement will arrest truck driver for premeditated 1st degree murder and want want death penalty.. truck drivers are guilty for being there according to law enforcement everywhere
First thing was to slow down evasive monuever is done moderate speed while cutting speed .. u give the person that is in lane yr trying to get into , time to position themselves safely , to preserve life and accident ... as A trucker !! I can assure u.. there alot of crazy types of people out there..... who is looking put themselves in ARMS WAY.... IN KNOWING THIS TRUCKERS.... HAVE EXTRA SPACE INFRONT OF U MORE THAN U NEED AND ASSUME SOMEONE SPEEDING TO COME ON THE HIGHWAY... THAT THEY MIGHT THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGH , TO TAKE THE RIGHT AWAY .. ITS OK TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT AWAY. IF IT WILL MAKE YR DAY SAFE , AND PRESERVE THE SANCTITY OF LIFE... 🎉🎉🎉
If the truck driver would had just struck the vehicle that caused it, everyone would have said he should have avoided it. We're damed if we do and damed if we don't. These laws need to change and realize that these small vehicles are much more dangerous than the big trucks. That's why these highways are constantly getting more and more fatal.
People always want the truck driver to get in trouble or like they're saying on this video the truck driver should not have evaded we have to do what we have to do it out there regardless of situation they always want to blame the trucker for everything sometimes things aren't the way they seem to be my condolences to those people that passed away nobody should have to go through that
i rather keep my distance and not turn until i am sure i will not hit anyone doing a left turn. if theres no way to make the left turn the shoulder if there is one is the next best thing and if not that suv is dying.
We have to SLOW DOWN on the public roads,, we just have to,, and I mean everyone 2 wheeler 4 wheeler 10 wheeler and 18 wheelers,,, SLOW Down Save A Life,, it's just not worth it,, put your phones down pay attention,,, SORRY TO THOSE THAT PASSED AWAY
@@ak_getright9905 Sad news. Can't imagine that. I've been to all 47 lacking Maine. Seen all the sad dumps, Seattle, Portland, LA metro, Denver metro, even Tucson and Phoenix!! Tucson has an ally that's literally a latrine. My dear Lord, I've never turned the corner and smelled toilet for a block. Hawaii??? Who allowed this?!?!
No one ever mentions that if uncle Sam had a even keiled tax base,( i.e. family farms, to industry etc )the USA would have funds to maintain the infrastructure.
@@hawkeyetec Lol! (I laugh alot). I know you don't believe that! Government accrues far more than enough tax revenue for a robust infrastructure. Above and beyond! Too much inner corruption and chicanery. They call it management, budgeting and saving. But many times it's theft from your pockets or services. Limiting the amount of reflective beads in interstate paint to save a few bucks?!! Are you freaking serious?! Do you see I -24 in Tennessee in the rain? Right, YOU CAN'T!!! Or the 4 am snow plow rule?! Slide offs and accidents calling for plow services. "Not until 4 am !!" Just keep sliding off and crashing. I know many municipalities ration and conserve on road salt mixture. I guess if the plows don't come out until 4 am, that pile of salt should still be pretty high come April. Not about our safety, but the accounting ledger. We saved a ton of money this year!! Good job!!
Your horn is a evasive monuever tool... you putting yr truck on the marker line on the road is an evasive manouver tool... there are times u afto to speed up for an evasive manouver ..... remember ... sudden swith is dangerous.. than slow switch .... i am one that has been guilty of sudden switch.... but as my experience grows... slow switch is your freind.. preservation switch !! I would say !
The highway patrol will tell you never ever leave your lane for anything once you lose control of your lane it could all be your fault he said always stay in your lane if a car is going to hit you it's going to hit you
@@donnasqueaky2 I drove a semi for many many many many many years every single defense driving class we had to take they will tell you it doesn't matter if your car or a semi or whoever you stay in your lane no matter what you do not swerve if they're going to hit you they're going to hit you but if you swerve then you might cause another major accident and it will be your fault they call it rain control for a reason
In some occasion , when yr unaware because of time to react... its best to do yr evasive monuever in modesty .... even when yr sure that no one else is in the lane yr trying to get into ... evasive manuever should be one that some seeing performing it .. have time to evade u , if your become a hazard to them.... thats what distinguish ,the Master driver from the soley offensive.... THE GREATEST DRIVERS ARE THE ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS , DEFENSE IS EVEN GREATER THAN OFFENSE... GREAT DRIVER LEARN TO HAVE DISCRETION TO OTHER DRIVERS ESPECIALLY IN CRITICAL TIME ... AND WHEN U SEE SOMEONE SPEEDING LIKE THERE IN A RUSH... GIVE THEM THE WAY !! FOR SAFETY SAKE !
Sad thing is in court this will be blamed on semi for not staying in his lane even though 1st car over shot and was a fault there no protection in this industry for use truck drivers
So I'm confused and there's always double talk about a drivers actions. They tell us to alway look for and have a way out of a situation. Then turn around and tell you to maintain your lane. So which is it? It makes no sense, and only gives the people looking to place blame a way to do so. It's always a no win situation for a driver.
Each one has its own function. Let your level of awareness put the two together. It is a guidence for each situation there may be times when one overrules another.
@hawkeyetec it's a natural human instinct to avoid the situation. Maintaining your lane in the face of danger is not. We can't do one then be blamed for not doing the other. That's a no win for the driver. Making it automatically your fault. Use your head, it's just a game to the powers that be that gives you a false sense of doing g the right thing.
Congress should pass new laws to hold 4-wheelers f up out-there civil and criminal both . And their reckless driving tendencies. And stop those down town behaviors on our interstate highways will minimize fatalities out there.
Most Life Insurance policies will not pay if they know you have been sky diving. It6a. Exclusion on almost all policies now. So ehat that really means is these people's beneficiaries are left with nothing unless they can prove this was the trucker's fault. Here comes the lawsuits.
(WBIR) A portion of I-40 at the Tenessee and North Carolina state line was destroyed by a mudslide on Friday as the Pigeon River raged and flooded.
COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. - Interstate 40 was closed between Cocke County, Tennessee and the entirety of Western North Carolina after catastrophic flooding caused a mudslide and washed away a portion of the interstate Friday.
The Pigeon River that runs along the gorge on I-40 between Cocke County and Asheville flooded over and raged Friday afternoon, causing a mudslide that washed away a portion on the eastbound side along the river at mile marker 3 on the North Carolina side at the Tennessee state line.
Is someone going to look into drivers being brutally beaten by Venezuela gangs? Or do we only give a damn about not making enough money? This is going unreported and is a emergency situation.
#FMCSA NEEDS TO ISSUE A #REGIONAL #EMERGENCY #DECLARATION , THEY NEED TO RESPOND IMMEDIATELY TO THIS LARGE DISASTER !!!
This is the stuff the truck drivers encounter on the road, cars jumping lanes, breaking truckers and forcing the truckers hands….. this is why during regular driving school for a regular driver’s license they explain all this hazardous behavior during class! (Not to drive unsafe & to AVOID Big rigs! ) So glad that truckers have cameras to cover them! Because a lot of car drivers need their license reported for what they do to truck drivers over the road…. Let’s talk about the dangers from the car drivers who constantly endanger the truckers …. Roll those cameras out immediately 😳
i agree..i travel enough to see cars passing and going back in lane with no proper clearance and those who hang right on the tails of trucks..i find the worst drivers are around major cities..seen kids flying in and out of lanes like little hot dogs..maybe their car insurance isnt high enough.
@@ed1658I said the same thing, because for some reason they think a truck can stop just like a car stop.
Yes, truck drivers avoid hitting the person causing the problem but killing people that had nothing to do with the problem. Makes sense.
@@ed1658 That would not work! We have truck driver out there that drive think they are still in there own cars trying to put 13' high trailers under 12' bridges!!!!Or turning corners forget that they are pulling a trailer and running up on sidewalks and hitting light poles!!!
Well, I had a “smart” truck driver hit my semi head on a few months ago at 65 mph all because he was in a hurry! As a truck driver I see more fellow truckers drive more erratic and unsafe than anyone else on the road.
I don't swerve for four-wheelers. Merging traffic is required to yield to traffic already on the roadway. That is the law. I will slow down when I can, and I always try not to allow other vehicles to stay in my blind spots.
I get cut off daily by slow trucks panicking to avoid oncoming traffic.
@Barry-gi7hr that's why I don't swerve. It's the ramp traffic that is responsible for merging safely. It's on them. If you're approaching on an on ramp, look up and see if anyone is at the top starting down it. I ALWAYS do. It gives you a few extra seconds to plan a response.
@@jasonkloos1498, even if the 4 wheeler is at fault, they'll still blame the truck driver stating it was an avoidable accident.
But you won’t kill anyone that wasn’t even involved. No one had to die here.
@@Barry-gi7hryea man it happens to trucks too all the time, it’s okay to slow down a few mph for a few seconds or even if you get stuck behind someone for a few minutes, you will get there within the same minute or two. We all need to constantly work on our patience
Four wheelers can’t seem to figure out how to merge on to the highway…California is the perfect example of this
So is Texas
and ATL
That same stretch has collapsed before in 1997 and sometime in the 2000’s for same reason. River flooding. I remember the long detour around it. Looks like East Tennessee to charlotte we will need to go to I-77 at wytheville Va. Then i saw a sinkhole was forming on I-81 in Virginia about 10-13 mile marker. Gonna be tough getting back n forth for a while. Saw I-26 on Tennessee side of the the stateline is gone too. What a mess.
Cars merging need to learn how to do it safely. I’m a retired Truck driver and I tried to help many people merge by slowing or speeding up or changing lanes on a freeway if possible. But in some cases all you can do is stay in your lane and if the person merging drives into a semi they’re going regret it. 80,000-105,500 pounds vs 3000 pounds is a huge difference. Stay away from semis if your in a car.
Semis must stay away from cars! The 500 foot rule! Always tailgating, intimidating aggressive close driving. Slow down!! Drive in a manner commensurate to your weight!!
We did.
The Eisenhower Interstate System was put in place to get us off of your secondary roads and school traffic. This highway system was made for heavy commercial transportation to link the states. If you don't know how to merge stay home. This generation can not accept the idea that to merge you have to accelerate. On ramps are acceleration lanes. the main traffic flow does not interrupt itself for your inability to merge. We don't join you in traffic, you join traffic flow.
If you can not do it stay home or eat the end of a guide rail. That 80,000 pound 73ft long vehicle is not a yo-yo made up for your indecision and a jack-rabbit lane change. If you are going to go, go.
My speed IS commensurate to my vehicle. Make yours the same and go. This is not an R/V and not pulling a horse trailer three times a year. This is commercial transportation for The United States.
This is Commercial Transportation linking you and what you drive, wear, eat, read, study and live in to your neighbor. Grow up.
That semi owns the spot he is sitting on, moving or sitting. No other options are available for that semi. The end of that guide rail turning that altima into a horseshoe is not an option either.
I will not smoke my brakes for your option. If I do? 10 others get involved in something very nasty. For you not knowing how to merge and staying away from semi's? That is you and the guide rail, only.
@@Lazarus-nw1ve good points.
@@Lazarus-nw1ve They drive them like yo yos and go carts, passive aggressive antics and mean spiritness. Merging is not that cut and dried. Some Detroit, Jersey cut in immediately with no accel runs. STILL..the lane isn't owned by you cart blanche. If you slow or accel to prevent merging, you're at fault. And STILL, if you had knowledge of impending collision regardless of right of way, you must yield or react accordingly. You may not get at fault ticket, but civil penalties are YOU if your defense was, "Well he was supposed to...." True, but you can't just let an crash happen.
Truckers always belly ache, we're so heavy, hard to stop, maneuver, see etc, but they all drive the limit and 10-15 over. Tailgating, speeding, defying all logic/physics operating a huge deadly cumbersome overweight rig. Less speed, stopping distance shorter, maneuverability and defensive reaction more precise, less damage, easier on the infrastructure...DUH!!!
@@williamrobinson6680 you should read the comment from Lazarus here. LOL 😂 he’s obviously a Truck driver. I know some truck drivers are bullies and some tail gate all the time. The guy who trained me at my first Trucking job was always on car bumpers. But I always kept a cushion of safety between me and the vehicles in front. A Much bigger gap in winter driving conditions. I drove over 100,000 miles per year 26 years with zero accidents and only 1 speeding ticket. I avoided a bunch of accidents. Mostly from people pulling out in front of me on two lane roads. Everyone should be very careful about that. Look then look again then pull onto the road when it’s safe. Don’t make a semi put on his brakes. It takes a football field to stop a semi. Empty trailer semi’s take longer to stop which you’d think it would be the opposite. But Semi’s are built to stop while loaded. Try to remember all your store’s shelves would be empty without Semi drivers. Sounds like you hate them and maybe you have some good reason but you should appreciate being able to go buy whatever you need because of them.
That's why trucking ain't shit. It pays terribly. You leave your family, and in a split second, something happens that can destroy your whole world.
Get your own truck.pay with cash. Maintain it and do preventative maintenance as well.
Operate as lean as possible so when times are lean you can work through it, because your customers can see you have your ducks in a row. Or you can afford to not work so much. And still keep your stuff while being focused on your paid for life.
I-40 being shutdown is going to make things difficult!
Happens every few years.
@@JimmyD6977true true, especially rock slides- there’s an area on I40 that always get rock slides
And I 26 closing will make it even worse
@paulhunt4690 yeah, I saw last night it got badly damaged. Running loads into SC from the north is going to be rough for awhile until they get it fixed.
@@Takaride right, also I-26 is closed
I hauled a lot of loads through Price. My uncle used to live there before passing away as well. This crap about, "not trying to evade"? They most likely had around 0.03 of a second to try and move- These people NOT in that situation, have NO clue wtf they're talking about, nor any idea what options that driver had, in that miniscule amount of time.
I-40 being closed around NC is nothing new. Seems like every couple of years it happens.
Right they just finished a portion like last yr I believe. I don’t drive up that route anymore. Them rocks be tumbling down heavy
Been retired for a while now but 81 to 77 to 58 was a good way to miss the gorge
They were just finishing up those bridges wth.
There is definitely a reason I'm not trucking anymore. All this bad stuff occurring on lanes I once ran a lot. Yahweh is definitely my Salvation.
They always try and blame the truck driver
I live in Western North Carolina and i am glad that my business in Asheville was on Thursday. I live 2 hours away and it was raining all day. My part of NC wasn't so bad.
Always immediately merge into the next lane to avoid on ramp traffic. I think they added that to the CDL book for newer drivers. I think it also says to park your truck at the fuel island and let other drivers waste their time.
Lol, it must be something like that going on cause in the last 5 or so years I've seen an influx of mergers expecting you to move over to let them on like all the sudden the responsibility to merge is no longer on the merger but everyone but them to get them on the highway safely. And they never think about the fact that no one wants to let semi's over so they get mad when we don't move for them not understanding most the time we can't. They need to learn how to speed up or slow down to get in where they fit in.... not wedge and cause a potential collision.
Sad😢 Prayers to the families 😢
I-26 in Erwin TN has bridges over Nolichucky River washed out both directions.
Prayers for everyone
Everyone be safe out there
People can say whatever they want they always blame the truck!! As tragic as this is don’t point the finger at the poor truck driver who has to live with this for the rest of his life. You may as say they all 6 people died because a piece of him died that day too! Until your in that situation don’t even say he should have or could have blah blah. Gtfo. The dude driving the SUV is the cause of this accident. This is exactly what happen to me causing me to jackknife I was hit by a merging four wheeler who was screwing around and lost control. I didn’t swerve ahead hit me so hard she spun me around and I was left dangling over the road below the freeway. Thank God I didn’t hit anyone else, I don’t know how but I didn’t. First instinct for most whether your professional or not is to swerve to avoid the situation. That’s even one of the “smith laws” leave yourself an out! He did but his tanks caused him to lose control. Most people on here badmouthing have never driven doubles or tanks or even a damn truck period! Put yourself in this man’s shoes. He didn’t wake up that day and go out the door thinking he was gonna kill Someone and change his life forever.
That is crazy. I have driven that route several times in last couple.of months. Last time something happened in that area, it created pure chaos. Hope no one got hurt on 40? Sad for the 5 ppl.
I live near I 40. Two of our dams have already gave out and one is apparently about to go anytime soon. Things are so bad in Tennessee right now it’s not funny. Oh, and the interstate on I 40 has collapsed.
Keep voting Red and you will never see improvement There more worried about their own pockets than maintaining Interstates and highways. The dams haven't had nothing done to them in 75 years.
And to think that was my go to state if I ever left Florida. I live 20 miles from the coast in Central Florida and didn't even lose power . We hardly had any wind. But of course Crystal River flooded,but they always flood when a hurricane goes up the west coast.
I feel bad for Tennessee,I love Tennessee. Been to Pigeon Forge and it's beautiful up there. But I know that they flood a lot.
@@Oldschoolrules123 the last picture I’ve seen of pigeon Forge they are completely underwater. Apparently flood levels are dropping, but they’re calling for more rain naturally.
Biden sent 8 billion to ukraine yesterday
Praying for all the Families who lost their loved ones in the accident at this time 🙏🏻
Thank you for the video and info.
May God receive there soul in heaven...😢😢😢
Or, he could have prevented the accident.
⚠️FMCSA NEEDS TO ISSUE A REGIONAL EMERGENCY, THEY NEED TO RESPOND IMMEDIATELY TO THIS LARGE DISASTER ⚠️⚠️
I’d like to share my story with you. On May 30th of this year another semi hit my semi head on at 65mph.
I-26 is closed in Tennessee also.
Up in Utah these double belly dump drivers drive like crazy on these narrow roads. and these belly dump trucks are long. I believe they are a 40' and a 20' trailers! I was almost ran off the road by one a while back! And belly dump truck broke my wind shield a couple months back. I am not saying this driver is at fault but it is not surprising that this happened it was just in time this would happen!
Good info, will share when I wake up ill make a yt short of this fir now.
rest in peace for those who died in the crash I will pray for their family and love ones in their lost
Use I26 and I81 to route around that section of I40. Absolutely DO NOT use US129 at the TN/NC state line
As professional drivers were taught to try to avoid an accident at all costs and sometimes it just doesn’t work it’s a split second decision that you make and sometimes it’s the wrong decision, but we make the best decision at the time to try to avoid injuring someone may they all rest in peace And may the driver be able to get over this because it’s some thing you live with forever thanks Alex great video
This happens all of the in The Gorge , that is what makes so dangerous
The hillsides collapse every few years in The Gorge, & the tisd is closer for many months
I26 closed in Tennessee near erwin
Don’t swerve stay straight
Just an update to this horrible event. One woman in the SUV that was killed was reportedly pregnant so 6 deaths are reported now. Just wanted to let you know.
Thank you
And she was skydiving?!?
I blame obama, biden, harris, waltz
No. That's not the accepted narrative. It's all Trump's fault
can't blame on BIDEN because he still sleeping
Both Clinton's, and Jimmy Carter.
Don't forget people in cars always turn in a curve close to or bold to try and get in the lane with the trucks!! Some new truck drivers do the same even when the wind is high!!!
Extended amount if time means 6 years they take forever to rebuild it
I just aim strait and brake as well as conditions allow. RIP to all involved.
Dave MacMillian has been a great influence in my career as a professional truck driver. I always thought he was of great character who gave us his heart and soul with passion. He will be sorely missed by many others who were influenced by his witty style. He often spoke about the Lettuce King. I am a better driver leaning on his every word-😢❤
My niece is in Asheville, NC . Everything is flooded. Don’t know if she’s unlive or Alive 😢
No cell tower it’s no way in or out🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🥺
Ifmshe has a newer iPhone it can use a satellite to relay emergency messages
Drivers keep your following distance and check your Trucker Ego
DAMN DID NOT BREAK,IT OVERFLOWED FROM 30 INCHES OF RAIN IN 24 HOURS
I learned 20 years ago in Virginia, it happened to a co-worker. If you leave your lane ( even to try to avoid an accident, and an accident happens anyway), then you are automatically at fault. The family members of the dead are going to go after the trucking company and driver. The truck driver better get a lawyer fast and sue the suv driver, and have the lawyer represent him, because the company that he worked for WILL sell him out.
And if the driver loses to a million dollar lawsuit, what then? Nobody talks about what happens to the driver afterwards besides losing their CDL.
@@KILRtv Ive been driving fo 39 years. A few years ago a 4 wheeler ran a stop sign, and slammed into my truck. $20,000 damage.I sued them. You can only get about 100.000 out of a cars insurance company. My lawyer got that. I ended up with $48.000 and 2 collapsed. disks,along with nerve damage. Even when not at fault,we get cheated.The insurance rate is much higher for a trucking company, they go into the millions. Ive also been sold out by my own company. A car kept cutting in front of me, its all on video. I changed lanes 3 times to avoid him. The last time he changed lanes he cut so close that my bumper tapped him. The company sold me out and payed thst SOB $30.000. Thats why thst driver better get a lawyer.
Hold your lane as traffic MERGES on the highway. Too frequently people switch lanes for merging traffic
Explain how that’s safer.
@@DrivenA111 It is up to the driver switching lanes to check their blind spots, use their turn signals, and watch all surrounding traffic before they switch lanes. Most lane change accidents are avoidable if the merging driver had been more careful.
It's scary driving out here nowaday's, they need to put (Yeld) signs on every om ramp. Half these ppl don't yeld they just come flying on.
Great, smh. Now I get to see more balloons, crosses, candles, and teddy bears on the shoulder! Dam interstate look worse than a cemetery
Hind sight is 20/20, Just a sad situation for those who lost there lives, and those who survived and now live with that moment,
This is why I don't vera just to avoid a crash, your better off just staying straight and putting the brakes on and hitting the car if you can't slow up enough because trucks aren't race cars and will go out of control.
Man, that is the same accident, i see ?? Im in Utah Helicopter was involved was yhe terror
Naturally tendancy when we see a road hazard is to try and avoid it. Even if he/she gets away without charges, he/she has to live with the fact that their actions led to multiple deaths.
Hi Alex
I'm so glad it took 3.5 hours to get loaded and tarped yesterday, or I would've been on that part of i40.
The SUV needs to be charged with criminal charges. The truck driver would have been arrested we know that.
Drivers: MAINTAIN YOUR LANE, MAINTAIN YOUR LANE, MAINTAIN YOUR LANE, MAINTAIN YOUR LANE, MAINTAIN YOUR LANE!!!
Drill that into your brain.
yes, I agree. I pull triples for big company you hold your steering wheel firm and hit your breaks hard.
and a unionized strike on the ports,,wow,this is going to get ugly, ugly, ugly, and bad storms..
I'm sure law enforcement will arrest truck driver for premeditated 1st degree murder and want want death penalty.. truck drivers are guilty for being there according to law enforcement everywhere
Don't swerve. RIP.
It’s very sad that for one persons mistake innocent people pass away. I hope that the person that caused it was caught and held responsible. 🙏
They'll blame the truck driver.
First thing was to slow down evasive monuever is done moderate speed while cutting speed .. u give the person that is in lane yr trying to get into , time to position themselves safely , to preserve life and accident ... as A trucker !! I can assure u.. there alot of crazy types of people out there..... who is looking put themselves in ARMS WAY.... IN KNOWING THIS TRUCKERS.... HAVE EXTRA SPACE INFRONT OF U MORE THAN U NEED AND ASSUME SOMEONE SPEEDING TO COME ON THE HIGHWAY... THAT THEY MIGHT THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGH , TO TAKE THE RIGHT AWAY .. ITS OK TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT AWAY. IF IT WILL MAKE YR DAY SAFE , AND PRESERVE THE SANCTITY OF LIFE... 🎉🎉🎉
If the truck driver would had just struck the vehicle that caused it, everyone would have said he should have avoided it. We're damed if we do and damed if we don't. These laws need to change and realize that these small vehicles are much more dangerous than the big trucks. That's why these highways are constantly getting more and more fatal.
People always want the truck driver to get in trouble or like they're saying on this video the truck driver should not have evaded we have to do what we have to do it out there regardless of situation they always want to blame the trucker for everything sometimes things aren't the way they seem to be my condolences to those people that passed away nobody should have to go through that
Truck driver is automatic transmissions.
Equipment operator is manual transmission. Huge difference
26 os closed also
Yep, they will give him a ticket for failure to maintain lane and that’s gonna open up a bucket of worms for lawsuit
Hes allowing the vehicle semi to run too fast... and the break need to ne check if its well maintain
Go Speed Racer Go
i rather keep my distance and not turn until i am sure i will not hit anyone doing a left turn. if theres no way to make the left turn the shoulder if there is one is the next best thing and if not that suv is dying.
A DAM SHAME!!!
We have to SLOW DOWN on the public roads,, we just have to,, and I mean everyone 2 wheeler 4 wheeler 10 wheeler and 18 wheelers,,, SLOW Down Save A Life,, it's just not worth it,, put your phones down pay attention,,, SORRY TO THOSE THAT PASSED AWAY
Not the first time
Accidents happen! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Collapsed?! I don't see any difference. Looks like most of Tennessee's interstates and road conditions.
Yea kind of like shitehol NYC New Jersey California and MA CT all huge dumps
@@ak_getright9905 Sad news. Can't imagine that. I've been to all 47 lacking Maine. Seen all the sad dumps, Seattle, Portland, LA metro, Denver metro, even Tucson and Phoenix!! Tucson has an ally that's literally a latrine. My dear Lord, I've never turned the corner and smelled toilet for a block. Hawaii??? Who allowed this?!?!
No one ever mentions that if uncle Sam had a even keiled tax base,( i.e. family farms, to industry etc )the USA would have funds to maintain the infrastructure.
@@hawkeyetec Lol! (I laugh alot). I know you don't believe that! Government accrues far more than enough tax revenue for a robust infrastructure. Above and beyond! Too much inner corruption and chicanery.
They call it management, budgeting and saving. But many times it's theft from your pockets or services.
Limiting the amount of reflective beads in interstate paint to save a few bucks?!!
Are you freaking serious?! Do you see I -24 in Tennessee in the rain? Right, YOU CAN'T!!!
Or the 4 am snow plow rule?! Slide offs and accidents calling for plow services. "Not until 4 am !!" Just keep sliding off and crashing. I know many municipalities ration and conserve on road salt mixture. I guess if the plows don't come out until 4 am, that pile of salt should still be pretty high come April. Not about our safety, but the accounting ledger. We saved a ton of money this year!! Good job!!
Never swerve smh Rip
Your horn is a evasive monuever tool... you putting yr truck on the marker line on the road is an evasive manouver tool... there are times u afto to speed up for an evasive manouver ..... remember ... sudden swith is dangerous.. than slow switch .... i am one that has been guilty of sudden switch.... but as my experience grows... slow switch is your freind.. preservation switch !! I would say !
The highway patrol will tell you never ever leave your lane for anything once you lose control of your lane it could all be your fault he said always stay in your lane if a car is going to hit you it's going to hit you
@@yamama7265 Fact
@@donnasqueaky2 I drove a semi for many many many many many years every single defense driving class we had to take they will tell you it doesn't matter if your car or a semi or whoever you stay in your lane no matter what you do not swerve if they're going to hit you they're going to hit you but if you swerve then you might cause another major accident and it will be your fault they call it rain control for a reason
@@donnasqueaky2 sorry I have to use my speaker it's called Lane control for a reason
Werner driver in texas never left his lane. Oncoming traffic entered trucks lane and caused head on crash. Truck at fault.
Werner driver in texas never left his lane. Oncoming traffic entered trucks lane and caused head on crash. Truck at fault.
In some occasion , when yr unaware because of time to react... its best to do yr evasive monuever in modesty .... even when yr sure that no one else is in the lane yr trying to get into ... evasive manuever should be one that some seeing performing it .. have time to evade u , if your become a hazard to them.... thats what distinguish ,the Master driver from the soley offensive....
THE GREATEST DRIVERS ARE THE ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS , DEFENSE IS EVEN GREATER THAN OFFENSE... GREAT DRIVER LEARN TO HAVE DISCRETION TO OTHER DRIVERS ESPECIALLY IN CRITICAL TIME ... AND WHEN U SEE SOMEONE SPEEDING LIKE THERE IN A RUSH... GIVE THEM THE WAY !! FOR SAFETY SAKE !
A dam collapsed..... wtf is going on around here...
Sad thing is in court this will be blamed on semi for not staying in his lane even though 1st car over shot and was a fault there no protection in this industry for use truck drivers
Blame the truck driver, how ? Learn how to drive
always blame the frigin trucker
So sad
So I'm confused and there's always double talk about a drivers actions. They tell us to alway look for and have a way out of a situation. Then turn around and tell you to maintain your lane. So which is it? It makes no sense, and only gives the people looking to place blame a way to do so. It's always a no win situation for a driver.
It's by design. They want that money.
Each one has its own function.
Let your level of awareness put the two together.
It is a guidence for each situation there may be times when one overrules another.
@hawkeyetec it's a natural human instinct to avoid the situation. Maintaining your lane in the face of danger is not. We can't do one then be blamed for not doing the other. That's a no win for the driver. Making it automatically your fault. Use your head, it's just a game to the powers that be that gives you a false sense of doing g the right thing.
@@user-wr6vz7ol8t Your reply doesn't address the statement I made.
We agree to disagree.
@hawkeyetec it does, your just over complicating the obvious.
I think the truck driver is liable for killing all those people that will be a large settlement from the trucking company
Unfortunately.
Congress should pass new laws to hold 4-wheelers f up out-there civil and criminal both . And their reckless driving tendencies. And stop those down town behaviors on our interstate highways will minimize fatalities out there.
Truckers, stay in your lane!
*Shut Down
Smart Trucking news trucker died?
Yes
Most Life Insurance policies will not pay if they know you have been sky diving. It6a. Exclusion on almost all policies now. So ehat that really means is these people's beneficiaries are left with nothing unless they can prove this was the trucker's fault. Here comes the lawsuits.
Build back better infrastructure!!!
You did it Joe!
I hate driving on that lil stretch of 40. Maybe they'll take all the curves away
All the roads in this country suck.
I think the truck driver is liable for killing all those people that will be a large settlement from the trucking company