The first winter I was a professional driver, I was in a snowstorm, and just trying to get parked. I was doing about 25. I hooked up with a veteran driver on the CB, and he was also doing 25. We got passed by another driver yelling at us on the radio, about how we couldn’t drive. He was in the ditch 3 miles down the road.
@@thomaswilson8634 I don’t even travel in the north anymore when I go on road trips, back-and-forth from Arizona and Massachusetts during the winter because the truckers drive like 80 miles an hour and full winter conditions it’s insane
Inexperienced truckers say thanks to HOS, your government putting pressure on drivers with unrealistic hours of service combined with new drivers you end up with this every years
It's amazing watching those idiots just keep the pedal down with that kind of road conditions even though it's clearly visible there's something going on ahead of them.
Because it’s not clearly visible until flashing lights arrive on scene. By the time they enter the video, it’s too late to touch the brakes and evasion is the only option.
Right, and plenty of room between. As a Mid Michigander, I've never been in the ditch! Learn to drive in advertise conditions or Stay where you are before you lame or worse innocent people!
what the hell is wrong with people...they see slowed traffic ahead, lanes reduced to one, icy conditions and they're still speeding like its the Indy 500...
It's scary how fast these people are driving in this type of weather. I've lived in Michigan pretty much my whole life. You'd think driving in these conditions would be cake, but nope. The second snow hits the ground I'm driving like a granny.
This sort of thing happens every winter season. People making same mistakes over and over again. Just the visibility alone should be a warning to slow down.
If these mistakes are over and over again, it is no longer a mistake. It is narcissism, the I am more important attitude of I am the only one on the road nothings going to happen to me. 35 years ago this attitude was way more rare.
Commercial vehicles travelling far too fast for conditions and piling into 4 wheelers who were also travelling far too fast. Doubt that any of them had proper snow tires too.
Slow down people 😂 who are you talking with the world's smallest microphone in yer hand and your prayers won't do nothing to help thinking realistically, don't be afraid of reality Mrs. Bible Thumber
and where are the chain requirements? didnt see a single vehicle chained up in these conditions I blame it on the transportation dept also not requiring
@@lutomson3496 no mountains in Ohio. Chains are only good in deep snow or upgrades. They don't help you stop one bit. Just like people with AWD think they can stop on a dime.
There's a really good video named "Dramatic video shows 47-car pile-up near Oak Grove." It's a trucker and his wife in the cab, recording the sounds and impacts of a pile-up. He was a smart driver and stopped in time, but he got caught in the middle and had to sit there while truck after truck and car after car slammed into him and the pile. The sounds and impacts he and his wife endured were terrifying. She was scared, understandably so, and wanted to bail out. He told her no, stay put. There was nothing they could do but stay in the safety of the cab and get pummeled. They weren't seriously hurt as far as I know. It's a good lesson for all drivers to see and hear what they went through.
I remember that, I was coming the other way on I-70 right before it happened, after making all my stops. My Day ends in Oak Grove, and then I had to drive like 2 hours home in that storm
I just don't understand why people, especially big rigs have to drive so fast in wintery conditions. There is a wreck in front of you and there are emergency vehicles with their lights on and people are not slowing down.
That's because of their highly processed chemical laden factory foods and Big Pharma meds that they live on. A large portion of the population is mentally degenerated as a result. Back in the 1960s, people stayed home when it snowed.
@@TheRealWheelzone of the reasons why my dad stopped 🛑 also You cannot drive after a certain amount of hours and bossy dispatches who have no idea what’s going on and bending the. Rules
@EDD519 Pleasant, well, maybe you should stop talking like you're gonna live forever because it really doesn't matter, does it? God doesn't like a coward.
That was a great example of how people regard death or serious injuries on the roadways now. Clearly the trucks that continued barrelling through the crash site were reckless, my guess is that they didn’t want to touch the brakes because they could see that they would skid, the cabs of these semi’s are so cushy and comfortable that the drivers feel so safe and invincible in them! Slow down for nothing, time is money, that’s the mentality of many drivers today. I guess the time has come that rolling speed control by highway patrol vehicles, are necessary in bad weather!
@@Mike_Greentea I've been in trucking since 1978 .. been all up and down the mountain snow and ice and whatever whether you can think of. There's no excuse for driving like that on that kind of road
Snow and ice covered roads...... let's drive really fast ! You'd think truckers would use extreme caution at all times no matter what the road conditions are !
A driver should have one vehicle length for each 10 mph moving. That is for perfectly normal weather and road conditions. With this condition, a driver should at least triple that length. Simple rule that is seldom observed, unfortunately.
That’s exactly what I was taught in Drivers Ed over 30 years ago. Drivers education should really be mandatory in school, and you should have to at least pass a written drivers test, every time you renew your license.
@Cp3659 It's not impossible to do. I've done it countless times In normal conditions and it has prevented me from backhitting the bad driver in front of me. Even the jump-in- front " idiots". Just gotta slow down when those selfish people do that.
I rode with a truck driver a few years back from Washington state up to Alaska. Everyone was driving normal except for these Canadian “super bees.” They were flying down the highways like mad men. My friend said they were constantly wrecking. Not long after that we came across one where the trailer was still on the highway but the cab was hanging off a very very steep cliff. Several were on the CB radios making comments about how dirty his underwear probably was. 😂
We have the worst truck drivers in the last 50 years on the highways today! This stuff right here is one of the reasons why you will see commercial trucking going autonomous. This is sad. I come from a family of truck drivers.
They're not trying to usher in autonomous trucks because of drivers like this. They're doing it because it removes the need for a human driver, that gets tired and has to stop and rest for 10 hours. Look at all the regulations and turn over rate they won't have to worry about anymore with a load that can go from A to B without stopping for anything other than to get fuel. And there's no driver or drivers to pay.
The idea of autonamous trucks is a very dangerous idea. I worked with robotics for years as a electro mechanical technician and robots fail all the time. Sensors fail and software fails. Sensors and cameras will never be able to safely navigate winter conditions. I would never want to drive on roads with robot trucks. It's extremely dangerous.
I do not think self driving trucks will do well either. There is a feel for driving in this stuff. I hated it. Kept the seat leather sucked up my butt on days like that.🦇
You're on snow and ice why the hell are you driving that fast I was a long haul driver for ten years so I know what I'm talking about. You need room to stop!
I recently was on holiday in the US (visiting from the UK) and with a friend drove down from Pennsylvania to Tennessee (about 600 miles). What really shocked me was that truck/lorrys are allowed to go at the same speed as cars. In the UK trucks are restricted to 60mph on freeways and if there are three lanes trucks are not permitted to use the outside lane - seeing trucks steaming up behind me took quite some getting used to!
No one carries road flares anymore…those cars that were stopped where that highway patrol stopped could have walked back a ways and put out road flares had they had any…
This is why I don't want to drive in those conditions anymore. Road actually looked decent, you could still see the roadway but, the idiots out here that can't comprehend they maybe should back out of it a bit, come along and take you out too because they aren't paying attention.
Two things. One, they’re all travelling way to fast and should all loose their licences. And secondly why don’t American trucks have bars under the trailers to stop cars going under them like we’ve had in Europe for over 30 years?!
Just like in Minnesota. Usually, during the first major snow storm there are more than 1000 vehicles involved in accidents, spin outs, crashes, going in the ditch or driving off the shoulder of the road.
No excuse call me old school but come on super truckers slow it down on snow covered roads. I see this nonsense time after time out here. we all have some place to be but we can do it safely. 🇺🇲
That Schneider truck, flying on icy conditions. Must be a driver who is around 22 years of age, since most of them are the causes of wrecks. Still can not believe idiots will drive fast on icy roads, then cry when they wreck.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that drivers would be driving too fast and following too close in these snowy, icy road conditions. But, that's exactly how they drive with dry and perfect road conditions too.
I HAVE A FRIEND WHO DROVE TRACTOR TRAILERS and he has been fired from different companies THREE TIMES NOW. He was fired all three times because he refused to move his truck and stayed in his trucker friendly hotel during a snow storm. Which made him very late to where he was supposed to me. He told them, it was not worth it. So he was fired. If you asked him if he would do it again, he said yes. This video shows why that is a good decision. Companies pushing company drivers to be out there making bad decisions so the company gets paid. Don't blame the drivers.
It's a foggy, gray day with poor visibility. Rushing to meet a deadline is one thing but they could at least put their lights on. That's not going to slow them down.
@@gchsbus I can see the drivers being pushed into driving too fast for the conditions by the company in order to meet a deadline. I just can't imagine the company saying "And you can't use your lights".
Been driving trucks 45 years i watch these truckers today just going way to fast had a lady ask me one time i see them trucks doing 70 mph on ice covered interstate do they really stop that good i said no those drivers are just plain stupid.
i left in 2019, got tired of the stupidity. idk when exactly it got bad but it seemed the more and more "no speak english" types got in a truck the worse it got. what finally drove me out was when I was asleep in a truck stop and had the hood of the w9 ripped off by a "no speak english" and was pretty much told my cops "can't really do anything" I was like really? it says in the fucking CDL manual MUST BE ABLE TO READ AND UNDERSTAND ENGLISH as a requirement to hold a CDL and this fuck that just damaged my truck can't speak a lick of english and you fucks are just letting him on his way.
Too many truck drivers are more concerned about thier e log ticking away than driving responsibly . Thats what happens when you have a computer telling a person who is paid piece work that your workday is ending . No flexibilty
Truckers can no longer use CB radios. Their companies don't allow it AND they have an in-truck camera watching the driver so, not like you could even use a walkie talkie style CB.
Every single truck driver was going way to fast for conditions. As an experienced truck driver, this irritates the f out of me... this is why i choose to sit safe somewhere when conditions are bad, because of idiots like this on the road.
Yep drivers to fast with the state not treating the roads till this happens...but two days later see plows going down road plowing dry roads with sparks flying
Here the city drives around with no plow on the truck sanding and then comes back with the grader and plows all the sand off the road. Then the grader slides down a hill and hits a parked car. Then it's break time even though they just started 45 minutes ago.
If all Truckers went back to running CBs in their trucks.... most of these massive multi vehicle accidents could be prevented.....When all truckers had CBs... they got on the air & warned other traffic whats up & where..it gave time to slow down early...also to block/slow auto traffic too... cell phones do nothing to communicate with other drivers... CBs need to become normal equipment again.... Don't forget to respect all the Tow Truck drivers who risk their safety regardless of weather to help strangers in need... see flashing lights? MOVE OVER & SLOW DOWN
When a self-employed truck driver picks up a delivery they agree that it’ll be delivered on a certain day and time. If it’s not their pay is decreased because wherever they’re delivering it wants the merchandise at a certain time.
Why do so many semi drivers insist on never slowing down in bad weather? There are times I’m going 30-40 in 4wd, and they haul past at 70+ like it’s a sunny summer day
just dumb man..and some got away with it one too many times..hell some even brag about going 55+ mph in snow..if i were you i would stay away from anything involving semi..majority don't know what they're doing
Im a truck driver I knew within the first 20 seconds of the video They are ALL GOING TOOOOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS flatbedder wiith 10 years whose gone all over the country
No, but many are near Shi'ited. One day CDL schools, no winter driving experience, bad companies with bad scheduling, government mandated working hours, flip flops and automatics. Combine all of those things, with the most basic tool available to avoid those situations being banned by some companies, and you get this. A lot of this. That basic tool should not only not be forbidden, but it should be mandatory and required in every truck on the road. That tool is a citizen's band radio, or CB. If the very first truck in that mess started shouting "Southbound, back 'er down! Back 'er down, big pileup at the 144!", and got the message out, the accident would involve not only fewer commercial vehicles, but by default fewer cars as they noted the trucks around them slowing considerably even if for reasons unknown.
Few of those truck drivers need their CDL revoked for life!! Absolutely no excuse for driving that fast through that accident scene! Truck drivers these days are mostly just mere steering wheel holders that think 80,000 pounds plus handles like a over-grown pickup truck.
SAME old story EVERY year. People going way too fast for conditions. Even worse here because they had clear visibility ahead and still went plowing into a big ORANGE truck!
Blows this truck driver's mind how stupid fast these drivers are traveling in conditions like this.
I agree brother this is why I hate British Columbia in winter idiots
Trying to beat the clock with ELDs
@@juliogonzo2718no excuse
Amateur steering wheel holder's.
Yep that’s what I thought instantly
The first winter I was a professional driver, I was in a snowstorm, and just trying to get parked. I was doing about 25. I hooked up with a veteran driver on the CB, and he was also doing 25. We got passed by another driver yelling at us on the radio, about how we couldn’t drive. He was in the ditch 3 miles down the road.
Did you smile and wave at him as you went by. 😂
Sounds about right, I've also had similar experiences.
@@KAT-dg6el just asked him if he had time to give me a lesson about driving in snow. And laughed.
Been there and seen that situation
That was called a supatrucker! Did the same thing and told a vet driver on I-40 above Santa Rosa,NM. He would be a ditch bitch in 3 mi and it happened
I hate winter driving, especially during the day when everyone‘s driving as if it’s the middle of July.
same with a regular lisc.
If you hate winter drive safer not like all those as-clowns
These truckers doing 55-60 mph still after seeing MULTIPLE vehicles in the ditches proves that they give any idiot a CDL these days. Just unreal.
The foreigners don't even have to do the training. They come from Canada and right into a truck that the government buys them
@@thomaswilson8634 I don’t even travel in the north anymore when I go on road trips, back-and-forth from Arizona and Massachusetts during the winter because the truckers drive like 80 miles an hour and full winter conditions it’s insane
Those and the ones that have 4 wheel drive trucks, too stupid to realize that 4 wheel drive does have its limits.....
ROOKIES !!!!!!!!
Inexperienced truckers say thanks to HOS, your government putting pressure on drivers with unrealistic hours of service combined with new drivers you end up with this every years
It's amazing watching those idiots just keep the pedal down with that kind of road conditions even though it's clearly visible there's something going on ahead of them.
I agree. They should be going slower and paying more attention simply because of the weather let alone seeing a big mess ahead of them.
Doesn't amaze me. Happens every year. Idiots never learn.
They had to have started braking before video began just to get down to the speed we're seeing.
Because it’s not clearly visible until flashing lights arrive on scene. By the time they enter the video, it’s too late to touch the brakes and evasion is the only option.
no common sense
With those conditions no one should be going above 35.
Can do above 35 but keep at least 3 truck lengths in distance between traffic
Right, and plenty of room between. As a Mid Michigander, I've never been in the ditch! Learn to drive in advertise conditions or Stay where you are before you lame or worse innocent people!
With those conditions nobody should actually be driving period.
If you can't walk on the road, you surely can't drive on it.
😂
what the hell is wrong with people...they see slowed traffic ahead, lanes reduced to one, icy conditions and they're still speeding like its the Indy 500...
going faster than the cop lol
Lmao ..
I'll never understand why people seem to forgot how to drive in winter conditions. It happens every year without fail. They refuse to learn. 🥴😞
The idiots that never got an accident before in winter and now it’s their first🤷🏽♂️
That nobody sees the big giant orange trailer sideways in the highway is absurd. Pay attention.
I know , right ?
At 00:46 pumpkin gets hit then drives off.
I'm sure Schneider seen this video and cut that IC loose
It's scary how fast these people are driving in this type of weather. I've lived in Michigan pretty much my whole life. You'd think driving in these conditions would be cake, but nope. The second snow hits the ground I'm driving like a granny.
I drove 33 years in Va. so it was not too bad. However, when it snowed I became a rookie as I passed Billie Bobs in the ditch.🦇
This sort of thing happens every winter season. People making same mistakes over and over again. Just the visibility alone should be a warning to slow down.
It's happening more and the professional drivers are becoming more reckless!
Snow and ice on road doesn't give them an idea why would visibility?
If these mistakes are over and over again, it is no longer a mistake. It is narcissism, the I am more important attitude of I am the only one on the road nothings going to happen to me. 35 years ago this attitude was way more rare.
Diversity strikes again
Look at all the traffic The idiots are still racing by at full speed.❗️🤬
Commercial vehicles travelling far too fast for conditions and piling into 4 wheelers who were also travelling far too fast. Doubt that any of them had proper snow tires too.
Drivers driving to fast for the weather conditions. Slow down people. Prayers for all involved and for the rescue personal on scene.
Slow down people 😂 who are you talking with the world's smallest microphone in yer hand and your prayers won't do nothing to help thinking realistically, don't be afraid of reality Mrs. Bible Thumber
@@americanhotdog just cause you drive and cause accidents doesn't mean others do.
@@americanhotdog >OP has 44 thumbs up
>You have 1 that might be your own
I like the way the officer just states offhand "another commercial), like it's happening all the time now. (Which, sadly, it is).
and where are the chain requirements? didnt see a single vehicle chained up in these conditions I blame it on the transportation dept also not requiring
Those conditions do not require the use of chains.@@lutomson3496
@@lutomson3496 no mountains in Ohio. Chains are only good in deep snow or upgrades. They don't help you stop one bit. Just like people with AWD think they can stop on a dime.
Right, (don't tell me how to drive, it's a conspiracy)
@@jimgriffin9924 they do help, but don't count on much.
There's a really good video named "Dramatic video shows 47-car pile-up near Oak Grove." It's a trucker and his wife in the cab, recording the sounds and impacts of a pile-up. He was a smart driver and stopped in time, but he got caught in the middle and had to sit there while truck after truck and car after car slammed into him and the pile. The sounds and impacts he and his wife endured were terrifying. She was scared, understandably so, and wanted to bail out. He told her no, stay put. There was nothing they could do but stay in the safety of the cab and get pummeled. They weren't seriously hurt as far as I know. It's a good lesson for all drivers to see and hear what they went through.
I remember that, I was coming the other way on I-70 right before it happened, after making all my stops. My Day ends in Oak Grove, and then I had to drive like 2 hours home in that storm
Why do people drive so fast on dangerous road conditions?
Most of the time is the 4wheelers that cause these wrecks.
Brain dead. Either that or they are sitting on their brains.
because there aren't any issues with it unless you need to turn, brake, or stop🤣😭 so they just keep on driving till they find out the hard way
Why so defensive? She didn’t even mention which drivers.
These ones crashed, are the ones that think they "know how to drive in it".
I just don't understand why people, especially big rigs have to drive so fast in wintery conditions. There is a wreck in front of you and there are emergency vehicles with their lights on and people are not slowing down.
Because of heavy fines from the shipper and receiver if you're late.
Nonetheless, market rates are so low. Most truckers are barely making money.
That's because of their highly processed chemical laden factory foods and Big Pharma meds that they live on. A large portion of the population is mentally degenerated as a result. Back in the 1960s, people stayed home when it snowed.
@@TheRealWheelzone of the reasons why my dad stopped 🛑 also You cannot drive after a certain amount of hours and bossy dispatches who have no idea what’s going on and bending the. Rules
and thats worth more than your LIFE ?@@TheRealWheelz
@EDD519 Pleasant, well, maybe you should stop talking like you're gonna live forever because it really doesn't matter, does it? God doesn't like a coward.
That was a great example of how people regard death or serious injuries on the roadways now. Clearly the trucks that continued barrelling through the crash site were reckless, my guess is that they didn’t want to touch the brakes because they could see that they would skid, the cabs of these semi’s are so cushy and comfortable that the drivers feel so safe and invincible in them! Slow down for nothing, time is money, that’s the mentality of many drivers today. I guess the time has come that rolling speed control by highway patrol vehicles, are necessary in bad weather!
WHY was that tractor pulling the Schneider trailer going so darn fast in those conditions? Citation earned!! 🤬
Hot load !
@@Mike_Greentea I've been in trucking since 1978 .. been all up and down the mountain snow and ice and whatever whether you can think of. There's no excuse for driving like that on that kind of road
Snow and ice covered roads...... let's drive really fast ! You'd think truckers would use extreme caution at all times no matter what the road conditions are !
Unfortunately, time schedules aren't calibrated for any less than perfect conditions.
A driver should have one vehicle length for each 10 mph moving. That is for perfectly normal weather and road conditions. With this condition, a driver should at least triple that length. Simple rule that is seldom observed, unfortunately.
Impossible to do. You can try to create all the space you want but there is always those idiots that jump right in front of you.
That’s exactly what I was taught in Drivers Ed over 30 years ago. Drivers education should really be mandatory in school, and you should have to at least pass a written drivers test, every time you renew your license.
90 %of truck drivers are pathetic pos
@Cp3659 It's not impossible to do. I've done it countless times In normal conditions and it has prevented me from backhitting the bad driver in front of me. Even the jump-in- front " idiots". Just gotta slow down when those selfish people do that.
I am from Eastlake, live in Kentucky, don’t miss that Snow,
I rode with a truck driver a few years back from Washington state up to Alaska. Everyone was driving normal except for these Canadian “super bees.” They were flying down the highways like mad men.
My friend said they were constantly wrecking. Not long after that we came across one where the trailer was still on the highway but the cab was hanging off a very very steep cliff. Several were on the CB radios making comments about how dirty his underwear probably was. 😂
Indian truck drivers from Canada are the worst
For every 500 pileups 499 are America idiots
We have the worst truck drivers in the last 50 years on the highways today! This stuff right here is one of the reasons why you will see commercial trucking going autonomous. This is sad. I come from a family of truck drivers.
Because the millennials and the GenZ‘s are starting to take over our jobs.
I quit driving truck because I'm not delivering anything on roads like this
They're not trying to usher in autonomous trucks because of drivers like this. They're doing it because it removes the need for a human driver, that gets tired and has to stop and rest for 10 hours. Look at all the regulations and turn over rate they won't have to worry about anymore with a load that can go from A to B without stopping for anything other than to get fuel. And there's no driver or drivers to pay.
The idea of autonamous trucks is a very dangerous idea. I worked with robotics for years as a electro mechanical technician and robots fail all the time. Sensors fail and software fails. Sensors and cameras will never be able to safely navigate winter conditions. I would never want to drive on roads with robot trucks. It's extremely dangerous.
I do not think self driving trucks will do well either. There is a feel for driving in this stuff. I hated it. Kept the seat leather sucked up my butt on days like that.🦇
You're on snow and ice why the hell are you driving that fast I was a long haul driver for ten years so I know what I'm talking about. You need room to stop!
Watching those big rigs fly by in snow coffered roads just shows odot let's anyone have a CDL
I recently was on holiday in the US (visiting from the UK) and with a friend drove down from Pennsylvania to Tennessee (about 600 miles). What really shocked me was that truck/lorrys are allowed to go at the same speed as cars. In the UK trucks are restricted to 60mph on freeways and if there are three lanes trucks are not permitted to use the outside lane - seeing trucks steaming up behind me took quite some getting used to!
No one carries road flares anymore…those cars that were stopped where that highway patrol stopped could have walked back a ways and put out road flares had they had any…
Traffic was moving way too fast for the conditions.
This is why I don't want to drive in those conditions anymore. Road actually looked decent, you could still see the roadway but, the idiots out here that can't comprehend they maybe should back out of it a bit, come along and take you out too because they aren't paying attention.
As a professional driver, you have to know when it's time to shut it down, if conditions aren't safe to continue driving
Those trucks are going way too fast!
I'd like to see the full bodycam video of this. anybody know where it is?
Two things. One, they’re all travelling way to fast and should all loose their licences. And secondly why don’t American trucks have bars under the trailers to stop cars going under them like we’ve had in Europe for over 30 years?!
Obviously, everyone is driving too fast for conditions. Most likely black ice under the snow. Treacherous!!!
Just like in Minnesota. Usually, during the first major snow storm there are more than 1000 vehicles involved in accidents, spin outs, crashes, going in the ditch or driving off the shoulder of the road.
Speedy-Habib's truck driving school does not have snow...or teachers...
There is a company called Speedy Singh Transport here in Canada. If I was going to start a trucking company I would not mention speed in the name.
Geez the traffic just flying by way too fast 😮😮
No excuse call me old school but come on super truckers slow it down on snow covered roads. I see this nonsense time after time out here. we all have some place to be but we can do it safely. 🇺🇲
My dad, now 86, made sure I learned one thing when I started driving: It's easy to go fast. It's not always easy to slow back down.
CB radios on, in the cab on channel 19, is a real thing.
That Schneider truck, flying on icy conditions. Must be a driver who is around 22 years of age, since most of them are the causes of wrecks. Still can not believe idiots will drive fast on icy roads, then cry when they wreck.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that drivers would be driving too fast and following too close in these snowy, icy road conditions. But, that's exactly how they drive with dry and perfect road conditions too.
look how fast these people are driving in these conditions
At 0:16 the orange trailer starts to slide. Why he does not reduce speed beforehand. And the other drivers are not slowing down.
Don't need to be smart to drive a truck. Way to fast.
I HAVE A FRIEND WHO DROVE TRACTOR TRAILERS and he has been fired from different companies THREE TIMES NOW. He was fired all three times because he refused to move his truck and stayed in his trucker friendly hotel during a snow storm. Which made him very late to where he was supposed to me. He told them, it was not worth it. So he was fired. If you asked him if he would do it again, he said yes. This video shows why that is a good decision. Companies pushing company drivers to be out there making bad decisions so the company gets paid. Don't blame the drivers.
It's a foggy, gray day with poor visibility. Rushing to meet a deadline is one thing but they could at least put their lights on. That's not going to slow them down.
@@Smithpolly What does that have to do with what I said though?
@@gchsbus I can see the drivers being pushed into driving too fast for the conditions by the company in order to meet a deadline. I just can't imagine the company saying "And you can't use your lights".
Been driving trucks 45 years i watch these truckers today just going way to fast had a lady ask me one time i see them trucks doing 70 mph on ice covered interstate do they really stop that good i said no those drivers are just plain stupid.
i parked my truck in 2013, drove for 20 years never seen crap like this
i left in 2019, got tired of the stupidity. idk when exactly it got bad but it seemed the more and more "no speak english" types got in a truck the worse it got. what finally drove me out was when I was asleep in a truck stop and had the hood of the w9 ripped off by a "no speak english" and was pretty much told my cops "can't really do anything" I was like really? it says in the fucking CDL manual MUST BE ABLE TO READ AND UNDERSTAND ENGLISH as a requirement to hold a CDL and this fuck that just damaged my truck can't speak a lick of english and you fucks are just letting him on his way.
why do you have to go some were when is snow on the ground?
Well for the trucks they are only getting paid when the wheels are turning
You really asked that question?
Way too fast for conditions!
Too many truck drivers are more concerned about thier e log ticking away than driving responsibly . Thats what happens when you have a computer telling a person who is paid piece work that your workday is ending . No flexibilty
Pizz poor excuse for driving like an idiot. You are responsible for driving safely regardless.
If truckers and the police would still use the CB to worn others, these pile ups wouldn't be near as bad.
Bullshit
Or just slow down
Just drive for conditions, you don't need a fricking radio to see that you can't drive 70mph on ice!
Truckers can no longer use CB radios. Their companies don't allow it AND they have an in-truck camera watching the driver so, not like you could even use a walkie talkie style CB.
I've never heard of a trucking company not allowing a CB radio.
Proof that having a CDL doesn’t make you a truck driver.
Everyone was driving by so fast in the beginning!
Why are they going so fast? I have a subaru with winter tires and don't exceed 25mph on roads like that. Too dangerous
The guy taking the video saw the accident coming but no one else did? SLOW THE EFFF DOWN IN THE SNOW ...DUHHHH
"Professional" truck drivers??
They hire anyone these days and wonder why insurance rates are so high.
If your passing semis in these conditions, you’re going too fast
As normal... Nobody wants to slow down till it goes to hell , but then it's to late.
Then they blame the weather and / or the other drivers !
Every single truck driver was going way to fast for conditions. As an experienced truck driver, this irritates the f out of me... this is why i choose to sit safe somewhere when conditions are bad, because of idiots like this on the road.
I've told employers/owners "Your freight ain't.worth my life"
Yep drivers to fast with the state not treating the roads till this happens...but two days later see plows going down road plowing dry roads with sparks flying
Here the city drives around with no plow on the truck sanding and then comes back with the grader and plows all the sand off the road. Then the grader slides down a hill and hits a parked car. Then it's break time even though they just started 45 minutes ago.
No suprise when they're driving beyond their abilities and road conditions. 🤦♂️
Going too fast considering the road condition.
That's hard to watch
Happening everywhere all road conditions
We are getting dumber by the day on these roads
Be careful out there
If all Truckers went back to running CBs in their trucks.... most of these massive multi vehicle accidents could be prevented.....When all truckers had CBs... they got on the air & warned other traffic whats up & where..it gave time to slow down early...also to block/slow auto traffic too... cell phones do nothing to communicate with other drivers... CBs need to become normal equipment again....
Don't forget to respect all the Tow Truck drivers who risk their safety regardless of weather to help strangers in need... see flashing lights? MOVE OVER & SLOW DOWN
Everyone trying to flying, drive always with road conditions, thanks,
Remember, in slick conditions always maintain the speed limit or go faster if possible.
Pennsylvania has a law stating that commercial vehicles are to Pull off interstates During inclement weather,, should be NATION WIDE
Everybody was going way too fast for conditions. Stupid drivers kill people.
It always amazes us how truckers just don't slow down, even when there is trouble ahead. They need to go back to traffic school.
What is so important in your trailers that you must drive on a sheet of ice to deliver?
When a self-employed truck driver picks up a delivery they agree that it’ll be delivered on a certain day and time. If it’s not their pay is decreased because wherever they’re delivering it wants the merchandise at a certain time.
Same old culprit.... too fast for conditions. Happens every time.
No flashing lights anywhere on any of the dummies driving cars and trucks, but I see no flashes of COPS sitting with lights off.
Winter has little to do with this. Speed and space.
They were driving way to fast for the condition of the road.
Why are they driving so fast on slick roads?
Why do so many semi drivers insist on never slowing down in bad weather? There are times I’m going 30-40 in 4wd, and they haul past at 70+ like it’s a sunny summer day
just dumb man..and some got away with it one too many times..hell some even brag about going 55+ mph in snow..if i were you i would stay away from anything involving semi..majority don't know what they're doing
Geez don’t people pay attention to where they’re going what’s ahead of them
First snow of the year............. Yesus.
immediately saw the problem, too fast for conditions
Im a truck driver
I knew within the first 20 seconds of the video
They are ALL GOING TOOOOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS
flatbedder wiith 10 years whose gone all over the country
This looks too fast for these icy conditions…
Are the majority of truckers near sited ?
Some of them were probably near their site...but their eye-sight sucks
@davebruneau6068 sighted I should of just said dumb and blind
No, but many are near Shi'ited. One day CDL schools, no winter driving experience, bad companies with bad scheduling, government mandated working hours, flip flops and automatics. Combine all of those things, with the most basic tool available to avoid those situations being banned by some companies, and you get this. A lot of this. That basic tool should not only not be forbidden, but it should be mandatory and required in every truck on the road. That tool is a citizen's band radio, or CB. If the very first truck in that mess started shouting "Southbound, back 'er down! Back 'er down, big pileup at the 144!", and got the message out, the accident would involve not only fewer commercial vehicles, but by default fewer cars as they noted the trucks around them slowing considerably even if for reasons unknown.
@@PERFECTLS3 Overheard after the accident...
"oops, i just stepped in some shi'ite"
I've been trucking 25 and I've never come close to being involved in crap like this. It's a damned shame😮💨
I’m from sunny California and I would be terrified to drive more than 30 MPH in those weather conditions.
Few of those truck drivers need their CDL revoked for life!! Absolutely no excuse for driving that fast through that accident scene! Truck drivers these days are mostly just mere steering wheel holders that think 80,000 pounds plus handles like a over-grown pickup truck.
Don't these drivers look ahead and see a shit show? These guys are flying right into the accident.
Ouch! Thats gonna leave a mark!
This is wild. Too many seat warmers on these highways.
Dude, your lucky to have seen that and got out of the way.
SAME old story EVERY year. People going way too fast for conditions. Even worse here because they had clear visibility ahead and still went plowing into a big ORANGE truck!
The one truck that hit the orange truck had a car on the right side.
Guys driving way to fast and maybe listen to there cb radio which half dont any more.
I would have to get a Rosetta stone CD to learn Punjabi to use a CB here
My rule of thumb is, if the freeway is white, I drive 1/2 the posted speed limit.
And these people haven't a *clue* about neither out-driving your conditions *OR* what icy conditions *LOOK* like
Not suprised at all. Happens every year. These idiots never learn. 65mph and whiteout ? KEEP HAMMERED DOWN
Looks like I got out of Cleveland just in the knick of time.
Accidents in space, wind blows, invisible cars collide a lot.😮