truck driver 110 year sentence reduced to 10

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That grade is NASTY. Operator error wiping out the brakes and not taking those turnouts

I was certainly negligent and it cost lives. Wonder what he would have gotten had he capped 4 people.
 
The state DOT had to go over that tractor and trailer with a fine toothed comb.....Ive driven out of the Rockies into Denver, every tractor trailer I've seen was going slow, lower gear and Jake brake on
Im not a trailer driver but have worked in that field for decades, the tractor and trailers ive been around carry really heavy loads and the brakes are always adjusted and checked
Going down a steep roadway too fast while driving with a load is neglect, ten years is a slap in the face to the families of the victims.
 
They're licensed for a reason. To show competence, but to also be held accountable(loss of license).
It's on the driver to report ANY defects, whether minor or major.
If he wasnt comfortable.....dont drive, no one holding a gun to his head to force him.
Now he gets to look forward to jail sex!:thumbsup:
That's an awesome spotless record BD! Kudos to you and your professionalism.
10 wasn't enough to me .I'm a 33yr veteran accident free!
 
It's the drivers responsibility for saftey that's why he does a pre trip and a post trip and can read and comprehend English then the da woulda hitbthe break check area and drove slow like the sign said or hit a runaway ramp


Yeah, I really hadn't learned anything about this case until this thread came up. I had just heard a few things pertaining to the case in the media. They sure did make it out to be an issue with truck maintenance.
I didn't know his speed. I knew it was down hill. They sure as hell didn't say he drove past runaway ramps.
My thoughts have changed on this issue. I just hadn't invested enough time in reading about it. I quit paying attention to things in the news that didn't affect me personally around Feb. 2020.
 
Accidents are accidents, people who commit murder on purpose get way less time. What has our justice system become....a f'n joke I guess.
I'd send jussie Smollett to prison for 10 years, hell he'd love all the loving in there too
 
If the truck wasn't safe don't drive it.Its cheaper than being thrown in jail for 10 years.Kinda like a taxi is cheaper than getting a dwi or killing someone drunk
And that is ultimately the bottom line, if it's not safe, refuse it. My company will always have the driver's back, and they are constantly doing training and reevaluating. It sometimes gets annoying when I have to repeat the same courses every year but every time I've had to refuse the trip because of a safety issue I have never been criticized or admonished for doing so.
In this case, the more I am learning about what the driver didn't do, the less I have sympathy for him.
 
I live here, he definitely chose not to take 1 runaway ramp and 2 dead uphill exits, he did try to drive on the shoulder after the braked were smoked into rush hour traffics. He was completely incapable of driving in the conditions with zero training. I have drive his exact route dozens of times, he straight up screwed up. 110 years is a long time, 4 dead people s a mass casualty event. He should be in jail, the company should be bankrupt and the principals in prison and most importantly, whoever ok’d him for mountain driving should be in jail and banned from anything to do with heavy trucks forever. Just my opinion
 
Lets just execute the driver ,owner, jury, judge, lawyers, family of deceased...and put it all in the rearview mirror.

Fresh start. Lmao
 
That idiot was going 85 in a 45. Said his brakes failed but he still have a jake brake. Went by emergency turnoffs and killed 4 people. Be eligible for parole in 5, I think the 100 years was to much but he should do 20+.


That hill is miles long with a big drop in grade. I don't THINK a Jake alone would be much help. My Trucker friends say there are way to many of these unskilled drivers on the road right now.
 
Too many here on work visas!

That hill is miles long with a big drop in grade. I don't THINK a Jake alone would be much help. My Trucker friends say there are way to many of these unskilled drivers on the road right now.
 
That hill is miles long with a big drop in grade. I don't THINK a Jake alone would be much help. My Trucker friends say there are way to many of these unskilled drivers on the road right now.
You can down shift to slow down. He was inexperienced shouldn’t have been driving big rig. Lack of anybody wanting to drive truck or have a job anymore. There hiring anyone
 
The brakes are the solely the responsibility of driver. Drivers are required to inspect the brakes daily, both the slack adjusters and the lining as well as an air leak down test. If there is an issue then and only then is it a problem for a mechanic or company, it is the drivers responsibility to have the brakes fixed before continuing.

Driver error and sole responsibility to the driver, the 110 should have stayed.


Alan
 
1st of all...Happy New Year everyone.
Elections have consequences.
Has the governor demonstrated his Fellatio skills on this guy?
Before anyone gets their panties in a wad...that WOULD be a legitimate reason for lowering the sentence.
 
1st of all...Happy New Year everyone.
Elections have consequences.
Has the governor demonstrated his Fellatio skills on this guy?
Before anyone gets their panties in a wad...that WOULD be a legitimate reason for lowering the sentence.


1st of all Happy New Year. As for the rest of your post I give it the stupid post of the day award:wtf:
 
I was merely trying to figure out the reasoning for the reduction.
My guess is as good as some, and better than others.
These days, common sense, justice, and critical thinking are just a few of the many things that don't have a place...and why we're going down the toilet.
There IS a reason why we're in the toilet, and this happened...and they're related.
I'm trying REAL hard to not say anything where panties would get in a wad.
It's really simple to figure out. And censorship on here is as real as it is in the media.
 
Can you double clutch downshift a big rig if your brakes are out? I mean your revs are already up going downhill trying to compression brake and your thinking "let me push in the clutch to lose any compression braking and try and find a lower gear..."? That's when experience comes in I guess. Not being a big rig trucker, but I did a 125 miles a day in an Isuzu NPR stakebed with a jake brake for 5 Years with no accidents on LA streets and freeways.
 
this whole thing reminds me of a certain actor who shot and killed someone

everybody was talking about how it was someone else responsibility to check the gun and how it "just went off" but in the end, he was the one who pulled the trigger
 
Did he ever admit he actually pulled the trigger? I don't think he even copped to that. Would a commercial airline pilot ever get charged with 120 murders if his plane went down and he survived? CANADA AIR jet filled up with 1700 liters of fuel (or something like that) and the pilot thought it was 1700 gallons! He ran that jet dry at 35000 feet and had to almost belly land it on an old WW2 runway. His fault for not noticing the fuel guage was pegged empty? Lots of armchair quarterbacks here....
 
A jake brake will not stop a loaded rig on a downhill grade, and downshifting can be tricky, that's assuming the tractor was not an automatic transmission, like so many are today.
 
Did he ever admit he actually pulled the trigger? I don't think he even copped to that. Would a commercial airline pilot ever get charged with 120 murders if his plane went down and he survived? CANADA AIR jet filled up with 1700 liters of fuel (or something like that) and the pilot thought it was 1700 gallons! He ran that jet dry at 35000 feet and had to almost belly land it on an old WW2 runway. His fault for not noticing the fuel guage was pegged empty? Lots of armchair quarterbacks here....
I remember that Air Canada incident, was blamed on a ground crew member not making the correct calculation for metric. That plane landed in Gimli Manitoba, on what had then become our "local" 1/4 mile dragstrip, pilot remembered it from his air force days or something like that, coasted that plane some 350 miles before setting it down.
 
Yeah, I really hadn't learned anything about this case until this thread came up. I had just heard a few things pertaining to the case in the media. They sure did make it out to be an issue with truck maintenance.
I didn't know his speed. I knew it was down hill. They sure as hell didn't say he drove past runaway ramps.
My thoughts have changed on this issue. I just hadn't invested enough time in reading about it. I quit paying attention to things in the news that didn't affect me personally around Feb. 2020.
We had a dump truck (18 yd) come down the ramp towards the than toll plaza loaded on the Verrazano Narrows bridge and rear end another truck stoped paying tolls
The driver claimed the brakes were bad but the truth came out that he was driving to fast and he couldn't stop......The maintenance records for that truck were pulled immediately and the truck had all new brakes and drums recently
It comes down to knowing how to drive, that driver in CO was going to fast down that mountain, I dont know if he was using the Jake or if he even had one...Was he revving so high he couldn't get into a lower gear, but standing on the brakes wasnt going to stop him
It happened years later in a company I worked for, multiple tractor trailer pile up coming down a steep embankment, driver told me he was standing on the brake pedal, he went right under another trailer
I hear you with paying attention to the news, I felt the exact same way in Feb of 2016
 
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