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I'll start by saying that I'm an Over the road truck driver myself. and this is one of the biggest AssHat drivers I've seen in my 6 years of doing this job. Henceforth to be know as AH
I was parked at a medium sized very busy truck stop taking a 10 hr break.It had been raining fairly heavily for several hours so the roads were wet. I was sitting in the drivers seat doing paperwork when i heard a truck engine revving repeatedly and honking its horn.I looked over to see a driver flailing his arms about and yelling at the truck stopped in front of him that was waiting for another truck to get backed in to a parking spot.the truck in front of the AH was finally able to move so AH starts to move only to be cut off by another truck that was waiting to exit the truck stop. This caused AH to start grabbing stuff off of his dash, throwing it around in a major temper tantrum. When that truck was cleared the took off at a high rate of speed, u-turning his truck behind the fuel pumps and nearly hitting another truck head on. He then proceeded to race out of the truck stop. Around twenty min later I walked up to the store at the truck stop only to see fire/rescue, police and ambulances down the road. I inquired as to what happened. It turns out that AH pulled out of the truck stop without stopping or looking and pulled into the path of a car which then struck the trailer partially going under it. It was several hundred feet before the truck stopped. They rescue was having to cut the car apart to remove the people inside. Sadly I do not know if there were any survivors. Mr AH was so impatient to get out of there that not only did it possible cost others their lives it also cost him hours of delay and possibly ended his career. At least I hope it did.
Uncle Silly Head
I was parked at a medium sized very busy truck stop taking a 10 hr break.It had been raining fairly heavily for several hours so the roads were wet. I was sitting in the drivers seat doing paperwork when i heard a truck engine revving repeatedly and honking its horn.I looked over to see a driver flailing his arms about and yelling at the truck stopped in front of him that was waiting for another truck to get backed in to a parking spot.the truck in front of the AH was finally able to move so AH starts to move only to be cut off by another truck that was waiting to exit the truck stop. This caused AH to start grabbing stuff off of his dash, throwing it around in a major temper tantrum. When that truck was cleared the took off at a high rate of speed, u-turning his truck behind the fuel pumps and nearly hitting another truck head on. He then proceeded to race out of the truck stop. Around twenty min later I walked up to the store at the truck stop only to see fire/rescue, police and ambulances down the road. I inquired as to what happened. It turns out that AH pulled out of the truck stop without stopping or looking and pulled into the path of a car which then struck the trailer partially going under it. It was several hundred feet before the truck stopped. They rescue was having to cut the car apart to remove the people inside. Sadly I do not know if there were any survivors. Mr AH was so impatient to get out of there that not only did it possible cost others their lives it also cost him hours of delay and possibly ended his career. At least I hope it did.
Uncle Silly Head
Good lord almighty...Let me (a trucker's daughter for those that aren't aware) say that I am SO GLAD this man has never been anywhere near myself or my father, that I know of. I hope whoever was in that vehicle survived, and wasn't hurt badly, although car vs semi usually ends badly. I hope AH got a nice sit in jail or something, and I hope that this woke him up to his obviously dangerous ways. It's sad and frustrating that it even happened, and over what? A few measly minutes? Some people shouldn't be licensed to drive a car, let alone a semi!
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