In view of all the comments from those not qualified to make comments about Mexican drivers, I got a good laugh out of this article.
This trainer is barely potty trained and has no business even attempting to train anyone else. At best, he has 4 years of heavily supervised OTR experience.
Go figure!
On that day, according to police in Slidell, LA, Werner trainee Vera Shed drove a 2006 Peterbilt truck through the Slidell Home Depot parking lot. Shed attempted to make a U-turn at the back of the parking lot and head to the back of the building. That’s when she ran over and pulled the sedan four feet, leaving the car’s passenger wheels suspended in the air.
“She proceeded to make her turn, didn’t see the vehicle in that parking spot and ran right over it,” Slidell Capt. Kevin Foltz told Land Line.
No one was injured in the wreck.
Shed, 52, was being supervised by Werner driving instructor Jesus Alfaro, 25, and neither saw the parked car in Shed’s way.
Foltz said he was surprised to learn that a 25-year-old was considered by Werner as the more experienced driver of the pair.
“I guess you can be an experienced driver at 25 years old,” Foltz told Land Line. “I don’t know how experienced.”
Inexperienced driver uses bad judgment; crashes on day two
One truck driver is probably wishing he could have just stayed home on Friday, Jan 18.
That’s because on his second day on the job, he attempted to make a narrow right turn, but didn’t have enough space. He wound up taking out a Dunkin’ Donut sign, which then fell on a parked car.
Stoughton, MA, Police Sgt. Paul McCallum said a pickup truck with a trailer, much less a semi, could even have had a tough time with the turn,.
“It’s hard to believe this guy tried to pull this off,” McCallum told the Stoughton Journal.
The driver, who police did not identify, worked for Tennessee-based U.S. Express Leasing. The driver is no longer employed with the company.
McCallum told the Journal an experienced driver “never would have tried to make the turn.”
The truck went up over the curb, struck a piling and dislodged the Dunkin’ Donuts sign, which was set at least four feet into the ground. Heavy-duty tow trucks and wenches were needed to free the loaded truck and the sign.
There were no injuries, but the westbound lane of Route 139 was shut down for nearly two hours, McCallum said.
The tractor-trailer was impounded by the Stoughton Police Department until the company was able to provide proof of insurance.
Editor’s Note: I’ve always maintained we report the good and the bad about the trucking industry in Mexico, and this time is no exception. Excessive speed, diminished visibility led to this accident which closed the major connection between Monterrey and Saltillo yesterday.
One person dead. The truck driver is in prison awaiting trial which can take months to happen and for certain, under Mexican law, he will lose his Licencia Federal for a minimum of 10 years, perhaps permanently.
And before the critics begin the outcry about the dangerous Mexican trucks and drivers, think about the fubar in the tunnel in Santa Clarita California last year, caused by a Saia Freight driver and the inattention of those who followed. The 70 car and truck pile up in fog on I-4 in Florida last week. And I could mention dozens of others! Fucking up ain’t reserved or exclusive to any particular nationality of driver. Driving a truck is a skill and a vocation that crosses borders, races and nationalities.
You can read the story in it’s entirety as reported by El Manana
Editor’s Note: Since this story is hitting the blogosphere, I thought it pertinent to include it with the caveat that this is simply an accident and has nothing to do with the cross border program or anything else. Simply peoples stupidity and need to get in a hurry.
One of my biggest complaints about crossing these bridges back into the United States is people cannot stay in line on the bridge. The see or think they see a hole in the line and they go for it without thinking. They crowd the big trucks on the bridges where commercial vehicles share the bridge with 4 wheelers, passing them on the right, getting in the blind spots of the big rigs.
It amazes me that this is only the second in 15 years!
At least four people were killed in a fiery wreck Thursday night on the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas, police said.Pharr police Lt. Lupe Salinas said the accident involved two 18-wheelers and three other vehicles. The accident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. on the American side of the 3.2-mile bridge, which spans the U.S.- Mexico border.
Three people died after their pickup truck plunged from the bridge and landed on a road below, Salinas said. Another person died in a collision with one of the tractor-trailers.
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