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GTR SILVER
Joined: 15 Sep 2006
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Location: new jersey
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: trucker hero...(((((persuit )))) |
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he's not going anywhere................. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: 8) 8) 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSFenzYOvQ&feature=related |
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stormothecentury
Joined: 31 Dec 2007
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Location: Rochester, NY
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| Good deal! :lol: |
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R3B3L
Joined: 16 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| If you were the owner of that truck would you fire that driver for willfully damaging your vehicle? Not to mention the hours of idling while the report was being filled out. Would that accident go on his DAC? |
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fishmonger
Joined: 31 May 2007
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Location: Lower Delaware
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: |
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R3B3L wrote: If you were the owner of that truck would you fire that driver for willfully damaging your vehicle? Not to mention the hours of idling while the report was being filled out. Would that accident go on his DAC?
No way! As a professional driver it's your duty to keep yourself and the motoring public safe. Thats what this driver did by ending this car chase. |
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NotSteve
Joined: 20 Mar 2007
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Location: Merrimack New Hampshire
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| Are you kidding, the owner of that company is probably jumping up and down saying that was F**** awesome!!! I'm sure the local news stations had him and the truck on the air for a few days with some great advertising at the cost of a fender repair bill. |
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GTR SILVER
Joined: 15 Sep 2006
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Location: new jersey
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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NotSteve wrote: Are you kidding, the owner of that company is probably jumping up and down saying that was F**** awesome!!! I'm sure the local news stations had him and the truck on the air for a few days with some great advertising at the cost of a fender repair bill.
AMEN..... :!: :!: :!: :!: very well put....................... 8) 8) 8) :wink: |
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BigWheels
Joined: 26 Aug 2006
Posts: 574
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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R3B3L wrote: If you were the owner of that truck would you fire that driver for willfully damaging your vehicle? Not to mention the hours of idling while the report was being filled out. Would that accident go on his DAC?
While I admire the truck driver(s) doing what he did, I suspect the driver will likely get a "preventable" on his DAC report. The insurance company will see to that. |
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ben45750
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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fishmonger wrote: No way! As a professional driver it's your duty to keep yourself and the motoring public safe. Thats what this driver did by ending this car chase.
Is putting a 100 Gallon's of Diesel fuel in the way of a runaway car a safe thing to do? I bet that Company would LOVE to pay for a Hazmat cleanup for a couple minutes of airtime on the local news. You guys are nuts for thinking that was the right thing to do? He might have ended a car chase but how do you know it isn't going to end in a shoot out?
If I owned the truck, he would be fired. No question about it. |
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R3B3L
Joined: 16 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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ben45750 wrote: fishmonger wrote: No way! As a professional driver it's your duty to keep yourself and the motoring public safe. Thats what this driver did by ending this car chase.
Is putting a 100 Gallon's of Diesel fuel in the way of a runaway car a safe thing to do? I bet that Company would LOVE to pay for a Hazmat cleanup for a couple minutes of airtime on the local news. You guys are nuts for thinking that was the right thing to do? He might have ended a car chase but how do you know it isn't going to end in a shoot out?
If I owned the truck, he would be fired. No question about it.
Geez I was begining to think I was the only sane one here |
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Phreddo
Joined: 13 Jul 2006
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Location: Madison, WI
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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that car totally had time to stop.
in fact the hit truck was starting the lane change just as the car was at the end of his trailer. the car totally hit the truck. who's to prove that the truck wasn't just making a lane change? |
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Double L
Joined: 26 Sep 2007
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Location: Illinois
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| If the cop asked him to help stop the suspect then I don't see why he would get fired cause he was helping out the LEO by stopping or slowing down the car! I seen a couple other times where a trucker has helped the LEO's end a pursuit! Why do you think they have cb's in their cars? :wink: |
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NotSteve
Joined: 20 Mar 2007
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Location: Merrimack New Hampshire
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Double L wrote: Why do you think they have cb's in their cars? :wink:
That's silly. It's for when truckers say there is a 2 for 1 special on donuts they know where to go. |
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kc0iv
Joined: 03 Feb 2005
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Location: Kansas City, MO
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BigWheels wrote:
While I admire the truck driver(s) doing what he did, I suspect the driver will likely get a "preventable" on his DAC report. The insurance company will see to that.
A insurance company can't put anything on a DAC report.
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ben45750
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Double L wrote: If the cop asked him to help stop the suspect then I don't see why he would get fired cause he was helping out the LEO by stopping or slowing down the car! I seen a couple other times where a trucker has helped the LEO's end a pursuit! Why do you think they have cb's in their cars? :wink:
Cops are not going to ask you to stop a vehicle. Never take orders over the CB. Period.
Thats your reason to be fired right there, regardless of the fact 2 trucks were damaged in this video. |
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Trukrswyfe
Joined: 13 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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trucker's mind at that point
" This is for all those times I wanted to mash those freaking four wheelers, :twisted: :twisted:
Now I get to ....
8)
They think I did it to help those bears... Ok ...Sure. If you say so !!" |
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