[Malaki86]

They do their road test @ 4:30am?

[Sheepdancer]

Good point....that blows my theory out of the water.

Also....I guess they wouldnt be taking a road test with a load of batteries.

Hmmm....i dont have any more theories except the media is just getting it all wrong.

[golfhobo]

Don't mean to muddy the waters, and don't know WHO does WHAT in Memphis, but the second truck COULD have had up to 6 people inside doing "observation" on the road. And yes, I've done it at 4:30 in the morning.

Hard to believe, though, that 2 drivers in the front truck couldn't get out before a fire reached them from behind.

There HAS to be a car with AT LEAST 4 people in it, sandwiched in between! Someone give me a link, so I can "analyze" this for myself. Haven't heard so much as a PEEP about it on the news.

[lifespalette]

Channel 5 News has just reported that there were 8 people involved between the 2 trucks.........1 man and 7 women. The lone male has been identified as one of the drivers as well as one of the women...........just which truck they were in is not known at this time or hasn't been released.

This is not looking good...........why in the world would you have 6 women in the same truck at 3:30AM?

Witnesses are still claiming there was a car involved. Police now are thinking the car may have changed lanes and gotten away before the crash.

Ongoing investigation..............here you go Hobo.......try this link.

http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=5495238

[lifespalette]

Just saw the lastest news report on the crash........they had a security video that recorded the accident that was from a U.S. Express (or Fed X) yard camera...............the video clearly shows the first truck stopped at the intersection before the second truck literally plowed into the the rear of the trailer of the first truck at a very high rate of speed.............you can see the trailer being lifted up and the first truck pushed through the intersection, while the second truck is engulfed in a ball of fire from the explosion.

Here's the URL for the Channel 5 website......look for the video link to the lower right of the picture of the burned trailer..........

http://www.wmcstations.com/

[Malaki86]

Does anyone else find it odd that there are 2 trucks that go past the wreck after it happened? One was a fed-ex pulling pups.

[golfhobo]

Thanks for the link, Lifespallete! Pretty much ALL I needed to know.

No way in HECK, that police couldn't tell if a woman was driving the first truck and might be a casualty! What? 100 feet between the front truck's cab and the burn site?

I SAY, all casualties were in the second truck. ONE male driver, and 7 "illegal" alien women! I was laid over once in California (won't name the town) and went to a Mexican Bar for a few brews. There were at least 8 women in there who were "fresh" out of Mexico. Most couldn't speak English (and had no papers!)

Atlanta is a magnet town for illegal Mexicans.

NO training class has 7 women and one guy in it! Get real!

The second truck (MOST LIKELY) was carrying at least 7 illegal mexican women to Atlanta to work in someone's bar! (NOT saying strippers! They just go there to sell beer to the Illegal Mexican MEN! .... and ME!)

Oh... I could be WRONG! But, given what I read in the INITIAL accounts, the physics of the accident, and the numbers and sexes involved....

I stand by MY account!


Y'all go ahead and "discuss" it now.... and listen to all the misleading news accounts! I COULD be wrong! Especially, if I've been fed misleading information. But... I doubt it.

I stand by my account. Next stupid trucker story!....

[Skullitor]

I saw on PD.COM the USA Truck was hauling C Cell Batteries.

[Toothpick]

Damn?I?m glad I checked in. I was wondering what was up? I passed that way earlier today in between 12:15 and 12:30, but I didn?t have any idea what had happened. Turned on the CB but never heard what was going on. I was planning on stopping at the Pilots just up the road to pick me up a Subway when all of a sudden I was rerouted onto E. Raines Road because they had a cop car blocking Lamar. So I took E. Raines to Getwell Road and then Getwell Road to Goodman Rd (MS-302) in Southaven, and then Goodman Rd back to US-78. In fact, a couple of USA trucks followed me all the way around, like they were lost are something. When I got to Shelby Drive, I started to turn left to go to the two Pilots, but decided against it because I didn?t know how far back the road was closed. So I ended up going to the Flying J instead to eat.

[Toothpick]

Originally Posted by Sheepdancer

Im not sure if USA truck does orientation in memphis....but could it be that The USA truck was filled with newbies in orientation taking their road test.

Why would they be on Lamar? The USA terminal is in West Memphis off of I-40.