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Originally Posted by BIG JEEP on 44's
Well Deer kill themselves when darting out infront of moving semi of 55-65 mph ...and either you're extremely lucky with wild life for all the years you claim to have driven or maybe you CDL is internet issued ? Because if you drive on roads with heavy wildlife population you will eventually hit a deer in a semi...And never having any little "scrapes" would mean you've never so much as curbed a tire...LOL
Well Big Jeep. I have never killed a deer with a truck or a 4-wheeler. I haven't shot one since October of 1983. There are plenty of deer and elk along I-90 on Snoqualmie Pass. Lot's of deer through out Washington State, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado, Wyoming...and several more for that matter.
Not hitting things is fairly easy to do. You simply pay attention to what you are doing. Now...I have curbed a tire (1984 if memory serves me right). I didn't however blow out a tire (or tires) and bend up the rims. But curbing a tire and scraping a trailer against a fixed object or another vehicle...are two different subjects. "Get Out And Look" has been around a long time.
Now....I have been involved in an accident. BUT...that particular "Peckerhead" is still in jail (currently Lompoc, CA), and has several more years to go, before he walks out. The accident (in 1997), was re-classified as a criminal act and I was listed as the victim. It has never shown on my MVR as an accident. When they move "Peckerhead" from one prison to another, I am informed, as I will be when he is released.
As for this subject..the Swift trainer should have been awake and in the right seat where he belonged. I-5 through Olympia is just not that bad. It never has been (I have driven that stretch of road in all types of conditions). If the trainee was speeding, it was the trainer's job to get him slowed down.
If the WSP issues a public report on this accident (the one BD posted about?), they will say in that report what the traffic cameras showed. If the truck was cut-off, the WSP will use all due deligence to chase down the offending vehicle. They are very good at their job. You would be amazed at how good those cameras are....(I was). I was also very thankful for the cameras and the WSP performance. The cameras supported my written statement about the events of the accident I was in.
Now...If you want to say something about that(my accident), remember this. I haul Hazardous Material. I have hauled hazardous material since 1979. In the years since I started driving, I have moved from the "Ride to the Right" philosophy, to the "Stay in the lane and ride it out" philosophy. It is far far safer to kill one, than it is to kill tens, hundreds...or thousands. Maintaining control of the truck, and keeping it up right and on the road, is safer than driving through an apartment complex, a motel, a mall...or a home. From the corporate stand point...it is also cheaper to "Stay in the lane". There are some chemicals out there on the road, that you simply do not want spilled. Wild manuvers at speed, produces bad results.