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If you want you...you can copy and paste it here so we can already it! :thumbsup:
Ok, Stan..... I hope you are logging this on line 5!! :lol2:
No, in at least ONE of the original articles you linked to, it was mentioned that the bus was owned by Chippewa Trails. That would be a CHARTER company.... not the "local" school district. That would make Mr. Rasmus a "cdl holding PROFESSIONAL driver" not just some guy who drove the school ACTIVITY bus.
As Cueball said, this was a MOTORCOACH, with a professional driver. And I might add that, although I have always driven "fast trucks" (anything over 70mph) I get passed by these guys all the time!
He was, no doubt, "flying low" on his way back to the hometown of the band that night, and apparently the truck crash was just SECONDS ahead of him, outside the distance of his low beams. But, I still say, an ALERT and younger driver, MIGHT have noticed the tail and running lights of the truck way up in the distance doing something erratic! Not enough evidence in all the stories to know for sure, but I think this was more of a "chain reaction" type accident. Probably nothing could have changed the outcome other than the trucker being rested enough to STAY ON THE ROAD!
Regardless of whether some of you/us want to "fudge" a little now and then, NONE of us should take the chance of FALLING ASLEEP at the wheel!
People DIE when we do that!