Everyone says we should go to electric cars, small cars etc. The problem is commercial traffic. Semi trucks are the most dangerous and also the most polluting vehicles on the road. We should be fixing the problem with semi trucks first.
Tired of Accidents and SemiTrucks wrote:
Everyone says we should go to electric cars, small cars etc. The problem is commercial traffic. Semi trucks are the most dangerous and also the most polluting vehicles on the road. We should be fixing the problem with semi trucks first.
I would love to see smaller trailers to put onto smaller trucks, delivered initially by train then smaller truck in town.
I think we let the railroad tracks diminish to a point that they would be too expensive to repair. Sad.
Terrible!
I-70 east is flat and sraight.
They all must have been high on Rocky Mountain weed.
Its legal there.
It actually sounds like the crash took place just following a steep downhill section of the highway where multiple highways merge and it's actually a super sketchy section of road. Very scary to see something so bad happen there.
runn wrote:
Tired of Accidents and SemiTrucks wrote:
Everyone says we should go to electric cars, small cars etc. The problem is commercial traffic. Semi trucks are the most dangerous and also the most polluting vehicles on the road. We should be fixing the problem with semi trucks first.
I would love to see smaller trailers to put onto smaller trucks, delivered initially by train then smaller truck in town.
I think we let the railroad tracks diminish to a point that they would be too expensive to repair. Sad.
Which railroad tracks have diminished?
Meanwhile in New Jersey, Darwin Awards candidates pass a similar truck fire as if nothing would happen to them.
runn wrote:
I would love to see smaller trailers to put onto smaller trucks, delivered initially by train then smaller truck in town.
I think we let the railroad tracks diminish to a point that they would be too expensive to repair. Sad.
I don't understand this idea that rail freight transport is a dying and decaying system. We move more cargo by rail today than at any previous point in our history. Covering the majority of mileage by rail and then using trucks for local delivery is already how it works. If you buy something that was made in Asia, odds are it came into the US at LA/Long Beach and made it most of the way to your door by rail.
dusty_xc wrote:
It actually sounds like the crash took place just following a steep downhill section of the highway where multiple highways merge and it's actually a super sketchy section of road. Very scary to see something so bad happen there.
Not quite, but somewhat.
I drive this stretch every day to and from work. Indeed it follows 10 miles of decent from 8000 feet to 5500 feet and runaway trucks have been an issue in the past. The mile or so before this is not that steep but maybe a 2% downhill grade, so you do have to check the speed. The merging is also upstream, with C-470 merging first, about 3 miles up, then Highway 6 (another freeway) about 2 miles before, and Colfax (a very busy 4-lane) is about a mile ahead. So that is a lot but it's not all right at the same spot. Things actually calm down about a half or quarter mile before that bridge. Looks like the semi-driver was not paying attention or reacted too slowly to the stopped traffic from another accident.
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Truck driver was infatuated with Columbine, according to FB posts.
Tragic. Maybe we need to ban cars and particularly semis to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Having all that flammable material in small confined regions can't be a good idea at all when accidents happen.
https://electrek.co/2019/04/25/tesla-semi-delay-electric-truck-production-next-year/Tired of Accidents and SemiTrucks wrote:
Everyone says we should go to electric cars, small cars etc. The problem is commercial traffic. Semi trucks are the most dangerous and also the most polluting vehicles on the road. We should be fixing the problem with semi trucks first.
"stationary traffic"
Well, on a freeway (interstate I-70), that's a problem.
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Tragic. Maybe we need to ban cars and particularly semis to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Having all that flammable material in small confined regions can't be a good idea at all when accidents happen.
Josh Laipply, the chief engineer with the Colorado Department of Transportation, warned drivers that they need to be more careful on the road.
"I think that we lose sight that vehicles are deadly weapons and all of us get a little careless at times and need to be more careful when we're driving,"
euphemisms by other names wrote:
"stationary traffic"
Well, on a freeway (interstate I-70), that's a problem.
Traffic was already stalled due to a previous crash. Why not blame that one, instead of this guy?
Simply because he's a (legal) immigrant?
The 23-year-old semi-truck driver was heading down a hill when he slammed into traffic that had slowed due to a previous crash ahead of him, officials said.
i8tu761b wrote:
euphemisms by other names wrote:
"stationary traffic"
Well, on a freeway (interstate I-70), that's a problem.
Traffic was already stalled due to a previous crash. Why not blame that one, instead of this guy?
Simply because he's a (legal) immigrant?
The 23-year-old semi-truck driver was heading down a hill when he slammed into traffic that had slowed due to a previous crash ahead of him, officials said.
Previous crash was involved a school bus and semi-truck.
Reality says you can never blame any public transport (like school bus), even if they are at fault.
(E.g., any lawyer will tell you they'd rather be hit by a Greyhound bus than a city bus, and the City will never pay up)
i8tu761b wrote:
euphemisms by other names wrote:
"stationary traffic"
Well, on a freeway (interstate I-70), that's a problem.
Traffic was already stalled due to a previous crash. Why not blame that one, instead of this guy?
Simply because he's a (legal) immigrant?
The 23-year-old semi-truck driver was heading down a hill when he slammed into traffic that had slowed due to a previous crash ahead of him, officials said.
If only every driver in the country had a device that could show the route and alert the driver to congestion or stopped traffic ahead.
Tired of Accidents and SemiTrucks wrote:
Everyone says we should go to electric cars, small cars etc. The problem is commercial traffic. Semi trucks are the most dangerous and also the most polluting vehicles on the road. We should be fixing the problem with semi trucks first.
Yes, most definitely.
I drove from Wyoming to Loveland, then through Denver and Grand Junction.
That was in 2004, and the two lane highway from Wyoming to Denver was absolutely crazy.
There were signs saying for semis to stay in the right lane, but nearly all of them were in the fast lane.
I saw semi after semi riding people's bumpers, including mine, and it was hardly possible to get out of their
way fast enough. Plus the speed limit for semis was 55 mph and nearly all of them were going faster than 70.
I changed my mind about moving to Colorado, and am not surprised that there's been a major accident there.
That was bad, but semis are similarly bad in other states too. All the tail gating they do is quite dangerous.
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