They really need to charge both driver and owner (if different) with jail time involved. That truck should not have left the yard today after inspection.
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They really need to charge both driver and owner (if different) with jail time involved. That truck should not have left the yard today after inspection.
In response to a pm I got, little doubt falling margins in the trucking business along with seemingly less experienced operators is at least partially to blame. While still unreasonable it should come down to dollars vs safety, you can guarantee for some it's a fine line between making a living or not. Shitty deal.
127 truck wheel separations last year and +140 the year before (according to the news reports). That could equal 127 and +140 people dead if those outcomes were the same as this one. Not acceptable and consequences need to be more severe. Horrible way to go for this poor fellow - RIP.
R.I.P When I drove highway years ago. I to lose a drive tires broken axle no one got hurt. Also 2 times tires flying off trucks in my way, but got out of the way..
MOT needs to spend more time busting these idiots
& less time harassing owners of performance cars...just a thought
Very sad. RIP. So preventable.
Would the new safety certification have helped prevent this sad event?
as mentioned on the news last night, these are just the ones that are known and reported. She suspected that there are many more that did not end in an accident and so were never reported. To report them means likely paying the $50,000 fine, so if there is no damage/injury, no need to report, no need to pay the fine. The rep was saying that in an economic downturn the first thing that is stopped by the operators to save money is proper maintenance, and this becomes a $50k gamble for them. Save the money and hope you never need to pay the fine ... (or kill someone).
interesting article from 2013
http://www.truckinginfo.com/article/...ff-trucks.aspx
Quote:
Investigations of many wheel-separations revealed that wheel nuts had worked lose due to lost clamping force attributed to material lodged between the wheel discs breaking free and/or fasteners damaged by over-torqueing
Anyone else notice what looks like half a drum brake shell or disc brake casting at the sides of the roads, which look like they come off a truck or trailer? With trailers being interlined from the USA etc., would be difficult to track the maintenance on some of these trailers.