Originally published at: When a Breakdown Turns Deadly – Why TA-Petro’s Roadside Pause Should Shake Up the Whole Industry - FreightWaves
Some drivers roll right past flashing lights, not considering those lights belong to someone’s son or daughter, wrenching under the weight of a steer axle in a live lane of traffic. Others pull over in the breakdown lane, unaware that on the other side of that phone call to roadside is a technician rushing into…
My wife and I were in Atlanta when we blew a super single on the tractor. We got the truck off the road as far as we could and as close to the wall as we could. We waited 10 hours for onroad to get to us and in the midst of changing the tire, a foreign driver took out or mirror. It scares the ■■■■ out of me to know that if that driver had been just a little bit closer, he would have wiped out the whole side of my truck, knocked it of the jack, and possibly rolling the truck over on top of my self and the two mechanics that were working on my truck. Luckily, a highway patrol officer was a few cars behind him, saw everything and got him pulled over. The officer later brought him back to our truck and got everything squared away and assured us that he would not be driving anytime soon.