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Gawking by southbound motorists on the Meadowbrook Parkway slowed me. The cause was a flipped and crushed northbound Walmart tractor trailer. The driver may have entered from westbound NY 27. He may have passed under other bridges, but the Stewart Avenue bridge nailed him in the center lane. As CEO of Walmart, C. Douglas McMillan received "compensation" of $24 million. The unnamed driver presumably earned a bit less. I wonder whether the wrong type of GPS sent him past No Trucks signs and clearance warnings. Time: about 3 p.m. May 8 2024.
So if Walmart CEO C. Douglas McMillan received compensation of, say, $200,000, you'd have more confidence in their drivers?
No excuse in this day and age for not having a GPS to alert the driver.
They don’t all have the little tidbits on certain things, like NY parkways & commercial vehicle laws.
If you come from someplace that doesn’t have stuff like this and are totally unaware that this is a thing, you’re just gonna punch your destination in for the fastest route and off you go.
They don’t all have the little tidbits on certain things, like NY parkways & commercial vehicle laws.
If you come from someplace that doesn’t have stuff like this and are totally unaware that this is a thing, you’re just gonna punch your destination in for the fastest route and off you go.
Tractor trailers almost entirely have a GPS that indicate bridges, hazards, routes to avoid if they are carrying HAzmat materials. It would be interesting to see why this occurred, did he turn it off. I would expect that a big trucking company like Walmart had it as a requirement.
Bridge hits over the last few decades are very rare for this reason.
Trucking companies are notorious for hiring illegal aliens and others not terribly familiar with our roads to drive, and are often minimally insured, such that if they run you over, they'll just declare bankruptcy and open up under another name. Depending on the company, they may or may not provide proper GPS equipment, or the driver may or may not even understand how to use it be able to read signs in English. As our country continues to be flooded with the incompetents and criminals of the world, expect this to happen more often.
Trucking companies are notorious for hiring illegal aliens and others not terribly familiar with our roads to drive, and are often minimally insured, such that if they run you over, they'll just declare bankruptcy and open up under another name. Depending on the company, they may or may not provide proper GPS equipment, or the driver may or may not even understand how to use it be able to read signs in English. As our country continues to be flooded with the incompetents and criminals of the world, expect this to happen more often.
They have to have a CDL to drive a tractor trailer.... no illegal is getting that
They have to have a CDL to drive a tractor trailer.... no illegal is getting that
You don't need a CDL to drive a box truck. You can legally get a CDL with as little as resident status (green card). And there are plenty of "disqualified" CDL holders on the road, as many trucking companies, facing driver shortages, don't bother to check. A "disqualified" driver is someone who still holds a CDL but has been suspended for some period of time due to repeated traffic infractions. These drivers represent the fourth-most-common category of violations cited by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). And those are just the ones that got caught. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31568
There are also plenty of people driving around without licenses or insurance, albeit not in tractor trailers. Locally, Garden City has seen a massive uptick of hit-and-runs and other accidents by illegals from Hempstead that pass through town on their way elsewhere. Thanks to our ridiculous laws, these people are just set free with an appearance date that they don't show up for and are free to keep driving without a license or insurance.
You don't need a CDL to drive a box truck. You can legally get a CDL with as little as resident status (green card). And there are plenty of "disqualified" CDL holders on the road, as many trucking companies, facing driver shortages, don't bother to check. A "disqualified" driver is someone who still holds a CDL but has been suspended for some period of time due to repeated traffic infractions. These drivers represent the fourth-most-common category of violations cited by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). And those are just the ones that got caught. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31568
There are also plenty of people driving around without licenses or insurance, albeit not in tractor trailers. Locally, Garden City has seen a massive uptick of hit-and-runs and other accidents by illegals from Hempstead that pass through town on their way elsewhere. Thanks to our ridiculous laws, these people are just set free with an appearance date that they don't show up for and are free to keep driving without a license or insurance.
this wasnt a box truck.. this was a tractor trailer and you need a CDL for it. Walmart is not going to be hiring non CDL drivers
this wasnt a box truck.. this was a tractor trailer and you need a CDL for it. Walmart is not going to be hiring non CDL drivers
My original post was about the trucking industry in general. This particular incident was a Walmart truck, but there are millions of trucks on the road, and Long Island overpasses are struck with increasingly regularity.
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