r/Infuriating • u/MdTooDevilish Valued Contributor • 4d ago

Trucker crashes after falling asleep driving 40ton deathmachine

This piece of shit driving all over the road putting other peoples lives at risk

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u/nBenit 4d ago

Oof rough

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u/PantySausage 4d ago

It’s more than that, though. The self-employed drivers make a lot of money. In 2006, one of them told me that he made $3k each way going from NY to CA. He would sometimes skip sleep for three days at a time to make more trips to feed his gambling addiction.

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u/unknownSubscriber 4d ago

Is that even possible now with electronic logging?

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u/PantySausage 4d ago

This was a long time ago. If electronic logging isn’t the law, then I suspect that whatever you write in a book is still your proof.

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u/unknownSubscriber 4d ago edited 4d ago

ELDs are connected directly into the truck's engine and track drive time. You can't really fake it.

Edit: AI says these work to enforce drive time restrictions, but as a result drivers are more reckless to fit more miles in the hours that they have, so accidents have no decreased.

Makes me think they should incorporate more data into these ELDs than just drive time.