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

I don't get it. Why do truck drivers drive like this? Is there a quota they have to hit or something? Like a time limit on delivery or whatever?

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u/1wrx2subarus 4d ago

You nailed it, if Trucking Companies had to pay $100M every time one of their drivers falls asleep.. They’d insist on hours of service being more stringent.

The best way to fix this is to go after the deep pockets. Make Trucking companies pay and beyond that, their customers expediting them. Hint: Big Box Stores that we all shop at.

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u/aggiedigger 4d ago

This isn’t America. Would be a great idea, but hard to enforce American will globally despite how hard we try to

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u/whatisdreampunk 4d ago

The comment sounds pretty general to me. Describing the problem illustrated here and proposing solutions, not specific to America. Nobody really cares about this one particular instance, more the general problem.

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u/aggiedigger 4d ago

Perhaps I should have stated 1st world and not just America . Where this driver works without the need for a seatbelt nor shoes, big box stores and regulations likely don’t exist as it would pertaining to the statement that I responded to.