Tanker Driver Dies Swerving To Avoid Hurting Motorists

I have read a majority of the posts and while it could have been avoided and does end sadly with a driver losing his life. The 4 wheeler's cutting off trucks is not going to change, getting cut off because if they don't get home quick enough their house will move, an individual moving mattress and they fly all over the road and no ticket or maybe there was. As far as respect goes, the trucking industry is hated, driver's are hated. The most disturbing part to me concerning the video though was even though the driver made the decision to dodge the cars how many stopped that he could have hit? Secondly, when your not leaving an adequate following distance you tend to focus on whats right in front of you! The city driving in Chicago, NY, Atlanta, or where ever, do I allow a safe distance No. I know when moving 5-10 mph any gap u leave will be taken because of my house is getting ready to move without me. I'm not saying that to be funny, when I-95(correct if wrong) was shut down for Bill Clinton, that's what I was told by the driver who let me onto I-95. But when running the middle lane and it's 3 wide with 4 wheeler's running 60-70 mph back out of it, it's better to think they might brake check you, rather than thinking i'm bigger than a car and they WILL move.

For what you are talking about Chris, when I would be approaching those highly congested area's I had to change things mentally. On the interstate sometimes I would get pretty wound up i.e.(high rate of fuel consumption) and when entering a highly congested area would be in the same frame of mind and would get was I raging though NO. It was just time to calm the mind. I would put on some classical music or metal and enjoy and relax and then the other thing that started to help me in those situations was to simply tell yourself(myself) they don't know any better or they just don't care. It really helped me a lot with the anxiety and anger that would be mounding and I would also be me alert.

Bud A. explains,

One of the Smith Systems videos talks about this. If you let 100 cars cut in front of you in a day and it costs you 3 seconds each time, you've lost a total of 300 seconds or five minutes.

I call this "30 Seconds of Your Life". (My example uses 10 cars which comes out to 30 seconds.)

On a stretch of highway, you maintain proper distance. 4 wheelers do not realize how different your safety situation is from theirs, so they just moved in to that nice big space in front of the truck. It adds up to maybe 30 seconds off your planned trip. That's less than any red light stop, so not a big deal! And you stay safe.

Driver Charged After Mattresses In Highway Kill Trucker On New Jersey Turnpike

The driver of a van who spilled mattresses onto the New Jersey Turnpike earlier this month, causing a crash that resulted in the death of a tanker truck driver, has been issued a summons to appear in court.

The crash happened on October 7 when mattresses fell off of a white cargo van into the road. According to witness reports, an SUV swerved into the path of a tanker truck, causing it to swerve and crash into a guardrail before rolling over and bursting into flames. The tanker truck driver, 40-year-old Kumar Dalip of Newark, was pronounced dead on the scene of the crash.

Dalip, who drove for JSK Transport, was a father of two and stepfather to three others.

Police say that the 26-year-old van driver, Adam Abuhamoud, was issued a citation for failing to have the mattresses properly secured to the van. He has a mandatory court appearance scheduled for November 19. He has been unavailable for comment.