Truck Driver Filling Out Logbook Causes Fatal Wreck
Posted on February 20, 2008
Filed Under HOURS OF SERVICE, IN THE NEWS
On the afternoon of February 14, a fatal wreck occurred in Ocala, FL. A conversion van was attempting to merge onto northbound I-75, when it struck a tractor-trailer which was on the shoulder of the on-ramp to I-75. The truck was partially parked in the travel lane of the on-ramp, and the van struck the back corner of the trailer. The van spun into the travel lanes of I-75, where it was immediately struck at high speed by another tractor-trailer.
According to the article, the driver of the parked truck had pulled over when he realized that he had not completed his logbook after just fueling his truck. Well, this goes in the category of “best intentions gone wrong”. It’s great that you want to comply with the law, and not be placed Out of Service, but you cannot pull a tractor-trailer over just anywhere. There’s a reason the police give tickets to trucks for parking on ramps. Usually, they give them out for parking on off-ramps, as traffic is moving at a high rate of speed onto the ramp. However, many states also ticket trucks on on-ramps as well, and this is an example of why. Apparently, the truck had only been parked for less than a minute, but sometimes that’s all it takes.
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