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Trucker struck by train causes big derailment on Great Northern Corridor
STOP = LOOK + LISTEN AT RAILRAOD CORSSINGS SHOULD BE MODDIFIED TO
SLOW DOWN - LOOK + LISTEN
FOR THE SAKE OF GOD PEOPLE WHY NOT JUST PLEASE SLOW DOWN…WHENEVR POSSIBLE I HAVE DECREASED MY HIGHWAY SPEED BY 12 MILES PER HOUR ( 20 KMH )
Guess they should put PTC in trucks. If a device could sense a train approaching, then it would kill the truck’s engine before it got to a crossing. The truckers would have to pay for the device, of course.
I hope the trucker will be OK but I think Safety Meetings for truckers should be given on a monthly basis now.
Responding to Kevin R.'s comment, it would be appropriate if the truck driver, and/or his employer, is billed for the costs of clean-up and repair. Perhaps that would send a msg to the truckers!! Or…well, maybe not??
The trucking company should billed for every penny of expense incurred by BNSF. That includes any rebates they are giving to shippers (UPS) for late delivery.
Trying to beat the train to save a minute or two will now cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up and repair the equipment.
When it’s a tie at the crossing; you lose! (Operation Lifesaver)
They must pull the driver’s license so he can
never work in trucking again.
Truck drivers think they dont run Trains anymore.
I’m taking the Empire Builder through Montana next weekend. I know who to blame now if I am delayed. Any word on how much damage was done to the tracks?
People never cease to amaze me
It seems like this is happening more and more.
We all know that trucks and trains don’t mix, so why
aren’t the trucking companies doing more to educate their drivers about stopping at railroad crossings? I want to assume that these are individuals acting alone outside of the normal safe operations carried out by truckers every day, but I worry that maybe pressure is being put on the drivers to get from point A to point B as fast as possible by their employers
so the drivers are taking more risks. Who knows?
Our hurry up mentalities in life inly hurt us and everyone else. As a former engineer I’ve hit a few things; cars, people, cows, a refridgerator. I still hear people asking why we can’t stop sooner. I have to shake me head and try and explain about inertia and tonnage and physics, then mention the laws that apply at grade crossings, citations for violationing. You can tell a child not to do something and they learn it. But you still can’t seem to tell a driver to stay off the tracks.
Are you kidding me? Did this affect #7’s departure from Chicago on the 20th? We were delayed an hour as they rushed to turn around a trainset for us. This after I arrived in Chicago 5 hours late on #29 from Washington. We were delayed by a derailment west of Cumberland, MD on CSX and then by freight delays on NS in the wake of a derailment west of Sandusky, OH on the 18th. I read the Water Level Route was shut until 1130 on the 19th. I’ve ridden a lot of miles over 30 years but never could I imagine being affected by 3 derailments on two legs of one trip!
Edmond, that is a good idea, actually.
It’s a shame that train crew members have to suffer through a collision like this because of some idiot who gets in the way.
LOOK,LISTEN LIVE!!!
agreed that BNSF should hand the entire cleanup and repair bill to the trucking company
Possibly make all locomotives heavier like tanks…not as fuel efficient of course with all that extra weight, and even harder to stop…but no more “derailed” trains due to trucks…they’d just slice right through those Kenworths.