Truck driver: Log books altered in deadly I-64 crash 

Trucking is not far from slavery

I'm a truck driver , there are few things company or driver falsifying log book , appointments for pickups or deliveries , punishment (huge fee) for showing up late , end of the shift hard to find parking , stores or businesses posted signs "NO TRUCK PARKING" , truckers get parking fines , many rest areas closed for no obvious reason just closed , so what driver or company do ? , alter logs and keep going , driver gets tired , stressed badly and outcome is an accident , it's ridiculous

I've worked for a variety of truck companiesfor ten years from mega carriers to small fleets, local and OTR. Every single company has a minimum expectation that you operate on the threshold of legality/criminality. Anything less and you are undesirable and a bad egg. That line is set at 70hrs/week. They want you to be on that line every day of every week. If you come in below it, you are performing poorly. If you go over it, you are a criminal. 70hrs exactly is practically impossible to achieve due to the many variables... traffic, weather, parking, shipper/reciever delays/etc, so everyday you land on one side or the other. What the driver here did was wrong. What their company did was wrong. But make no mistake, the standard in this industry forces every driver to straddle that line, or quit, as so many new drivers do.

40mph on an interstate is not safe and we all know that, now did he have his hazard lites on to warn others??

Most people have no idea how tough it is to drive for a living. Im a drywaller and its a hard job but trucking all day is exhausting and extremely dangerous

Proud to say that I'm a dispatcher at a company that's absolutely militant about not altering logs or going into violation. We'll adjust ETA's, purchase hotel rooms, or do whatever else to avoid having drivers half asleep on the road or breaking the law. We spare no expense to put safety first.

Offshore log book data. What could possibly go wrong.

WHY WAS THE BUS GOING 40MPH ?????????? IT'S A HIGHWAY ⚠️☠️

Impossible to find parking for rest, EVERYWHERE is NO PARKING AND CLOSED OR INADEQUATE REST AREAS NOW⚠️🤬🤬

I've been on E-logs for over 5 years now, and the company re-arranges things whenever it suits them. I diligently sign and certify my logs daily, and then once in a while, I need to go back and re-sign and certify logs that I had already signed off on more than a week ago, because somebody in the safety and compliance department needed to shave down some hours or minutes in order for something that's coming up, that I'll be the last person to know about it. Well, first of Jan this year, I quit going back and re-signing anything that I did not personally edit, and know nothing about. I'm just waiting for the moment when I get pulled in for an inspection, and the guy says... "Hey, you didn't sign your log on such n such a date", and I tell him, "Yeah bud, I sure did. Somebody did some editing that I was not made aware of, and I'm not signing something that I did not do myself. Don't like it, go do a facility audit at our office."

More companies need to pay by the hr. not my the mile ! I was a contract driver for usps and we got payed hourly ! That included weather conditions - traffic jams - break downs etc ...

My heart goes out to the family members affected by this tragic incident. When wavy 10 was initially reporting this, they also reported that the driver of the party bus party bus and the company who owned it were being investigated. Wavy reported that the driver of the party bus allegedly had a suspended drivers license and a couple of prior charges. They also reported that the party bus had been modified which limited its drivability and only allowed the bus to travel up to 40 miles per hour. The driver of the 18 wheeler initially said that the rear lights of the bus were not on making the party bus hard to see until the last moment. Apparently, many things were wrong that night on both sides. I’d like to hear the other side of the investigation.

As a former driver myself, one thing I know that seems to not be being mentioned here that is of all the interstates I ever traveled on had MINIMUM speed limits posted. 40mph is below every one of those that I know of. While this driver is going to be crucified for this crash, I can relate to his situation. You are pushed to make deadlines and you are threatened with losing your job if you fail. On top of that, driving long hours at night can lull you into a state of mind that is of half awake, half asleep. Then you have this bus driver moving way slower than regular traffic down the interstate at well below the speed limit and this is the results. There is no one thing that will prevent these types of accidents. This accident falls on many shoulders the way I see this particular crash.

Who the hell would go 40 MPH on a freeway? That is an accident waiting to happen. And it did.

This trucking company better get a good lawyer and a new insurance company because the lawsuit that follows will be a nasty one.

40 miles per hour on freeway without emergency flashers on?? Bus is at fault most likely

I am a driver and yes a lot of companies do it I drove for small carrier a few years ago and my dispatcher was a retired SC highway officer and he was close to the worst one I have ever had .there was two other drivers and they never stopped and if I did take a sleeper berth he would call me and ask what I am doing and expect me to get rolling now yes there are a lot of companies flaseifing logs

Interesting that they say the truck companies IT center is in Lithuania. I know people in the industry there (ex spouse) It's nice and distant and not reachable by US legislation.

Ok that’s all new info but why was the bus only traveling 40mph on an interstate

More lies...pay these drivers a decent wage