Truck wreck in the snow

Hector Saddy was transporting 44,000 pounds of U.S. mail from N.J. to the Pittsburgh's North Side when lost control of his truck and jack-knifed in the snow on Route 65 just about a mile from his destination, February 12, 2008. No one was hurt in the accident.

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[trinitymadman]

Driven truck for 7 years, could happen anytime anywhere.Snow is a bitch

[truckowneroperator]

not necessarily, but it will make it hard to get another driving job if he decides to quit. USA truck will probably keep him unless he has too many accidents already. They know people make mistakes and it was snowy. Not sure why they won't hire other drivers though who had one. I had a minor one that resulted in no damage but a ferring pushed in, easily fixed and these big companies acted like I totaled the truck and a car.

[noellan57]

@robiscool11 tank, truck........ seriously . maybe you should take some of the cool you think you are. and warm up what you have left of common sense. i would bet it's really hard to wreck a tank in snow. WOW!......

[huckster78]

@truckowneroperator i know what your saying, when i was in truck driver training one of the teachers was making a right turn and bumped a small snow pile and broke like 1 foot of the valance off the bumper. and they were doing an investigation of it, you woulda thought somebody got murdered

[Sodiumreactor]

drive long enough and sooner or later you gonna have a crash. no way around it.

[Protrucker24]

ahhh i drove in that terrible snow that had in oklahoma this year on i-40 man oh man it was dry coming from amarillo tx and when i hit oklahoma city me and the rest of traffic were going like 25mph all way to arkansas state line lol pays to be safe

[TheSupertrucker78]

@TruckerRedbeard that truck is (or was) an '05. I too drove for that company when I started.

[MRWRIGHTRACING]

Just to answer everyones opinions who all think they know what happened...here you go.

Hector was my trainer here at USA trucks just the past 2 weeks. He is still here. He told me the story about the wreck and showed me this vid. He had been driving 3yrs prior to the wreck. It was 44k lbs., and he said someone pulled in front of him, and to keep from hitting 3-4 cars and killing them, he put it in the wall. This was done to save the others, not because he just couldn't drive safely.

[bigrigcrow1]

similar thing happened to me in Wyoming just west of Cheyenne. My truck wasn't nearly as damaged, but it was still totaled.  I had slipped on ice heading westbound on I-80. I had a load of books. Not a pallet had shifted though.

[robiscool11]

don't know i drove tanks 12years in western snow and never did that. perhaps its his first time in the white stuff- they may not have snow in Hecktors homeland

[kdraper2007]

@ratzskinakie very few truckers are union. unionising truckers is like giving music lessons to the beatles. you can doit but it would be pointless.

[kdraper2007]

Poor international 9400i.