Comments on: Update: Driver Cited After Log Truck Overturns In Century

By: Betty H

Betty H — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:24:34 +0000

He did get a ticket…for careless driving…not speeding.

By: Shay

Shay — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 05:43:42 +0000

So because someone drives a big truck they should be exempt from tickets? I call shenanigans. He should have no special rights just because he drives a big rig. If a “four wheeler” gets a ticket so should he.

By: Who, Me

Who, Me — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:35:57 +0000

I hope the truck driver will be ok. I think we should give the truck drivers a break; my dad was a truck driver, and no matter how careful you are these things happen and it is because we have four wheels and can stop on a dime. Most wrecks are cause by us and all we want to do is blame the big rigs. Just think if you driving one and you have all that weight pushing you and there is a suv and wet road conditions also you are driving speed limit and the suv stops for apparent reason. What should you do? hit the suv or roll your own truck. Think out it next time before you judge the the truck drivers.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:52:37 +0000

Started as speeding if conditions warranted a slower speed than posted, lawyers involved, it became to fast for conditions, lawyers involved, now it is careless driving, You gotta love the law and lawyers……

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:21:34 +0000

Its amazing how many armchair truck drivers we have on here. Yall dont need to beat this man up on here, I am pretty sure it wasnt intentional. Unless you was in that truck, you have no idea and no room to chastise.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:20:16 +0000

Contact FDOT yourself about issues. They listed the ladies name, her email is not hard to find. Realize when you see an issue, see what you can do and don’t complain about “THEY” need to do it. Figure out who to report issues to and do it yourself. Make a difference. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. Educate yourself. Century didn’t put in the palm trees nor do they build state highways. I thankful the leaders took time to go to a meeting on our behalf.

By: LadyRebel

LadyRebel — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 07:04:19 +0000

@Shay

First off as a wife of a trucker I would like to say I’m sorry about the loss of your husband. No one should have to go through that.

Now as far as the ticket. No where in this article did I see it said he was speeding. Century needs to put money into making the roads better in that curve instead of adding palm trees. Trucks are supposed to stay in the right lane. That curve is bad about leaning trucks just enough to shift a load. As soon as I seen it I figured it was what happened. He should have not gotten a ticket unless he was speeding. Thank God the driver and everyone around him are safe.Could he had moved over before getting to the curve? I don’t know I wasn’t there. Maybe someone was in his lane and he couldn’t pass safely. So then I guess it would have been he risked his life taking the curve to avoid the person in the left lane being hit by him trying to avoid the curve. At 10 miles an hour a fully loaded semi can total out a car and cause serious damage to someone. I know I was rear ended last year by one. So he could have slowed down to under the speed limit and when the load shifted it was left in the hands of God!

By: Shay

Shay — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 05:53:26 +0000

@Why give them a ticket?

Seriously? So we should give a free pass to everyone who causes an accident and or damage due to their negligence? I wonder if you’d feel differently if their actions caused the harm or death of your loved one? Imagine if there had been a family in an suv next to the driver.

At 66 y/o I’m assuming he’s driven a truck or two (I could be wrong) and because he has he should’ve known a logging truck was top heavy and to slow down for the road conditions.

I am the widow of a long haul trucker who slammed into the back of another big rig that was stopped in a utility zone. He was burned alive in his truck. We don’t know the reason he didn’t stop. Maybe he had a health crisis,maybe he fell asleep or maybe he was distracted as he sometimes was but all we know is that he didn’t stop and he paid with his life. I’d have preferred a ticket. These big rigs(over 70,000 lb vehicle) have a bigger responsibility driving on the roads with us tiny cars and suv’s and shouldn’t be given a break just because they have more to worry about. If anything they should receive harsher penalties when found at fault for an accident. My life and the lives of my children, driving on the roads with these trucks, doesn’t matter less just because a careless driver had more to worry about. If he had killed someone in the accident I assure you he’d have much,much worse to worry about.

Having said that I hope the gentleman recovers from his injuries and thanks God that it was just powerlines and a truck that was damaged.

By: know it all

know it all — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:39:33 +0000

Same place peanut truck got the power too a few years back.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:39:39 +0000

Belinda,
they were given a ticket because they were driving carelessly. Hundreds of people make that turn every day without causing a wreck and damaging property. This driver did not use the necessary care when securing the load and negotiating the turn. Pray for the family, ticket bad drivers.