@MartyKing, I’ve driven over half a million miles in my lifetime and the only* time that I have seen trucks “blocking both lanes of traffic on the freeway” is to keep those dangerous (and rude) drivers from passing when the lane ends ahead and then cutting in front of trucks who leave a safe following distance. Are you one of *those* people?

*Ok, I did witness trucks performing a rolling road block on Washington D.C.’s beltway in the early 1980’s. They were protesting the lowering of the speedlimit and they just drove the **speedlimit** for about 30 minutes. All the speeders were lined up behind them for miles...crying (to the police) that these trucks were keeping them from breaking the law. WAAAHHHH !

@dunn, would you drive a car where the tires have the steel belts showing through?

We are responsible when we drive a vehicle...to take prudent measures to make sure the vehicle we drive is safe. Police can ticket you if your brake lights are out, your tires are unsafe, etc. *You* get the ticket, not the vehicle owner. Guess why.

That said, if there is something unsafe that is not "reasonably knowable", like brakes that always fail after using them 15 times in 3 minutes...THEN the driver might have a case against the vehicle owners IF it can be proven that the owners even knew about the condition.

dunnn, and a couple more of you don't have your facts straight. The truck in which Joe and Larry were killed in was owned by Advantage leasing and rented by Elite. Who knows what happen in Kentucky,......not Tennessee. The report says maybe tire failure and now they say there were skid marks, before there was none. I know 2 good men died and the people left behind have no one else to blame. The comment that says they were crooks 40 yrs. ago,.....you know so much behind this computer,....have you ever not been payed for what you hauled if you hauled for them or maybe they would'nt load your wore out truck. People comment when they nothing of whats going on really. I've dealt with them for 40 years and never have worried about my pay from them when I did my job right. Happy trails to you all.

Truckers are always causing problems on the roadways... anywhere from rude driving by blocking both lanes of traffic on the freeway to parking wherever they please on our streets.

When they are too busy to be rude, they are causing accidents and hurting innocent motorists. We really need to step up enforcement of these disasters.

One thing we need to do is hold them accountable for these retreads they are littering our highways with. These things cause damage to our cars and cause accidents because truckers are too lazy to pick them up. Why not ban retreads altogether?

Those people in Wake Forest at that address have been involved in shady deals for 40 years I have been atrucker since 1971 and they were crooks then

What ignorant comments on this site. My friend just bured her husband of two years last week. He died from driving this trucking company faulty trucks. Two men died and this trucking company was able to change their names after failing regulation requiremnents and stay on the road bad trucks and all. It was clearly the truck company fault and not the driver. two men died becasue of bad tires both from knightdale accident happen in tennessee

Conservatives are right. This is just more Big Government interference and regulation that reduce corporate profit!

When will this insanity come to an end? When will business be allowed to self-regulate?

/sarcasm off/

The article failed to mention that a lot of our Politicians,their families and friends are in the trucking business, hence lax laws.

"Despite what the trucking industry will tell you, from what I've seen a lot of truckers are dangerous/bad drivers, with tailgating and speeding. If it were up to me, there would be more restrictions on them in the passing lane, and they'd have a lower speed limit like there was back in the 70s during the gas crisis. If that means higher transportation costs passed on to consumers, so be it."-----mountain_luver

How about use a little common sense, there are thousands of trucks on the road daily that are not dangerous or driving dangerous trucks. The small percentage that does should not reflect upon the industry as a whole. My company deals with 30 trucks a day from multiple companies. Most of them are responsible owners/operators.

How much more are you willing to pay for your desire to regulate them even more, when this article exposed that the regulations are being ignored and not enforced as they should be? Why not make DMV and DOT enforce them instead?

Despite what the trucking industry will tell you, from what I've seen a lot of truckers are dangerous/bad drivers, with tailgating and speeding. If it were up to me, there would be more restrictions on them in the passing lane, and they'd have a lower speed limit like there was back in the 70s during the gas crisis. If that means higher transportation costs passed on to consumers, so be it.

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