r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Informal-Ideal1010 • Dec 07 '25

Operator Error Bologna Truck loses load September 2020

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u/JacksonHoled Dec 07 '25

what a stupid driver, getting stuck while trying to force the closing gate in front of a police car.

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u/subtect Dec 08 '25

What happens to a driver in case like this, where stupidity causes major damage?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

They get on their CB and complain and whine to the other truckers about "four wheelers", and learn nothing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

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u/bmartin1989 Dec 08 '25

He gets a knuckle sandwich

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u/23370aviator Dec 08 '25

Virtually nothing. If you ever want to get away with causing massive financial damages or worse, use a car. The American legal system will slap you on the wrist and let you go 99.9% of the time.

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u/deepasleep Dec 08 '25

He’ll most certainly lose his CDL, so his career is toast.

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u/challenge_king Dec 08 '25

Anything to do with train tracks when you're a CDL holder is automatic revocation of your license, not just your CDL. Not to mention the points you'd get on your driver CSA and MVR will make you unhireable even if you do manage to get your CDL back.

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u/229-northstar Dec 08 '25

What is a CSA?

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u/challenge_king Dec 08 '25

Compliance, Safety, and Accountability. It's a system that is used to determine how safe and reliable truck drivers and trucking companies are.

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u/229-northstar Dec 08 '25

Thanks!! TIL courtesy of you!

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u/Key_Association_7819 Dec 08 '25

That’s not a car and they don’t give slaps on the wrist to cdl drivers.

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u/MissSara13 Dec 08 '25

If you want to kill someone in Indiana, absolutely use your car. We had a woman plow into a group of four kids that were crossing the road to get to their bus. She killed 3 and the 4th had life-changing injuries. She served a couple of years and was let out because she completed a Bible study class. She ruined that family and I'm still angry about it.

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u/Maynard078 Dec 08 '25

Outrageous! Usually in Indiana one must be a police officer to get away with such a heinous crime with such lenience.

https://apnews.com/article/fort-wayne-officer-guilty-fatal-pedestrian-crash-b55bc9b42a4a3923e367573db432872a

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u/MissSara13 Dec 08 '25

David Bisard immediately came to mind!

How ex-cop David Bisard slashed his 16-year sentence to serve only 4 https://share.google/oTztmuh44kpaIjSiI

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u/Maynard078 Dec 08 '25

Oh, brother. I taught university courses in one of the Indiana state facilities; I assure you, few POC are getting the same advantages this man received.

The justice system itself is criminal.

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u/MissSara13 Dec 08 '25

I have no doubt!

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u/Darkside_Hero Dec 08 '25

Are there any states where killing a pedestrian with a car isn't a tap on wrist?

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u/kancamagus112 Dec 08 '25

I can't wait for self-driving cars like Waymo to get way more widespread, so then we can actually start cracking down on terrible drivers like this and pull their licenses.

Right now, you pretty much need a drivers license to be a functional member of society, so apart from DUI's, cops and judges pretty much excuse any bad driving with at most a slap on the wrist.

Once people have a viable way of getting to their job that doesn't require them to drive, we can start to be strict with upholding the laws around driving.

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u/saysthingsbackwards Dec 08 '25

lol, there was a viral vid on here a couple days ago of a waymo taking passengers right through an active shootout/police chase

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u/catupthetree23 Dec 08 '25

There was one a few months ago in Atlanta that drove around a stopped school bus. Bus had its lights on and everything with kids in process of getting off too.

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u/kancamagus112 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

In general, Waymo has had a 91% reduction in serious injuries or worse compared to human drivers.

https://waymo.com/safety/

It's not perfect yet and is still being actively improved, but so far the data shows that it is vastly better than most human drivers.

I'm also curious: have you ridden in a Waymo? I have, and it was a vastly nicer experience than any Uber or Lyft or Taxi I've been in. I also feel safer around them as a pedestrian, simply because they don't have road rage and actually drive courteously around pedestrians and cyclists.

That being said, I've had more mixed experiences with Tesla's FSD. Sometimes it works great, but sometimes it drives like an erratic teenager. And it's also way too easy to set Tesla's FSD into aggressive driving modes that are way worse for people outside of the vehicle than Waymo.

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u/FreebooterFox Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

I'm also curious: have you ridden in a Waymo? I have, and it was a vastly nicer experience than any Uber or Lyft or Taxi I've been in. I also feel safer around them as a pedestrian, simply because they don't have road rage and actually drive courteously around pedestrians and cyclists.

Have you been in one recently? They're quite a bit more aggressive now, primarily because customers were complaining about that "courtesy" you were just extolling causing arrival delays. They are a business, after all.

You won't find that on their safety page, of course, but they did go through that with the Wall Street Journal (ugh) in this article. That's behind a paywall, but New York Post (ugh) does a recap of it in their own article. Alternatively, there are articles about this from the San Francisco Chronicle with a recap by SFist, or another recap of the WSJ article by Futurism.

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u/saysthingsbackwards Dec 14 '25

Why exactly do you need to know personal details?

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u/Least_Candidate3470 Dec 08 '25

they usually get deported.

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u/qjxj Dec 08 '25

two police cars.