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Now we all heard about the accident in Teaneck where the husband and all 3 daughters died because a truck went the wrong way.
This actually closely happened to me where a truck trying to make a u-turn at the intersection nearly went to the wrong side and I was on the left lane. Fortunately it turned and fled to the opposite street illegally.
Countless times a semi would illegally make a u turn in a busy street because nobody can stop it.
Plenty of trucks also use the left lane on the highway. Simply too many trucks in NJ and like I said in other thread, very few pay tolls. I often follow them through toll booth and majority failed to pay through the ezpass lane.
Accidents are just waiting to happen in NJ especially how some truck drivers behave on the road.
You want your stuff (food, clothes, iphones), you get trucks as a side effect. If you don't want trucks, you don't get the stuffs.
Accidents happen every day. Over 40,000 people die in highway crashes in the U.S. every year. Statistically, NJ is one of the safer states in the country (fewer highway deaths per capita than average). But we can still do more to reduce fatal and injury crashes. Stepping up enforcement could help, but there's a public cost. Improving infrastructure could help, but there's a public cost. Keeping well-trained, responsible truck drivers in the industry could help, but there's a cost to the industry, which would get passed on to the public. So far, few are willing to deal with the cost part of this.
In the mean time, 40,000 dead each year is the price we pay to drive our cars, have goods delivered to stores and to our homes, etc.
The crash you speak of did not even happen in NJ, and it was caused by a pickup truck.
Yes I know, they were on their way home from MD. The family is from NJ.
Using the accident as an example because many pickups are just way too aggressive on the road with no regards for safety of others because they think other cars will give them the right of way.
Are there too many semi trucks or pickup trucks? Or is it about box trucks?
As others have mentioned EZ Pass for commercial vehicles works differently. They record the trip and then charge a sum but that sum will vary based on discounts determined by the sum. So they don't pay when they drive through, it's not going to say "Paid EZ Pass" so stop looking for it.
Nj is a corridor state, thus the traffic. Who is driving the trucks would be an interesting question to ask, especially the construction dump trucks on 287 and elsewhere.
Tractor trailers need to be redesigned to maintain constant speed up and down hills. the 45 / 75 flies in the face of speed limits whose intent is to ensure consistent speed and therefore predictable response.
Some rigs take to heart the lament of slow drivers in the fast lane, the fast lane being the middle travel lane. That's why they need to have access to the fast lane on a three lane.
Plenty of disastrous, roadways, intersections, entrance and exit ramps in NJ.
I had been advocating police use a round stencil to spray paint an orange circle at the scene of every accident. It would serve as an instantaneous warning to drivers. Unfortunately it also alerts the public to dangerous conditions the town prefers to hide.
Saw a town map with push pins stuck to represent accidents. there were clusters of pins here and there along with a few isolated ones. Imagine if everyone had access to that map! Safety is the questionable part of Serve and protect..... have to admit that falls more in the lap of the mayor and town officials than it does the police.
“No trucks in left two lanes” should be implemented everywhere.
Then you're only leaving the right lane for trucks to drive in??
How many people get on the highway and immediately move to the middle lane, and then don't keep up with traffic??
A tractor-trailer then has to pass on the right, where they have to end up dealing with merging traffic, or the people who actually keep right as they are supposed to.
Or how many people merge and DON'T YEILD????
As others said the recent accident had a pickup truck involved NOT a semi. Tractor-trailers have less accidents overall than automobiles. In a sense a pickup truck is just a large automobile.
NJ with the ports, the proximity to NYC and a corridor on the east coast is just going to have more truck traffic. That proximity and the ports are a reason for the growing number of warehouses in central Jersey.
You can't have that kind of growth without trucks today. The Interstate Highway system helped cause this. Then warehouses and industries have located outside the cities with no railroad access.
Get rid of the trucks and how will you get anything unless your grow it in your backyard and at some point even the seeds were on a truck.
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