Not only did I live, I walked away with just scratches.

[Natedog]

.... if it was a corporate truck there is a good possibility it has full GPS tracking data. If so it can pinpoint the exact location, ground speed, engine rpm, braking ect at given time. Either you, your attorney or insurance group should have been all over this aspect from the start, realizing no doubt it shook you up. Look into it man...

That's what I was thinking too. I'd pursue it.

 

[PaleBlue90]

these guys are right

 

[MAKG]

While I'm sure that would be very useful if you could find it, how are you going to go about finding which company's GPS records you need to subpoena when all you know about the truck is that it was white?

Or is there a single GPS company that logs all this? Is a search by time and location actually feasible? I'm sure there were quite a lot of trucks in service in BC at the time...

Not that I don't want to see such a jerk drawn, quartered, (very slowly, of course) and fed to the pigs; it's just that I don't see how you can do it.

 

[skippy]

glad your around to talk about it.i had close call at a red light,light went green and i waited just a second to see if cars on other side were coming straight or making left as i was.18 wheeler blew the red,had i not hesitated i would have caught him in driverside door and no doubt been hurt.people just don't pay attention anymore.anyway sorry about your truck.

 

[Ranger44]

wow. Happy you made it out. Looks brutal. oh, and it's BS the semi driver didn't stop.

 

[MAKG]

If he's not aware of what's going on the road around him, he should not be a professional driver. Or even an amateur for that matter.

That's called "criminal negligence." While it's short of manslaughter, he's STILL a POS.

 

[Shoeboy]

It took the tow truck driver an hour and a half to find my truck, and he knew where to look. Where my truck landed it was pretty far down and out of sight from the road. The part that pissed me off the most about the truck driver was that there was NO ONE ELSE on the road aside from him and he was over the double yellow line in a "keep right except to pass" section of road. I had one lane going West, and he had two lanes going East. He was susposed to be in the right lane as to what BC law states "Stay right except to pass". Not only was he in the left lane, he was over in my lane. Thats why I'm pissed off, he wasn't paying attention, he nearly killed someone, and he's going to get away with no penality. RCMP is trying to track the truck down with the GPS systems, but not all truck are equipted with it, and without a truck/company logo, its hard to find the one company that the truck belongs to. The RCMP officer was thinking it was going to be one of those situations where I'm the only one screwed in this deal. But I'm still hoping, If they do find him, I'm going to sue him for every fucking penny he has.

 

[Shoeboy]

It was about a 1/4 of the way down the hill that I moved over thinking that he would have moved. I lost control and slid quite a distance sideways down the highway trying to recover, and when I realized I couldn't save it, I just let go of the wheel, closed my eyes and went for the ride, I was just going to slide sideways across the road and into the ditch anyways, I might as well of just closed my eyes so I didn't know what was coming. It was a corner that I came around, it was dry pavement on the other side, but then this stretch was in the shade of the mountain, I was trying to slow down without gearing down or braking because I wasn't sure if the road was black ice or just water. I didn't go sideways right away, i was cranking my wheel right, and was starting to turn left It was about a half kilometer where I was completly sideways and about a 1/4 kilometer further to where i went over. I wasn't really paying attention to the details happening, but more worried about getting out of the semi's way.

 

[Ozwynn]

While I'm sure that would be very useful if you could find it, how are you going to go about finding which company's GPS records you need to subpoena when all you know about the truck is that it was white?

Or is there a single GPS company that logs all this? Is a search by time and location actually feasible? I'm sure there were quite a lot of trucks in service in BC at the time...

Not that I don't want to see such a jerk drawn, quartered, (very slowly, of course) and fed to the pigs; it's just that I don't see how you can do it.

you hit it on the head. there are about 5 companies that track over 5 million trucks. you would need to know the trucking company and the truck number and then the system could tell you everything you wanted to know about that truck for the last 30 days. Otherwise you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and he described about 1/3 of the trucks on the road.

Rotten luck about the ranger.