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Originally Posted by Est1980

There is so much ignorance in this post, I don't know where to begin.

Truckers as a demographic have a better safety record than regular citizens; that is a fact. If you want to make a safe bet, then put your money on one of the cars starting the chain reaction. Or we could wait until they release the cause.

Also, snow plows go as fast as they can, but they can only do so much until it stops snowing.

Let me guess,your a snow plows truck driver

I could care less about the "records".Having spent many years driving on highways I'll stand by my own personal experiences, In blizzards they go way too fast causing whiteouts and causeing people in cars to go off the road or freak out and stop so they get hit from behind and most of the time the trucker doesn't even know it happened...don't believe me? make a call to the RCMP and ask them how many times they have tried to find a trucker who caused a winter storm accident and just "kept on trucking".

Snow Plows,where I grew up plows were out as soon as it started snowing.not when it stopped snowing,they actually help to slow down traffic,but this day in age when everyones in a stupid hurry to go in the ditch people hate them.


As for the Leduc pileup,just as I thought. The first accident involved 5 vehicles, A B-train tanker,a semi and 3 passenger vehicles. then the pileups happened.

It's an incident Jordan Guard will never forget.

The Alberta man says he was driving in his truck Thursday on Highway 2 south of Leduc with his girlfriend and their seven-month-old son when he saw a multi-vehicle collision ahead.

Guard says as he was coming to a safe stop on the shoulder of the highway, he saw in his rear-view mirror a jack knifed semi-truck coming towards his truck. The semi had lost control on the icy highway. Guard made a split second decision to drive his vehicle into the ditch, hoping to avoid the on-coming semi. But according to Guard, the semi also went into the ditch, hitting his truck.

"He hit us so hard, I don't know how fast he was going, but he didn't slow down at all," Guard recalled. "The next thing I know, we're on an angle and there's a van underneath us."

Guard, along with his girlfriend and infant son, managed to escape the collision relatively unscathed.

However, Guard's ordeal wasn't over.

He says moments after the three got out of the truck, a second semi had lost control and crashed into several vehicles that were stopped along the highway. The collision reportedly caused a domino affect, in which Guard's truck was hit a second time. During the crash Guard's vehicle collided into him, partially trapping him underneath.


"We hear another bang and everything's moving again and my truck hits me in the back, knocks me on the ground."

Guard's pickup truck after the collision


Go figure, a cattle hauler, worst truck drivers on the planet.

Spin it any way it makes you feel better pal, fact. at least two trucks were going to fast in a winter storm, if a truck jackknifes it was going too fast for the condidions.