InahoSabremere

Well, as of the end of January, I left trucking. No real gripes with my company, other then the ubiquitous ones most employees have about their companies. No, I was having fatigue burn-out. Not having a set sleeping schedule, and the long hours of driving, was taking a toll on me. In December of last year I noticed I was making fatigue induced mistakes. Small thing at first. It was starting to worry me. On my last delivery, from Washington to South Oregon in January, I was driving in the ice storm. In Washington, I saw where two different cars had slid off the highway. Response was already on site for each. I had a heavy load, and was being slow and careful. Heading south, in Oregon, I saw two semi and trailers on there side, and two jack-knifed. Three semi and trailers that had pulled off to to the side of the highway exit ramp, and had the right side wheels off the edge of the road. They were dangerously tilted to the right, waiting on tow-truck to pull them back to the safety of