EDITORIAL : SLIPPERY CALL; TRUCKER'S ACTION DOESN'T WARRANT HIS FIRING.ON a rain-slick highway littered with eight big rigs that had already crashed, Rick Bloom made a split-second A Split-Second was a successful synth rock/new beat/EBM band from Belgium. The duo — Mark Ickx and Peter Bonne (under the artist name Chrismar Chayell) — were active from their debut in 1986 until they split up in 1991, when A Split-Second continued as a solo project. decision; he jackknifed his truck to avoid hitting another driver. California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers acknowledged that the Palmdale trucker's maneuver Saturday prevented a head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. and most likely spared the other trucker, John Hunt, from serious injury. Bloom's reward? He was fired for damaging company property, even though he was not the cause of the 14-rig pileup in the slippery Newhall Pass. Granted, the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan always cautions drivers that they should be traveling at a rate of speed that allows them to maintain control. When the road is wet and slippery, accidents happen in the blink of an eye. Not being able to stop an 80,000-pound rig in time might earn a reprimand REPRIMAND, punishment. The censure which in some cases a public office pronounces against an offender. 2. This species of punishment is used by legislative bodies to punish their members or others who have been guilty of some impropriety of conduct towards them. . But firing a driver for risking property over life is all wet. Fortunately, Bloom got an offer of a new job Thursday. Maybe that should provide a clue to his old company, Conway Truck Loading Services, that it should rethink its position and give Bloom back his job. |
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