Drivers Lisences for all

[Red Badger]

Everyone should have to have a drivers lisence for the catagory of vehicle they drive on the roads!  Mom and Pop should not be able to park the '57 studebaker and jump into the 500,000 dollar Greyhound touring bus and go tooling down the road, without proper training for that weight and size vehicle! 
    Nor should the "Good Ol' Boy" in the F350 with the 40 foot gooseneck carrying a steel building for a construction company, that rear ended me on Friday as I was turning into the Great Sourthren plains rendezvous boy scout jambouree!  I am pretty sure I lost the truck and trailer in this deal, and the two bit construction company the guy works for has a peny ante insurance company that is avoiding me...   

[mongrel]

Wonderful. Sorry for your luck, Jim. I would say something more useful, but lately I'm sick of this country and the 99.99% of its citizens who have forgotten that the rights they insist on and take for granted did, once upon a time, carry with them certain responsibilities. Knowing how to actually drive the vehicle and attached load they're taking out on the road would be one of them.

[old salt]

It may be to late now but next time get his DOT #

[Dogshirt]

Sad news indeed. Probably talking on the phone.

[Hawken50]

  Damn sorry Jim Hope your ok. The truck and trailer can be replaced but YOU cant. Take it from a certified CDL holder with  about 800,000 miles in tractor trailers, half the people on our highways have NO business being behind the wheel of a go cart let alone anything requiring any skill to operate.

[Watauga]

Lucky the Propane tanks didn't get ruptured that would have really gotten deadly.
Hope things work out.
A little news story might inspire the insurance company to make things right.
(They hate bad PR)

[Dogshirt]

  Damn sorry Jim Hope your ok. The truck and trailer can be replaced but YOU cant. Take it from a certified CDL holder with  about 800,000 miles in tractor trailers, half the people on our highways have NO business being behind the wheel of a go cart let alone anything requiring any skill to operate.

I'll echo that! As a flagger I see some REALLY scary stuff going on behind the wheel!

[Rev]

Push as hard as you need to. Camp on their doorstep if you have to...

[Red Badger]

Update -

It is not a construction company - he lied - it is a farm and he is not on the policy in fact he is listed on it as a restircted driver -

The owner and driver are both ignoring my calls - Farm Bureau says they have no liability.  No vehicle - no school.  I hope my attorney can help.  My Insurance can't other than for my and Bulldog Ladies medical.

[Watauga]

So what has the Sheriff had to say about all this?
In Indiana and Ohio you get to go to Jail for no Insurance and an accident.
And false reporting gets you locked up too.

[mongrel]

So what has the Sheriff had to say about all this?
In Indiana and Ohio you get to go to Jail for no Insurance and an accident.
And false reporting gets you locked up too.

I'm with Watauga on this. Any state I've lived in (California, Arizona, Indiana) or whose laws I'm familiar with, requires proof of valid insurance just to drive and mandates everything from large fines to jail time if an uninsured driver is involved in an accident.

Everything Jim has said indicates the driver who rear-ended him was specifically NOT supposed to be behind that particular wheel. Being as how an attorney has been retained in this case I would either personally or through the attorney be in touch with any relevant law enforcement, be it County or State. Maybe Farm Bureau doesn't want to be involved right now, but a police report and possible criminal charges (particularly when it seems to be THEIR policy that lists this guy as "restricted" from operating the truck that hit Jim) will probably get their full and complete attention. And, in turn, the folks now ignoring Jim's calls will find it very hard to ignore the possibility of an arrest warrant and/or cancelled insurance policy.

[Red Badger]

So far the trooper who took the accident report has not contacted me after I called his office to advise them of my findings... So I don't know... It is against the law to drive without insurance in Oklahoma also. 

It is all in the hands of the lawyer now.  My insurance is only covering me for medical.  I am thinking he will go after them in court and the highway patrol will go after him criminally.     

[graybear]

Hope you can get it straightened out. And that he & his employer get nailed for an uninsured driver. When my wife got rear-ended twice in the same accident by the same driver, my insurance company paid all vehicle repair & medical bills & then went after the driver & his insurance company to collect their money.

[Red Badger]

Good news!  The good ol' boy called me back and has Progressive insurance!  Claim being filed as we speak

[naultrick1]

I'm with Hawk on this, just glad everyone's ok, you are irreplaceable, besides who would we pick on?