10 Roads So Dangerous Truckers Won't Pull Over to Sleep

On March 5th, 2009, Jason Rivenburg was twelve miles from his delivery. He was early. The receiver wouldn't take the load and wouldn't let him wait in their lot, so he pulled into an abandoned gas station and went to sleep in his cab. A man saw money on the dashboard and shot him. The take was seven dollars. Ten American freight corridors where the danger isn't the driving — it's the moment a driver has to stop, in a country with roughly one legal parking space for every eleven drivers who need one. Sources https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/infr... https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/infr... https://www.ttnews.com/articles/jason... https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.c... https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/default.aspx