17,000 pounds of cheese spill onto I-90

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
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this guy has no respect for the rules obviously..he'd drive while suspended...I would assume he'd fig his logs as well....

This kind of violation the driver should lose his CDL for life!!

The Associated Press | Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:17 pm

SALEM -- A semi loaded with more than 17,000 pounds of cheese crashed on Interstate 90 near Salem, spilling its cargo.

The highway patrol says I-90 was closed for about five hours after Thursday morning's crash. Traffic was rerouted as pay-loaders and dump trucks removed the cheese.

The patrol says the driver of the semi, 24-year-old Ronald Jessup of Washington, Utah, fell asleep at the wheel and struck an SUV being towed behind an RV. The semi rolled and ended up in a ditch, spilling 25 blocks of cheese weighing about 700 pounds each.

The patrol says Jessup wasn't hurt, but two people in the RV suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Jessop was charged with careless driving and driving with a suspended commercial driver license.
 
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