I work with the guy that was hit, same company. When a woman is trying to commit suicide theirs not alot we drivers can do. All the people whinning about the log trucks let me take away all your but wipe, your news paper, your boxes, and your house cause ya know it's made of wood too.

Justme...what does your rant have to do with the REAL story here...A selfish women choose that morning to TRY and end her life! She had no concern that her attempt could have cost another innocent life! This had NOTHING to do with the driving abilities of the trucker!

justme, you know what your problem is, you don't read well. Not once did I say cut all the timber down. I said that without timber management, it is all going to burn down. I am a 5th generation Oregonian dating back to 1868. I have lived in Oregon my entire life over 70 years. I have seen this state ruined by people moving in that don't care and don't understand about our renewable resources. All you care about is your environmentalist agenda. You don't care about jobs. Start reading correctly and maybe you will understand. Even the foresters are concerned that environmentalist law suits and all that hog wash is causing so much fuel to be built up in the forest that they will go up like a Roman candle. Think.

Hwy 126 extends to Veneta, duh and the same thing is going on-yes I rememeber when it was beautiful 26 yrs ago but now the landscape is all choppy looking. Might as well cut it down cuz it is going to burn anyway- what about the generations to come. You can't cling to past proceedures and all the endangered loggers should be long gone like the wild life that is forever lost. Plus these guys go speed around like their driving a porche, I've clocked them going 70. they crash, then the rig spills gas...give me a break, the forest can't take much more.

When I read your first comment it was hard to figure what you were saying because this accident did not occur on the McKenzie, it occurred on Hwy 126 to the coast.

justme if you have lived here for only 26 years, then you missed out on the best of the best. This was a thriving, healthy, and robust county until all the misfits started coming here. We did not have money problems. You missed out on the Cougar Dam project, you missed out on the whitewater runs every year, you just missed out on a lot of stuff that was really fine. Now you want to make it even worse, if that timber is not managed and kept cleaned up it will all burn up some day, then you will have nothing to look at but black charred stumps.

Lived here for 26 yrs.and live on Mckenzie Hwy. , these loggers jobs is slaughtering the mountains they are doing as fast as they can, because people like me are will try to slow it down hey its' up32% in2 yrs. I thought these logger we easing out of such passe practice. Drive up the McKenzie Mountains they are getting pretty ugly and now they want to start logging Fed Property. If your good with hacking that's wonderful, I plan to make a calendar of clear cut and destroyed forest for the loggers can drool over the beauty they made.

Where did you come from Justme, obviously you haven't lived in Oregon very long. Eugene used to be one of the logging capitals of the world, we had loggers and mills everywhere, and it was great. They were hard working, hard playing honest folk, not like we have today a bunch of whiny, mamby pamby environmentalists and the like. This was a great area, no money problems. Ten trucks an hour is nothing, it used to be beautiful when there were bumper to bumper log trucks on Hwy 58 and the McKenzie. The revenue was rolling in. Loggers are good hardworking people, get off their back.

I knew this was enevitable since 126 on the McKenzie has about 10 logging trucks per hr. and logging is up 32% in the last 2 yrs. It's funny I thought all this displaced loggers would haave retired by now, all this hoopla for the passed 20 plus yrs. It's time for these guys to get into the future and not get a job the is suppose to be passe. I confirmed the amount of trucks and the % from the weighmaster himself.