according to Washington State Patrol.The owner of the truck, Ready Mix Delivery, has been contracted to supply an I-5 project: replacing existing bridge rail and curbs with new traffic barriers in a nearly $16 million contract.
The concrete pours associated with the project were originally scheduled to start Saturday morning and last 18 hours, involving 600 cubic yards of concrete, according to the Teamsters. Ready Mix Delivery will be down a truck after Friday’s accident. “I don’t know how they’re going to do that job without breaking the law,” a shop steward for Cadman-Lehigh Hanson told MyNorthwest.
The shop steward pointed to a lack of experience among Ready Mix Delivery’s drivers. The inertia involved in driving concrete can make sharp turns at high speeds especially challenging, and that shop steward believes that to be a contributing factor in Friday’s overturned cement truck.“Well, it’s a big [expletive] mess, and we’re cleaning it up,” the owner of the company, Joshua Gribble, told MyNorthwest.