In mid-2016, James Penner, the owner of AA Septic Service in Clayton, Indiana, was heading back to the shop on a rural road after completing a pumping job when disaster struck: Another vehicle — the driver apparently unaware that Penner’s 10-axle Mack vacuum truck was crossing his path and had the right of way — T-boned the Mack’s front end and knocked the front axle completely out from under the truck.The vacuum truck flipped onto its side and spun around three times in the middle of the road, striking and toppling two telephone polls. When it came to rest on
