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Tuesdak

Unattended 4' slide down a concrete driveway

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What a complete and total loser. I would not have fired him, a bullet to the head would have been more appropriate.

You can see that the road widens out back to the left. Obvious that he can't back up period. He could have backed up 100 feet or so and then did the spin. The cars will move and help if you get out of the truck and tell them what you have to do. I've backed up a good mile before to get away from a low underpass.

You have to ask yourself how in the world U.S.A. Truck's safety / training department put him behind the wheel of anything. Drivers like that are one of the main reasons I quit long haul back in the '80s, when many of your fellow drivers are more dangerous than the four wheelers that you have to avoid it is time to step out.
 
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We had one driver do that years ago. There was only one 8' roof panel at the very rear of that 45' trailer that was still in place, the rest of the roof was gone.
 
I wish there had been camera footage of the one in washington. The whole bridge and a couple of cars went down down down into the skagit river.
 
Happens almost every week on Long Island when truckers end up on the Northern or Southern state parkways with their 7'10" bridges.
 
mwilson said:
Seen these yet??? Unreal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxlvxvG8zOE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_wQWcp3OU
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This happened between Laramie and Cheyenne in the last week or two. My step father, who is a foreman at Mountain Cement in Laramie, had a couple of drivers caught up in that mess. Fortunately none of his drivers were seriously injured but they lost 2 trucks.
I'm not sure exactly where it happened but there are several grades anywhere between 4 and 8 percent, and at 8k ft it can get real nasty in a hurry on that stretch. I've seen a few nasty wrecks there myself over the years.
 
JR said:
This happened between Laramie and Cheyenne in the last week or two. My step father, who is a foreman at Mountain Cement in Laramie, had a couple of drivers caught up in that mess. Fortunately none of his drivers were seriously injured but they lost 2 trucks.
I'm not sure exactly where it happened but there are several grades anywhere between 4 and 8 percent, and at 8k ft it can get real nasty in a hurry on that stretch. I've seen a few nasty wrecks there myself over the years.
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I remember a real bad one that happened back in 2004 near the Beauford exit. Lots of vehicles involved and they were still recovering bodies from the burnt wreckage a week later when I passed through. That is a smell that you'll never forget!
 
Mikey-KE7LBB said:
I remember a real bad one that happened back in 2004 near the Beauford exit. Lots of vehicles involved and they were still recovering bodies from the burnt wreckage a week later when I passed through. That is a smell that you'll never forget!
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Yes, that was horrible. We were out there visiting that summer after my son was born. I remember the burned asphalt vivdly.
 
I remember a time when a very large earthmover was being trailered they went under the freeway bridge and got stuck all the caltrans engineers were all standing around scratching their heads on what to do when a parent and a high schooler driving by said let the air out of the tires ! go figure
 
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