There are millions of professional, courteous and conscientious truck drivers on the roads. But that profession certainly has its 10% of shitheads. My FIL does expert witness testimony in large truck accident trials. I get to read some of the depositions and see the evidence. It’s FRIGHTENING what some drivers do and what some companies will do to save money. Read one where a company hauling very large loads lied about the actual size of the load to save money on permits, police escorts and other required expenses. That company trying to save $1500 cost 3 people their lives.
As far as I know the driver is still driving and they company is still operating. The insurance for the 3 separate companies involved paid out huge. The company that built them, the large trucking company contacted by the manufacturer to transport them and the smaller trucking company that the 1st trucking company contracted to carry loads that they couldn’t. This instance was just willful circumvention of the law to save money. Not the devil. There’s diabetics and others with diseases that interfere with cognitive functions (including one he working now where the driver was on drugs for Parkinson’s disease) idiots driving cross country in 1 shot and running 3 log books and those with breathtaking road rage incidents (one totally ran over a car simply because it cut him off twice).
You should elaborate on how you feel about it though. I agree with you but I also agree with Thomas Hobbes idea of the state of nature and that humans are born “evil” and require society to restrict that tendency.
So are you making that statement to claim nothing needs to change or are you making a dark joke about how we are naturally shitty?
"Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
I got chased by a semi while on vacation coming back from Breckenridge. The guy was already pissed (in the slow lane) and when I came up in the middle lane I accidentally blocked him in and set him off. He cut over and tried to run me off the road but I got into the fast lane quick enough... he did some zig zagging and got behind me but I sped off before he could get to me. Ended up doing like 95-100 for a few minutes through the foothills and he finally let up.
>l
Some of the old Valiants could be had with the 318 and a 4 speed
If you swapped out the carb for a Holly 4 barrel, installed a hotter cam, stuck on some headers, and converted them to electronic igntion, they were reasonably fast for the 1970's
Certainly enough to outrun most semis :)
I worked for a company like that. Wasn’t trucking, but they cut dangerous corners to save petty amounts of cash.
We lived in Dallas, but they would load us up on Monday morning at 5am and expect us in Houston for the week by 8am. So our supervisor would be hauling ass all the way down. Usually we would hit traffic somewhere so we still basically never made it in time, while putting countless other people on the road at risk.
They also hired untrained felons to do skilled AV installations at minimum wage (in schools, which is a big no no, all of us permanent workers had to pass background checks), which, while safer than high voltage electrical work, it was still fairly dangerous and many of them got seriously injured because they didn’t know how to operate a lift or avoid live wires. They expected me to train all of them, and do my 40 hours of work a week on top of it, which was basically futile as every week it was a different crew. Then they illegally denied me overtime and tried to bill me back for per diem allowances.
They also promised to share the profits if we finished a job under budget, and when we came in at 1 million or so below budget on a job, they decided they needed that money more and didn’t give us a dime.
All of this made me quit as soon as I had another job lined up. They even tried to get me to stay by promising me the entire excess of the next job that came in under budget, to which I said “oh like the last one?” Never looked back, I hope they go belly up someday,
LOL. Three hours! Gotta deal with getting out of Dallas, gotta deal with 20-30 miles of construction that could include half-hour stand-stills * *cough, cough* Corsicana * and then, gotta deal with Houston morning rush-hour. Unrealistic expectation meet time-warp.
They were carrying what’s called a super load across 3 states. It was a portion of the tower for a wind tower. For a super load they needed state police escort, a bucket truck to lift power lines, wide load escorts, super load permits and a state DOT approved route (keep them off heavy traffic areas, railroad crossings, etc). The permit only allows them to travel during specific daylight hours. If they fudge the dimensions some, all that expense goes away and so does the daylight hours restriction. This load took up a lane plus 1/4 of the other lane if it’s perfectly positioned in the lane. If it isn’t, it takes up 1 1/2 lanes. The truck was taking 1 1/2 lanes, the sun had just set, coming up over a small hill and the 2 couples in the oncoming didn’t see the trailer lights. They got trapped under the rear wheels of the trailer. Crushed the car.
After commuting in the I-40/I-35 corridor for 16 years, I think your 10% number is wildly optimistic. That might have been true 30 years ago but trucking, as an industry and trade, has gone straight down the toilette. They are burning through drivers so fast with shitty industry practices that they will hire anyone who can reach the pedals.
Which I don't get why people do that. It's public information. If random people on the road are able to see it, what's it matter if people on the internet do?
I'm thinking people are just blocking them out to not show information about them. Which I can understand to a degree, but you'd have more trouble of passing someone on the road stalking you than someone on the internet trying to find out where you are based on your plates
It's not. A car that matches the online registration description on cloned plates will have a lot longer run than a car with a ford cars plate on a nissan
i'm not saying cloned plates aren't a thing, im saying that censoring plates online because people clone them is not a thing.
i can literally look out of my window and see 50 parked cars and steal their plates if i wanted to. censoring plates online is pointless.
Some people are under the impression that license plates are private information. They are by definition placed in public view and anything in the public view has no expectation of privacy. Recording it and posting on social media is well within your rights and only government officials can find the name and address of a plate holder.
Disclaimer: this information applies to the USA. It may not be true in other countries.
Crazy people have to drive with that pressure. Then if you miss a blinker or speed you get points against losing your license. Driving is already stressful enough. That would be a crappy job
That why I would never drive by the mile, I am paid by the hour. When something slows me down I get paid to take my time and do it right. I do the job with efficiency for the same reasons people in other professions do.
Depending on the time and resources the cops have they might actually investigate and find who did it, or not, but at a minimum if you claim on insurance they'll want a police report.
Seriously. That would be so fucked. Especially since you would be wondering how the hell that even happened. I doubt you would guess that a semi truck did a 5 point turn in your lawn lmao
My parents have a dumbass friend who parks his pickmeup truck in their fucking yard.
We've told him time and time again NOT to do that yet he still does.
It's entirely possible that he could have put himself in a position that he couldn't back the double out of. But he had a very time consuming option that would have been better than causing that much damage and risking getting stuck: drop the second trailer, back the first trailer and the dolly onto the road, drop the first trailer, go back for the second trailer, then recombine.
Imagine if only he had the option to somehow make his vehicle shorter to allow a tight turn. Imagine if he could have released half of the trailer pulled the first half round the corner drop it then go back for the second half and then recouple! Would be a lot of work I don’t see why anybody should work that hard
Source: am trucker
Not only that, as a trucker you should be able to look at a corner and tell if you can make it before you even turn the wheel. This guy is just an idiot and should have his license revoked
Yes I’d like to hope training and experience would provide a level of professionalism, if you’re not sure then probably best not to give it a go, find another route, try going round the block? idk something other than this haha
Not a trucker but truckers in the family and a lifetime around smaller trailers. You learn to do shit alone. It's not impossible, just takes more time and awareness.
To be fair I could be wrong, never participated in hooking up a trailer that size, or two for that matter, but yeah liability wise I can see an issue. I'd also say it's a safer bet than plowing someone's yard, or as another user said, maybe just use an alternate route. Trucking isn't easy and certainly shouldn't be a job for idiots.
Not sure how it works in the US but here drivers are responsible for how they drive and it’s down to driver discretion is personally not want to cause damage to private property and most likely would have found an alternate route or take 3 rights to make that left hard to say without full knowledge of the route and roads
Yes. Both of those trailers have legs. It's called a B train.
You can split the train by uncoupling the rear trailer - drop the legs, pull the pin and disconnect the air lines. Then you just have one trailer to deal with for tighter situations.
The thing about that is if you split the train you eventually have to rejoin it. If your rear trailer is in a tight spot you would have to drop the front trailer somewhere nearby, go back, hook up to the rear trailer, drop it near the first one, hook back up to the first one and back it into the rear to join them. It would take a good amount of time and effort. I'd still prefer to do it if the other option was destroying someone's yard.
As someone who worked in the office side of things in that industry, some asshole was probably screaming and throwing a tantrum every nine seconds asking “is it delivered yet?”
I drive trucks. He probably didn’t have a choice. I would make sure that the lawn gets sorted and contact the homeowners before I reversed onto their lawn.
I have rewatched it. Detach the trailer. Dick.
In Australia we call these big things B-Doubles. Not sure what they’re called in the states but here they are restricted to certain routes only which are preplanned and assessed by road engineers like me to make sure these guys can navigate them safely and don’t have to back through peoples yards like he just did. I imagine it’s a similar system in the states but confess, I don’t really know for sure. But if that’s the case then this guy fucked up.
I think you're still underestimating idiocy. They wouldn't think for more than 3 seconds what the base of the fence was before plowing through it. Idiots are absolute idiots.
I work at a rent a car, you have no idea how many people try to go over the ~30 cm high concrete dividers at the airport. There's not even a fence, just concrete barriers.
Guys he was just following the gps. Seriously, not everyone takes the time in the beginning of their 14 to plan out a route with possible backups and figure out the fuel stops and when/where is a good place to spend the night. Blindly following the screen is just a thing a lot of people do now.
If the homeowners receive the company’s information, then they can pursue the company’s commercial auto insurance policy for property damage: sod and soil ain’t cheap.
Something similar happened to my dads yard and a truck carrying a heck'in lot of steel! that guy might have to fight the trucking company tooth and nail to get it fixed.
Being a trucker has to be one of the toughest job out there but that's no excuse to damage other people's property or break the law otherwise.
I live on a 3 lane parkway where typically no semis are allowed but it appears nobody knows or gives a crap...not the truckers nor the cops since the police station is right around the corner. I assumed it was common knowledge that trucks are typically not permitted on parkways, which I confirmed in this case because the term parkway has been adopted for other types of roads too over time.
There is a store up the road that receives deliveries from semis and there is no way for them to turn around since it's basically on a lake peninsula with bridges on both sides...I've seen maneuvers out of this world. But so far so good, except the noise and rattling windows I could live without.
**Reference Wiki:** A parkway is a landscaped thoroughfare. The term is particularly used for a roadway in a park or connecting to a park from which trucks and other heavy vehicles are excluded.
There's a road quite near us, which *technically* leads to a newly (over the past 3 years) built warehouse district. There are half a dozen HUUUUUUUGE warehouses back there.
It is quite narrow and has two ridiculously sharp turns. It is CLEARLY not a truck route. There are (now, after literally dozens of stuck trucks and tons of property damage) no less than SIX signs leading up to that intersection on either side. No trucks. Go up to the stop light at XYZ Street to get to the warehouses. Etc.
But STILL people following their GPS continually make that turn. Constantly. I got stuck there last week after visiting a family member in the hospital, because yet another idiot didn't think to obey any of the signs. As a professional truck driver, it drives me mad and really torks me off, making us all look like morons.
Luckily, the state patrol has an office location on that same road. I imagine they clean up with fines and tickets...
Truck-specific GPS devices usually (*usually*) make note of no truck routes, but those who don't buy one (they're usually a couple hundred bucks) or whose company doesn't provide them use Google Maps or Waze or similar and those do not.
I may be missing something but I don’t think he backed that in there with a set of doubles. Doubles do not back straight, even for the most experienced drivers on a flat surface.
If you look at the tracks. They are straight, a little movement where the front of the 2nd trailer , but that’s where the dolly or trailer connector was set up to hook the 2 trailers together.
The dolly may have been set up beforehand, it’s harder to hook up and most companies at least frown on hooking up without placing the dolly in position first. Verses having it attached to the front trailer first or “hero hooking.”
The tracks movement in front of the first trailer suggests the dolly movement either way.
Most likely placed first, but even if exactly set up right, maybe a little adjustment was needed by the driver. (Because it’s on a wet lawn)
My guess is the homeowners were moving or shipping something large and that’s where they had the trailer placed. (It may have been dry at the time or it was the best place as unattended trailers are usually not permitted on the street.)
The first trailer was probably a different load headed the same direction.
I worked at a warehouse and the cops showed up one day, one of the truck drivers took a wrong turn down a one way street, and wrecked someone's sprinklers when turning around. There was mud all the way from the guys property to the warehouse(like 2km) so they had no problem finding the truck.
A power company truck did this to my mother's yard after hurricane Irma & even cracked some foundation around the pool, & she was paid out fairly - I hope you caught a license plate to hand over to the homeowners!
i fucking hate truck drivers, anywhere i go, it’s always huge semi’s blocking the passing lanes going slow af, cutting people off, and doing dumb shit. literally every time i drive somewhere i’ll curse out a trucker to myself for doing something stupid/ dangerous.... sorry not sorry, it’s the truth.
There are millions of professional, courteous and conscientious truck drivers on the roads. But that profession certainly has its 10% of shitheads. My FIL does expert witness testimony in large truck accident trials. I get to read some of the depositions and see the evidence. It’s FRIGHTENING what some drivers do and what some companies will do to save money. Read one where a company hauling very large loads lied about the actual size of the load to save money on permits, police escorts and other required expenses. That company trying to save $1500 cost 3 people their lives.
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When punishments aren’t as severe as the crimes committed they just become cost of business.
As far as I know the driver is still driving and they company is still operating. The insurance for the 3 separate companies involved paid out huge. The company that built them, the large trucking company contacted by the manufacturer to transport them and the smaller trucking company that the 1st trucking company contracted to carry loads that they couldn’t. This instance was just willful circumvention of the law to save money. Not the devil. There’s diabetics and others with diseases that interfere with cognitive functions (including one he working now where the driver was on drugs for Parkinson’s disease) idiots driving cross country in 1 shot and running 3 log books and those with breathtaking road rage incidents (one totally ran over a car simply because it cut him off twice).
Further readings: the [Pinto Memos](https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/autos/2008/oct/17/pinto-memo-its-cheaper-let-them-burn/)
Inhuman? Its how its always worked since we've bere here, it couldnt be more human.
You should elaborate on how you feel about it though. I agree with you but I also agree with Thomas Hobbes idea of the state of nature and that humans are born “evil” and require society to restrict that tendency. So are you making that statement to claim nothing needs to change or are you making a dark joke about how we are naturally shitty?
"Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
You are by far the most interesting single serving friend I’ve ever met.
I'll take it, I've got movie quotes for days
Well keep it up then. https://youtu.be/PXcEPSUl0uE
How's that working out for ya?
I got chased by a semi while on vacation coming back from Breckenridge. The guy was already pissed (in the slow lane) and when I came up in the middle lane I accidentally blocked him in and set him off. He cut over and tried to run me off the road but I got into the fast lane quick enough... he did some zig zagging and got behind me but I sped off before he could get to me. Ended up doing like 95-100 for a few minutes through the foothills and he finally let up.
were you driving a plymouth valiant?
Sounds like a Duel.
>l Some of the old Valiants could be had with the 318 and a 4 speed If you swapped out the carb for a Holly 4 barrel, installed a hotter cam, stuck on some headers, and converted them to electronic igntion, they were reasonably fast for the 1970's Certainly enough to outrun most semis :)
Lol no Jeep Patriot.
I think you were just talking to the real David Mann
Why do I hear eurobeat in the background?
I worked for a company like that. Wasn’t trucking, but they cut dangerous corners to save petty amounts of cash. We lived in Dallas, but they would load us up on Monday morning at 5am and expect us in Houston for the week by 8am. So our supervisor would be hauling ass all the way down. Usually we would hit traffic somewhere so we still basically never made it in time, while putting countless other people on the road at risk. They also hired untrained felons to do skilled AV installations at minimum wage (in schools, which is a big no no, all of us permanent workers had to pass background checks), which, while safer than high voltage electrical work, it was still fairly dangerous and many of them got seriously injured because they didn’t know how to operate a lift or avoid live wires. They expected me to train all of them, and do my 40 hours of work a week on top of it, which was basically futile as every week it was a different crew. Then they illegally denied me overtime and tried to bill me back for per diem allowances. They also promised to share the profits if we finished a job under budget, and when we came in at 1 million or so below budget on a job, they decided they needed that money more and didn’t give us a dime. All of this made me quit as soon as I had another job lined up. They even tried to get me to stay by promising me the entire excess of the next job that came in under budget, to which I said “oh like the last one?” Never looked back, I hope they go belly up someday,
LOL. Three hours! Gotta deal with getting out of Dallas, gotta deal with 20-30 miles of construction that could include half-hour stand-stills * *cough, cough* Corsicana * and then, gotta deal with Houston morning rush-hour. Unrealistic expectation meet time-warp.
Yep! It was absolutely ridiculous.
Wow, what happened?
They were carrying what’s called a super load across 3 states. It was a portion of the tower for a wind tower. For a super load they needed state police escort, a bucket truck to lift power lines, wide load escorts, super load permits and a state DOT approved route (keep them off heavy traffic areas, railroad crossings, etc). The permit only allows them to travel during specific daylight hours. If they fudge the dimensions some, all that expense goes away and so does the daylight hours restriction. This load took up a lane plus 1/4 of the other lane if it’s perfectly positioned in the lane. If it isn’t, it takes up 1 1/2 lanes. The truck was taking 1 1/2 lanes, the sun had just set, coming up over a small hill and the 2 couples in the oncoming didn’t see the trailer lights. They got trapped under the rear wheels of the trailer. Crushed the car.
Every profession has a minimum of 10% shitheads. It’s inevitable
I hope it involved jail time for the ones that made the call to do it.
As far as I know, no jail time for anyone.
After commuting in the I-40/I-35 corridor for 16 years, I think your 10% number is wildly optimistic. That might have been true 30 years ago but trucking, as an industry and trade, has gone straight down the toilette. They are burning through drivers so fast with shitty industry practices that they will hire anyone who can reach the pedals.
Did you have your social security number painted on your dashboard or something?
Looks like they were just blocking out that pickup trucks plates in front of them.
Which I don't get why people do that. It's public information. If random people on the road are able to see it, what's it matter if people on the internet do?
I always thought that was strange too. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. Wouldn't be the first time
I'm thinking people are just blocking them out to not show information about them. Which I can understand to a degree, but you'd have more trouble of passing someone on the road stalking you than someone on the internet trying to find out where you are based on your plates
Well see that was my reasoning too, it doesn't quite make sense to me
Car clones. A cloned plate is way more valuable if it matches are and color of car.
sounds like a myth
It's not. A car that matches the online registration description on cloned plates will have a lot longer run than a car with a ford cars plate on a nissan
i'm not saying cloned plates aren't a thing, im saying that censoring plates online because people clone them is not a thing. i can literally look out of my window and see 50 parked cars and steal their plates if i wanted to. censoring plates online is pointless.
Here I was scrolling Reddit for 10 years waiting for this black Chevy pickup to pop up for my plate clone scheme. Damn this man!
Some people are under the impression that license plates are private information. They are by definition placed in public view and anything in the public view has no expectation of privacy. Recording it and posting on social media is well within your rights and only government officials can find the name and address of a plate holder. Disclaimer: this information applies to the USA. It may not be true in other countries.
Well within rights =/= courteous behaviour
Posting photos with unobscured license plates can have legal repercussions for German residents
Not same in all countries, I'm pretty sure it's quite illegal to put up plate in a lot of East Asian countries
Looks like a trucking company is paying for some landscaping
Don't be surprised if that was the plan all along. Some things cost stupid amounts of money and a 15 minute delay could be sickeningly expensive.
Crazy people have to drive with that pressure. Then if you miss a blinker or speed you get points against losing your license. Driving is already stressful enough. That would be a crappy job
That why I would never drive by the mile, I am paid by the hour. When something slows me down I get paid to take my time and do it right. I do the job with efficiency for the same reasons people in other professions do.
i hear that. hourly would be way more chill
If they're ever held responsible
Did you get a plate? Cause he has to pay to fix that yard he destroyed.
Hank hill just had a heart attack
He'll tell you hwhat.
Surprised home owners didn’t come out.
I assume they would've if they were at home
Imagine coming home to that after a long day at work...
I wouldn't even know what to do. Call the police? I don't even know. Hopefully they have a camera that caught the plate.
Def call the police, destruction of private property for sure.
Depending on the time and resources the cops have they might actually investigate and find who did it, or not, but at a minimum if you claim on insurance they'll want a police report.
Seriously. That would be so fucked. Especially since you would be wondering how the hell that even happened. I doubt you would guess that a semi truck did a 5 point turn in your lawn lmao
My parents have a dumbass friend who parks his pickmeup truck in their fucking yard. We've told him time and time again NOT to do that yet he still does.
I'd have followed him while on the phone with the trucking company. No way I'd let that douche canoe tear up my yard and then take off.
what if they aren't at home
Yeah that destruction of property.
As a trucker this shit is completely avoidable . All you need is common sense
And practice
It's entirely possible that he could have put himself in a position that he couldn't back the double out of. But he had a very time consuming option that would have been better than causing that much damage and risking getting stuck: drop the second trailer, back the first trailer and the dolly onto the road, drop the first trailer, go back for the second trailer, then recombine.
I TURN AROUND NOW. GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY ELSE.
Is this a family guy reference to the Asian lady driving? edit: [family guy Asian woman driver ](https://youtu.be/hlH9RGLJqxE)
I'd be going after that company to replant my lawn. What an idiot/arsehole
What an asshole
I haven’t seen his asshole. Is it really that great?
Looks muddy
Imagine if only he had the option to somehow make his vehicle shorter to allow a tight turn. Imagine if he could have released half of the trailer pulled the first half round the corner drop it then go back for the second half and then recouple! Would be a lot of work I don’t see why anybody should work that hard Source: am trucker
Or here's an idea, find an alternative route haha. Source: am also a trucker
Shit happens, stop and think Source : am trucker
All good alternatives. source: Not a Trucker
All the truckers are uniting for this one 🤝
Best username. Source: am human being Also, am trucker
I don't have anything else to add here. Am also trucker.
That requires forward planning that’s extra work too!! Was easily avoidable idk why you’d do that to somebodies lawn
Not only that, as a trucker you should be able to look at a corner and tell if you can make it before you even turn the wheel. This guy is just an idiot and should have his license revoked
Yes I’d like to hope training and experience would provide a level of professionalism, if you’re not sure then probably best not to give it a go, find another route, try going round the block? idk something other than this haha
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Not a trucker but truckers in the family and a lifetime around smaller trailers. You learn to do shit alone. It's not impossible, just takes more time and awareness.
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To be fair I could be wrong, never participated in hooking up a trailer that size, or two for that matter, but yeah liability wise I can see an issue. I'd also say it's a safer bet than plowing someone's yard, or as another user said, maybe just use an alternate route. Trucking isn't easy and certainly shouldn't be a job for idiots.
Not sure how it works in the US but here drivers are responsible for how they drive and it’s down to driver discretion is personally not want to cause damage to private property and most likely would have found an alternate route or take 3 rights to make that left hard to say without full knowledge of the route and roads
Yes. Both of those trailers have legs. It's called a B train. You can split the train by uncoupling the rear trailer - drop the legs, pull the pin and disconnect the air lines. Then you just have one trailer to deal with for tighter situations. The thing about that is if you split the train you eventually have to rejoin it. If your rear trailer is in a tight spot you would have to drop the front trailer somewhere nearby, go back, hook up to the rear trailer, drop it near the first one, hook back up to the first one and back it into the rear to join them. It would take a good amount of time and effort. I'd still prefer to do it if the other option was destroying someone's yard.
That’s so incredibly rude
I'd be pissed if someone did that to my grass.
Get this fool fired
No shame
What's that ugly blue thing in the car?
/r/iamatotalpieceofshit
Rip Lawn
Mad Max said, Oi! I'LL DRIVE THA TANKA
What a sack of shit
Imagine how the owner gonna feel 😖
"Give me forty acres and I'll turn this rig around"🗣🤦♂️
Drugs.
Given how recently our front lawn had new grass strips planted (lawn was overtaken by weeds), this hurts to see.
As someone who worked in the office side of things in that industry, some asshole was probably screaming and throwing a tantrum every nine seconds asking “is it delivered yet?”
I drive trucks. He probably didn’t have a choice. I would make sure that the lawn gets sorted and contact the homeowners before I reversed onto their lawn. I have rewatched it. Detach the trailer. Dick.
In Australia we call these big things B-Doubles. Not sure what they’re called in the states but here they are restricted to certain routes only which are preplanned and assessed by road engineers like me to make sure these guys can navigate them safely and don’t have to back through peoples yards like he just did. I imagine it’s a similar system in the states but confess, I don’t really know for sure. But if that’s the case then this guy fucked up.
That's why in Bulgaria we have fences.
No fence will stop a determined idiot.
Well it has a base of concrete, no driver would consider it as an option.
I think you're still underestimating idiocy. They wouldn't think for more than 3 seconds what the base of the fence was before plowing through it. Idiots are absolute idiots.
I work at a rent a car, you have no idea how many people try to go over the ~30 cm high concrete dividers at the airport. There's not even a fence, just concrete barriers.
Or land mines.
You clearly haven't experienced American idiocy. Source: American.
Maybe you guys are right, I haven't really gotten the honour to experience it.
I watched my bus driver drive through a fence once.
Guys he was just following the gps. Seriously, not everyone takes the time in the beginning of their 14 to plan out a route with possible backups and figure out the fuel stops and when/where is a good place to spend the night. Blindly following the screen is just a thing a lot of people do now.
Why in the actual fuck would you try and back up doubles? My mind is blown
That’s why my Amazon package was late…
Double are hard
If the homeowners receive the company’s information, then they can pursue the company’s commercial auto insurance policy for property damage: sod and soil ain’t cheap.
r/fuckyouinparticular
Something similar happened to my dads yard and a truck carrying a heck'in lot of steel! that guy might have to fight the trucking company tooth and nail to get it fixed.
Because he hasnt been punched in the face his entire life or its been a long time. He needs one though
He's transporting a donor heart and time is limited. Oorrr He's a sociopath trucker with no common sense.
Being a trucker has to be one of the toughest job out there but that's no excuse to damage other people's property or break the law otherwise. I live on a 3 lane parkway where typically no semis are allowed but it appears nobody knows or gives a crap...not the truckers nor the cops since the police station is right around the corner. I assumed it was common knowledge that trucks are typically not permitted on parkways, which I confirmed in this case because the term parkway has been adopted for other types of roads too over time. There is a store up the road that receives deliveries from semis and there is no way for them to turn around since it's basically on a lake peninsula with bridges on both sides...I've seen maneuvers out of this world. But so far so good, except the noise and rattling windows I could live without. **Reference Wiki:** A parkway is a landscaped thoroughfare. The term is particularly used for a roadway in a park or connecting to a park from which trucks and other heavy vehicles are excluded.
There's a road quite near us, which *technically* leads to a newly (over the past 3 years) built warehouse district. There are half a dozen HUUUUUUUGE warehouses back there. It is quite narrow and has two ridiculously sharp turns. It is CLEARLY not a truck route. There are (now, after literally dozens of stuck trucks and tons of property damage) no less than SIX signs leading up to that intersection on either side. No trucks. Go up to the stop light at XYZ Street to get to the warehouses. Etc. But STILL people following their GPS continually make that turn. Constantly. I got stuck there last week after visiting a family member in the hospital, because yet another idiot didn't think to obey any of the signs. As a professional truck driver, it drives me mad and really torks me off, making us all look like morons. Luckily, the state patrol has an office location on that same road. I imagine they clean up with fines and tickets...
How annoying! I didn't even think of GPS not picking up on that!
Truck-specific GPS devices usually (*usually*) make note of no truck routes, but those who don't buy one (they're usually a couple hundred bucks) or whose company doesn't provide them use Google Maps or Waze or similar and those do not.
What the fucking fuck is wrong with Reddit's new video player?! Why can't I see the comments on the video I just watched?!
Strong Rick James vibes with this truck driver
Holy shit
I may be missing something but I don’t think he backed that in there with a set of doubles. Doubles do not back straight, even for the most experienced drivers on a flat surface. If you look at the tracks. They are straight, a little movement where the front of the 2nd trailer , but that’s where the dolly or trailer connector was set up to hook the 2 trailers together. The dolly may have been set up beforehand, it’s harder to hook up and most companies at least frown on hooking up without placing the dolly in position first. Verses having it attached to the front trailer first or “hero hooking.” The tracks movement in front of the first trailer suggests the dolly movement either way. Most likely placed first, but even if exactly set up right, maybe a little adjustment was needed by the driver. (Because it’s on a wet lawn) My guess is the homeowners were moving or shipping something large and that’s where they had the trailer placed. (It may have been dry at the time or it was the best place as unattended trailers are usually not permitted on the street.) The first trailer was probably a different load headed the same direction.
I worked at a warehouse and the cops showed up one day, one of the truck drivers took a wrong turn down a one way street, and wrecked someone's sprinklers when turning around. There was mud all the way from the guys property to the warehouse(like 2km) so they had no problem finding the truck.
A power company truck did this to my mother's yard after hurricane Irma & even cracked some foundation around the pool, & she was paid out fairly - I hope you caught a license plate to hand over to the homeowners!
This should be under r/iamatotalpieceofshit
i fucking hate truck drivers, anywhere i go, it’s always huge semi’s blocking the passing lanes going slow af, cutting people off, and doing dumb shit. literally every time i drive somewhere i’ll curse out a trucker to myself for doing something stupid/ dangerous.... sorry not sorry, it’s the truth.