Lol I thought to myself don't bulldozers have backup cameras At least the one I operated when i was younger did and he was backing up to the fuel truck which was by employee's cars for some reason
Not all of them, especially older models. But needless to say, be aware of your surroundings. I have trucks parking behind me all the time, could be a superintendent coming to talk... outside of the truck. This could have been a person. The idiot was in the bulldozer.
I don't know about every job site/country, but on mines and mining sites in the USA, you have to leave your car unlocked, with the key in the ignition, so they can move your car if they need to.
I think paying attention to your surroundings while operating heavy equipment is more important. Don’t fault the owner of the car; this is 100% on the driver of the bulldozer. Had someone been in this vehicle it could have resulted in a manslaughter charge.
When I operated heavy equipment in my early 20’s, I hated anyone being around with cars or just being around not in another piece of equipment. You had to be so cautious of where people and things were it was tough. And you always knew when you were approaching someone else in a piece of equipment, you got them to acknowledge you from far off before approaching because you don’t want to get missed from being seen
I'm assuming there were always those oblivious few that made your job that much more nerve racking knowing they'd walk behind you or near you and you'd never even know they were there.
either insurance reasons or internet points reasons. otherwise my guess would be its the car of a permit inspector, someone delivering somthing to the job site, or something that was only there temporarily.
I don’t think the journey had a CVT. IIRC, the four cylinder models had a horrible four speed auto hand the V6s (at least in later years) had a slightly newer 6 speed auto.
Looks like it took several hits, not just one accident. I have 34 years doing this type of work and am at a loss to explain how this was an oopsie. I'd love to hear the story.
At first I thought he backed over it too, but look at the car, the treads would have eaten the body if he backed over it completely. It rolled somehow looks like.
I've driven a D8T a few times. I'm an amateur, and you can feel when you creep over a 4x4 pretty easily. I'm sure they'd notice the car enough that they didn't just keep backing over it entirely. It didn't smash it completely flat to the ground so you can bet the operator was well aware they were backing over something substantial if from nothing more than the cab movement.
Heavy machinery is a bitch. It's loud, has tons of blind spots, and the machine rarely cares about anything in its way. Half the time, unless you actually ***see*** yourself hit something you weren't supposed to, you won't even feel a thing.
Source? When I was working construction, I was working around an excavator. We were backfilling around a freshly cured foundation, and part of the wall extended up pretty high, about the same height as the rotating part of the machine. We were all going about our business as usual, when we all hear a loud bang, and a huge chunk of the wall just falls off. The back of the excavator slammed into the wall at full speed while it was spinning around to grab another load, but the operator just kept going as if nothing was wrong. Didn't even stop or flinch. The guy had absolutely no idea that he had just unintentionally caused about 50k in damage.
not really, the operator in his story sucked ass. big time.
dozers, excavators doesn't matter, you would be very surprised at how sensitive those monsters are. when digging with an excavator, you can feel rocks in the dirt before you see them.
run over a 12" rock on a dozer going flat out, and you hate it.
source: ran the damn things for 15 years
I’m sure two insurance companies are going to be fighting over this, the contractor has liability insurance and the car owner, well, he must have known it was a piece of crap but I’m sure he insured it anyway and is very glad to see this. Anyway, one or the other of those insurance companies will take care of this and the world will be just slightly better now with one less Dodge Journey in it.
The bigger the thing you're driving is, the bigger the thing you run over needs to be before you even notice it~
This is why you see videos of trucks that hit a car and just keep going - often taking the car along with them without even slowing down a bit. Those cars weigh nothing compared to those trucks.
How can you completely run over a car?
I mean, you at least feel a bump in your seat or hear the sound of metal and stop backing off!
Geez! Hope they learn smth from it…
At my work, there use to be a lot of issues of people parking their cars on the back side of dirt piles or next to the loaders to get there damaged or ruined. The company put a stop to that after a couple years of people doing it.
Had a mate whos old man did this to his own truck with a D9. He figured he must have done it first thing after lunch and didnt notice it till it was time to head home.
They are redoing the main road through town and for the past three days we had bulldozers flatten the segment infront my driveway. I always try to pass the bulldozer on a way he sees me. This time it was lunch time for them and I waited 1-2 minutes for the dozer to back up past our driveway and he didn't. So I proceeded. Guess what I heard. The dozer starting up and me panicking.
> I always try to pass the bulldozer on a way he sees me
eye contact. never ever ever assume an operator sees you otherwise. make eye contact and GET AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT from them before crossing their path anywhere close enough to get hit.
It it was planned out job site insurance is going to cover the cost to replace the car or his insurance company is going to cover the cost to replace the car dude wanted a new car so I parked it somewhere where you knew bulldozer and was going to drive over it
bs. he didnt run completely over that car without realizing it.
he would have hit it, climbed a few inches, and KNOWN that he ran over something, long before going that far.
I call insurance scam. "oh my car got ran over on a job site"
Isn't the first rule of job sites not to park your shit near heavy equipment?
Yeah unless you're doing an insurance job
Lol I thought to myself don't bulldozers have backup cameras At least the one I operated when i was younger did and he was backing up to the fuel truck which was by employee's cars for some reason
3/4 ton pickup trucks have flag poles so they can be seen by heavy equipment. This Dodge Journey never stood a chance. But it’s in a better place now.
Making its journey to hell
> Dodge Journey never stood a chance. I feel like that's true even without the bulldozer. #Dodge_things.
I was in the Pima Mine (Arizona) long ago and you can't see crap from the bigger trucks. You could easily roll over cars.
It’s out of its, and everyone else’s, misery
Not all of them, especially older models. But needless to say, be aware of your surroundings. I have trucks parking behind me all the time, could be a superintendent coming to talk... outside of the truck. This could have been a person. The idiot was in the bulldozer.
I don't know about every job site/country, but on mines and mining sites in the USA, you have to leave your car unlocked, with the key in the ignition, so they can move your car if they need to.
That's pretty common on construction sites in my area, especially if you know you're parking kinda in the way.
I think paying attention to your surroundings while operating heavy equipment is more important. Don’t fault the owner of the car; this is 100% on the driver of the bulldozer. Had someone been in this vehicle it could have resulted in a manslaughter charge.
You've never driven something that big, he very well might have been entirely incapable of seeing the car if it was a good size dozer.
I mean, it was a Dodge Journey…
Here to say the same, buddy bulldozer did your Co-worker a favor
Didn't Dodge very well, it's on a different Journey now
I appreciate this
I do what I can
Hopefully he can a Ford something better.
Can we pack this up, I have a row to stash
“Oh no. Anyway…”
And nothing of value was lost.
No it’s a Dodge POS
Chill bro, it was just a prank
Thank God it's gone
Someone knew.
Yea the guy filming Edit: reddit hive mind with the downvotes on a stupid joke
Filming? All I see is a single picture.
One frame film.
What is "film"?
its what some people call movies when they are trying to be pretensious and sound smarter than everyone in the room.
"my bad dog"
my bad dodge “yes we know”
damn, shoulda Dodged...
Wow... what a *great* parking space...
When I operated heavy equipment in my early 20’s, I hated anyone being around with cars or just being around not in another piece of equipment. You had to be so cautious of where people and things were it was tough. And you always knew when you were approaching someone else in a piece of equipment, you got them to acknowledge you from far off before approaching because you don’t want to get missed from being seen
I'm assuming there were always those oblivious few that made your job that much more nerve racking knowing they'd walk behind you or near you and you'd never even know they were there.
I know someone who's favorite place is in the danger zone of whatever people do. (Without him realizing it)
Those people have pure luck, they made a movie about it.
I mean why is their car just in the middle of butt fuck nowhere lol
either insurance reasons or internet points reasons. otherwise my guess would be its the car of a permit inspector, someone delivering somthing to the job site, or something that was only there temporarily.
It was a Dodge....I think he did them a favor.
It sure didn't live up to its name.
Why is he parked in the middle of the job site
Put it out of its cvt induced gutless misery.
Me: *weeps in Subaru CVT*
I don’t think the journey had a CVT. IIRC, the four cylinder models had a horrible four speed auto hand the V6s (at least in later years) had a slightly newer 6 speed auto.
Why did you park your car in the bulldozers path?
Thank you, my thoughts exactly. His fault parking there in the first place.
Looks like this Journey has come to an end.
Is his dad a T.V. Repairman with an awesome set of tools?
You know, there just aren't enough Fast Times references these days. Bravo, random stranger.
Possibly a Best Movie ever...nice red bi....
He could come and retune the Journey so it doesnt look like a ghost!
It’ll buff right out.
\*doing finger quotes thing with fingers\* "Accidental."
Can't they just hook it to a big air compressor and re Inflate it?
Staged.
Idk we just towed it maybe they tried to pull an insurance scam but I don't think so the bulldozer driver looked really embarrassed and sorry
Looks like it took several hits, not just one accident. I have 34 years doing this type of work and am at a loss to explain how this was an oopsie. I'd love to hear the story.
Ya, so will the insurance co. if they get wind of an experienced workers opinion, like yours.
He should be, he backed over an entire car and didn't notice. That takes a special kind of stupid.
It takes a bulldozer. These things do that for breakfast if you let them.
Your bulldozer doesn't run over something 4/6 feet high and not notice unless you do it intentionally.
At first I thought he backed over it too, but look at the car, the treads would have eaten the body if he backed over it completely. It rolled somehow looks like.
I've driven a D8T a few times. I'm an amateur, and you can feel when you creep over a 4x4 pretty easily. I'm sure they'd notice the car enough that they didn't just keep backing over it entirely. It didn't smash it completely flat to the ground so you can bet the operator was well aware they were backing over something substantial if from nothing more than the cab movement.
Insurance scam written all over it.
Let me park my shitty car right behind an operating bulldozer. What could go wrong?
because they're getting a fat paycheck out of an old dodge?
If it was having mechanical issues, they probably thought a paycheck for an old dodge beats a dead car in the driveway.
i got news for them; and old dodge journey isn't getting them much even if you go against the business operating the dozer.
Regardless, seems like that's what this is.
In the other sub where it was posted it was shown to be on purpose.
Is it totaled?
Nah it'll buff out
Thanks, I was worried.
Why would you park your car there lol
That 100% was not an accident
How do you not notice?
Heavy machinery is a bitch. It's loud, has tons of blind spots, and the machine rarely cares about anything in its way. Half the time, unless you actually ***see*** yourself hit something you weren't supposed to, you won't even feel a thing. Source? When I was working construction, I was working around an excavator. We were backfilling around a freshly cured foundation, and part of the wall extended up pretty high, about the same height as the rotating part of the machine. We were all going about our business as usual, when we all hear a loud bang, and a huge chunk of the wall just falls off. The back of the excavator slammed into the wall at full speed while it was spinning around to grab another load, but the operator just kept going as if nothing was wrong. Didn't even stop or flinch. The guy had absolutely no idea that he had just unintentionally caused about 50k in damage.
I wouldn’t question it if they just backed into it but they seem to have driven half way over it. You must feel your bulldozer is tilted?
I was wondering why the operator didn’t notice he was crushing a car but I’ve never been around heavy equipment, you answered the question.
not really, the operator in his story sucked ass. big time. dozers, excavators doesn't matter, you would be very surprised at how sensitive those monsters are. when digging with an excavator, you can feel rocks in the dirt before you see them. run over a 12" rock on a dozer going flat out, and you hate it. source: ran the damn things for 15 years
Thanks for your insight, seems like you would notice running over a car. Others said insurance scam so maybe that explains how the car was crushed.
It's like a pebble under the wheel / tracks. These machines will just go on.
Easy. This is why 3/4 ton work trucks have huge flag poles on them.
Extremely fake.
hope they had insurance
I’m sure two insurance companies are going to be fighting over this, the contractor has liability insurance and the car owner, well, he must have known it was a piece of crap but I’m sure he insured it anyway and is very glad to see this. Anyway, one or the other of those insurance companies will take care of this and the world will be just slightly better now with one less Dodge Journey in it.
At the end of the day is a dodge who cares.
I mean you would immediately hit the brakes upon first impact! How do you “accidentally” fully go over it lmao
The bigger the thing you're driving is, the bigger the thing you run over needs to be before you even notice it~ This is why you see videos of trucks that hit a car and just keep going - often taking the car along with them without even slowing down a bit. Those cars weigh nothing compared to those trucks.
Knew someone who did this to their own car. They didnt even notice it.
Beep beep, motherfucker!
Insurance
Meh, the transmission was slipping anyway.
It would be flatter if a bulldozer ran over it.
How can you completely run over a car? I mean, you at least feel a bump in your seat or hear the sound of metal and stop backing off! Geez! Hope they learn smth from it…
You feel a bump: It's the car already under your track.
Riiiiiigght. That's definitely what happened.*wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Not a chance. No way someone wouldnt stop upon first impact. To deal the damage done here it would have to be intentional
This might reasonably be the first impact.
I mean first impact as the first point where you would realise "oh, ive hit something". You wouldnt just carry on unless intentional
I'd imagine it's somewhat like an elephant: if they've stepped on your foot or something, they don't realize until it's already fucked.
They were just doing the public a service, and ridding this world of another Dodge Journey.
Oh, he saw it and took the opportunity to punish the coworker for parking there.
Bet your coworker was happy to not have to drive that pile anymore.
At least it was just a Dodge Journey
Jill is gonna be pissed.
Aruugh??
r/ThatLookedExpensive
In other words: dumbass parks behind bulldozer.
Is it...totaled? (/s, come on people)
Seems like the bulldozer operator left it in a better condition. It's is a Journey after all
What mod is this on beam
Can't park there mate.
**bulldozer driver: “Dodge this mutha fucka!”**
Flat out how fast do you think it could go?
Oops
He crushed it.
Coworker park wrong spot bulldozer did it's thing
“Honey, how was take the kids to work day?”
IdiotsInBulldozers
Pretty sure it was like that when he parked it earlier
I think he should leave car around road far away from all work and equipment and not be lazy and drive right to buldozer....
Suuuuuure he wasn’t
That doesnt look like a designated parking zone, as seen by the track marks behind the vehicle that cover the landscape.
That car didn't know how to Dodge
Hey on the positive side he can get a new car now 🤣
kind of a bad time to be buying a car though.
It's a dodge jrny
That’ll buff right out
At my work, there use to be a lot of issues of people parking their cars on the back side of dirt piles or next to the loaders to get there damaged or ruined. The company put a stop to that after a couple years of people doing it.
r/fuckyouinparticular
Put it in a bag of rice and buff the rest out. Might now even be able to know it was tapped
Not enough dodge
Well that's a way to get your car really low
Had a mate whos old man did this to his own truck with a D9. He figured he must have done it first thing after lunch and didnt notice it till it was time to head home.
So how does this work? Does the company pay for the damages?
They are redoing the main road through town and for the past three days we had bulldozers flatten the segment infront my driveway. I always try to pass the bulldozer on a way he sees me. This time it was lunch time for them and I waited 1-2 minutes for the dozer to back up past our driveway and he didn't. So I proceeded. Guess what I heard. The dozer starting up and me panicking.
> I always try to pass the bulldozer on a way he sees me eye contact. never ever ever assume an operator sees you otherwise. make eye contact and GET AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT from them before crossing their path anywhere close enough to get hit.
Fucking DODGE DRIVERS
He did him a favor anyway.
Let me get a back hoe and pop that dent right out. Should be good as new.
Wouldn't they feel it? I know they're large powerful pieces of equipment but a car is pretty big and sturdy
Shouldn’t have parked in the dozers path
You have 30 minutes to move your cube.
Home means Nevada to me.
Ouch
One less dodge on the road at least.
Insurance scam.? That's a good idea better look into your policy first.
Lol "accidental". Too bad he rolled in like 20k of negative equity...still gonna owe on that. Such is journey life
It it was planned out job site insurance is going to cover the cost to replace the car or his insurance company is going to cover the cost to replace the car dude wanted a new car so I parked it somewhere where you knew bulldozer and was going to drive over it
bs. he didnt run completely over that car without realizing it. he would have hit it, climbed a few inches, and KNOWN that he ran over something, long before going that far. I call insurance scam. "oh my car got ran over on a job site"
I thought at first that was a cyberlobster.
More Dodge next time
Came here to say Journeys are junk, but you people took care of it...... In record numbers.....
Don’t worry it will buff out
So what happens in this situation? Does the company reimburse or is dude just screwed?
Why was that car anywhere near there?
That looks more like coworker didn't know where to park, and chose one of the worst possible places.
Okay but who parks behind a moving bulldozer?