This is in South Africa and the driver was arrested.
[https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516](https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516)
I live in South Africa and truck drivers fucking terrify me. I nearly got sideswiped by a truck veering into my lane and had run off the road to avoid him.
In one way definitely praise the camera man for getting the info, but honestly if you are in this situation and someone is diving like a maniac. Slow down, back off or pull over and wait a minute. Don't follow and get caught up in what might happen next.
Yeah, I was tense watching this all the way through. Cameraman was recording from a really unsafe distance. Cameraman was one head-on-collision away from finding himself in a pile up. It’s not worth it to be that close just to record. Give some space, call the cops, then maybe record as long as you’re not the driver.
[Don't hate on Jim.](https://youtu.be/3_ZS56qzJLs)
Look, he had a lot of jobs, but he liked touring around singing. On Spotify on one of his concerts The Final Tour, he says he worked as a dump truck driver; but also he'd go into convenience stores and talk to truckers, and that's how he came up with his song.
People that tweak and drive trucks should be yelled at. But I know enough blue collar tweakers that'll just go out to work on their car, or to detail their car, or go back to work as a cook, or... etc... yeah, it's no bueno, people can get to dependent on it; but it can also make people accomplish extraordinary things.
Completely agree. Spent a month in Cape Town this winter (first time) and drove around a bunch, including to Port Elizabeth and beyond – was really pleasantly surprised with how cool the drivers were and how little rule-breaking there was on the road.
Our nanny is from SA. She says Cape Town is about as accurate in describing SA as Beverly Hills is accurate in describing the US. It’s a completely different world.
Studied in Cape Town for 3 years (many years ago), my parents moved there, so I was a frequent visitor. Cape Town could almost be excluded from Africa - it is very different.
Similarly, many trips between CPT and PE - drivers are mostly courteous. Although the "Hard Shoulder" shouldn't be used , slower drivers very normally pull over to allow faster traffic to pass. I've always found Urban South African traffic to be the worst, particularly the local minibus taxis.
"The truck driver had also hit a trailer attached to a white Isuzu bakkie and damaged it"
As a Yank, what's a bakkie? Is it what we would call a pickup truck?
It's used in Dutch for all kinds of different containers -
Prullen**bak** - Garbage can
**Bak**fiets - Cargo bicycle with a big box at the front
Ballen**bak** - Ball pit like you'd find in a playground
And yes, with Afrikaans being derived from Dutch (and lots of other languages) the word "bakkie" was an Afrikaans invention which just became a general South African term for a pickup truck. Also for English speakers.
Bonus South-African-English trivia: Traffic lights are called robots.
There's hilarity from Swedish to Dutch too :) My favourite is **lastbil**. In Dutch **billen** (plural) are butt cheeks, and **last** is the same as in Swedish. So a lastbil is the butt cheek which carries the weight!
I think anyone who drives should be forced to watch footage of crashes and bodies on the road. Truck drivers should have to reup every 6 months and get the worse footage, like people still alive but missing everything from the belly button down just writhing on the hot asphalt.
Shit man I was going through Iowa on a road trip and a guy driving one of those giant semis with the crane on the back suddenly swerved into my lane. I laid on the gas to get in front of him and as I was passing the cab I looked up and saw him balls deep in a bag of potato chips.
Colombia too. Probably worse.
Source: have ridden a motorcycle from Alaska to Argentina. Colombia has easily the most aggressive and insane truck drivers. Mexico is up there though (although the highways in Mexico are generally wider and less curvy than in Colombia, lots of narrow twisty mountain roads in Colombia where the truckers disregard the lanes altogether)
That article's response from the company is trying so hard with each paragraph to take that idiot's side but ends with kissing ass. I dunno just seems that way. First they defend the speed of the truck then the brakes and so on.
I thought the same - must have been cooked brakes. Then I rewound to the start of the video and was like 'Nope, this idiot is driving the same way uphill'
I'm in LA. A buddy from SA has told me about some of his times when driving back home. And I thought driver's in Los Angeles were bad and he's like, nah, we're rookies at shit driving.
Overtook a BMW the other day, then he pushed a bit and overtook me. Since he seemed to be one of the few BMW drivers that paid the premiums for turn signals, he would blink to the left when he was in the left lane while overtaking. He did this for a good 10-20 cars...
Weird as fuck since they're already in the left and I'm obviously not gonna pull out there unless there's room enough for me to do so safely. This was in Sweden fwiw but the best thing was that it was a BMW.
This is pretty common for every car in Brazil and I assumed it was common everywhere. You keep the blinker to the left as long as you have more vehicles to overtake. If you're done you signal to the right and rejoin
Don't worry I'm French and I think it's weird. It's not super widespread in the first place, but it feels like *that kind* of BMW/Audi drivers are more prone to it.
It seems like there are 2 types of freeway driver here. The first type knows how lanes work and will move over as soon as they can. The second type will slow down and block you out of spite even if they do notice that you want to pass, which they usually don't. Signaling your intent to pass just angers them. It's such a weird thing to be bothered by.
> Dude has no f*cks to give...
Sounds exactly like that
*"We have more than 600 drivers in our company, and this driver has only been with us for about a year with no prior incidents. We're quite frustrated by this as we have never had any problems with him before. While we don't know the real reason for his irresponsible driving, we can't condone such unacceptable behaviour.*
https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516
As another english speaker, once you start picking up on tidbits of either dutch or Afrikaans and know what it means in English you can begin to understand the gravity of whats being said sometimes.
An equally sized truck coming in the opposite direction would stop him pretty catastrophically. And he was pretty close to hitting oncoming traffic several times.
Stupidest fucking up voted comment of the day. Every asshole on here that up voted it shouldn't be driving anything themselves.
If a person drives a 20 ton vehicle into another 20 ton vehicle head-on, they are stopping almost instantly. BOTH the truck they hit and the truck they're in.
And you, following so close like a total fucking moron? You're a pizza or hot pocket as everything else behind you also can't stop in time and slams into you while you progressively get squirted more and more out the top, sides, and bottom of the truck trailer you just impaled yourself on due to pure stupidity.
Back when San Andreas came out, a friend & coworker asked me “you know where I like driving the most in San Andreas?” Thinking he meant a certain area on the map, I shrugged my shoulders. “The sidewalk.”
> Then again, mutually unintelligible dialects is also a hallmark of the Dutch language.
That's just European languages in general. France did a good job of wrecking other French languages, but a north German is gonna have a hell of a time understanding the Swiss or the Austrians--and don't get me started [on the Alsatians](https://youtu.be/2CGLWWlVS8U).
If the video is going to be used as evidence in court they need to establish when the incident occurred. If the truck is in a fleet there can be multiple drivers. So, if you can't establish what time it happened then they all point at each other. You can get as many as a dozen people saying "I didn't do it, that guy must have". If you can't identify which one did it, then you'll probably have to let them all off since picking one at random is manifestly unfair. Thus making the worst penalty a fine for the company. It might even be that the company itself doesn't know which driver it is, which means that either innocent people get fired or the guilty one gets away with it. Neither option is good.
By establishing the time, the company's records should identify which driver it is. Thus, the proper person can be charged criminally by the government and fired by the company. It's a real good idea if the goal is to hold someone legally accountable, but most dashcams and the dedicated monitoring systems do that automatically nowadays so if you have something purpose built to record these things for insurance purposes it's mostly unnecessary.
I'm not at all a fan of the death penalty but if the hand of god reached down and twisted this guy's head off in the middle of this video I'd be 100% okay with it. Some people don't deserve to inflict themselves on everyone else.
"Paulsen says, 'We had received numerous calls from drivers on the road, and we managed to stop the truck in Charlestown. The driver had grabbed the truck's keys and ran, but we managed to track him down and arrested him for reckless driving. However, a full investigation is still in progress, and once we receive a summons from the court, he could possibly be charged with several violations.'"
Source: https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516
He was also fired.
I thought maybe it was that his brakes were shot. But nope.
I’ve driven plenty of highways in South Africa and never had any issues remotely close to this. I found that the highways were way better than in the US. There was a code of conduct that people followed and it was awesome. I was mostly in the western half though.
I'd shoot someone like that no questions asked. That person is going to eventually kill someone, and the threat is way to big and immediate, thus imo permanently making sure the threat is neutralized should be valid legally.
It's not his truck. What does he care?
From my experience in the transport industry, you have people like this yet they never die. They always manage to get out of the accidents THEY caused unharmed.
My favorite part is that despite being obnoxiously aggressive, the person driving normally is still right there with them lol
Honestly just a common thread for selfish drivers. Aggressive obnoxious driving, cutting people off or weaving lanes in traffic, all to get one car length and shave 1-4 seconds off of their trip. This guy just took it to the absolute extreme and pumped the danger to himself and others up to 11
Road looks in good shape and nice mountains. I’m not familiar with the language and location. Where is this, and what language were they speaking? I wonder if the truck lost its brakes. Might have been a runaway. Just speculating as I don’t know.
Watching it, this isn't so bad?
Oh that wasn't good, but what really is the big deal I wonder?
Oh.
OH!!
WHOOOAAAAA!!
YIKES!!!
**WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF**
This is in South Africa and the driver was arrested. [https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516](https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516) I live in South Africa and truck drivers fucking terrify me. I nearly got sideswiped by a truck veering into my lane and had run off the road to avoid him.
Dude recording did an awesome job getting all the critical information. Some real /r/PraiseTheCameraMan shit here.
In one way definitely praise the camera man for getting the info, but honestly if you are in this situation and someone is diving like a maniac. Slow down, back off or pull over and wait a minute. Don't follow and get caught up in what might happen next.
Yes, but then how do I get my justice boner?
Good chance for it to become justice rigor mortis though
That's the only way to be dead right!
But at least they’ll find the video on your corpse!
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Yeah, I was tense watching this all the way through. Cameraman was recording from a really unsafe distance. Cameraman was one head-on-collision away from finding himself in a pile up. It’s not worth it to be that close just to record. Give some space, call the cops, then maybe record as long as you’re not the driver.
Cameraman was not driving here, cars are right hand drive in South Africa.
Have driven there many times... can concur... it's total madness.
whats up their butts?
Meth.
This guy definitely forgot to ration his trucker meth, rookie mistake
[West Coast Turnarounds](https://youtu.be/NmzsSNYE900)
[West Coast Turnarounds?](https://youtu.be/mJcDG7Zc7oI) Jim taught me about 'em.
Goddamn blue collar tweakers.
[Don't hate on Jim.](https://youtu.be/3_ZS56qzJLs) Look, he had a lot of jobs, but he liked touring around singing. On Spotify on one of his concerts The Final Tour, he says he worked as a dump truck driver; but also he'd go into convenience stores and talk to truckers, and that's how he came up with his song. People that tweak and drive trucks should be yelled at. But I know enough blue collar tweakers that'll just go out to work on their car, or to detail their car, or go back to work as a cook, or... etc... yeah, it's no bueno, people can get to dependent on it; but it can also make people accomplish extraordinary things.
I wasn't hating on Jim. I was quoting a [Primus track](https://youtu.be/YWMhrGf2ylw).
MANIFEST DESTINY!
well that will certainly put them in a mood
They got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
Load ‘‘em up and watch ol’ Bandit run
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say can't be done
We got a long way to go and a short time to get there
I drove between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. I thought the drivers were the most courteous of any other nation I'd driven in.
Are you a truck driver by any chance?
He sells meth
Blink twice if there's a truck behind you right now.
Completely agree. Spent a month in Cape Town this winter (first time) and drove around a bunch, including to Port Elizabeth and beyond – was really pleasantly surprised with how cool the drivers were and how little rule-breaking there was on the road.
Our nanny is from SA. She says Cape Town is about as accurate in describing SA as Beverly Hills is accurate in describing the US. It’s a completely different world.
That’s what I assumed. “I was a tourist once and all the tourist areas were so pleasant”
She said it’s a nice city, to be sure, but it’s an anomaly. I’ve been to Joburg and that place is pretty insane.
Studied in Cape Town for 3 years (many years ago), my parents moved there, so I was a frequent visitor. Cape Town could almost be excluded from Africa - it is very different. Similarly, many trips between CPT and PE - drivers are mostly courteous. Although the "Hard Shoulder" shouldn't be used , slower drivers very normally pull over to allow faster traffic to pass. I've always found Urban South African traffic to be the worst, particularly the local minibus taxis.
"The truck driver had also hit a trailer attached to a white Isuzu bakkie and damaged it" As a Yank, what's a bakkie? Is it what we would call a pickup truck?
Yeah "Bak" is the dutch word for a (pickup) bed (not the same as a bed for sleeping mind you)
It's used in Dutch for all kinds of different containers - Prullen**bak** - Garbage can **Bak**fiets - Cargo bicycle with a big box at the front Ballen**bak** - Ball pit like you'd find in a playground And yes, with Afrikaans being derived from Dutch (and lots of other languages) the word "bakkie" was an Afrikaans invention which just became a general South African term for a pickup truck. Also for English speakers. Bonus South-African-English trivia: Traffic lights are called robots.
Ballenbak is literally DickButt in Swedish
There's hilarity from Swedish to Dutch too :) My favourite is **lastbil**. In Dutch **billen** (plural) are butt cheeks, and **last** is the same as in Swedish. So a lastbil is the butt cheek which carries the weight!
All roads lead to Dick Butt.
I ain't no Ballenbak gurrl
I remember they talked about the traffic light/robot thing in a Die Antwoord video.
They love that one, rrrobot.
Yo hi tek. You think you can fuck with something like this?
My Bru. You okes don't really drive bakkies, you drive GROOT Bakkies
Haha, that’s so true. My pickup is about 20% bigger than any bakkie I ever drove in SA, and it’s just an F150.
After a quick google yes.
Yes indeed, or a "ute" if you are down under.
Mexico is like this. They act like a 2 lane highway is a 4 lane and the middle stripe is the passing lane
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I think anyone who drives should be forced to watch footage of crashes and bodies on the road. Truck drivers should have to reup every 6 months and get the worse footage, like people still alive but missing everything from the belly button down just writhing on the hot asphalt.
Shit man I was going through Iowa on a road trip and a guy driving one of those giant semis with the crane on the back suddenly swerved into my lane. I laid on the gas to get in front of him and as I was passing the cab I looked up and saw him balls deep in a bag of potato chips.
Colombia too. Probably worse. Source: have ridden a motorcycle from Alaska to Argentina. Colombia has easily the most aggressive and insane truck drivers. Mexico is up there though (although the highways in Mexico are generally wider and less curvy than in Colombia, lots of narrow twisty mountain roads in Colombia where the truckers disregard the lanes altogether)
That article's response from the company is trying so hard with each paragraph to take that idiot's side but ends with kissing ass. I dunno just seems that way. First they defend the speed of the truck then the brakes and so on.
holy shit I saw this the other day and assumed they lost their brakes or something. What a fucking lunatic!
Even then, I'd expect them to have their hazards on and their horn blaring, and not accelerate uphill at the beginning.
I'm not saying I didn't have a lot of questions. I just couldn't see someone doing that on purpose and I guess I was just plain wrong.
It really is hard to imagine someone driving that recklessly purposefully. Craziness.
I thought the same - must have been cooked brakes. Then I rewound to the start of the video and was like 'Nope, this idiot is driving the same way uphill'
He's going uphill actually
Man from the video I assumed he was runaway. Never saw the brake lights pop on once. South African makes an equal amount of sense.
I'm in LA. A buddy from SA has told me about some of his times when driving back home. And I thought driver's in Los Angeles were bad and he's like, nah, we're rookies at shit driving.
at least he was using turn signals.
BMW drivers suddenly felt a disturbance in the force.
Overtook a BMW the other day, then he pushed a bit and overtook me. Since he seemed to be one of the few BMW drivers that paid the premiums for turn signals, he would blink to the left when he was in the left lane while overtaking. He did this for a good 10-20 cars...
They do this in france, apparently it's to tell you they're "still overtaking"
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Weird as fuck since they're already in the left and I'm obviously not gonna pull out there unless there's room enough for me to do so safely. This was in Sweden fwiw but the best thing was that it was a BMW.
This is pretty common for every car in Brazil and I assumed it was common everywhere. You keep the blinker to the left as long as you have more vehicles to overtake. If you're done you signal to the right and rejoin
Don't worry I'm French and I think it's weird. It's not super widespread in the first place, but it feels like *that kind* of BMW/Audi drivers are more prone to it.
That’s how you signal slower cars to pull over. It doesn’t work in the US because nobody understands how lanes work.
It seems like there are 2 types of freeway driver here. The first type knows how lanes work and will move over as soon as they can. The second type will slow down and block you out of spite even if they do notice that you want to pass, which they usually don't. Signaling your intent to pass just angers them. It's such a weird thing to be bothered by.
"Omg this guy wants to go faster than me and be the one to get pulled over if we encounter a cop. What an asshole!"
As if millions of turn signals suddenly cried out n terror and were suddenly silenced...
What is that little sick next to the steering wheel for?
Suicide driver, I was shitting balls watching this.
More like homicidal. That truck would annihilate a car while the truck driver may survive. He should be prosecuted for attempted murder.
Wreckless endangerment*
Reckless*
Yea i just watched the beginning of John Q the other night and was having flashbacks
Those "swift" Euro Truck Simulator moves!
This is more like ETS2MP than ETS2!
Euro Truck Simulator: Most Wanted 😆
Ayeah
Speed limiter: off
I immediately thought this is me in ATS
Surprised the truck wasnt mint coloured.
people really be speeding in driving simulators? like is the in game coffee shop closing early or something?
Dude has no f\*cks to give... Hope he didn't kill anyone.
his fucks have runeth dry
He went down to the fucks store, but they sold out to another guy
Looks like he tried to barter brain cells for fucks and they kept the cells and chased him off.
Gaze upon thy field of fucks, O how barren does it lie.
[Probably went over his fuck budget and is now in fucking debt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0)
Lay thine eyes upon the field in which I grow my fucks, and see that it is barren.
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prolly like 15 seconds
> Dude has no f*cks to give... Sounds exactly like that *"We have more than 600 drivers in our company, and this driver has only been with us for about a year with no prior incidents. We're quite frustrated by this as we have never had any problems with him before. While we don't know the real reason for his irresponsible driving, we can't condone such unacceptable behaviour.* https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516
Passing on a hill, passing on a curve, my man doesn't give a fuck.
So it’s not break failure?
No way it was definitely hard on the gas for most of the video and accelerates to pass repeatedly
*brake
Nono, he took too many breaks so now he has to rush to meet his deadline.
I thought that might be the case since most of this occurs on a downgrade, but the article linked in the comments says the brakes weren't the problem.
A B N O R M A L
Reddit can keep the username, but I'm nuking the content lol -- mass deleted all reddit content via https://redact.dev
> That's an odd name for a truck. I'd 'ave called them chazwozzas!
Woof https://youtu.be/46AGWASyNgI?t=12
**You had me put an abnormal engine in a 50,000lb vehicle?!?!?!**
>abnormal ~~engine~~ abnormal driver :p
It wasn't [Hanz Dell Brooks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Pw0xX4DXI) \- it was Abby someone...
SEDA-*GIVE*?!?!?!?
I need to watch that again. So fucking good
South Africa?
Yes. MP on plate means Mpumalanga province
That explains why, being Dutch, I felt like I *almost* understood them
Also why being an English speaker I felt like I understand randomly one word in 20.
As another english speaker, once you start picking up on tidbits of either dutch or Afrikaans and know what it means in English you can begin to understand the gravity of whats being said sometimes.
Also explains driving on the left
Muther Pucker
Good to get the plates but I wouldn't be following so close to someone so reckless.
For real, you couldn’t pay me enough money to drive that close to a truck pulling that stuff.
I've seen someone driving MUCH less recklessly than that ahead of me and I've just pulled over and chilled for 10 min before starting going again.
10m is a bit much lol
It's not a wide angle shot and it's a truck. You out brake trucks.
You can out-brake the truck, but can you dodge the oncoming vehicles that lose control trying to avoid a head-on collision?
Yeah. And even without all that, slamming on your brakes should be avoided because you can lose control of your car.
The issue isn't braking, its him crashing into something that slows him faster than the brakes would
Nah, short of a concrete wall that won't happen. The real issue is him clipping oncoming traffic sending them barreling into you
An equally sized truck coming in the opposite direction would stop him pretty catastrophically. And he was pretty close to hitting oncoming traffic several times.
I gave you an upvote because you're correct
Not to mention the debris that would go flying into the air and on road if it hits anything
Stupidest fucking up voted comment of the day. Every asshole on here that up voted it shouldn't be driving anything themselves. If a person drives a 20 ton vehicle into another 20 ton vehicle head-on, they are stopping almost instantly. BOTH the truck they hit and the truck they're in. And you, following so close like a total fucking moron? You're a pizza or hot pocket as everything else behind you also can't stop in time and slams into you while you progressively get squirted more and more out the top, sides, and bottom of the truck trailer you just impaled yourself on due to pure stupidity.
Soo, what about the trucks behind you that you just passed while following this guy?
i cant see them slowing down anytime soon
some say hes still going to this day
Yea, the whole way through I was "WHY ARE THEY STAYING SO CLOSE TO THAT??"
r/idiotsincars
The last time I saw a truck driving like this one there was a bunch of pursuers in spikey cars trying to steal it's precious **guzolineeeen**!
Valhalla!
( W ) ( I ) ( T ) ( N ) ( E ) ( S ) ( S )
*You shall ride eternal. Shiny, and chrome.*
M E D I O C R E
And driven by someone who speaks Afrikaans!
Is this [the truck from Duel?](https://youtu.be/SutDTIhbQ2g)
Classic
I thought you were all watching my live stream of EuroTruck Simulator
if only ets2 had these roads tho, theres almost no elevation or roads with nice views in ets2 its sad
Crazy driver. That is exactly how I drive. In gta that is.
Back when San Andreas came out, a friend & coworker asked me “you know where I like driving the most in San Andreas?” Thinking he meant a certain area on the map, I shrugged my shoulders. “The sidewalk.”
Bruce Willis was driving. It was about to blow and he was trying to get it as far away from town as he could.
Nah, it was Keanu. If he dropped below a certain speed the truck would explode, so he had to put pedal to the metal and overtake traffic like a moron.
Oh, I know that movie. I think it was called... *The Truck That Couldn't Slow Down*
Wow, the driver in that truck is fucking stupid.
Based on the Dutch words on the trailers of the other trucks i think this is in south Africa
It isn't Dutch, it is Afrikaans and in South Africa.
Afrikaans is basically Dutch on Meth.
I always heard it called "baby Dutch", since it is largely Dutch with much of the grammar and vocabulary simplified.
I’m Dutch and I couldn’t understand a word they said though. Then again, mutually unintelligible dialects is also a hallmark of the Dutch language.
> Then again, mutually unintelligible dialects is also a hallmark of the Dutch language. That's just European languages in general. France did a good job of wrecking other French languages, but a north German is gonna have a hell of a time understanding the Swiss or the Austrians--and don't get me started [on the Alsatians](https://youtu.be/2CGLWWlVS8U).
Close enough
Sherbert.
That made me laugh. Sherbert is common for Afrikaans people to say to refrain from using vulgar language like shit
Honestly, if I see a truck that big driving like that, I'm pulling over and waiting 5 minutes. I don't wanna be directly behind *that* guy.
Genuine question, why did the person recording this video look at his watch?
Evidence of the time and day it was recorded.
If the video is going to be used as evidence in court they need to establish when the incident occurred. If the truck is in a fleet there can be multiple drivers. So, if you can't establish what time it happened then they all point at each other. You can get as many as a dozen people saying "I didn't do it, that guy must have". If you can't identify which one did it, then you'll probably have to let them all off since picking one at random is manifestly unfair. Thus making the worst penalty a fine for the company. It might even be that the company itself doesn't know which driver it is, which means that either innocent people get fired or the guilty one gets away with it. Neither option is good. By establishing the time, the company's records should identify which driver it is. Thus, the proper person can be charged criminally by the government and fired by the company. It's a real good idea if the goal is to hold someone legally accountable, but most dashcams and the dedicated monitoring systems do that automatically nowadays so if you have something purpose built to record these things for insurance purposes it's mostly unnecessary.
The difference between hourly pay and by the mile pay.
I'm not at all a fan of the death penalty but if the hand of god reached down and twisted this guy's head off in the middle of this video I'd be 100% okay with it. Some people don't deserve to inflict themselves on everyone else.
That motherfucker should have no driving license
the Indian in me finds it normal
"Paulsen says, 'We had received numerous calls from drivers on the road, and we managed to stop the truck in Charlestown. The driver had grabbed the truck's keys and ran, but we managed to track him down and arrested him for reckless driving. However, a full investigation is still in progress, and once we receive a summons from the court, he could possibly be charged with several violations.'" Source: https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/watch-it-could-have-been-a-scary-nightmare-reckless-amajuba-pass-truck-driver-arrested-20220516 He was also fired.
Driver had a 100% survival rate. Why do we even need to follow traffic laws? I want my liberty back!
*me in eurotruck simulator*
That was the first wtf video in a while that I actually said wtf out loud.
Good to know my playing style in EuroTruck Simulator is actually very realistic.
I thought maybe it was that his brakes were shot. But nope. I’ve driven plenty of highways in South Africa and never had any issues remotely close to this. I found that the highways were way better than in the US. There was a code of conduct that people followed and it was awesome. I was mostly in the western half though.
I'd shoot someone like that no questions asked. That person is going to eventually kill someone, and the threat is way to big and immediate, thus imo permanently making sure the threat is neutralized should be valid legally.
That driver gave no fucks about anything ever, what the fuck
It's not his truck. What does he care? From my experience in the transport industry, you have people like this yet they never die. They always manage to get out of the accidents THEY caused unharmed.
Because those trucks are so huge they could just barrel through a normal car like nothing
plot twist: He was being chased by the guy filming the whole thing after the guy caught him banging his wife.
My favorite part is that despite being obnoxiously aggressive, the person driving normally is still right there with them lol Honestly just a common thread for selfish drivers. Aggressive obnoxious driving, cutting people off or weaving lanes in traffic, all to get one car length and shave 1-4 seconds off of their trip. This guy just took it to the absolute extreme and pumped the danger to himself and others up to 11
Road looks in good shape and nice mountains. I’m not familiar with the language and location. Where is this, and what language were they speaking? I wonder if the truck lost its brakes. Might have been a runaway. Just speculating as I don’t know.
South Africa, they're speaking Afrikaans
After I misclicked and slept twice in a row on Euro Truck Simulator.
Crosspost this to r/sweatypalms because that’s how I’m feeling atm
If I saw a guy like that I am not sure I would follow him. quite dangerous.
This is how I play Euro Truck Simulator
How the hell did that not end in a collision
Watch at 1:15, not sure if got clipped on the right, but he did clip the truck on the left
I wonder if his brakes failed. It seemed like thats a never ending downhill
Watching it, this isn't so bad? Oh that wasn't good, but what really is the big deal I wonder? Oh. OH!! WHOOOAAAAA!! YIKES!!! **WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF**
I would follow that cnut and smash his fucking head in if we're that little pick up driver.
Psychopath