Video Bonanza: Big Rig WreckageBy Brian Lohnes Posted 02/04/10
Professional truck drivers, specifically the good ones, are people that gearheads should respect. They work the most dangerous job in America. At any second an errant Honda could swerve in front of them, an idiot on a cell phone could merge into them, or they could suffer an equipment problem that only a split second reaction could save from disaster. As the videos we've found of big rig carnage will show, when things go bad with an 80 ton rig, they go very bad.
In nearly all of the videos below, the wreckage is caused by a driver error of some kind. Trying to cross railroad tracks while a speeding train is on the way, driving the wrong way down the highway, and in one case apparently falling asleep at the wheel, all end badly.
Big rigs equate to big carnage.
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Written by mustang13 Feb 07 2010
I bet thats like watching Porn for the Gratzianna's at O'Hare Towing ;D
Written by JB666
Feb 04 2010
Wow!!! That's incredible, especially that last one!!!
Written by tiresmoke!
Feb 04 2010
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The last one, with the train, I've had gates come down on me several times. I backed up and broke them off. One time it tore off the cab marker lights and my CB antenna, plus scratched up the hood, but I didn't get hit by the train. I don't feel I was negligent in that incident, if you saw the crossing you'd understand. Another time a westbound train passed. I waited for the gate to go up completely, and the lights to stop, just as the law says. I proceeded across the tracks, in first gear. DOT regs say no shifting gears on the tracks. An eastbound train approached, and the gate came down in front of the forklift I was hauling. I hauled ass and broke the gate off. A police officer saw me do it, said I had no choice, and got no ticket. The railroad tried to make me pay for the gate.
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Heard that I did......ever have the damn gate come down between the tractor and trailer?
Had that happen to me....."ghost train" triggered the signal, arm came down FAST....the East frameless dump I was pulling at the time made short work of it. Thankful it didn't tear up the pigtail, air lines or the hydraulic lines(had a load on at the time).
I've seen more truck accidents than I care to recall....plenty of them were due to driver error(head-up-ass-itis), But more of them were due to some cage driver thinking they could fit in where they couldn't or cutting some guy off just to make an exit ramp.
As for the meth-heads....I think CSA 2010 is gonna thin the herd out BIG TIME.
Written by Brian Lohnes
Feb 04 2010
Depending on how you look it I suppose, but more truck drivers got killed last year than loggers (but there are more truck drivers than loggers).
Sounded good right? :)
Written by moparmaniac07
Feb 04 2010
"the most dangerous job in America"
I thought that was Alaskan crab fishing or farming or logging or something.
Written by oldrustycars Feb 04 2010
The last one, with the train, I've had gates come down on me several times. I backed up and broke them off. One time it tore off the cab marker lights and my CB antenna, plus scratched up the hood, but I didn't get hit by the train. I don't feel I was negligent in that incident, if you saw the crossing you'd understand. Another time a westbound train passed. I waited for the gate to go up completely, and the lights to stop, just as the law says. I proceeded across the tracks, in first gear. DOT regs say no shifting gears on the tracks. An eastbound train approached, and the gate came down in front of the forklift I was hauling. I hauled ass and broke the gate off. A police officer saw me do it, said I had no choice, and got no ticket. The railroad tried to make me pay for the gate.
Written by BangShift Forum Admin Feb 04 2010
http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Video-Bonanza-Big-Rig-Wreckage.html
jacknifes in rain, not many excuses today...even if you tried to do it.
A good example is ice truckers attemping to slide around on purpose, jacknife is an odd maneuvre.
The closest I ever saw of jacknife happy was an old international harverster , very short wheel base cabover with an engine way too freakin big...of course, they all disappeared from the roads.
and you could always blame the straight six. that should be driven to extinct like a cabover. ::)