Video Bonanza: Big Rig Wreckage

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[oldrustycars]

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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.

[moparmaniac07]

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"the most dangerous job in America"
I thought that was Alaskan crab fishing or farming or logging or something.

[Brian Lohnes]

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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?

[tiresmoke!]

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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.

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.

[JB666]

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Wow!!! That's incredible, especially that last one!!!

[meatwagon]

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The fire truck on fire truck carnage doesn't surprise me. The guys have been sick of Gary's fajita dinners for months now

[mustang13]

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I bet thats like watching Porn for the Gratzianna's at O'Hare Towing ;D

[Barry Donovan]

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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. :