After watching this video, the first thing I can tell you is that words don’t fail me for my reaction. What is keeping me from publishing them, however, is that by doing so I’d probably put my paycheck in jeopardy while earning me a warning from the Federal Communications Commission. Here’s the scenario: A trucker in an International is cruising some scenic highway on his way to, according to the video, Mexico City. During the drive he gets tired of sitting behind the wheel and instead kicks off his shoes, takes a relaxing seat in the passenger side of the truck and with the big rig’s cruise control set, steers with his left foot down the open road.
How (……)-ing stupid can you be? Up to 80,000 lbs. of machinery is being controlled with a foot. My time in a true tractor unit was a quick test-drive of a Freightliner once. My next largest truck experience, and one I have the most time with, is a Stewart and Stevenson LMTV with a ISU-90 container in the bed and another ISU-90 container loaded in an LMTV-trailer. Concentration and attentiveness are needed for either vehicle due to their size and their handling characteristics. More so, when you factor in traffic. At the barest of minimum, being in the right lane of an Interstate, you’d want to have a good line of sight rearward on the left side of the truck to watch for traffic. And the likelihood that this imbecile has that is nil. All he can see is the road ahead and his foot resting on the wheel. So far there isn’t any report of any punishment or even an identity, but the dumbass was stupid enough to upload the video to YouTube, so let’s do the proper thing and make this idiot famous.
And while we’re at it, what would you do if you saw something as absolutely moronic as this?
(Courtesy: Carscoops)
Because Russia.
But he doesn’t seem to be doing any worse than many here that are sitting BEHIND THE FRIGGIN WHEEL.
Based on the small license plate on the little SUV that passed him, I’d say it is probably Mexico and not Russia. Go anywhere around southern California and watch these same wreckless yahoos drive our freeways. That is actually a fairly nice looking rig compared to some of the DOT disasters cruising across our southern border.
I hate feet so I would throw up, then get as far away from the impending crash as I could.
Call the highway patrol.
As a motorcyclist, this is highly scary. On a positive note it’s nice to know I’m not the only member with LMTV experience under my belt. Rolled an uparmored one, they are one top heavy SOB.
I’ve seen guys almost wreck trying to grab something out of the sleeper while driving but this takes the cake.