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.
