I would guess the bucket must not have been dropped to the deck and the hydraulics must have been somehow inactive?

When I hauled backhoes, I would put the bucket on the trailer deck and put a chain across it. Just to prevent that from happening. Never trust the hydraulics to hold anything. I have never seen a backhoe with a pin to keep the boom from moving.

hmmm... I think Dad's backhoe has a travel pin but I don't think it prevents that. It seems like a simple safety feature to add.

I'm speculating here, and getting a little outside of my knowledge, but that won't prevent me from spouting off. I think built up pressure in the hydraulic hoses tend to keep the shovel in position. If a hose is leaking, the pressure will drop, and the shovel can move then. Maybe a hose or fitting was leaking.

You never trust the hydraulics to hold in transit.

If I personally owned the truck in UT's post, I don't think I need a CDL in KY to drive that truck. As I say, I am frequently wrong.

I did not need a CDL to drive my bucket truck, but, it was a single axle.

Bruce, it's actually 26,001 and over GVW and certain combinations.

Dah rulez

Thanks, I gave up my CDL when they required testing.

What, like brakes?

He won't talk his way out of this one...

Asshole. I cannot muster enough "whatever" to care that its a problem anymore.
Drunk fuckers destroy families and lives.

Drunk ƒuckers create families and additional lives.:p:

Drunk drivers, though, agreed.

That was an extremely accommodating officer/Trooper/whatever. Courteous, even.

I have no words. What a discredit to our profession.

Truck drivers are people, people have flaws, some people have huge flaws in jugement, and they're in all professions.

All true.

Been there, done that. Hot tires stopped on ice is bad news.

That is kinda terrifying. WTF?

Gordon was probably texting Thomas.

OK, but..

What the hell is up with the signals and gates?

From riding the DC subway you should know sometimes that shit don't work.

The gates didn't come down until AFTER the train had passed. Clearly malfunctioning. That is one lucky driver!

I think the lucky driver is the one in front of us who made it safely across. ;)

It looks like he started sliding, realized he wasn't going to be able to stop in time, and then sped up to get at least the cab forward in front of the train.

Any news on what the cargo was? (Edit: nevermind, obviously a FedEx truck carries lots of FedEx packages...)

Is this a thing?

Up here everyone moves to the right side of the road when crossing train tracks. Occasionally, it makes sense in that the middle of the road has frost heaves and is bumpy. But lately I've been noticing people doing it all the time at every crossing regardless of the road surface condition. It's like it's a superstition or something.

Is this just a redneck upstate new yorker thing or am I missing something?

They aren't already on the right side of the road?

Maybe the right lane of a four lane crossing?:o

Is the pavement better there? Less traffic so the edges by the rails haven't crumbled away s much?

The right side of the lane. These are one lane in each direction rural roads.

It's entirely the same, there are no bumps or sharp edges.

Simple. That's what the sheep ahead of him did.

In case the embed didn't work. I still can't see LiveLeak vids here.

This is what I get:

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Currently running FF 51.0.1.

Last time I checked I got the LiveLeak vids if I used IE. Now they don't show up in IE, either. I hate computers.

I believe Liveleak has stopped embedded video altogether. Let me know if I'm wrong.

I can't.

My browser shows what your post of what your browser shows.


and about the video... uh oh... it looks like everything is ok, until it isn't.

Kinda like life...everything's ok, right up until it ain't.

70 mph winds in Montana...

https://www.facebook.com/11861195482...5001197855970/

he puts the L in parallel parking.

Yikes.

I don't think she sees this every day, but I'm sure she sees stuff just as stupid.

Stupid car driver. They pulled under the truck to switch lanes. The truck driver saw it and stopped. (You can see the wide open road in front of the truck.) And now the car can't pull out because traffic is speeding by and there is no room to merge.

The cut in the concrete looks like the left lane, the one we're in, is merging with the trucks lane.

She probably hasn't seen this. :eek:

Yes, I have seen cars slide under high oversize loads. I hate Fast and Furious for this alone.

No, Bruce, I hadn't seen THAT. Not yet, anyway. Pass the eye bleach, please!

I *have* seen sex toys in the trash/on the ground at truck stops. Even the dog, who actually found them, didn't want them! Bad Touch!

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What a shame, this drivers load being hijacked while he sleeps.

Loose loads, sink trips.

Bet the driver needed a change of diaper tho!

And his job probably. ;)

Even a well-secured load can come through the cab. Should have had a "headache rack" installed. Those are large metal plates designed to angle a shifting load up and over the cab rather than penetrating through.

Now here's something nobody sees every day...

Top 50 trucking companies, part 1...

Part 2...

You gotta be shitting me.<--Bacefook link.

Dude, look in your mirror occasionally. Damn.

Youtube link to the same incident.


Wow.

Good old California drivers. Gotta love em.

I have no way to figure this. I can see each side of the story happening, plus three ways it could have happened.

I bet this was either a stupid foreign driver or a rookie who had tunnel vision. There is NO WAY a competent driver wouldn't feel the initial impact and hear the tires squealing not to mention the trailer pulling to the right and not investigate.

Thank you.

I recognized that road, I-15, north out of San Bernardino, well before the narrator spoke it "Cajon Pass". It's a brutal unrelenting stretch of up-fucking-hill for about 20 miles. The truck was in the right hand lane doing his 40 mph or whatever. And *O*blivious, for sure.

Tha's a very rough stretch of road. Not the surface, just the slog. The opposite direction has runaway lanes of cushy beds of gravel where molten brakes go to die. That road's a bitch.