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Yep, yep, yep.
All of that, and then some. I have been meaning to edit some of my dashcam footage and post the result to youtube but I keep getting too lazy, and I misplaced the little adapter thingie so my laptop can read a micro SD card. |
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That video appears to be at more than double speed. Is that correct? If so, it makes some of those things seem much worse.
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A lot to shake your head at. Bad drivers abound.
One thing that's not a bad driver but that pisses me off is at the 2:19 mark, where another truck has what appears to be a retread tire delaminate and spew huge strips of tread all over the road. I've seen way too much of that in person. It's the worst when youre driving along at speed and the car in front of you swerves to another lane and you see what looks like a tire just lying in the middle of your lane. You swerve too, and as you go by, you see it's a fucking tread just lying there. If I were dictator, I'd regulate that stuff out of existence. |
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I have had a tire blow out like that and leave a 'gator' (the tread) on the road but I went back and dragged it off to the side. Should be a littering fine if you don't.
The driver should be responsible for removing the tread from the road and the road repair guy should haul it way with the casing. |
This one time, at band camp, for one of my extra-money-making schemes, I came up with the bright idea of getting a truck (I was gonna use a grain truck with a dump bed) and picking up those re-tread flyoffs on the interstate between two exits near home, and collect them in my spare time til I had a truck load. I even had the bright idea of using local jail inmates to do the picking up. Free labor! We even had a tire recycling operation right here in town at the time. No traveling to deliver.
So I goes to the recycler. I says to him, I says "How much do scrap rubber bring?". Six cents per ton.:neutral: |
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But Officer, I didn't know that. :headshake
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Been there, done that.
Squashed a Grand Am up on State Street @ Bridge in NE Philly once upon a time. Doofus thought he could ignore five turn signals and a big sign warning of wide right turns and get away with it. He didn't. |
But nobody told him the blinky things weren't party lights. :facepalm:
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just before attempted traffic maneuver, thought bubble reads: "doesn't apply to me"
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Saudi truckers are a leeeetle bit forgetful:
That'll wake you up in the morning... |
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Liquid Aluminum of the Autobahn. :eyebrow:
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Liquid aluminum...in a moving vehicle...what could possibly go wrong?
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Shoulda backed out of that. No WAY there was enough room to turn around.
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So there is no qualified trucker who can haul that .... whatever that is gear.
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Looks like a big ass liquid pump, for irrigation, oil, or maybe its a fracking pump.
Regardless, there's plenty of qualified drivers, they just happened to not pick one. :haha: |
I assumed that the truck jackknifed while trying to avoid something stupid being done by somebody else. And that moderately high speeds were involved.
The only flaw I see in my assumption is the lack of skid marks and disturbed vegetation on the edges of the road. |
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Half an hour of searching. Shouldn't have spent so much time on this, but I did find some more pictures.
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Yes, definitely trying to turn around, that's why Pam said, should've backed out.
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That's what it looked like. He can only pull that off when there's plenty of room behind the trailer, not in a concrete canyon. :facepalm:
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My Grandfather told me. "When you pass a truck, don't pull over till you can see the drivers face in the window."
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We pulled up to a toll booth in a little hatchback once and a truck slowly pulled in behind us, and when the gate rose for us, the truck behind us started moving before we did, and it rear ended us very slowly. No damage. Nobody hurt. Bumper not even scratched. But I'm convinced that the driver forgot that he pulled in behind us and then couldn't see us and when the gate rose and the light turned green he just pulled forward on autopilot. My dad was driving, and that probably explains why we were slow to start. It's kind of scary that you can be in front of a truck and invisible.
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'tis very true. Small cars can vanish if I am not watching carefully. I have run more than one off the road because they sneaked into my blind spot on my right and I couldn't see them.
And then there is this. |
And it took three days to get the grin off Ben's face. :haha:
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I'd like to know what happend to the driver of the truck.
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Nothing. No harm, no foul. He truly didn't know he had a passenger. His company bought the chair guy new tires and they all had a good laugh.......much later.
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That's one hellofa wheelchair to survive all that.
Whatever the brand of chair, think of the advertising they could do ! |
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I remember having a DOT guy check my bucket truck. He told me "See all these lights on your chip box?" "Yeah?" "Fix them, or remove them." "Really?" "I can park you if you like..."
I spent the rest of the day removing lights. |
They have the power, you can't argue, whine or appeal.
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All true.
I have been to a mine. Yes to the safety stuff and silly training video. All of it. I even had to go and put on my steel toed boots to not leave my cab. DOT can be real a-holes sometimes. Sometimes not. It truly depends on whom you are facing and what kind of day they are having. |
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Interesting take on driving in Esquire...
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Trucking as an occupation is hard. It's not just a job, usually, it's a whole lifestyle.
There are many reasons for the driver turnover situation, which is probably worse than that report says. Low wages, crap miles, thoughtless dispatchers, aggressive police, insane traffic and shippers/consignees who have no respect for you or your time. And those are only the easy ones. Most new drivers only stay for a year or two, until they find something better. We call em "meat in a seat". (Yes, we like rhymes) Autonomous driving trucks will not replace a skilled driver. There are just too many variables to consider for a computer to do the job. And I'd like to see one find a parking spot and back in! only THEN will computers replace drivers. Pam |
There's a lot more than shifting and steering, anticipation, that sixth sense to know when the shit might hit the fan, and what to do about it.
I can see autonomous trucks traveling superhighways between special terminals like some places did with the tandem trailers, but in congested areas with unpredictable people doing crazy shit, nope. Gotta have some poor bastard to blame so the company can wash their hands. |
I can see them maybe working on a superhighway if and only if they are running in a dedicated, protected lane. No cars allowed. Volvo is experimenting with "platooning". Platooning reduces aerodynamic drag by grouping vehicles together and safely decreasing the distance between them via electronic coupling, which allows multiple vehicles to accelerate or brake simultaneously.
Link to more info on platooning here |
Backing into a complicated spot is one of the easiest things a computerized vehicle can do.
You know what it can't do to save its life? Pick the spot. It can't take directions from the warehouse traffic manager on which bay to back into. It probably can't handle it if you tell it to wait 15 minutes for something to open up. It can't follow hand-waving directions at all. It can't make on-the-spot decisions. Its main way of dealing with anything confusing will be to stop. An open parking lot is like the worst possible scenario. Do we follow the lines? Can we see the lines? That's what I imagine anyway just from reading a little bit about it I'm no expert |
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I think that little knob on the dash board would just confuse me. And make it harder to maneuver.
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Watch the view from the side-mirror, and out the windows in V's first Ford truck video.
I'm not totally convinced that truck is moving when it's 'sposed to be backing up. |
That's because his yap flappin' take much longer than trailer backin'. ;)
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I do NOT run behind 62 mph Swift trucks!!!
I can make 70 and I pass those rolling roadblocks! |
I thought that Swift had to speed up their trucks about 10 years ago.
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The driver forgot to set the trailer brakes. The tractor brakes were set, but only for the back wheels. The steering wheels are not affected by the parking brake. This is to allow you to steer in the event of loss of air pressure while driving, thus locking up the driving wheels.
What a maroon! |
I thought maybe the driver didn't set any brake, and just left the truck in gear, and, then, when the crane and trailer lifted the drive axle...off she went.
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Well not everyday, but occasionally, rolling roadblocks.
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