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th vwls hv scpd posted:How bad does this kind of thing screw you as a driver? I'm assuming this counts as a traffic accident. The dollar value of the damage is also a bigger factor than actual fault.
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I think this would be more entertaining with drivers like that USA Trucking dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10 `Nemesis fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Nov 15, 2013 |
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drat it came to post this. So awesome.
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http://youtu.be/YtTOQSRMRcM Why hasn't this been posted yet?
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Aww, they cut out one of the best parts. When Clarkson was talking about gear changes and how much work it is he explains it as "Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day." People got offended over it for some reason 
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Galler posted:Aww, they cut out one of the best parts. When Clarkson was talking about gear changes and how much work it is he explains it as "Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day." People got offended over it for some reason One of the best moments in Top Gear UK history.
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InterceptorV8 posted:http://youtu.be/YtTOQSRMRcM Watching those guys trying to handle Euro-rigs brought me back to my trainer days. "Gas clutch shift, gas clutch shift. You won't break that pumpkin, push that stick."
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Amandyke posted:One of the best moments in Top Gear UK history. The other one? Teenager cars. I can't get enough of that drat Volvo failing to make it up the hill.. several years later. 
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So this happened here in Sydney yesterday, COMPLETELY loving the traffic for the next week at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOaWGxj9YQM Story goes the driver dropped his glasses and hit the tipper controls when he picked them up. Why does he roll around town with the PTO engaged and how does it not gently caress his gearbox up in 5 minutes? Or how did he engage it while he would have been steady cruising down the motorway at 70km/h? I don't even know.
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ijustam posted:This looks productive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8WKscGo8I I had to see if it was this same guy who failed across the street from where I work. 
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Rudager posted:So this happened here in Sydney yesterday, COMPLETELY loving the traffic for the next week at least. I'm not sure on how the PTO works on that, but I do know there are units that you can have the PTO in and it still be mobile. I can't believe he didn't feel the load shift.
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West SAAB Story posted:The other one? Teenager cars. I can't get enough of that drat Volvo failing to make it up the hill.. several years later. I liked the segment on communistical cars better, myself. Top Gear works best when they're messing around with total shitboxes. See also: Reliant Robin, Clarkson P45, every cheap car challenge etc. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Nov 15, 2013 |
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Nov 15, 2013 11:48
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Rudager posted:So this happened here in Sydney yesterday, COMPLETELY loving the traffic for the next week at least. Oh, very nice! This happened a few weeks ago, bringing the whole of North London to a standstill for about 8 hours. It took me almost 3 hours get 1.5 miles from my mate's workshop to my house.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419058/North-Circular-Tipper-truck-wedged-vertical-north-London-road-collision.html I don't know how they managed it, that footbridge is just after a curve in the road, i would've thought they'd feel the truck wanting to roll over in the bend.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Or you could get fired and get a better job with a higher wage. We had a driver take out an Ikea and the next week he had a better job. Holy hell this is fantastic.
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By "take out an Ikea" I'm really hoping he just did a full throttle drat-the-torpedoes ramming of the showroom floor while the Blues Brothers theme blared over his PA and not what probably happened which is backing up aggressively into a loading dock or something.
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 Here, have hovertrailer.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:By "take out an Ikea" I'm really hoping he just did a full throttle drat-the-torpedoes ramming of the showroom floor while the Blues Brothers theme blared over his PA and not what probably happened which is backing up aggressively into a loading dock or something. You wish almost came true! Some of the retarded Ikeas are poorly built two story places where the docks are on the second floor. Guy smacked the wall and ripped down a overhead sign post and dropped it in the parking lot or something.
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0rganDonor posted:
Air-ride equipped indeed.
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InterceptorV8 posted:You wish almost came true! Some of the retarded Ikeas are poorly built two story places where the docks are on the second floor. Guy smacked the wall and ripped down a overhead sign post and dropped it in the parking lot or something. I had to deliver to an Office Max where the loading dock was underneath an abandoned Circuit City on the side of a mall or something. So many birds flying in and out making GBS threads all over the place.
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InterceptorV8 posted:I'm not sure on how the PTO works on that, but I do know there are units that you can have the PTO in and it still be mobile. Just saw this in the papers, Mr Flammia is the owner of the truck company. http://smh.drive.com.au/trucking-boss-apologises-for-m5-crash-chaos-20131114-2xjav.html posted:The Roads Minister, Duncan Gay, questioned the explanation, saying the tipping tray was activated by a two-stage process. One is the engagement of the PTO, the hydraulic mechanism that controls the power of the tray, and the second is the pressing of the button which makes the tray lift. Ghost tray just lifted itself up to near 90 degrees I guess.
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Or he just forgot he had it up. (Happened to one of our driver a couple years ago, yes they're not particularly the brightest guys, but still)
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DonVincenzo posted:Or he just forgot he had it up. (Happened to one of our driver a couple years ago, yes they're not particularly the brightest guys, but still) That happened up here in Cleveland last year I think it was. Dump truck left his bed up after leaving a construction zone and took out a relatively brand new pedestrian bridge over I-90. Did enough damage they had to tear the bridge down.
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YF19pilot posted:That happened up here in Cleveland last year I think it was. Dump truck left his bed up after leaving a construction zone and took out a relatively brand new pedestrian bridge over I-90. Did enough damage they had to tear the bridge down. About six years ago, one of the guys running a sanding truck in our tiny town in NH somehow left the dump bed raised and drove through town at some ungodly hour. Woke me up out of a dead sleep when all of the cable and power lines were ripped off the buildings and poles for half a mile. Sounded like the roof came off my house.
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On I-10 this morning, I saw a truck being towed that had obviously managed to land shiny side down. ... one of the side walls of the trailer was hanging out at a rather nasty angle, with plenty of cargo exposed, a few things falling out on bumps. Am I being a bit  in thinking they should have done something to secure the trailer somewhat prior to taking it on a major highway at near highway speeds? It seems like even just a ratchet strap around the top/bottom would have been plenty.
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0rganDonor posted:
I can hear the call to dispatch now. Driver: "hey, there are no axles under that trailer you told me to take" Dispatch: "that's the only trailer we've got for you right now, you're just going to have to figure something out, and the client needs you there an hour early because they have a pet grooming appointment better get to it" *click*
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Powershift posted:I can hear the call to dispatch now. swift_troutdale.txt
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Well, be careful out there, from the sounds of it, one of our drivers got killed/hijacked the other day in a major city in Texas.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Well, be careful out there, from the sounds of it, one of our drivers got killed/hijacked the other day in a major city in Texas. You can't tell me what to do, you're not my REAL dad! ::five tone roger beep:: Seriously though, just give the truck up bros, don't even bother setting the brakes, just jump, tuck and roll. Me though, I am permitted and trained and carry a .45in anti-hijacking device.
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0rganDonor posted:You can't tell me what to do, you're not my REAL dad! And since they are being hush hush about it, we don't know what the gently caress happened.
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InterceptorV8 posted:And since they are being hush hush about it, we don't know what the gently caress happened. Probably has to do with an ongoing criminal investigation and how leaking information might hurt the insurance payout.
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InterceptorV8 posted:And since they are being hush hush about it, we don't know what the gently caress happened. From what ive heard the truck was full of tvs and three modified black civic coupes were seen leaving the area.
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  I may have posted these elsewhere previously. Just outside of West Yellowstone. Had to detour 50 miles around it, they wouldn't let us sneak past on our bikes.
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I'm completely impressed. How do you lay a truck down like that.
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InterceptorV8 posted:I'm completely impressed. How do you lay a truck down like that. It's actually quite easy. You start reading something on your phone, drop your passenger size tires off the road, violently over-correct to the left, and gravity/momentum does the rest.
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Powershift posted:It's actually quite easy. You start reading something on your phone, drop your passenger size tires off the road, violently over-correct to the left, and gravity/momentum does the rest. Yeah. I guess. I have seen someone barrelroll their car on a straightaway so...
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Thelonious posted:
Last time I was on that highway I had to stop for over an hour in practically the same spot. Some guy lost it trying to make a pass on the snow and hit another car. Then I almost got hit by a dipshit hauling snowmobiles when we all came to a stop.
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