Bad day for this driver.

JayinNY

Well-known Member
I went down to pick up my daughter tonight and saw this truck rolled into the ditch! They were unloading the trailer and putting the cargo in another trailer. Not a good day for that driver.
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I don't know where they are getting drivers nowadays but the 18-wheelers are wrecking on the freeways around Phoenix almost every day. Had 3 of them yesterday. Insurance rates must be going up.

Have a nephew that has been driving semi for 30 years now, never had an accident.
 
(quoted from post at 05:21:41 08/26/15) I don't know where they are getting drivers nowadays but the 18-wheelers are wrecking on the freeways around Phoenix almost every day. Had 3 of them yesterday. Insurance rates must be going up.

Have a nephew that has been driving semi for 30 years now, never had an accident.

Immigrants! From all over the world!
Iranian, Bulgarian, Chinese are the worst.
You would be Amazed at what's behind the wheel nowadays right onto our shores quick driver course and gone.
Can't speak or write a Lick of English.
Amazes Me.

TGP

www.petrofftowing.com
 
I have long time friend who's been at UPS for going on 20 years, we both still have our CDL A and we both drove for a living for a significant period of time, he did longer than I. Earlier with UPS, he drove doubles at night, but has been on days in the delivery vans for years now. I was doing a tree job with another friend at his place yesterday, later while we were talking, he told us about a delivery van that up ended, twisted in the air, and landed on the driver side of the van! It happened just down the road here at an intersection that was a downward slope, T intersection, the driver was recorded doing 39MPH at the time, he unexpectedly came upon some cars that stopped for a red light, reacted by veering left, ditch seems to have sucked in the van, and the back end came up and went over like described. 2 things are apparent, he's new, from the NYC area or so, does not know the roads here, and the management has these guys under a microscope, so he was probably trying to hustle every chance he could, he's lucky he had the seat belt on and that van type seat/chair did not come loose sending him out one of the open doors. No one else was hurt or affected. It was within the last week, I did not even hear about this, nor would I ever expect the longest type of van they have, which he was driving, could up end like this, much less a short one.
 
My guess is that the shoulder was soft due to global warming, and he'd probably just topped off his fuel tanks and the extra weight of the bio-diesel caused the truck to pull to the right, and over he went!! :D
 
brings back a lot of memories, wish id had that wrecker back in the day, in the 1970's we had a Holmes 750 mounted on a 1969 white 4000, power nothing, and short wheelbase to get around in the mountains, most of the time unloading the wreck was hand done, if we were lucky we could get a van-load of prisoners to do the work, most times it was us, and every u-haul truck that happened to be at the rental place taking off uphill with a load that old white would pull the front wheels off the ground in the first 4 gears! stout, but slow, 52 mph flat out in high hole
 
Yes it was, you can see the fork lift, and on the
other side of the upright trailer they were loading
boxes out of the over turned truck.
 
dr sportster you are right. We had the tire shop just down the road from a large poultry operation. They (turbans)show up out of nowhere, pick up a load of eggs, expect you to charge them tires for the truck they are driving. NEVER Happened. At noon they would all get out on the driveway get down on their hands and knees facing east. You cannot know how many times we were tempted to--(help them up). they cannot speak English, just plain ignored stop signs and stop lights like they do in the mideast. Several were given traffic tickets while parked in out drive way for the above violations, I forgot to mention speeding they would roar though the town square as fast as traffic would permit ignoring the 4 stop lights in town. I am supprized the local fuz (dating myself) never threw them in jail. Sorry if I seemed to hijack post but they really get me steamed up.
 
(quoted from post at 06:27:55 08/26/15) My guess is that the shoulder was soft due to global warming, and he'd probably just topped off his fuel tanks and the extra weight of the bio-diesel caused the truck to pull to the right, and over he went!! :D

Nah, tractor beam on one side the UFO failed and flipped it.
Plain as day.
 

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