GPS?

I assume this is fake or staged.

this wasn't fake last week


https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Dump-Truck-Falls-Through-Roof-of-Parking-Garage-557749181.html
Gps

Most likely someone trying to back out. Not good.

(quoted from post at 12:42:49 08/29/19) Most likely someone trying to back out. Not good.

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That was my thought. No way he could have come up that road.

I saw that on U-tube. He did manage to wrangle out of that perdickerment.---Loren

i'd bet it's real, i've seen some amazing truck snafus.

looks like road is flat an level behind but the side of road gave out over the wash and down it went, or he tried to back out and got too close to edge. I have been down
roads like that and worse with semi flat bed with piggy back forklift.

I?ve been down roads that looked like that with a 53? van. Used to deliver bear bait to a fellow way out in the woods of western Maine.

It's more important that you be smarter than your GPS, rather than how much you trust it.

I've found my GPS didn't work in New Orleans and at Mount Washington.

There are times I would get off interstate and GPS wanted to send me
the wrong way.

Common sense has to kick in. You need to follow signs and not listen to
Google maps.

O lander,

This truck was on the wrong road this winter. I used to ride my
dirt bike and snowmobile on it. Ridge road to Gray road
comes out on West Platner brook road up in the hills of
Hamden N.Y. He had to have the wrong GPS that road is not
a good goat path.

Well obviously, it didn't necessarily have anything to do with a GPS reading. Fake or staged ..... hardly,
do you mean someone did that on purpose to take a photo and make a funny out of it .... hmmm, I don't think
so. But photo shopped maybe. There is a show up here on Discovery and also Velocity called Highway Thru
Hell, and the episodes film heavy rescue trucks doing wrecker work on some of BC's treacherous roads. I've
seen far worse and harder-to-believe accidents on that show by far than the one in that picture.

We'll have to verify that that isn't our own JonMN- he has posted some pretty hairy delivery situations after giving up the OTR driving gig. He's probably too busy ruling over all he purveys...

I have deliver log homes or roads that were worse than that one.
And that was before GPS was available.

If you put my address into your GPS. it takes you to the city park on the other end of town.

Would he be the one that "North Woods Law" did like to visit?

No one would have any desire to stage that, nor would there be any need to. Sand boxes drive roads worse than that every day, and have mishaps everyday. A good driver will stop and get out and check things where there is a potential problem, but he can't detect every potential problem either. He was driving forward. There are no steer axle backing tire tracks. Tri-axle trucks have to back in on construction sites where there are no roads and sometimes very close to a drop on one side. Then you have to put the body up on un-compacted ground. You have to be paying attention and sometimes question the person directing you.

For a number of years we have been amused by stories of folks who turned into open desert, farm fields and lakes and ponds because their GPS said "turn left or right NOW". As long as no one got hurt we all laughed and asked how people could do things like that.

Heck who here remembers Jessica Lynch? Female soldier captured in Iraq after the convoy she was in drove into a firefight? Ever wonder what happened? The convoy commander (platoon SGT) was relying on GPS in a sand storm. They were lost. Several soldiers died because of that and that was not the first time that happened. The 1st I'm aware of occurred in the 90's right after the Army bought GPS. A unit doing a night attack with Bradly Fighting Vehicles drove 3 BFVs into a wadi causing them to roll over. The platoon leader and a Bradly commander died. The platoon SGT had wanted to stop, dismount people to scout ahead to find the wadi. The LT insisted on going another 300-400 meters before send out scouts. The GPS had been off by a good 1/2 mile.

When the phone app maps came out I had 3 incidents involving my kids and finding something. I had a Garmin on the dash. They were telling me how old fashioned I was. So instead of entering the data on my GPS we followed their phone apps. All 3 times had to stop, enter the address in my GPS because the phone app thing was new and not very good. None of them are perfect. But the phone apps have improved.

Anyways people, mostly younger, are more reliant on technology. Most of us older guys who traveled around the country for years know how to read a map. Young people today know how to use an app. And as time goes on this stuff will get better and better.

Rick

For a number of years we have been amused by stories of folks who turned into open desert, farm fields and lakes and ponds because their GPS said "turn left or right NOW". As long as no one got hurt we all laughed and asked how people could do things like that.

Heck who here remembers Jessica Lynch? Female soldier captured in Iraq after the convoy she was in drove into a firefight? Ever wonder what happened? The convoy commander (platoon SGT) was relying on GPS in a sand storm. They were lost. Several soldiers died because of that and that was not the first time that happened. The 1st I'm aware of occurred in the 90's right after the Army bought GPS. A unit doing a night attack with Bradly Fighting Vehicles drove 3 BFVs into a wadi causing them to roll over. The platoon leader and a Bradly commander died. The platoon SGT had wanted to stop, dismount people to scout ahead to find the wadi. The LT insisted on going another 300-400 meters before send out scouts. The GPS had been off by a good 1/2 mile.

When the phone app maps came out I had 3 incidents involving my kids and finding something. I had a Garmin on the dash. They were telling me how old fashioned I was. So instead of entering the data on my GPS we followed their phone apps. All 3 times had to stop, enter the address in my GPS because the phone app thing was new and not very good. None of them are perfect. But the phone apps have improved.

Anyways people, mostly younger, are more reliant on technology. Most of us older guys who traveled around the country for years know how to read a map. Young people today know how to use an app. And as time goes on this stuff will get better and better.

Rick

I have a better name for those Great piece of s Let you figure it out. I have never used one for road travel. I used a map and phone to call for directions to the location.
After all I had a few guys buy equipment then want to unload several thousand pounds of one piece with a for 9 N with a loader. Not happening sometimes would have to go to a dealer for a dock.

One wrong turn can get a truck in a situation he cant get out of.
Heres another harvest story. We were driving trucks with empty 53 foot combine trailers southbound somewhere in northern Oklahoma on a new road we had never been on. All of a sudden we came to the entrance of a state park with a sign stating no semis allowed. There was no forewarning sign at the last intersection that was two miles of winding road back and nowhere to turn around a truck. We went ahead and made it through the park but a few trees had a little less bark on them by the time we got through.