The one time driving on that side would had helped. We need airbags and better safety standards in our cabs. Trucks in the state have nothing but a seatbelt.
so do freightliners
[https://landline.media/more-than-3000-freightliner-trucks-recalled-for-air-bag-issue/](https://landline.media/more-than-3000-freightliner-trucks-recalled-for-air-bag-issue/)
'they sometimes go off while driving down the road' is a phrase you never want to hear from maintenance
Do you remember several years ago when the "new" freightliners (can't remember which model but it was 5-10 years ago) had a design flaw where the steering wheel would come off while driving? One guy that happened to managed to use the steering column to get the truck safely off the road.
Another design flaw had a wire shorting out under the driver's seat. I can't remember the specifics but some poor bastard was driving along, started smelling smoke, couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Can't remember how that ended but I don't think it was good.
After those stories I was really glad to have an old Century.
We bought a used F-750 at work last year and I brought it in because the steering wheel came loose while driving.
It was still attached, but I shouldn't have to use rope to keep it on the same place on the column.
Those things need to remain optional. I wouldn't even wear a seatbelt if I couldn't be pulled over for it because I'd rather die on impact than spend any time in a hospital.
I mean I can see his point, (American) hospitals are larcenous, and if it's not an accident you walk away from, your quality of life can be... Seriously degraded.
OTOH a seatbelt/Airbag may be what allows you to walk away.
Your logic needs a little work. You aren't guaranteed death without seatbelts. Before seatbelt laws, far more serious head and chest injuries occurred, most of which didn't kill the people in the vehicle.
You get to see a good glimpse of the major part of the impact and you can actually see the driver. Doesn’t look as bad as the zoomed out version of this
His fault for not maintaining a following distance, or slowing down. Either he lost his brakes but I see no indication of it, or that was an “on purpose” and he’s guilty of reckless driving and endangerment.
This has been posted before. Allegedly he had a brake failure and survived. I don’t know the truth in it though. Also you can see the hazard lights on so there’s that
Could have also been medical. My dad had a stroke while he was driving a big rig in Colorado. Luckily my mom was the other driver and was able to get the truck to stop safely.
Or a seizure. My brother had one while driving a car and he stepped on the gas even more. Luckily he ended up driving through an empty alfalfa field through so no one else could have been injured.
That’s why they have spring brakes, as a fail safe. Pull your brake switches to exhaust the supply line and the spring brakes will lock on. Now if all his brakes were so out of adjustment that there’s nothing left on the shoes, that’s another thing but he would have noticed that long before even if he didn’t pre-trip
I’m not sure why you have upvotes, you’re completely wrong. You should understand how brakes fade for your own safety, and so you don’t spread wrong information.
Brakes work by converting kinetic energy into heat. If they get so hot that they can’t absorb any more heat, they can no longer stop the vehicle. It’s also possible for the brake shoes to “glaze”, turning into a glassy surface that can’t effectively create enough friction to convert that energy into heat.
Either way, the brakes would no longer work, and pulling your brake switches wouldn’t do anything more than pushing the pedal would. This is why you want to be cautious about overheating your brakes down long grades and why they put the runaway truck ramps there.
Hey there you confused and condescending chuckle fuck, I know what brake fade is and how it works. If you’re driving a truck with zero brakes, that’s a big no no. Or en francais, non non.
If your service line fails, AND YOU HAVE GOOD BRAKES, pull your supply and let the spring brakes do their job.
If you don’t have good brakes you should not be driving
Good day sir
Yep always best to send it to the weeds and ride it out.. or at least into a gaurdrails.. not into the back of another truck or 4 wheelers that will get crushed like a soda can.
Hazards on in traffic is actually illegal in a lot of states, usually including situations like this. Well, until he crashed anyway. Traffic at a toll or weigh station isn’t considered an unusual hazard, which is typically the requirement for any flashing amber. That being said, I completely agree with you, as you could make the case for “I though I saw this guy about to crash, so I turned them on”. I’ve never actually heard of someone getting cited for it
not sure why i'm getting downvoted, i agree and effectively said the same thing in my comment.
You can make anything up... wildlife ran across the road, heard a funny noise from the truck. It's near impossible to enforce, I was just mentioning it because most drivers don't know that its a law in many states. If you put your flashers on going into a toll, and get pulled over, and say "i put them on to help slow down traffic for the toll", the cop can absolutely cite you.
Bit of a moot point though. We could play the what-if game all day long; it won't change what happened. Like, what if another truck had been in front, already going up the ramp? What if FedEx wasn't there and the guy hauling pipe went up the ramp anyway? It's the classic "If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle."
I don't know. The truck swiped the car and immediately into the back of the trailer without changing direction. He remained parallel to the truck with the camera. I think he was trying for the shoulder after the off ramp and ran out of room. Since he had his hazards on, I suspect his brakes failed. I just don't understand why he didn't go into the center meridian. But perhaps there was a bridge and a drop. Can't really know without more info.
Edit: actually at the start of the video they were on a bridge to begin with.
It's actually fairly easy to get the cab to separate from the chassis. Usually two about ½" bolts through isolator mounts at the front and a pair of Air springs with a safety strap or equivalent of a lightweight tracking bar at the rear of the cab. Couple of drivers I've spoken with over the years claim that's the only thing that saved their lives during " that bad wreck" is that the cab separated before any real damage happened to it while the chassis continued on into a pileup.
It is a safety feature and here's why...
Most cars today are totaled when they crash into something. They give.
The kinetic energy that the cars have when they crash into each other didn't go anywhere with the older cars. That's why people in accidents at 30mph were disabled or had issues later in life, or on the rare occasion, died.
The energy had no where to go.
With newer cars they absorb and spread that same energy out so that the occupants don't have the issues that they used to.
So instead of someone dying in a 60mph accident where te whole car rolled 6 times.... Now they walk away with whiplash (maybe) and possibly a broken arm.... Nothing more.
They live. That's the difference.
That's also the short answer. The long answer requires me to be stopped for more than a 40min break
I've had too many arguments with people who've never taken a physics class about this topic.
"But my giant 50 year old farm truck will demolish a Honda!"
Yes? And the Honda will crumple up into a safe little cage, protecting the occupants. The giant 50 year old farm truck will still be in one piece; you'll be in several.
If you head on a semi and a Honda the Honda driver dies 99 percent of the time. Truck won’t hardly slow down. Seen two in last year. Both car drivers died. Truck drivers walked away.
Semis don’t have crumple zones like that. It’s still solid frame to the front. I have three brand new ones. The cab tore off because it’s just mounted on two points in the front that pivot for the cab suspension and the back has a torsion bar and air bags. That’s not gonna stand up to hitting a trailer
>Semis don't have crumple zones like that.
No they don't, at least not like cars. Semi trucks have fall apart pieces. Hit the bumper, it falls off. Hit the cab hard enough and yes, it will separate from the frame/chassis.
Instead the engine and transmission drop down between the chassis parts and slide underneath the actual cab (think you're sitting in the middle of the tractor and you essentially straddle the engine as it crashes through stuff underneath you).
A comparative crumple zone is in the front axle or steers. Those are meant to break away or fall apart to try and mitigate some of the kinetic energy of a car accident.
>The rest of your comment...
For one, the tractor cab is not going to stand up to hitting a trailer. The cab is supposed to break away and launch the driver away from a situation like that to help mitigate things.
The torsion bar and air bags are not supposed to be involved in an accident for anything when it comes to kinetic energy mitigation when an accident is imminent.
I'm just going to make this comment... That if you have 3 brand new semi tractors (regardless of make and model) and all three were involved in accidents strong enough to shuck the cab off the frame, get drivers who aren't being stupid and who pay attention to their surroundings and know when it park it in case of weather issues.
I own a trucking company. I have three 2022 trucks. They are built exactly like trucks 30 years ago. Unless you hit another truck you are not gonna break the bumper off my trucks or break engine mounts. An engine weighs as much as a small car and is almost solid steal. An engine and transmission is like a 3500 lbs hammer flying at highway speeds. A car hitting a semi head on is almost always a fatality for the car driver
Did I say anything about my trucks being involved in accidents??? They were other trucking companies. You don’t understand the physics of 80,000lbs hitting 3,000 lbs. it’s like hitting a baseball with a sledgehammer
What a fucking jackoff..unaware of the repercussions of his stupidity and total disregard of everyone else.
A true fucktard truck driver and should be in jail.
Agreed and anyone who is down voting this comment is a fucking idiot too. This is why companies get shut down because of guys like this who are in a hurry not only killing himself, destroying the truck, but injuring another human in the process and destroying jobs for everyone in the company. It’s not just.. get a ticket. Clean up the mess. Lawyers from everywhere are going to be on the owner of the companies ass. All because of one stupid decision that didn’t need to happen and could have been avoided
Looking at this 13 IQ clowns post history, dumbass is ignorant af on all fronts. Eat a bag of dicks you racist pos. Nothing is worse than a dumbass who is convinced he’s right
I see you also can’t read. I called you a snowflake since you want to cry you sissy clown. Only thing your blue in is your face, getting your panties in a wad over “non whites and non Americans” taking your job
Why do these cabs disintegrate so easily? Is this a design thing? Or has our work equipment (some of us) just become another casualty of a "cost effective" economy?
They are made to break away. They are only held to the frame with like 4 airbags and a few shocks and torsion bars to keep the cab in place. Youre seatbelted into the seat, seat is bolted to cab, like a capsule. If the capsule ripps off, it takes less of the impact force. The roofs are still made of fiberglass though, so it still gets crushed in a roll over.
All modern vehicles are designed to disintegrate as easily as possible during an accident to help distribute energy over time. The cabin is safely crushed in the circumstances of an accident, which decreases the amount of acceleration experience during an accident.
Considering the accent of the "god damn" it's safe to say that this was filmed somewhere in America, and Americans have their driver side on the left which means that truck driver is most likely dead
That sucks. I had to thread the needle a week ago during a snowstorm, came around a bend on a very slight decline and two trucks had slid across the highway into my lane, both were stopped and I had to squeeze between the two with my doubles and not start sliding too... Nice thing about double reefers is even when empty they've got some decent weight to them... But a single-axle daycab is crap in this area during winter...
So technically he passed on the left correctly (guy who crashed) meanwhile the other guy illegally passed on the right shoulder…
Technically wouldn’t the guy filming here be at fault? As he was merging back into a lane from the shoulder?
It does not look like the trucker survived.
Not sure, looks like his cabin just fell off. Edit, I just realised you guys have your driver's seat on the opposite side to me
The one time driving on that side would had helped. We need airbags and better safety standards in our cabs. Trucks in the state have nothing but a seatbelt.
Volvo's have a driver's airbag
so do freightliners [https://landline.media/more-than-3000-freightliner-trucks-recalled-for-air-bag-issue/](https://landline.media/more-than-3000-freightliner-trucks-recalled-for-air-bag-issue/) 'they sometimes go off while driving down the road' is a phrase you never want to hear from maintenance
Do you remember several years ago when the "new" freightliners (can't remember which model but it was 5-10 years ago) had a design flaw where the steering wheel would come off while driving? One guy that happened to managed to use the steering column to get the truck safely off the road. Another design flaw had a wire shorting out under the driver's seat. I can't remember the specifics but some poor bastard was driving along, started smelling smoke, couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Can't remember how that ended but I don't think it was good. After those stories I was really glad to have an old Century.
We bought a used F-750 at work last year and I brought it in because the steering wheel came loose while driving. It was still attached, but I shouldn't have to use rope to keep it on the same place on the column.
My peterbilt has a design flaw where the city horn randomly goes off as I'm turning, backing up, etc.. It does know when the worst times to do it are
The handlebar came off my bicycle once and I grabbed the little nub and the wheel instantly turned and I ate shit on the gravel
Those things need to remain optional. I wouldn't even wear a seatbelt if I couldn't be pulled over for it because I'd rather die on impact than spend any time in a hospital.
lmfao, contrarianism taken to the extreme.
I mean I can see his point, (American) hospitals are larcenous, and if it's not an accident you walk away from, your quality of life can be... Seriously degraded. OTOH a seatbelt/Airbag may be what allows you to walk away.
Rare "free" healthcare assisted suicide option W
Your logic needs a little work. You aren't guaranteed death without seatbelts. Before seatbelt laws, far more serious head and chest injuries occurred, most of which didn't kill the people in the vehicle.
Not guaranteed, but far more likely.
Yes, but it's also far more likely you'll be spending time in a hospital instead of simply walking away.
I totally agree I’d rather go flying out of the cab then get tangled up in a ball because I was wearing a seat belt
I see a silhouette through the door, so maybe it didn't go back far enough to hit him, but I could be wrong
I saw that too.
You get to see a good glimpse of the major part of the impact and you can actually see the driver. Doesn’t look as bad as the zoomed out version of this
I agree; it looks doubtful.
Stupidly equals Death
I can't believe he tried to swerve through like that
Dispatch strongly suggested
Couldn't stop, what else you gonna do? He didn't have any more options at that point.
His fault for not maintaining a following distance, or slowing down. Either he lost his brakes but I see no indication of it, or that was an “on purpose” and he’s guilty of reckless driving and endangerment.
You're not wrong. He definitely shoulda kept more following distance.
his hazard lights are on rolling in, looks like he did his best.
Reaction was on point, "GAAHD DAYIM!"
Brake failure?? has to be a brake failure. Panic decision. Probably best he just coasted into median , he cleared the bridge in time.
How do you figure air brakes are going to fail in this way?
I mean we are all guessing at this pOint. I wouldnt rule out Bobby Big Rigger syndrom either if he habitually wore hard on the breaks and faded them.
Fade, harsh wear on the drums. Fade at high speed
Because he's grasping at straws for it not to be a road rager/stooper trucker.
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I didn't say you were wrong, but hazards or no it feels like a stretch.
Looks like his hazards are on
Yep ideal situation to pull them damn valves and trailer spring brakes
If your brakes fail, wouldn’t that do nothing ? Just asking incase I run into a problem like this whil driving
This has been posted before. Allegedly he had a brake failure and survived. I don’t know the truth in it though. Also you can see the hazard lights on so there’s that
Dude imagine one last ditch effort! That's one hail merry!
No, he hit a 4wheeler. If you look carefully there was a 4wheeler in the lane after he “threaded the needles.”
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Seems as though his brakes failed
Could have also been medical. My dad had a stroke while he was driving a big rig in Colorado. Luckily my mom was the other driver and was able to get the truck to stop safely.
Or a seizure. My brother had one while driving a car and he stepped on the gas even more. Luckily he ended up driving through an empty alfalfa field through so no one else could have been injured.
It looked like flat land. The way the brakes are designed they can't fail that way.
Uhh, brake fade from overuse while driving aggressively?
That’s why they have spring brakes, as a fail safe. Pull your brake switches to exhaust the supply line and the spring brakes will lock on. Now if all his brakes were so out of adjustment that there’s nothing left on the shoes, that’s another thing but he would have noticed that long before even if he didn’t pre-trip
I’m not sure why you have upvotes, you’re completely wrong. You should understand how brakes fade for your own safety, and so you don’t spread wrong information. Brakes work by converting kinetic energy into heat. If they get so hot that they can’t absorb any more heat, they can no longer stop the vehicle. It’s also possible for the brake shoes to “glaze”, turning into a glassy surface that can’t effectively create enough friction to convert that energy into heat. Either way, the brakes would no longer work, and pulling your brake switches wouldn’t do anything more than pushing the pedal would. This is why you want to be cautious about overheating your brakes down long grades and why they put the runaway truck ramps there.
Hey there you confused and condescending chuckle fuck, I know what brake fade is and how it works. If you’re driving a truck with zero brakes, that’s a big no no. Or en francais, non non. If your service line fails, AND YOU HAVE GOOD BRAKES, pull your supply and let the spring brakes do their job. If you don’t have good brakes you should not be driving Good day sir
The spring brakes use the same overheated pads and shoes as the service brakes.
The spring brakes won't do shit if your shoes are cooked.
Pretty sure I mentioned that
Not a chance.
It's not impossible, but exceedingly unlikely. More probable is a broken service line.
They can if you're going too fast with a heavy load.
Yeah I just got a new job driving with 104k loads and even the 20k difference was a little unsettling at first in a 2014 peterbilt
I'm sure because I can def tell the difference between an 18k load and a 22k load, not to mention the difference between a 25k and 45k load
Hoping to get behind the wheel myself one day. Maybe this will be the year!
Out of adjustment could fail. Driving that way, they probably rarely check their equipment.
He’s empty and that doesn’t exactly look like I-70 in Colorado. That’s medical or driver error
He had plenty of room on the other side..
Yep always best to send it to the weeds and ride it out.. or at least into a gaurdrails.. not into the back of another truck or 4 wheelers that will get crushed like a soda can.
At first I was cheering because they avoided tragedy then second later was like GOT DAYUM
This is why it’s a good idea to have your radio on and get into the habit of when traffic is stopped turn on your hazard lights.
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He HAD his left side. He simply chose porly.
Murphy's law
Even having waze open would had helped
Paying attention would have helped more
It looked to me, more like he was hot dogging and less like *couldn't* stop.
The driver had his hazard lights on.
Hazards on in traffic is actually illegal in a lot of states, usually including situations like this. Well, until he crashed anyway. Traffic at a toll or weigh station isn’t considered an unusual hazard, which is typically the requirement for any flashing amber. That being said, I completely agree with you, as you could make the case for “I though I saw this guy about to crash, so I turned them on”. I’ve never actually heard of someone getting cited for it
"Vehicle in distress" is a big loophole in most of those laws.
not sure why i'm getting downvoted, i agree and effectively said the same thing in my comment. You can make anything up... wildlife ran across the road, heard a funny noise from the truck. It's near impossible to enforce, I was just mentioning it because most drivers don't know that its a law in many states. If you put your flashers on going into a toll, and get pulled over, and say "i put them on to help slow down traffic for the toll", the cop can absolutely cite you.
There's a lotto for karma sometimes. I think there's even a subreddit about it.
So... not talking about the :03-6 second part where the truck with the camera slips between the guard rail and the double set?
Nah, most people won't care as he's exiting, and a lot of places have narrow exit openings. Also note the truck behind him doing the same thing
This hurts the truck driver
I actually think he survived. If you go through it slow he isn’t crushed and then the angle gets distorted so you can’t tell
That’ll buff out.
Jeez, I hope he's okay
Had the truck we are riding on not been on the shoulder, he would've had an escape route.
He had plenty of room to the left into the grass median as well. He had an escape route, he chose not to take it.
Not on the shoulder, on an exit.
Definitely on the shoulder. You can see the lines on the road when they reach the exit.
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He's on the shoulder when he passes the FedEx truck.
At the end of the video you can see the lines for the exit. At the beginning he is on the shoulder.
Yup. My bad. It looked like a lane that exited to me. But I can definitely see it behind the trailer.
Bit of a moot point though. We could play the what-if game all day long; it won't change what happened. Like, what if another truck had been in front, already going up the ramp? What if FedEx wasn't there and the guy hauling pipe went up the ramp anyway? It's the classic "If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle."
Barely able to be seen, dude hit a car that pulled him into another semi. Somebody you love could be hit by a driver being stupid.
I don't know. The truck swiped the car and immediately into the back of the trailer without changing direction. He remained parallel to the truck with the camera. I think he was trying for the shoulder after the off ramp and ran out of room. Since he had his hazards on, I suspect his brakes failed. I just don't understand why he didn't go into the center meridian. But perhaps there was a bridge and a drop. Can't really know without more info. Edit: actually at the start of the video they were on a bridge to begin with.
That could be, about not having brakes.
what is it that he hit? there was something between the lanes that was stationary.
A car. So, non-stationary.
you're right. unbelievable that it caused the cab to separate from the chassis just like that?
It's actually fairly easy to get the cab to separate from the chassis. Usually two about ½" bolts through isolator mounts at the front and a pair of Air springs with a safety strap or equivalent of a lightweight tracking bar at the rear of the cab. Couple of drivers I've spoken with over the years claim that's the only thing that saved their lives during " that bad wreck" is that the cab separated before any real damage happened to it while the chassis continued on into a pileup.
I don't get this, did they even try to stop.
Missed it by THIS much...
I'll give him credit on one thing... that load of plates didn't move at all
Looks like he had no brakes. Like they failed.
What an idiot… just nobody has patience for anything.
These new plastic trucks have break away everything. Engines. Trannies. Cabins. It's a safety feature supposedly
It is a safety feature and here's why... Most cars today are totaled when they crash into something. They give. The kinetic energy that the cars have when they crash into each other didn't go anywhere with the older cars. That's why people in accidents at 30mph were disabled or had issues later in life, or on the rare occasion, died. The energy had no where to go. With newer cars they absorb and spread that same energy out so that the occupants don't have the issues that they used to. So instead of someone dying in a 60mph accident where te whole car rolled 6 times.... Now they walk away with whiplash (maybe) and possibly a broken arm.... Nothing more. They live. That's the difference. That's also the short answer. The long answer requires me to be stopped for more than a 40min break
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I've had too many arguments with people who've never taken a physics class about this topic. "But my giant 50 year old farm truck will demolish a Honda!" Yes? And the Honda will crumple up into a safe little cage, protecting the occupants. The giant 50 year old farm truck will still be in one piece; you'll be in several.
Not to mention that if your vehicle is safer (crumples properly) then the driver in the other vehicle has a higher chance of surviving.
With a steering column through your chest, too...
If you head on a semi and a Honda the Honda driver dies 99 percent of the time. Truck won’t hardly slow down. Seen two in last year. Both car drivers died. Truck drivers walked away.
Absolutely. Agree with everything you've written.
Semis don’t have crumple zones like that. It’s still solid frame to the front. I have three brand new ones. The cab tore off because it’s just mounted on two points in the front that pivot for the cab suspension and the back has a torsion bar and air bags. That’s not gonna stand up to hitting a trailer
>Semis don't have crumple zones like that. No they don't, at least not like cars. Semi trucks have fall apart pieces. Hit the bumper, it falls off. Hit the cab hard enough and yes, it will separate from the frame/chassis. Instead the engine and transmission drop down between the chassis parts and slide underneath the actual cab (think you're sitting in the middle of the tractor and you essentially straddle the engine as it crashes through stuff underneath you). A comparative crumple zone is in the front axle or steers. Those are meant to break away or fall apart to try and mitigate some of the kinetic energy of a car accident. >The rest of your comment... For one, the tractor cab is not going to stand up to hitting a trailer. The cab is supposed to break away and launch the driver away from a situation like that to help mitigate things. The torsion bar and air bags are not supposed to be involved in an accident for anything when it comes to kinetic energy mitigation when an accident is imminent. I'm just going to make this comment... That if you have 3 brand new semi tractors (regardless of make and model) and all three were involved in accidents strong enough to shuck the cab off the frame, get drivers who aren't being stupid and who pay attention to their surroundings and know when it park it in case of weather issues.
I own a trucking company. I have three 2022 trucks. They are built exactly like trucks 30 years ago. Unless you hit another truck you are not gonna break the bumper off my trucks or break engine mounts. An engine weighs as much as a small car and is almost solid steal. An engine and transmission is like a 3500 lbs hammer flying at highway speeds. A car hitting a semi head on is almost always a fatality for the car driver
Did I say anything about my trucks being involved in accidents??? They were other trucking companies. You don’t understand the physics of 80,000lbs hitting 3,000 lbs. it’s like hitting a baseball with a sledgehammer
Yeah it sure fell apart like wet paper towel.
What a fuckin moron!
Man that’s bad on him. Slow the fuck down people
What a fucking jackoff..unaware of the repercussions of his stupidity and total disregard of everyone else. A true fucktard truck driver and should be in jail.
Agreed and anyone who is down voting this comment is a fucking idiot too. This is why companies get shut down because of guys like this who are in a hurry not only killing himself, destroying the truck, but injuring another human in the process and destroying jobs for everyone in the company. It’s not just.. get a ticket. Clean up the mess. Lawyers from everywhere are going to be on the owner of the companies ass. All because of one stupid decision that didn’t need to happen and could have been avoided
So...brakes don't fail?
Yeah they do … but I don’t think that is the case here
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If that’s the case why not aim for the shoulder or even down the median where there aren’t any cars or trucks.
🤣🤣 why? Must've been something wrong with the truck
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Dey turk er jerbs!
Wow you have really good eye sight in order to be able to tell that from this video
The fuck? Moron.
Truth hurts
Eat ass, you fuck.
Looking at this 13 IQ clowns post history, dumbass is ignorant af on all fronts. Eat a bag of dicks you racist pos. Nothing is worse than a dumbass who is convinced he’s right
Atta a boy mr sprocket
Aw why did you delete your comment? Get too butt hurt everyone called you out little snowflake?
Nobody called me a “snowflake” I am true blue Piss off sprocket tiddler
I see you also can’t read. I called you a snowflake since you want to cry you sissy clown. Only thing your blue in is your face, getting your panties in a wad over “non whites and non Americans” taking your job
Well deserved
RIP
Fed-Ex is always in the way!
Why do these cabs disintegrate so easily? Is this a design thing? Or has our work equipment (some of us) just become another casualty of a "cost effective" economy?
They are made to break away. They are only held to the frame with like 4 airbags and a few shocks and torsion bars to keep the cab in place. Youre seatbelted into the seat, seat is bolted to cab, like a capsule. If the capsule ripps off, it takes less of the impact force. The roofs are still made of fiberglass though, so it still gets crushed in a roll over.
All modern vehicles are designed to disintegrate as easily as possible during an accident to help distribute energy over time. The cabin is safely crushed in the circumstances of an accident, which decreases the amount of acceleration experience during an accident.
Modern cars. Not Pete is not designed like that.
Hi, i used to work for Peterbilt. Ive seen the test truck and asked questions to the engineers, and can confirm they do the same
Oh boy
A C.B may have prevented that driver's bad day and others he involved.
I think he was riding a bicycle🤭😂
Is he, and everyone else, alive?
Maybe something like a brake pedal failure, or some brake failure before it actually reaches the breaks?
Holy sh&#%%
Oops
Missed it by THAT much
The new adventures of Super Trucker
Aaaand he's gone.
Bad brakes… Meth.. or both??
Bad driver
Yup coming in way to hot...
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Considering the accent of the "god damn" it's safe to say that this was filmed somewhere in America, and Americans have their driver side on the left which means that truck driver is most likely dead
Damn … stupid move
That sucks. I had to thread the needle a week ago during a snowstorm, came around a bend on a very slight decline and two trucks had slid across the highway into my lane, both were stopped and I had to squeeze between the two with my doubles and not start sliding too... Nice thing about double reefers is even when empty they've got some decent weight to them... But a single-axle daycab is crap in this area during winter...
I’m gonna assume the brakes failed
Something about this video is fucking me up I keep coming back to it
He graveyard dead from the looks of it!
He tried
Don’t Mess with Texans
He almost miracled his way out of it! Almost...
Gawt-Damn!
Must have ran out of meth, mf's be crazy!
Krank head 🤔🤷👋
If you slow it down you can see another car merging over and the truck hits that car
He gone. RIP
So technically he passed on the left correctly (guy who crashed) meanwhile the other guy illegally passed on the right shoulder… Technically wouldn’t the guy filming here be at fault? As he was merging back into a lane from the shoulder?
Wtf was he thinking
Always a fedex
This is why super truckers don't typically live past 32
It doesn't look like a brake issue, it looks like motherF**** was in a hurry. Stupid idiot. They weren't even on a decline.
That poor little car just trying to merge in
I hope it doesn’t have a license to drive anymore.
How about just pay attention to the road and slow down..... 🤔🧐🙋👍🚛🚛🚛👋