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18 Wheeler vs Freight Train

allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,694 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2018 in General Discussion
https://nypost.com/video/speeding-train-slices-tractor-trailer-in-half/
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  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How to make a straight truck out of a semi in less than one second.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,254 ******
    edited November -1
    that lightened the load
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,254 ******
    edited November -1
    high centered the trailer???
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My uncle and both of his sons were railroad engineers . Over their careers , all 3 of them hit an 18 wheeler at a grade crossing . Scary crap , each derailed and lived to work another day but it was a close call
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
    high centered the trailer???


    Didn't appear to be, so not sure WTH happened..
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,694 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He wasn't stuck on the tracks. His drive wheels were on the tracks. To get stuck he would have had to have driven about 20 feet more to center the trailer on the tracks. In fact, it looks like he could have driven across.

    He was crossing the tracks and that gate came down so he stopped. You can see that the rear gate is pressed down on his trailer.
    Dumb * should have kept going and busted through that gate.
    He bolted from the truck from the passenger's seat, the dumb * was probably on the phone to dispatch asking them what to do. Iphone.
    Virtual reality.

    He should have stuck with real reality and crashed through that gate.

    I think the driving career of that guy is over.
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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Trailer landing gear were stuck in the asphalt on the other side of the tracks. With the airbag rear suspension on the truck, it won't let the drive tires get traction. The train fixed that problem.[:D]
    One of the things I hammer into my trainees, make sure your landing gear is all the way up before that trailer gets moved. Then I explain that exact scenario to them.
    Even if they were all the way up, a low bed van trailer like that one, probably wasn't going to clear that hump anyhow.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
    high centered the trailer???


    Looks like it.
    I always worried about that with a lowboy load.
    I've felt the drag and puckered BIG TIME!
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  • KnifecollectorKnifecollector Member Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those guys were quickly abandoning ship. [:D]
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have a friend that was an investigator for Federal railway safety. He told me the US averages one train/ motor vehicle collision a DAY.

    He said the really bad part was dealing with the engineers that KNEW they were about to destroy that car full of kids, and were powerless to do anything about it. Two things that engineers feared- school buses and gasoline tanker trucks.
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  • Ford 23Ford 23 Member Posts: 3,129
    edited November -1
    I watched a tractor with dump trailer start across a flat railroad crossing just as the tractor got on tracks the warning arms started coming down. Guess the driver thought not going to get caught in this mess heard him shift down and keep going while making fire wood out of the arms. Thought damn good driver he knew he wanted power and know how to shift down without getting caught between gears and train coming
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