66dc75 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/25/houston-truck-destroys-highway-signs-in-stunning-video.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 If that would have been just a couple inches lower............he might have made it through...............before running into the bridge instead. Someone just posted about a dumptruck hitting a bridge in Marysville, Ohio recently. I know the old story was a dump truck driver has either laid one over is going to. Guess that also applies to hitting bridges? Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezrider Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 how do you not know your box is in the air?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtymilkman Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 how do you not know your box is in the air?? I saw it happen when the PTO didn't totally disengage and the guys box slowly crept up as he went through town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezrider Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 yeah but don't you look in your mirrors while your driving, let alone that would have to "feel" funny driving down the road like that. i have a side dump and sometimes when you set the tub down on uneven ground it does not set all the way down, i know its not down all the way right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 that is the difference between a driver and a steering wheel holder. i had a steering wheelholder tell me a few years ago that i was lying when i said i could feel a tire going flat driving down the road 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hicrop10 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 This confirms why the bulldog is facing forward on a Mack.Its one asshole looking at another.When we did snowplowing for penndot we had drivers come back to the yard at the end of the shift and park the truck with a overhead sign in the body. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdog2 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Here in Conn. our trains were built in the 1800 s we have bridges that are made for horse & buggy so those big 18-wheelers don't fit good and the original ar still workin till this day. Quote Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theakerstwo Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 yeah but don't you look in your mirrors while your driving, let alone that would have to "feel" funny driving down the road like that. i have a side dump and sometimes when you set the tub down on uneven ground it does not set all the way down, i know its not down all the way right away. Plus there would be light coming thru the rear window. Quote glenn akers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 when you are pulling a trailer like that guy was, there is always light coming through the rear window. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 i would expect anyone driving one probably checks for that quite a bit....otherwise you would here about alot more cases....but i suppose nothing is fool proof....bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 the only thing "fool proof" is the fool Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Saw a dump body upside down and and facing backwards on the parkway going through Pittsburgh,hit an overpass, tore it completely off! I used to drive an early 60s F950 Ford tandem dump when we were building Margate Florida, a worn out strictly job site truck.We were all going back to our "staging area" and the guy behind me was honking the horn and flashing his lights! My dump body had started to go up!😁 the pto and dump levers were so worn they were flopping around! Obviously I hadn't disengaged the pto! Glad I was empty! Every day you had to put a gallon of hydraulic fluid in the hoist! Was a 5 &3, the auxiliary box would lock up if you tried to split the gears! You had to pry it out of gear with a bar! The rear axles would move left to right 3"! The only good part of the truck was the 534 engine! Didn't really need the auxiliary! Every day you got a different truck! The B model and the two new little Ford 6yard dumps were the only street legal trucks in the fleet! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I do look in the mirrors occasionally lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Anyone ever see a set of tandems sitting along the highway?! Saw a set on I 85 near Atlanta, with a hundred ft of tire tracks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 (edited) billy i got 1 up on ya i came across the whole damn back end of an extendable trailer on the i-5 in cali. one night . truck and the front half was about a mile and a half further up the road Edited August 29, 2017 by carlotpilot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Carlot, that is amazing! You may have me on that!😁 saw half of a Swift trailer in the middle of I 77 near Wytheville Va! Was making a u turn in the.middle of the interstate! Got sliced in half by another truck coming over the rise! You'll like this one,when I drove for Nu Car Carriers, they had a photo in they're Ayer Ma. Terminal of a new Ford someone drove off the front of the headramp, landed.on its nose in front of the tractor....a little rubbing compound?😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxbxc Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Speaking of low bridges in Ct ,In Danbury there are two very close together one on lake ave,and one on rose street ,My buddy named his daughter Bridget because he cleaned up so many trucks that year,was a wholesale food supplier next to the bridge ,there drivers would hit the bridge once a month. Once he gets a call refer unit would not start,he goes out on a service call and the refer is missing ,he opened the back doors and the refer was all smashed on the floor.The driver had hit the bridge but stopped before he blew up the body,and just played stupid ,well he didn't have to try very hard at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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