It's too bad that trucks aren't equipped with mirrors so that he could see that the body was raised.I go through this intersection once or twice a week.
Vancouver, WA: Dump Truck with Raised Bed Takes Out Traffic Light, Caught on Camera - Alt Car news
A dump truck with its bed raised in Vancouver, WA took out a set of traffic lights, causing them to crash to the ground.tiremeetsroad.com
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Sorry no picture. Yesterday I was behind a pickup pulling a trailer with an SUV on it. His rear 'tie-down' was a single strap, running side to side, over the trailer hitch. As I passed him, I noticed the front wheels were up against the front bar on the trailer, no restraint. Needless to say, with it that far forward, the rear of the truck was sagging.
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I bet he was running 30 mph like Curly Howard going "woop-woop-woop"...Or be in really good shape.
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Actually they have ‘em… a small spot mirror at the top of the mirror stack… let’s you see if’n yer raising the box into something or… if you can get a driver to actually use their mirrors… see if the bed is raised… heck, the trucks at work have big lights on the dash which come on anytime there’s hydraulic pressure in the system…
The old story… once you make something idiot proof someone comes up with a better idiot…
From an updated news article:
:...driver indicated to police the truck was not equipped with an alarm to alert the driver when the bucket portion of the truck was not fully lowered — a typical safety feature in dump trucks."
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Excuses,excuses from an incompetent driver.
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In Philly, truck burned a bridge out, unfortunately the driver died.
Seems like no one, including the driver checked the top hatch, or he may have survived.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
Seems like no one, including the driver checked the top hatch, or he may have survived.
Report says unsecured tanker hatch spilled out gas in crash that destroyed I-95 bridge in Philly
New details from federal investigations into the crash of a gasoline delivery truck that destroyed an I-95 bridge in Philadelphia a year ago says gasoline spilled out from an unsecured hatch on the top of the tanker.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com