Bulldozer comes off of trailer, kills 2

[ultrarunner]

Here is the sad reality folks. The large mega fleets cry in the media and to the gov about the "driver shortage"
In reality it is because many of the violation free professionals have quit the industry due to things like gov over regulation, poor rates , lack of respect and wages, and all around terrible conditions.

So now the gov brings in more immigrants, and unfortunately they are being used as the new world slaves.
They work cheap, will work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
So now these mega fleets use all the loop holes, like them running on their home licenses for 6 months, etc and they send them out with little to no training.

And now we see the results.

I’m encountering this where experienced individuals have left the workforce and none I know said pay was the reason.

Compliance best sums up why… just no longer willing to jump through the hoops and having the means to exit.

In my circle those unwilling to line up for the Covid Shots comprise the largest group…

 

[dkmc]

Jeesh, steel tracks on a steel deck. Maybe a 'one chain and it ain't goin anywhere' mentality as well. Straps, chains, and binders in the tool box do nothing. Putting on an extra or 2 takes a couple minutes and offers great insurance.

 

[YLee Kioti]

I see lot of tractors towed by 3/4 and 1 ton trucks in a 30 mph zone, zooming by, bouncing on our pot hole ridden county type road.
I cringe, hearing them before I see them zooming by.
One day, (I pray NEVER) the image of one sliding off the road crown and into the ditch and tearing our fence....Ugh...man....
EVERYONE appears to be operating in the, "It's all about me mode".
Few want to slow down and allow safe passage of on coming vehicles.
Yep our nation...is ...swirling down the.......

 

[dkmc]

I see lot of tractors towed by 3/4 and 1 ton trucks in a 30 mph zone, zooming by, bouncing on our pot hole ridden county type road.
I cringe, hearing them before I see them zooming by.
One day, (I pray NEVER) the image of one sliding off the road crown and into the ditch and tearing our fence....Ugh...man....
EVERYONE appears to be operating in the, "It's all about me mode".
Few want to slow down and allow safe passage of on coming vehicles.
Yep our nation...is ...swirling down the.......

Yep. Waaay overloaded and under rated PU trucks pulling bigger-than-mini excavators or large trac loaders. Engine screaming, truck flying down the road. Always a 'if that idiot ever had to stop quick' thought. There's an old barn across the road, built right on the right-of-way with minimal set back. Ice cream store... Hard to see the road from the parking lot, people creep out to look. I think (and hope NOT) that some day an elderly person is going to pull out on one of the truck-racer-idiots and get flattened.

 

[davideubanks]

I don't think this is a bulldozer, since it does not have a "blade" in front, it has a bucket, it is a "tracked frontend loader", I thought something looked familiar about this pic, I have one very similar to this, narrow tracks too. The tracks are not sharp like a dozer's and will slide very easily and on an alum. flat bed instead of wood, it wouldn't take much of a turn to make it slide if it did not have 4 chains, one on each corner to hold it in place.

 

[AnotherBueller]

Funny…..today, while driving to Sandpoint to get some steel tubing, i saw a dump trailer carrying an excavator. From what i could see looking into it from my truck, it was unsecured. I guess he figures the sides will keep it secured.

I've been told that in Missouri equipment carried in a dump trailer, with the doors closed, doesn't need to secured.
don't have / need a dump trailer so I haven't checked.

 

[AnotherBueller]

I see lot of tractors towed by 3/4 and 1 ton trucks in a 30 mph zone, zooming by, bouncing on our pot hole ridden county type road.
I cringe, hearing them before I see them zooming by.
One day, (I pray NEVER) the image of one sliding off the road crown and into the ditch and tearing our fence....Ugh...man....
EVERYONE appears to be operating in the, "It's all about me mode".
Few want to slow down and allow safe passage of on coming vehicles.
Yep our nation...is ...swirling down the.......

I second the "It's all about me" sh**. Especially the 20 - 30 year olds

 

[davideubanks]

I've been told that in Missouri equipment carried in a dump trailer, with the doors closed, doesn't need to secured.
don't have / need a dump trailer so I haven't checked.

I would assume this is true as there is no place for it to go except out the gate, so you better make sure it is "pig tight". I believe this is true in all states since there is no place to attach a chain to on the truck.

 

[grsthegreat]

So….in an accident, an excavator stuck inside a dump trailer cant slam into the pulling truck and crush the driver?

 

[bcp]

To many news writers, any large machine with tracks is either a bulldozer or a tank, depending on paint color.

Bruce