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[California]

This is stunningly crazy. It's not clear to me if he hits an overhead line that we can't see, or touches a live wire beside the roadway. BESIDES being crazy enough to transport a fully extended crane down the highway...

Besides the Crane being transported on the hwy, I'm trying to figure out how the 2 way traffic works on a single lane hwy Is it that there are to straddle the lines on each side? It looks as though when the approaching cars clear the driver with the camera moves into the middle of the roadway... obviously this is in another country , but do they not use 2 lane hwy's?

Looks to me like they are going through a construction zone. That ridge of material down the right lane may be new asphalt about to be spread - left by belly dump trucks. Or the material may be spoils excavated out of the roadside ditch and stacked there before they are carried off. And I think the paddles (striped roadside markers) are temporary construction zone markings noting either the power line overhead, or maybe a culvert crossing under the road. At any rate, its a construction zone and the right lane is used to store material temporarily.

He hit an overhead high voltage line. Here's the morning-after picture in the newspaper that BCP found. (Post #306, above).

 

[Soundguy]

These trucks are not that heavy. My neighbor has a 76 Ford F 700 with a 391 in it. It has a 8' Monroe dump bed and with driver and full fuel it just at 10,400#.

He also has a 78 GMC C 60 with a 350. It has a 8' dump and a 9' Meyer Snow Plow on the front. It's only 10,000# with driver and full fuel. The plow is a good 800# of that.

I bet the truck pictured even with a motor is only 6500 to 7000# tops


Chris

dang that's light.. you can get ton+ trucks in that weight range.

very decieving..

 

[Renze]

Besides the Crane being transported on the hwy, I'm trying to figure out how the 2 way traffic works on a single lane hwy Is it that there are to straddle the lines on each side? It looks as though when the approaching cars clear the driver with the camera moves into the middle of the roadway... obviously this is in another country , but do they not use 2 lane hwy's?

Its in Holland, this is not a highway but a single lane country road with a lane for cyclists on the narrow side of the dashed line..

 

[California]

Its in Holland, this is not a highway but a single lane country road with a lane for cyclists on the narrow side of the dashed line..

Wow! I just learned something new.

 

[Soundguy]

Wow! I just learned something new.

wow.. someone with even worse road planning than the county i live in.

 

[deepNdirt]

Its in Holland, this is not a highway but a single lane country road with a lane for cyclists on the narrow side of the dashed line..

Seems like could be a disaster if were to meet someone head-on around a curve.... although It could be less risky than some of the multiple 5-6 lanes wide we have here in the U.S.

 

[tcartwri]

Seems like could be a disaster if were to meet someone head-on around a curve.... although It could be less risky than some of the multiple 5-6 lanes wide we have here in the U.S.

You should try driving in the Middle East or Africa. They will pass you anywhere, anytime, and rely on a higher being sort things out when they meet. Using the horn is the most developed skill drivers have.. lol

 

[Soundguy]

You should try driving in the Middle East or Africa. They will pass you anywhere, anytime, and rely on a higher being sort things out when they meet. Using the horn is the most developed skill drivers have.. lol

sounds like peru! potholes the size of cars onthe road going into the capitol!!!

 

[California]

You should try driving in the Middle East or Africa. ... Using the horn is the most developed skill drivers have.

Saw this in India too. I finally figured out the rationale: Seems to me that maybe traffic laws inherited from the British style mandate that slower traffic must move over when an overtaking vehicle asserts its right-of-way by sounding its horn. Apply that concept to modern dense urban developing-world traffic .... chaos!

 

[tcartwri]

sounds like peru! potholes the size of cars onthe road going into the capitol!!!

roundabouts consisting of a small concrete pylon... four cars would get locked up nose to tail and no one would give the right of way. So they sit there blowing their horns.