Just make sure you know your road can accept delivery of your new tractor

[bcp]

I think these are two other postings of the same accident.

Train demolishes tractor - YouTube

Train hits low boy loaded with a tractor - YouTube

Bruce

 

[bcp]

It isn't always the trucker's fault. Notice the crossing gates and lights.

Bruce

 

[cabinhollow]

Not getting a new tractor, but it called planing ahead.
I am on a one lane, deadend,EKY road.
I have some new equipment coming next month by TT.
It will be offloaded 5 miles away, put on a lowboy trailer and hauled in. They also have to bring in a large forklift to unload. 14,000lbs equipment, my forklift is a 5000lbs lift.
The first 600 miles, cost $1200, the last 5 miles, cost $500.

 

[EddieWalker]

That was both impressive, and shocking to see what a track can do to a tractor that big!!!

I'm thinking it's either the truck drivers fault, and owner of the company he is driving for will have to pay, or whoever built the road and railroad crossing created a hazard that resulting in the truck not being able to get across it. Was the trailer over loaded or too heavy? Since the buyers of those tractors didn't get their tractors, I would think that they are still owed a new tractor.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Sometimes on a multiple tracks level crossing, with everyone so **** impatient, I feel like a jackass stopping and waiting for the vehicle in front to clear the tracks AND have room for me to get clear of the barrier if they come down. But I do. Most people are far too stupid for that level of thinking.

 

[woodlandfarms]

It isn't always the trucker's fault. Notice the crossing gates and lights.

Bruce

I love how the accident is well over and then the guards come down. Man, ouch.

 

[bcp]

I love how the accident is well over and then the guards come down. Man, ouch.

Explanation here:

UTA fires employee for causing accident involving FrontRunner train, FedEx truck | fox13now.com

Bruce

 

[oosik]

Holy C-R-A-P. The video opened to 1/3 screen - in the middle. Not something easy to watch. My driveway is a mile long & gravel & right now there is the one darn spot where a pond forms but the driveway thru the pond is still solid. I had the fellow who delivered my new tractors stop on the county road - at my driveway and we unloaded there. Not because the driveway was soft but because I didn't need him and his big truck making ruts in my yard. Ha, ha - - I'll make my own ruts - thank you.

There is a company in Cheney whose entrance is too "humped" for real lowboy trailers. Many times I've seen a 40' or 52' lowboy stuck in their driveway. They pull the semi-truck either into their yard or out onto the highway with a large forklift.

The contractor who installed my sewer system was crossing a RR crossing and he was hit by a train and killed. He was deaf. It drug his dump truck & trailer loaded with a backhoe about 3/8 of a mile on down the track.

 

[Thomas]

Dang...put shivers down the back side.

 

[dannoGT]

Why is everyone so quick to blame the truck driver? That guy driving the train could have done something to try and avoid this! Maybe they need to put some better brakes on trains!