Just make sure you know your road can accept delivery of your new tractor
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You forgot the "wink" symbol.
It's absolutely without exception the truck driver's fault Doesn't even matter whether the lights and guards worked. It's still the driver's fault.
dannoGT
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The other thing I noticed was how quickly the tractor came off of the trailer! I would have thought that with a good set of chains that the tractor and the trailer would have stayed together longer? Maybe chains had been taken off to unload?
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I watch various youtube train-freak videos. Amazing to watch a hundred car freight pulling all kinds of stuff, tankers, hoppers, vehicles and more, go into Emergency Stop. Not a quick process!
Totally off topic. Saw a video of several locomotives each pulling a tank car of liquified NG to run the locomotive.
Totally off topic. Saw a video of several locomotives each pulling a tank car of liquified NG to run the locomotive.
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Semi trailers unless it’s a double trailer being pulled on a dolly don’t have safety chains. Getting hit in the side by a train isn’t exactly a planned for design criteria. It probably ended better with it separating anyway.
dannoGT
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I see what you mean but I was thinking the JD to the lowboy ie chaining the load down to the trailer
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Most certainly the trucks fault. No ifs ands or buts about it.
Not sure how long he was stuck...maybe he had less than a minute????
But first thing I would have tried to do would have been get the tractors OFF the trailer and clear of the tracks.
Maybe they didn't have time.??? Or maybe he was stuck for 20 minutes just scratching his head and twiddling thumbs???
Not sure how long he was stuck...maybe he had less than a minute????
But first thing I would have tried to do would have been get the tractors OFF the trailer and clear of the tracks.
Maybe they didn't have time.??? Or maybe he was stuck for 20 minutes just scratching his head and twiddling thumbs???
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Would it be naive to think, maybe there could be a holy f$%$ button at crossings to send a msg to the system, or train if there was a vehicle on the tracks? Or even a phone number, with a location ID.
This might help in some cases, not if the train was close, but certainly in many.
I have seen MANY videos where the motorist is on the tracks simply unwilling to drive through the closed barrier.
This might help in some cases, not if the train was close, but certainly in many.
I have seen MANY videos where the motorist is on the tracks simply unwilling to drive through the closed barrier.