Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Renze]

Very cool vid, Renze. I always forget how quiet your vehicle are, versus ours, in the gaps between trips to Europe.

Youtuber Bruce Wilson bought a Scania V8 from Canada, where quite a few European immigrants take them when these are 15 years old. In the US they must be 25 years old before you can import with Euro (not EPA) emissions

He and his buddies were very intrigued by how advanced this 25 year old truck was.

Meanwhile Scania North America (selling the industrial diesel engines) stepped forward and gave Wilson a brand new Scania R770 V8 on loan, imported on a bi-annual EPA exemption

He even went to Sweden to see it being built

 

[WinterDeere]

 

[goeduck]

Interested in part 2 of that ambulance. I bet someone's insurance company had a few choice words. As well as someone's boss for lack of rigging.

 

[WinterDeere]

Interested in part 2 of that ambulance. I bet someone's insurance company had a few choice words. As well as someone's boss for lack of rigging.

Agreed.

I hear veteran truckers talk about how bad the industry has become, with low pay forcing high turnover, and less experienced drivers. When you combine that with a profession where every small error can have huge consequences, it seems bad things are bound to happen.

Maybe instead of focusing on doubling minimum wage for folks happy to work at McDonald's and Walmart, someone needs to devote that attention toward these drivers operating 40-ton vehicles either side of our comparatively small passenger vehicles at 70 mph, everyday!

 

[RayIN]

Seemed like a good idea at first.

 

[Renze]

Agreed.

I hear veteran truckers talk about how bad the industry has become, with low pay forcing high turnover, and less experienced drivers. When you combine that with a profession where every small error can have huge consequences, it seems bad things are bound to happen.

Here in Europe, Eastern Europeans are taking over. Particularly the Hungarian Waberer is notorious, there are Facebook groups in which domestic truckers share the, sometimes plain stupid mishaps and accidents caused by Hungarian drivers that got their drivers license with the groceries.

 

[Renze]

A mishap at the sewage treatment plant. The walking floor light goods trailer was accidentally loaded with at least 80 ton of sewage sludge by the plants conveyor loading system.
Normal legal capacity for such truck combination is about 30 ton...

With an unladen weight of only 5920kg and this load, we may conclude that Stas builds a solid trailer

Though, the left wall of the trailer didnt like it.

 

[gstrom99]

"accidentally"? No. Negligence...

 

[Renze]

"accidentally"? No. Negligence...

Well the plant operator didnt do it on purpose, thats what i meant

At the sugar plant loading processed beet pulp, they dont let you off the factory premises if you top the scale above 55 ton. Thats enough, because a combination like the above can load 27 ton on the tridem and maybe 20.5 ton on the truck, if the company opted for the 9 ton front axle. To load the max legal 50 ton GCW in Holland it would need a tag axle on the truck.

Beet transport in the 80s and 90s was Wild West, grossing 80 ton at night, and needing 1st gear to get out of a tunnel wasnt unusual.

 

[LouNY]

Agreed.

I hear veteran truckers talk about how bad the industry has become, with low pay forcing high turnover, and less experienced drivers. When you combine that with a profession where every small error can have huge consequences, it seems bad things are bound to happen.

Maybe instead of focusing on doubling minimum wage for folks happy to work at McDonald's and Walmart, someone needs to devote that attention toward these drivers operating 40-ton vehicles either side of our comparatively small passenger vehicles at 70 mph, everyday!

A utuber that I watch often is a heavy wrecker owner/operator. He just had a video of a trucker with two completely destroyed tires with the rims spinning in what was left of the tires wanting a tow instead of road service for tires.

Drivers like this should not be allowed on the roads.

 

[Renze]

Drivers like this should not be allowed on the roads.

Thats exactly the type of drivers employed by the lowballer firms from Eastern Europe. For professional driving you need "code 95" which is a registration of additional courses and trainings related to traffic safety, Hazmat, whatever, just to raise the bar for foreign truckers who got the same drivers license, yet passed a far lower bar in their country (or just bought it)

 

[ptsg]

Thats exactly the type of drivers employed by the lowballer firms from Eastern Europe. For professional driving you need "code 95" which is a registration of additional courses and trainings related to traffic safety, Hazmat, whatever, just to raise the bar for foreign truckers who got the same drivers license, yet passed a far lower bar in their country (or just bought it)

Here in Portugal, same thing happens but with Brazilian drivers. Just because we speak more or less the same language, the governments made some sort of deal where the driving license is valid on both countries, which makes no sense at all since there's different rules and requirements between both countries, specially in the trucking world.

 

[RandyT]

A utuber that I watch often is a heavy wrecker owner/operator. He just had a video of a trucker with two completely destroyed tires with the rims spinning in what was left of the tires wanting a tow instead of road service for tires.

Drivers like this should not be allowed on the roads.

I hate casey Ladelle

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Here in Europe, Eastern Europeans are taking over. Particularly the Hungarian Waberer is notorious, there are Facebook groups in which domestic truckers share the, sometimes plain stupid mishaps and accidents caused by Hungarian drivers that got their drivers license with the groceries.

Here in the US, they are called "Swift drivers".

 

[tacticalturnip]

Here in the US, they are called "Swift drivers".

And in the Northeast they're also Eastern European.

 

[RayIN]

Here in Portugal, same thing happens but with Brazilian drivers. Just because we speak more or less the same language, the governments made some sort of deal where the driving license is valid on both countries, which makes no sense at all since there's different rules and requirements between both countries, specially in the trucking world.

The U.S.A. made the same type agreement with Mexico. Many of them do not speak English, let alone know our OTR trucking rules.
The other side of the coin is; U.S.A. CDL holders are not allowed to drive into Mexico. They must drop their trailers in a special lot at a border crossing, where a Mexican driver picks up the trailer for the drive into Mexico. (this might have been changed)

 

[RayIN]

My wife was rear-ended by a Mexican truck driver. She survived, her Jeep did not.

 

[goeduck]

A to B pillar stayed mostly intact. Glad she was okay.

 

[bcp]

After a drunk driver totaled my new 1997 Cherokee in Nevada, and I was uninjured, the highway patrolman said he saw fewer fatalities and injuries of Cherokee occupants than any other cars.

Bruce

 

[Renze]

After a drunk driver totaled my new 1997 Cherokee in Nevada, and I was uninjured, the highway patrolman said he saw fewer fatalities and injuries of Cherokee occupants than any other cars.

Ive seen one at the wreckyard with a tree in the passenger seat. Front and rear bumper were at a 90 degree angle. Driver cannot have survived this as he will have hit the tree with his head, right next to his seat.

My neighbour said, back in the 70s and 80s you had to be wary of fingers and body parts when scrounging for parts... Cutting yourself on contaminated vehicles could lead to serious infections.

Back then, local firemen pulled the deceased from wrecks, there were no specialised body recovery and decontamination teams back then, that deliver a wreck free of blood to the wreckers.

Trauma response care was non existent either. When you witnessed people burn after a crash, nowadays youre going to talk to the trauma psychologist at the fire station, they wont let you take it home. Back then, nobody talked about what they had seen.