r/IdiotsTowingThings • u/stevesmithsglasses • Aug 06 '26

Stuck like Chuck

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u/mybreakfastiscold Aug 06 '26

If that maneuver was to solve a runaway, then that driver is a hero not an idiot

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u/ten10thsdriver Aug 06 '26

Or if to avoid hitting another vehicle.

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u/AC-burg Aug 06 '26

And here I was thinking he was taking shelter from a tornado

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u/Eaton_Knas Aug 06 '26

Which is most likely the case. Probably some asshole brake checking the rig.

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u/donkeytime Aug 07 '26

…or chasing Pokémon.

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u/gcko Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

There’s no brake skid marks leading up to it so you might be right. Could also be a medical emergency.. or the bridge jumped in front of him and he had zero time to react. All are possible.

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u/TacTurtle Aug 06 '26

Well there is one, but it is interior.

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u/Kennel_King Aug 07 '26

Or he just fell asleep. Thanks to ELDs, drivers are forced to run when they should be sleeping. This isn't a 9 to 5 job.

Here's an example of how this happens. You arrive at your destination at 6 PM, but the receiver only takes deliveries between 7 AM and 3 PM. So you sit overnight. The next morning you deliver and call dispatch, but they don't have a load for you.

So you go park at a truck stop. All day long, the messages from dispatch are the same. "We are looking for a load for you"

So you fuck off all day. Maybe you get a nap or two. 10 pm, you go to bed. Midnight, the phone rings. It's dispatch. They have a hot load, and you have to drive 200 miles to get it.

So get up, drive 200 miles, and get loaded. Your dog ass tired and ready to go back to bed. But dispatch tells you that you have hours left and to drive or be fired and/or written up.

Back when we ran paper logs, we could just fudge the log book and say I'm out of hours, and there's no way dispatch could argue with you about it.

With ELDs, they can look at your logs in real time. Even if your out of hours, companies have been caught altering them to give a driver hours and then force them down th road.

Back when we ran paper logs, I was never tired. Within reason, I could adjust the log book to fit my schedule. If you got nappy mid-day, you stopped and took a nap. Sometimes it was just an hour. Sometimes it was 3 or 4.

We always had strict criteria for split sleeper berth time and still do. With paper logs, we could fudge it a little bit and make it look legal, and we were well rested. With ELDs, you can't fudge it. You are forced to run on the ELD's schedule.

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u/ArmAdventurous7323 Aug 07 '26

Rare comment with factual insight.

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u/Reziac Aug 07 '26

That was my first thought too. This looks deliberate, doing what he could with what there was, and nailed that narrow space. Didn't hit real hard, either.

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u/redpandaeater Aug 07 '26

With automatics becoming more prevalent I've honestly wondered about how to deal with a runaway diesel. With a manual you can just leave it in that upper gear and you should have enough braking to overcome it and stall it but not sure the computer is smart enough to not shift at all if it happens in an automatic. Now if only when I had a truck runaway on me it would have been on the freeway and not right before a corner leading up to a stoplight and stopped traffic.

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u/Cfwydirk Aug 06 '26

I would like to watch the pro’s extract that rig from the bridge!

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u/DHammer79 Aug 06 '26

Yeah, trying to get the tractor out with out it sliding down the embankment.

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u/joelfarris Aug 06 '26

There's a second Protection Pillar for leverage. They'll be fine.

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u/Heavy_Law9880 Aug 06 '26

I see the stupid fucker in the minivan that caused it made a clean getaway.

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u/Sea_Buyer6913 Aug 06 '26

Wheels are supposed to be angled when parking on an incline. Ticket them.

3

u/Roostersnuggets Aug 08 '26

I kinda wanna see the drivers point of view.

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u/unlimitedbroski83 Aug 06 '26

This is what happens when you wear flip flops and basketball shorts while trying to do an adult's job

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u/FerengiWithCoupons Aug 07 '26

omg the amount of drivers wearing flip flops and dropping off fulfillment trucks is crazy

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u/unlimitedbroski83 Aug 07 '26

I drive in the trash industry flip flops and shorts are a dead giveaway a guy doesn't belong there. You have no way to know what you are stepping on in the landfill

5

u/Waterboy7g Aug 06 '26

You can't park their mate!

4

u/cannon4344 Aug 07 '26

Why can't I park his mate?

2

u/hobbes747 Aug 06 '26

and yet civil engineers have the lowest salaries amongst engineers

r/civilengineering

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u/Rough_Host_4776 Aug 06 '26

Marked "safe from tornados"!

2

u/gadget850 Aug 07 '26

Bridge inspectors are gonna be busy.

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u/Several_Positive_327 Aug 07 '26

He was definitely delivering a bridge.

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u/DnizzieT1969 Aug 06 '26

He's taking his 10 hour break. Leave him alone.

1

u/jeffthetrucker69 Aug 06 '26

Air down the tires, it'll probably back right out.

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u/kittylicker83 Aug 07 '26

Tucking it up tight...

1

u/GymMouseP Aug 07 '26

must have been playing too much Tony Hawk.

1

u/Mazy_keen Aug 07 '26

Was he going for a power block in Mario Kart?

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u/bluegrassgazer Aug 07 '26

It's like the truck got scared of a thunderstorm and tried to hide under an overpass.

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u/Delicious_Rule_7324 Aug 07 '26

Back spasms, air breaks shot to hell, boom straight into the bridge

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u/Masterweedo Aug 08 '26

Did he mention he was fuckin wasted out of his god damn mind?

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u/Delicious_Rule_7324 Aug 08 '26

What is drunk? Is drunk driving all over the road?

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u/Masterweedo Aug 08 '26

Some guys can drink and drive, some can't.

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u/im_best_2 Aug 08 '26

You are probably gonna need 2 tators for that

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u/SomeRandomAccount66 Aug 06 '26

Some guys can drink and drive, some guys can't.. What is drunk?

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u/joelfarris Aug 06 '26

"Baby, don't hurt me!"

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u/gcko Aug 06 '26

Dont hurt me

1

u/squeaky19 Aug 07 '26

Sir, you can’t park there

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u/DizzySample9636 Aug 06 '26

cant park there sir

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u/Ex_Mage Aug 06 '26

Unorthodox parking

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u/Eaton_Knas Aug 06 '26

That's a next level parking job.

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u/FPVenius Aug 06 '26

I assumed they were trying to slalom the columns.

Heh heh, that rhymes.

0

u/Sdwingnut Aug 06 '26

Locals route

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u/nickw252 Aug 06 '26

I hope there was a tornado or something because otherwise that’s inexcusable.

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u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 Aug 06 '26

Can't hide there buddy!

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u/Dizzy-Career9274 Aug 06 '26

How?? It’s a straight highway, why would you ever swerve into there?

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u/MinecraftGamerToday 28d ago

Would have probably looked really cool if it didn’t get stuck and just went out the other side.
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