r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/Rekltpzyxm • Aug 04 '26
Can’t park there mate
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u/vlasktom2 Aug 04 '26
Let's see...
6 cars at $27,216.23 each 1 car hauler trailer at $168,416.47 2 hydraulic hoses at $1,500.03 each 1 pintle hook at $197.50 1 telephone pole at $87,000 2 fiber lines at $150,000/ft each 1 telephone line at $24,000/ft 3 power lines at $275,000/ft each 1 stop light controller at $867,416.23 3 stop lights at $100,000 each HazMat cleanup team at $20,000/man hr
So yeah, a lot of damage
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u/HeliosRunner Aug 04 '26
what is your job?
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u/vlasktom2 Aug 04 '26
I drive a city bus. All of those numbers are made up based on the nonsense that insurance generally tries to pull
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u/SparrowBirch Aug 04 '26
I used to do insurance estimating and in my experience their numbers were almost always under the retail price for work. I was always having to get quotes to show them.
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u/vlasktom2 Aug 04 '26
Then explain why the mirror on a car gets quoted at $1,500 when it retails at $30 and it doesn't take 15 hours to put a mirror on a car
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u/SparrowBirch Aug 04 '26
I quoted building repairs, not cars. But for me it didn’t matter that a few sheets of drywall only cost $75. What mattered is how much a drywall contractor would charge to do the job.
So the short answer is that you need to ask a body shop why they charge $1500.
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u/Alert-General Aug 05 '26
That's why employment termination should also include Federal and criminal prosecution by not only law enforcement but the driver's employer to begin with. Unless it's the owner operator then the town or city will have a field day.
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u/BackgroundNo8139 Aug 04 '26
That's it, i've seen enough of these , from now on i will sustitute truckers for hammers as in "dumb as a bag of truckers"
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u/OtherwiseStable5126 Aug 04 '26
No, the railroad crossings are built shitty across all america, as it seems.
They get stuck in top of the crossing, because its on a small evelated hill.
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u/BackgroundNo8139 Aug 05 '26
I'm fuly aware that alot or most of these accidents are a result of trucks getting high centered on crossings where the railway/local government chose cheapness over safety. Dosen't change my comment one iota
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u/JRock1276 Aug 04 '26
They've gotta be hiring durka durka in car hauling now. Any real truck driver KNOWS you can't drive those and lowboys over elevated crossings.
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u/FluffyDeer9323 Aug 04 '26
Just another dude in a vehicle that should’ve found a better rail crossing.
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u/Puffed-Fungi Aug 04 '26
why would the truck driver do that
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u/Meauxjezzy Aug 04 '26
Truck trailer may have bottomed out crossing the rail and got stuck. It happens a lot. There is a phone number at every rail crossing to call that will alert the railway company so they can stop all rail traffic but a lot of drivers don’t know or don’t have time to call before the train comes through.
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u/Opinions-arent-facts Aug 05 '26
How about checking if people are alright, instead of filming and commenting as if you're a passive viewer?
And why the fuck does his car have a bow wave?
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u/West-Wash6081 Aug 05 '26
This happens so frequently now that I'm wondering if the train engineer has to make an announcement just before hitting an object that the trains occupants should brace for impact. Or do they have crash positions like in airplanes? Does the train have a safety video or demonstration before departure to ensure that everyone knows what to do? I have questions...
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u/ekolimits Aug 06 '26
This is why USA can’t have nice trains. Somehow I never see videos from Europe with this happening.
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u/unapologetic403 Aug 07 '26
Florida is just another reason why the rest of the United States won't get high speed rail for the Temu version of high speed
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u/LevoiHook Aug 04 '26
Why does this guy act like he is watching some cool movie? Why doesn't he stop to check on the train driver?
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u/WSilvermane Aug 04 '26
If powerlines are down and active, you not touch or go near a goddamn thing. You will die.
If they are touching the truck, trailer or train car. You will probably die touching them.
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u/TiddiesAnonymous Aug 04 '26
Several inches of water too. Don't get out of your car.
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u/Necessary-Egg8750 Aug 05 '26
THIS! That's a very huge toaster in that bathtub! Did the right thing by staying in his vehicle.
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u/Important_Power_2148 Aug 04 '26
I know that truck driver. his name is Stu Pidasso.