Cheer up! You could be this guy. (He's getting a ticket, too.)
Have an ordinary blah Monday!
Mike
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Steve Weeks: "Having dealt with trucking on a somewhat limited basis during my working years, this person had not only a blah Monday, but also probably a life-changing Monday. It has been my experience that trucking companies and their insurers take a dim view when this happens. Most likely he will lose his job and not be employable in their trade in the future. The citation is just minor for the driver. Let's hope everyone reading just had a Blah Monday."
Chris S: "Puts my Monday morning blown tire into the proper perspective."
If the truck had been going faster would centrifugal force have kept it upright?
And … was someone sitting on a hill with a camera waiting for this to happen?
Posted by: Speed | Monday, 15 October 2018 at 06:05 PM
I imagine that what was going through the mind of the driver was "If I try to keep going there is a 90% chance of a career ending incident, but if I try to back up it's 100%"
I notice that 100% of truckers* ignore the speed signs, so I am not surprised.
*I once got stopped on the interstate for speeding and said that the car did not have a speedometer ( which was true ) so I figured that if the speed limit for trucks was 55mph and cars were limited to 75mph and I was just a little faster than the trucks I should be fine. Turns out that the fine for no speedometer was substantial.
and there is this https://youtu.be/V3-UugI0JoA
Posted by: hugh crawford | Monday, 15 October 2018 at 09:42 PM
For more like this, try https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure Always sure to brighten up a Monday (well, in a schadenfreude kind of way).
Posted by: Aaron | Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at 05:42 AM
Just happened to be someone positioned on the hill to make a video.
[I imagine it was someone who saw it coming and whipped their phone out, wouldn't you think? That's what most of these are (it's a whole genre—search "work fails" on YouTube for more). --Mike]
Posted by: Kenneth Tanaka | Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at 09:58 AM