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Ooo! How he get down! From this place is nice view to the road
It sure is.
how does he get up there, even?
That’s a highway salt and sand truck. They fly down the highway with the dump body raised all the way up spreading salt and sand to prevent drivers from getting into and accident.
Kind of ironic huh?
Like a black fly in your chardonnay?
Sorry, our highway authority trucks are orange. This was a private construction company’s truck.
Nah, Connecticut sand trucks are orange…like all of our DOT vehicles. This is a dump truck, plain and simple. The driver just got on the highway after leaving a site, and was trying to be slick lowering the dump body as he got on the highway…he oopsed, kind of like you did, in fact. I drove past this after it happened, the picture’s over a year old. This is was on Westbound I-84 between Manchester and Vernon, CT.
I was trying to figure out if that sign said “South Windsor” lol… but I could definitely tell it was CT
no, thats not a plow truck. its owned by a company in connecticut, and they haul sand and gravel.
Hah! I remember when this happened! The sign post sans sign is still there.
Aweeeesoooome
If the driver had asked a magic 8 ball: Will this trip end without a problem? The answer would have been: Signs point to yes.
Signs point to no…. Wow i just butchered my own gag.
FAIL
actually, WIN.
the SIGN points to yes. It’s the truck that has the problem.
It would have been an incredibly lame comment, even if you did get it right… just pathetic all around.
Well it’s a good thing you’re so cool you can rag on people over the net. Yeah. You’re awesome.
LOL
lets do this again…
Hit the road jack!
PTO engaged fail
How does that even happen…?
that is one strong sign, i tell you what
I can only speculate but I am a dump truck driver so my guesses are, 1 he was trying to prove a point to a tail gater and misjudged the sign, or two he left the Power take off engaged or it became engaged and the up/down lever was left in the ‘up’ position and as he was driving down the road it slowly went up.
Photoshop. Total. Look at the way the light hits the truck compared to the sign. And the tailgate is behind the roadway sign. Plus, to get that high he needed to be traveling pretty quick, and he wouldn’t be able to do that with the dumper up.
Fail blog FAIL.
Fail
I agree it looks like he had to hit it backwards while already in a wheelie
No, it’s real.
Congratulations, you’re a certifiable moron. I saw this in person.
Or 3. He just dumped his load of blacktop, where they are repaving just up the road, pulled out with his dump body up, and traveling in the breakdown lane either for got to put the body back down , or it was going down slowly.
Why would he be going that fast ON THE SHOULDER?
Actually, he wouldn’t need to be going that fast. With the relative clearance between the sign and the dumptruck, the bucket would have to be quite high when he hit. That pushes the CG of the truck somewhere above the second to last axle (the first one with the double wheels). Considering now the 5-foot moment arm keeping the truck level compared to the 30-foot or so lever that is the dumptruck bucket, and you don’t need that much force to tilt it like that.
There’s also not really all that much damage to the sign, so I would agree that the truck wasn’t going all that fast.
Given that the truck is on the shoulder and that the bed is in the raised position, I would guess that the truck brake wasn’t set and that the truck popped out of gear and rolled. This would explain why it struck the sign at a relatively slow speed without the driver intervening…the driver probably wasn’t in the cab. Instead, he was running down the road, yelling: “No!!! No!!! NOOO!!! (crash)”
This actually happens all the time. He’s lucky it wasn’t an overpass
It’s actually scary how often this happends. I can remember at least 4 similar incidents in my area within the last 3 years where they’ve forgot to lover a crane etc.
You should think it would be rather simple to make some kind of automated check making it impossible.
BAM! Instant road block. And, as an extra added bonus, it double as a lookout tower.
im trying to understand how did that happen…. and i have no idea
i mean, HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?
thanks for all the people who are going to answer me and make fun of me on the way! (sry for spelling mistakes)
How did this happen? Easy. Photoshop. Look at the driver’s seat. The dude is too comfortably sitting. Besides, look also at the car at the bottom right corner. Quite a big car or quite a small dumpster. The choice is yours.
You do realize that this is a straight truck dump body right? This isn’t a semi. So yes, small dumpster.
And yes this kind of crap happens all the time when fail drivers forget to lower their dump bodies before taking off. Straight trucks kill signs. Semi’s kill overpasses.
“Besides, look also at the car at the bottom right corner. Quite a big car ”
You mean the car that’s between the camera and the truck? Congratulations, you’ve discovered that the nearer an object is, the bigger it appears.
It’s real, happened right by my house and was reported in the Hartford Courant a year or so ago. Driver simply forgot that the bed was raised when he got on the highway.
My guess is that this truck was salting the road when it hit the sign. It may be photoshopped, but salt trucks do drive around with the bed up.
He was actually leaving a construction site right on the side of the highway (not highway work, but on a site that was right next to the highway). He didn’t rip the sign down because it’s only about 50 feet from the construction entrance and he hadn’t built up very much speed with the dump up. The sign was also over the breakdown lane so it didn’t cause too many traffic problems.
Yeah, I’m sure nobody slowed down to look at it.
I’m still waiting for someone to tell use how they got the truck back on the road.
This goes to show- In lot’s of cases, one’s Fail is the other’s Win.
Those freeway signs are REALLY well made!
Hmm…..Something wrong with that picture. The bed on that truck shouldn’t be able to hit the sign if it was raised. You can tell from the photo that when vertical like it is in the photo, the top of it barely reaches the sign.
If the truck was driving past the sign, then it wouldn’t have hit the sign because it couldn’t raise up high enough to hit it. It’s “tall” enough to hit the sign, but if you account for the actual angle it was at when the truck was on all it’s wheels, then it would have never made contact with the sign at any speed.
Therefore….this image is shopped!
To further demonstrate my point, here is a quick image I made in MS-Paint that explains why this is impossible for that vehicle:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6861/exampleimage.jpg
The truck used in both parts of the image is the same drawing but in different orientations. Anyone with even simple geometry skills can deduce that angle that truck bed is at would not allow it to reach the sign if the vehicle had the bed at the same angle but on all it’s wheels at the time and not up-ended after collision.
It’s real: http://www.wfsb.com/traffic/18851503/detail.html
Not so fast there, Pythagoras. Your drawing is not accurate. You have underrepresented the angle of the bed with respect to the rest of the truck. It should be about 45 degrees, perhaps greater, as anyone with even simple geometry skills can plainly see.
Using the actual photo, draw a line across the normal ground contact point for front and back wheels. Draw an orthogonal up to the highest point of the bed, that being the part that overhangs the cab. Because of the angle of the photo, this orthogonal slightly underestimates the original vertical dimension, but even so, it is “tall” enough to span the gap from bottom of sign to road surface. Don’t forget that the sign is bent up a bit, and that a small part of it is still blocked by the truck.
Now read the ScubaLumberjack, October 24, 2010 at 6:58 am post about Center of Gravity, moment and lever arms, etc.
I am trying to find the original article that had a picture, but I cannot. I assure you it is not photoshopped. Here is an article about the incident: http://articles.courant.com/2009-03-07/news/copdigbrf0307.art_1_truck-driver-dump-truck-s-cab
That article is so shopped
I was driving on I-84 when this happened; swear it’s true, it was the funniest thing I had ever seen
Here’s a link to the news report, with the same photo that is shown here… It really happened.
http://www.wfsb.com/traffic/18851503/detail.html
I’m so glad I got to witness this in real life.
Your memory is shopped
that freaking parking win