Don't cross when the train is coming!!

Remind me, don't eat at "Henry's". Food might be a little "bruised". 

I think the trailer "high centered" on the tracks stalling the truck, but I noticed a sign banning trucks from that rr crossing.

It doesn't surprise me when truck drivers do something like this. You wouldn't believe how many times tractor-trailers soemhow make their way onto the Belt Parkway here in NYC. If you're not from this area, you need to realize the Belt Parkway is not designed to handle trucks because the overpasses aren't high enough, the curves aren't broad enough nor are the lanes wide enough to handle them.

Irv

One thing I've noticed in the past 5 years there are more and more drivers that don't read English and can barely speak English. I don't know about this driver but in Virginia we get a lot of drivers from Mexico that use Interstate 95 and Interstate 81 to transport items from south of the border to New York, Pennsylvania and other coastal states as well as going all the way to Canada.

According to my State police friends 70% of truck accidents in Virginia are involved with out of the U.S. drivers that can barely speak or read English.

There are also more and more young drivers out there that are fresh from Truck driving school that just don't have enough experience to know where they may get stuck or even read the warning signs and then there are the Dummies that think they can take their trucks any where.

I wonder how long the driver in the videos will be out of work, just be happy he wasn't the driver of your child's school Bus.

Dan

It is true what you said, but I don't think you need to understand the English language to use common sense and look at the crossings and determine if it is safe or not. But lioke you said, there are dummies that have no common sense either.  

It was a picture of a truck with a red circle and slash through it that is a universal "No trucks allowed sign."  Of course my brother, who is a professional truck driver has told me that he is ashamed to admit it, but in his view truck drivers are among the stupidest people he has ever met as a general rule!  I found the same thing to be true with most of them when I worked as a truck & trailer refrigeration mechanic.

Sadly, Nick, common sense isn't all that common.

Submitted by Chuck Ramsey on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 12:07.

Sadly, Nick, common sense isn't all that common.

That about says it all...