Cadmaster

This happened today in acworth GA. a small town just outside the Atlanta Metro area. Amaizing video caught as it happened. Gotta love these new cell phones, they are everywhere. Follow the link there are two videos there; one from before and one from ater the devastation.

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/22401099/index.html

Neil.

Diamond River Valley Railway Company

http://www.dixierail.com

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kbkchooch

Remind me, don't eat

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

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Russ Bellinis

I wonder why the driver was using a street posted for no trucks?

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

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feldman718

It doesn't surprise me.

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

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Rio Grande Dan

One thing I've noticed in the

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

Rio Grande Dan

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jarhead

Truck Drivers

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.  

 

 

Nick Biangel 

USMC

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Russ Bellinis

The sign I saw in the video didn't require reading.

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.

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Chuck Ramsey

Common Sense

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

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BlueHillsCPR

BINGO!

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

That about says it all...

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