I have seen YouTube Videos of Dump Trailers that have somehow rose up and ultimately hit a sign or bridge, but I cannot imagine how the driver would not know that the Trailer had raised up either visually from the mirrors or the way the trailer now handles…
This occurred north of me on my local interstate…
The full story is below…
After seeing the crazy stuff people drive on and with their cars that they have NO clue about… Missing tires, broken rotors, holes in the engine block and flashing dash lights… Cluesless, can’t feel a thing drivers. They drive among us!
There must be a few oblivious truckers out there. Clearly the raised dump beds into a bridge or that ONE low bridge that continuously gets hit are proof.
I see people pull out of a spot and start driving with the rear hatch all the way open.
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I saw one of those a few days ago. Even if they didn’t look in their mirror, you would think that the wind noise would alert them.
Last year, I recall driving behind a VW Golf for an extended periof of time on a country road. It hadn’t rained that day–or even for a few days prior–but the rear wiper was “on”, in intermittent mode. Obviously, the woman who was driving that car NEVER looks in her rear-view mirror.
Most people here are car people. Car people are typically in tune with their vehicle and can notice even the most subtle change in performance. Whether that comes in the form of noise, vision or vibration. Then you see people driving with a wheel bouncing violently up and down, oblivious to that condition and seemingly completely unaware that it’s happening…
I saw a dump truck on the highway (55+ MPH limit) overpass with the bed all the way up, I thought this is not going to end well, I was about to exit the interstate onto the same highway as the dump truck, evidently he/she was about to get on the interstate, as soon as e hit the cloverleaf like onramp curve, he roll over on the side, blocking the onramp… I kept going my way with (got to see it from a few angles) no issue but traffic was about to get real bad… I was also wondering how he couldn’t tell it was straight up…
You would think by now they would have an alarm warning you, but like said above, people can be oblivious of warning signs and noises…
Just rolled in is like that.
Car is towed to shop.
Obvious, major issue.
Owner declines repair.
Car is towed away.
Or driven away, no laws against it, in my state anyway…
Years ago in Syracuse a truck with the back raise up took out a walking bridge over I-690. Luckily no one was on the bridge at the time.
If you view the two links in the initial posting I made, they show the actual News Footage Video…
That’s about 20 minutes from me, not far from the airport. My guess is that somehow the trailer can be raised like dump truck and at some point either there was a malfunction or the driver somehow raise it inadvertently. But you have to have to think that other motorists would flash their lights or honk or something to get the truck drivers attention. The last overpass before that exit is about 3 miles back so it couldn’t have been raised for long.
Maybe it was a new driver, and he asked himself…
I wonder what that button does?
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It’s not photoshopped. Its a great picture of what happened. Idiots driving do idiotic things.
Reminds me of the railroad overpass over Onondaga Lake Parkway outside Syracuse. Idiot drivers of trucks, busses and RVs keep hitting it despite warning signs and “YOUR Vehicle is Overheight” warning lights. The bridge keeps on dominating them all.
That’s my husband - definitely NOT a car person. I drove his car when mine blew up and the first time I drove it I came home and said “You have to take your car in, There’s something seriously wrong with it.” The tires all felt like they were going different ways. Loud wobble and thumping like they were going to fall off. You could really feel it in the seat and steering wheel.
He waited almost 2 weeks. I kept pestering him (becaue I had to drive it to look for a car for myself and hated the way it drove). Turns out all 4 tires were basically bald, needed an alignment and some other stuff.
I’ve had to drive his car periodically through the years to let him know there’s something wrong. I may not know WHAT is wrong, but I can say “tires” or “engine” or “brakes” or “weird noise when you do this”. Scary thing is he doesn’t hear or feel what I do, even when I point it out to him.
Had a guy on snow duty, left the bed up and trashed the truck, course no more snow duty for him, underpass survived.
