Real Trucker Reacts to Big Rig Fails 

same.

Exactly, that was a terrific idea

My driving instructor had a little model in the truck to show what the maneuvers should look like. It helped big time in visualizing what to tell the truck to do.

I really want to give a thumbs up, but the score is 666 and I didn't wanna spoil it!!!!!! 😆

@@wordreet I'm pretty sure i'm 666! lol

American Truck Simulator episode!

We really need this.

Hell I’d let them take a crack at backing my rig if they’re up for it. Or I’m sure the driving school I went to would love to make a video with them. Show them around trucks and get more info out about trucking.

Nah...the real thing...gotta be genuine

Truckers vs Donut sounds amazing

do you think it would still have exploded if it was in the shade? was it just the heat from the sun that made it too pressurized?

@@thishtns I'm guessing it had just been pressurized and after a moment started to zipper. Those tires are bound in metal so a little heat from the sun, when normally they beat the heat of friction against a several ton vehicle, shouldn't have been an issue.

I remember seeing the original vid to this and the guy said that’s exactly what happened

Those were the older split rims, that’s why the don’t run them anymore

@@thishtnsIt's hard to see but there was an air hose connected up to the valve, so it was most likely being filled when it let go.

Seconded! I hardly ever see the honk signal these days!

I love the old school air horns along with workers that have warriors DNA !!!

I'm gonna be a father soon, and I will be teaching my child to give the honking signal. 😌

Really? I would have though it would have gotten old

@@Ange1ofD4rkness it never gets old, it’s a welcome reprieve from all the crazy and sometimes just plain dumb drivers we deal with on a daily basis. 😎

I hope it was a convertible.

That cement truck incident that you see in this video takes place a couple of miles away from my house. Took place in Rahns, PA. It’s also the name of the cement truck company, Rahn’s…

im amazed product can exit truck, he did not even stop quick. in uk from the amber light showing you have 3 seconds so ive seen trucks stop much faster than that, plus most cement trucks it comes out the back not the front for that reason, its dangerous a blind person could step out or someone trip in to road. trucks design i say 5050 for truck and car as should not be so easy to lose the load

then again that's an 180,000 dollar excavator being hit by a train. your wallet is disintegrating either way.

I don’t think he was pulling the fifth wheel. If there’s any pressure on those jaws, you’re not pulling them open. Inside the neck of a hydraulic detach RGN, there’s a restrictor plate which flips up and down - up to keep it at ride height and not go too low, down to let you lower the deck to the ground to detach the neck and unload it. You have a couple more inches you can raise it to clear that plate, and some lowboy trailers have a valve on the rear to bypass the leveling valve and fully inflate the airbags to give you more height at the rear. This is a technique you can use for getting out of some high center situations.

​@jtgnc7529 it wasn't the fifth wheel but rather another connection point. I have no lowboy experience so I don't know the name of it. I do know that he was apparently successful and that it did mitigate the damage to the tractor.

​​@@thatguybrody4819greed, but if he hadn't done that, who knows if the person that recorded the incident would've be alive to upload the video.

I was just typing that out they missed his quick thinking there!

I wouldn't know what kind of landing gear a lowboy has, but figured you were referring to different kind due to the graphic. I operate the equipment I don't haul it :)

people on the internet will bitch about anything… especially if it’s a woman in a male-dominated field explaining something. love you on the show you’re a bad ass!

Unfortunately alotta keyboard warriors are so quick on the draw they've already tuned out before common sense kicks in. Personally I thought you were a great guest, with a fun reaction/personality and an informative commentary. And as long as it interests and benefits you, I hope you'll be a recurring guest. Either way, keep up the good work.

While not involved in the trucking industry myself, I have a friend who occasionally parks her bright orange 53-footer in my driveway and once let all the neighbourhood kids crawl inside the cab. That being said, I understood what you were saying so I believe it's safe to assume that those who misunderstood were from, as George Carlin used to say, the lower 50% of the IQ range.

I think the way it was edited had alot to do with the misunderstanding because I took the wrong way as well until I read your comment and rewatched that segment.

Listen here Maxx force. 😂

I’m a diesel tech who has been a driver and equipment operator in the past… I can tell you, there’s plenty to be critical of on both sides of the bay doors.

Ir's called a wetware fault.

As a current Navistar tech, I can concur

Good one ,HA!!!

The chances of the other guy (or you, frankly) scraping each other up while trying to LEAVE when parked that tightly together are really high. Especially if the other driver is just pissed that you went and wedged yourself in there so close and decides "fu@$ it, I'ma scrape some paint today"....so yea, not sure you should be proud of parking like a douchebag that close to another rig....

@@Astraeus.. shouldnt be an issue if the other rigs are parked where they should be an open spot should leave plenty of room. Sounds like the two on either side were hugging/on their lines

@Astalthæon it's an interplant lot where we drop trailers off. They never leave private property and just move between the lot and different buildings. All of the trailers are that close together simply because we lack room in the lot. It's also a dirt lot with no lines, save a strip of concrete for the dolly legs. The lots for tankers and over the road trailers are much more spacious and have painted lines to give breathing room on either side. I totally get what you're saying, though. I'd never take a spot like that with other trucks around unless I had no choice. Even then I'd ask one or both of the other drivers if they could scooch at all.

@@Xaevryn thumbs up for a top safety first skilled driver / trusted honest person

hell yeah!

Your*

@@kettujabamiesukkeliukko Thanks!

I’m out there too buddy. Fancy catching up ?

Have any scares on Kellys ?

Have any scares on Kellys ?@@Greenmould

yes!!! that literally makes my day when someone does that for me 🥺❤️

@@igotmovesbabe 😁keep truckin' on

​@@igotmovesbabe it's even better when they stop far enough back to start with.

fr she has beautiful eyes

Zach's always get the dimes bro. That's science.

the rizzler

Maybe a Boise dime

​@@evergreenriderfrom Idaho.... can't be mad.

@@davidbryanttrucking also please we can't forget the terrible BMW drivers who unfortunately think they own the road lol

@@TheRealAlfonso. I often wonder what would happen if auto brand manufacturers held their POV driver's to the same standers as truck driver's these days... "I'm sorry sir but after review of your forward facing camera we have decided you're not what our brand wants representing our product on the road. Your car now identifies as a Honda and your badges will be removed immediately. Also the DMV now requires you to have an inward facing camera so that we can report you for distracted or tired driving when yawing or picking your nose. Have a nice day." 😂

@@davidbryanttrucking lol I wonder similar things also 😂

As a railroader I can say he probably saved many truckers and railroaders lives. Many trainmen get killed or seriously injured in crossing accidents

Considering it doesn't have a 5th wheel (or a 4th for that matter), it's probably fine. Remember, Grandpa Larry doesn't need a special license to go drive an RV the size of a 5ton.

Over 10k lbs it might?

@@NEEDbacon that never made sense to me 😂😂

@@Fr3ud Especially the ones towing a SUV and a boat behind their RV. They should have to get a Class A with Doubles.

depending on where you live you just might.

I hear that, iv been in a few of those in the Midwest

I slipped on black ice twice in 20 seconds in Wyoming a few years back. Saved it twice, only because of luck, a hint of skill, and because I was pulling doubles, my front box was a 48' and my rear a 28'. Front box helped stabilize the rear. After that episode I drove home to Salt Lake City and told my wife we're moving back to California 😂 no more snow for me!

After your done white knuckling the steering wheel

@@emii4233 shitting bricks is the part you leave out the story when you’re bragging

@@Lordbitness it's implied. 😂

That is what my driving instructor told me when I got my license

😢

Came down here to say this

I was checking 2 c if anyone had mentioned that myself. If I remember correctly, the driver didn't survive.

I was always careful maneuvering around big trucks, but didn't fully understand how you guys feel when forced to brake suddenly until I drove my pick-up loaded to its maximum capacity (1.5 tons) and an idiot decided to brake-check me on the highway (I managed to avoid hitting him, but got very close to slipping off the road).

@@sinAnon6689 and also because I'm pretty sure the truck is going to win in a fight with the car, which is why I try to make sure the truck has more than enough room.

I don't get people doing that. Who on earth takes risks around another vehicle that's big enough to crush yours. One off the first things my dad told me when learning to drive on the highway was to not switch lane right infront off a truck. Even when you are going faster than them it might still engage the automatic emergency brake system and cause problems. Then again my dad is a mechanic that works on trucks and regulary has to test drive them, so he is verry aware off the anoying/dangerous stuff car drivers do towards trucks.

Yes i get cut off at least daily. At this point i just shake my head. But i get more annoyed if im loaded and have to slow down for some 🤡 because then it takes forever to get back up to speed

It's my personal belief a small percentage of driver's intentionally create serious dangerous problems for others on the road.

Do you guys really use "piss jugs" like in Trailer Park Boys?? 😆 "Way of the road, buddy"

I know where that clip is from. The car is coming out of the Office Tavern, more than likely drunk, as that is not what I would call a high class establishment. It's on the outskirts of Collegeville, PA, locals may call it Rahns, after the Rahns cement company that has an exit onto that street right before the Office Tavern. My friend's friend actually had to clean that mess up. Was from a few years ago.

DONUT FOREVER

Not hard to drive in a straight line in the desert

As a Prius driver, whose father was an ex truck driver, I would never do that and always give trucks and motorcycles plenty of room. I will also say Prius drivers are picked on. I get no respect on the road. I have people always target my car to get in front of, speed ahead of, cut off, and never given room to cut in. I generally have to save myself from an accident at least once whenever I drive. So honestly it's a two way street, and other drivers can F**k off.

@@burner8959 saying a prius driver is bad is a blanket statement but at the same time they become a stereotype for a reason. Maybe you shouldn't have bought a Prius that's the real issue.

Then we have to get rid of mill schools that send to mill comopanies who just want bodies and write off losses. I was to do a requiired amount of backs with my trainer, but because of the labor stealing CPM, my trainer lost money each and every time, so he ended up having me back about once, and try to get em all in at the empty lot at the terminal. School had us 50 students to a truck and you were lucky if you got in once a day Msany of us did not even get that. Doesn't matter causs that school and that comopany got their money. Then they just let you out tehre on your own. Gets worse when I was doing LTL, though I liked it better, but I'd drive from MA to like TX with the same trailer and the amount of backing up there ain't shit, it's wide open country. That being said those covered Chicago docks for 48s humbled me in mty full size with sleeper. Just know we're poor, we're being robbed, and we're NOT being trained.

@@SuperRat420 seems like it needs reform for sure but there’s also things individuals can do. When you go to a truck stop for the night practice backing up a couple of times. With the internet there’s tons of info out there to help. The schools and training may be subpar but that’s no excuse to say well I guess I’ll just be a subpar driver because they trained me poorly

@@joshcowart2446 no, I was picked up, there with the trainer doing live load for two weeks, then out on my own. Obviously didn't stay at that skill level but had some indicents early on basically because I had no training and was incentivezes by CPM to rush