Trucker in FL dangles off overpass trying to make an impossible turn

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  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Three wreckers go all over and all around him.

    I thought about it a little bit.

    Let's say the one black wrecker sat on a 4 inch curbing divide probably where the bad driver came out of. The punch in the outer cement wall plus litter down on spilled fluids indicate he may have tried to turn into that little curved ramp with the idea to either shove or crush the triangle collision bulkhead.

    Only he did not come into it right. If I wanted to do that I would have started that turn with the trailer tandems in the far right side/edge just beyond the collision bulkhead and swing in there. However Im seeing posts and other things that are in the way. So.. scotch that.

    Ive gotten tight a time or two here and there and got out of it not very easily. It's my own inexperience self that did it.
     
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  3. lilillill

    lilillill Sarcasm... it's not just for breakfast

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    Exit 50
     
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  4. lilillill

    lilillill Sarcasm... it's not just for breakfast

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  5. x1Heavy

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    That interstate must be kryptonite to some new or bad drivers they see it must put truck right there on taht interstate, Looking around I see a few more options grid searching to get back on that interstate.
     
  6. stayinback

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    How did the old man get to solid ground from that cab?

    Did he wait for the FD with a Ladder? Or did he use his mattress and Carpet piloted that thing down to the RR tracks?
     
  7. lilillill

    lilillill Sarcasm... it's not just for breakfast

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    Not a chance in hell would I have crawled across that ladder.

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  8. TROOPER to TRUCKER

    TROOPER to TRUCKER Anything Is Possible

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    And this was professionals?
     
  9. x1Heavy

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    I would.

    The most stupid thing we ever did was climb the Maryland Heights at Harpers Ferry, 1100 feet straight up to where the Confederates put Artillery and left grafitti in stone above the rail tunnel in 1863 before antietam. And back down again.

    Worse case scenario with that ladder is drop. You have to go sometime.
     
  10. UsualSuspect

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    Just my observation, but from looking at the video and where he finally breaks, looking at Google and the number of signs on the freeway and the offramp, as well as on the offramp warning of the right turn only, he is either the most inattentive driver in the world, or he fell asleep and woke up at the last second. I have a hard time believing anyone could mistake the offramp for the express lane, especially when you look at the Google streetview and see all the signage. Either way, I am guessing he is looking for a new job.
     
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  11. x1Heavy

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    No job for him. No sir.

    Anyone else wanna think so?
     
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