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This happened to my coworkers
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by allis327, Nov 22, 2014.
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I having issues posting after the link but
They are both ok
The semi was hit in the trailer.
The tractor implement was 24.5' wide and the road was 26' wide at that point between the guard cables.
It was dark and the tractor was the only thing with lights.
I was lucky we left our semi at the job site as they usually follow me. My boss and I were about 10 cars ahead of them and saw the tractor and there were actually two of them.
When they loaded the implement on the semi to get it off the road it hung four feet off the pass side of the trailer.
Bad deal, Dot says he gets fines all year just pays the fines (mega farmer) he fired a bunch of people involved in this but someone could have easily died from this.
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Thanks for the post. Glad your coworker is okay...This kinda crap really sucks big time. I also noticed the brain surgeon running the equipment was only 20 rears old....Great friggen idea!!! [/disgust-sarcasm]
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24.5 feet wide, he may pay fines but I'd sue his ______ off, I grew up on a farm and moved a lot of implements when I worked for a John Deere dealer, but never pulled anything down a highway big enough to block both lanes. (Well, there was the time I moved the 24 row planter, but it just took up all of main street, not a state highway.
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Well, you know what they used to say.."speed kills and so does a Slow farmer"
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I thought of this thread a few nights ago as I drove north on US-81 past Belleville, KS just after midnight. Temperatures hovered just above freezing with intermittent fog. I just came through a patch of thin fog and barely made out dim tail lights ahead, going slow in the right lane. I initiated a lane change and THEN saw a dirty, barely visible reflective triangle above the dirty tail lights. THEN I saw that it was a harvesting machine hanging well into the passing lane and into the shoulder.
This was a harvesters pulled by a pickup in the middle of the night without adequate lighting or reflectors. Fortunately he pulled over into the shoulder to give me room to pass. We need to be vigilant in farming country at all times of day. -
well somehow it will end up to be the truck drivers fault and utimately will be paying the price.
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They are both doing fine. The implement caught the semi trailer and slammed into the pick up.
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