Though stories of animosity between drivers are all too common, occasionally a brave and selfless act like this one will help even the playing field. A driver recently put himself and his vehicle in an incredible amount of danger to help a fellow trucker who had lost control of her rig.
Both rigs were hauling water from a fracking site when the brakes on one of the trucks failed. Joe Delancy pulled his truck in front of the other and told the other driver to hit him, trying to use his own truck to slow down the other and bring it to a stop. It worked some, but not enough.
“She kept picking up speed and she hooked me right here and over we went,” said Delancy in an interview with WNEP.
Terry Stone, a construction worker who was at a house nearby ran down to the road when he heard the tires screeching. He pulled the other driver out of her truck after she had miraculously sustained only minor injuries.
“It was a mess,” he said. “She was in down in the bottom of the truck by the door and I had to get her out of there.”
When asked what he thought of Delancy’s actions, Stone responded that he thought it was pretty brave. “He wasted his own truck to save her because she wouldn’t have made it, nope.”
State police who arrived at the scene said that if it hadn’t been for Delancy finding a quick solution, the crash could have been much worse – and not just for the drivers. The woman’s truck came to rest right next to a mailbox, just 25 feet shy of a house.
Unsurprisingly, Delancy plans to take a few weeks off from trucking until he can figure out what to do next.
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Good job driver that’s the thing that every other driver should do HELP EACH OTHER instead of just driving past it and gabbing about it on the cb
That kind of selfless assistance to fellow truckers has all but faded away. Thank you for keeping the legacy alive .
So nice to read a good driving story!
Keep on trucking with c.b. on to listen out for emergencies. …help ah brother out or sister:)
Good job hand, nice to read this!
As a truckers wife I say thank you for what you did. I see there are still some real truckers out there.
This happened about 20 miles from where I live. I’m just glad nobody was killed. Very nice to see that he wasn’t just thinking of himself. Good job, driver. 🙂
It was men like this that inspired me as a kid to be a truckdriver. Back when women cour trust a trucker to change a flat along side the road for her and not fear for her safety. When truckers weren’t gun toting gangster wanabes looking for a fight. When men drove the truck not held a steering wheel relying on “safety systems” to stop them. When they thought of others first and might I add drivers didn’t have to fear for their safety if they stopped to help a motorist. GOOD JOB hand my hats off to you.
Great job driver. Why did her brakes failed? I can’t find it in the report>