TRUCKERS: Should RXR (o)=(o) flash SIX seconds before gates begin to descend?

It was a she, her and her dog get out safely.

 

Wonder why it is that people never get it that Big Weight always crushes Little Weight?

 

As far as time between the lights flashing and the arm coming down, the longer the better, to a pointe of course. Some of these tracks crossing highways, you're trying to stop in a hurry. When you see a track like that, best bet is to be ready to grab some brakes, at the least, get off the gas.

 

I spent about 30 hours working on a fake video, making a frame-by-frame animation with Photoshop, trying to automate as many tasks as possible and it still took me 30-some hours for a 45 second video. I set my camera down in the rural road I live on and ran it over with the truck, straddling it between the tires, for that low angle approach scene. Then I set the camera down between the rails on these tracks by my house and took a still photograph looking down the tracks. Going frame-by-frame I made it look like I was driving the truck down the railroad tracks.
I e-mailed it to the boss and titled it "stunt driving". My phone was ringing 5 minutes later and he was almost SCREAMING into the phone. It took like 5 minutes before I could even interrupt him and tell him it was fake. I mean he must have been breathing fire! Then it took him several weeks before he would even acknowledge it was funny.

 

I was almost one of those videos on youtube a couple weeks ago, 4 track crossing on 287 in colorado, i was movin about 25-30 and the lights came on as my steers hit the first track. Was smart enough NOT to be the guy on youtube who panics, jams the brakes, and gets stuck on all 4, but my trailer barely cleared the arms of the last set.

 

There's some orange barrel stuff going on about a mile down the road I live on. They're digging holes on Tuesdays and filling them in on Wednesdays, thus stimulating the economy.
Anyway this low-boy hauling a dozer got stuck on the rails at this crossing by my house. I saw it while I was just getting home from the road. Trains come by at 5:30 PM and I remember it was like 4:45 PM or something. I came back with my farm tractor to try pushing but it didn't do nothing but spin it's tires and scratch up his trailer. He was about to call the phone number on the RRX sign when I got the idea, I got under his trailer and broke off the rubber boot thing on his air ride leveler valve linkage and moved the control arm to overinflate his air bags, raising it about 3 inches. That wasn't good enough so we did the same with the one on his tractor. Then he was able to get off the tracks. I went home, came back with my pickup and jury-rigged the broken air ride control rod linkages with hose clamps and he was on his way. No cops, no fines, no train crash.

 

Well it's wonderful that you helped the driver get off the tracks and then repaired his truck, but the real problem was between his ears and I'm not sure how you can fix that!

 

He was following the directions to jobsite given to him by the contractor whose machine he was hauling, and had been told that a low-boy WILL clear those tracks. There's an independent contractor who lives right there by those tracks and I've seen him pull his own low-boy over those tracks plenty of times before with no trouble. Not sure what was different about this guy who got stuck.

Also, what I forgot to mention before is that after his truck was off the tracks, we both set our heads down on the rails and "eyeballed" them to make sure he didn't shift the rails sideways, as that could cause a derailment. Tracks were perfectly straight so we got the hell outta there.