Ice flying from truck injures Pa. ambulance driver

I totally agree... Those lovely fibreglass-roof dry vans... mmm, what would my boss say if I accidentally put my foot through a panel? Not to mention the medical coverage, and lost time if I fell? Not going to happen I dont think.

 

minipins are you talking about the rolling stairs they have at the truck washes, Lowes, Home depot?

I have a question .....I thought all cars, trucks ect had to have safety glass so items could not come through the windshield? I know ice is heavy and the pysics behind two objects colliding. But I never would have dreamed ice could come through a windshield.

 

No, these are fixed in place and don't move at all.

 

Safety glass or no, if there is enough weight and enough speed it can come through.

 

That's becuase your not important... your just a truck driver, haven't you learned that yet lol...


At the end of last winter PA was pulling trucks over left and right for snow being on top of trl's. I forget what the ticket amount was for but i am thinking around $200.....

Look it is impossible for a driver to clean this off...
example:
You pick up a preloaded trl that has been sitting a few days while it has been in bad weather.. you hook to the trl and then you are pulled over..

NO it is not recommended by any manufacturer to walk on the roof of a trl.. it is not designed to be walked on period..

The only way to get this off is to have the trl washed... this would mean every shipper would have to build a on site wash site... You think that is going to fly?

You get to the shipper and you see the trl has snow on top... So, you refuse the load claiming its unsafe to pull cause of the snow... you know as well as I do you would be written up or possibly lose your job... Not to mention if you wasn't fired you would sit a few days before they gave you another load costing you alot of money...

If it is such a BIG issue then they need to install TRL cleaners at every scale house to insure that every trl would be safe....

 

Sounds about right, sue a trucker, but if it is a 4 wheeler; nothing we can do it is an act of God.

 

Are we talking a scrapper like this?



Of course my fav is simply like this...
[video=youtube_share;xZSEzG7k3Bw]http://youtu.be/xZSEzG7k3Bw[/video]

-Steven

 

I've seen a water-balloon thrown from an overpass go through a car windshield. You would think the balloon would just break, and not cause any damage.

 

I've used a ladder from the dockplate (pull the trailer about a foot forward from the dock) to climb up there or had a guy lift me up on a pallet with a forklift. But I don't make a habit of it and I don't recommend doing it anyway.

I've always said the trailer roofs should be crowned to prevent snow accumulation from melting and pooling and then freezing, thereby forming large pieces of ice. The center only needs to be half an inch higher than the sides to allow drainage. It wouldn't solve all of the problem, but most of it.

 

What'd the the guy in the video have, like seven feet of snow on top? I'd be scared to even attempt to drive, much less turn, with that much weight on top.