USXpress challenges train - and loses.

He must be using a seeing eye dog with bad vision insurance?

 

Yeah it is all speculation until you know what happened. I was just messin around.

 

I fought the train and I LOST

 

I think I understand the scenario how this happened, and I'd put some blame on the company on the north side of Oak Street for not having clear signage:

1. The customer is the one on the north side of Oak Street.

2. The driver is following his GPS, which has the address pegged as the SECOND entrance for cars only with a sign that says "No Trucks" just before the train tracks. There are no signs at the truck entrance 150 yards back to indicate either the business name or that it is the truck entrance.

3. He comes to a complete stop or almost stops after seeing the "No Trucks" on the second business entrance and after passing the sign that indicates limited truck size ahead. He's already too far to make a turn around without backing up to get in the business on the south side.

4. He starts across the tracks and misses a gear.

Bad scenario all around. Oak Street west of the tracks at the top of the hill has a No Trucks sign headed westbound, but then has a sign telling trucks eastbound there's a 12% grade and sharp curves ahead... which means that neighborhood must have a lot of trucks going through it that are trying to get to those customers, and I'd wager that quite a number of those trucks are in the neighborhood because of piss poor signage on the part of the companies.

 

Mrs Gump was right...............

 

That train must have been crawling to get stopped only ~100 feet beyond the crossing.

I had an old GF in HS that was hit by a train as a passenger with her new boyfriend after I left for the military ("stuck" on the tracks, by "traffic"). Among her injuries, half her face was sliced off, and IIRC the train pushed them 400' down the tracks. It was estimated to be doing 4 mph at impact.

She must have had a great plastic surgeon, she was actually prettier afterward... and rich.

 

Many's the time the GPS routes me past a truck entrance. Always a good idea to use Google Street View before arriving if possible, but sometimes I'm "running and gunning" and don't get the chance. It would be best if companies using O TR drivers put up clear signage.