Another excavator hits bridge

In Ur opinion if he layed the booms down would this problem been avoided?

 

Ahhhh yeahhhh!
Guy wasn't too bright.

 

Pretty sure thats where they came from as they are Komatsu's.

Yup it would have been 100% avoidable with the booms folded up as it would've lowered his height by a coule feet.

 

Per the wife: Since the overpass is closed most of the Walmart area traffic is coming over the old west side of downtown. Evidently it gets even more interesting when one of the many trains blows through town.

 

You guys do realize that 90 percent of the morons out there in Society can barely tie their shoes anymore .

I am currently at a marina with 500 boats . On a daily basis I witness Stupid people walking around almost off a dock or ran down by a transport cart because they are Entranced by their phone while they look for a Pooka Chu.


People are so stupid it's incredible.

 

Its a sad world we live in these days.

 

Pikachu

 

they really po the boat people when they feed the seagulls

 

From the look of the pics, he probably thought, this is the way I see them parked all the time.

HIGHKACK,

How much responsibility do shippers have? For a somewhat experienced driver like me, going to places like Keen where they have their stupid loading rules is annoying. Having to print your permit to show them it when electronic copy is legal in Texas or having one of their new kids try load a dozer up a steel deck rollback.

But I bet no one has ever hit a bridge after leaving Keen. You would think more shippers would care about their product to make sure it was shipped in a safe manner. If I'm paying you hundreds or thousands of dollars to ship my product, I want to know that you know how to do your job.

So where does the shipper's responsibility lie in a case like this? Could the state go after the shipper if the carrier's insurance was insufficient? What about the broker?

 

Once the load leaves a shipper, 100% responsibility falls on the driver. It's your baby. Anything goes wrong, you hang alone. Period.
For every driver that will do it right, you have a moron that will try to take short cuts, bootlegging loads. Keen isn't being strict because they're concerned about liabilities, they have another concern in mind.

A driver picks up a load going 500 miles on a Monday. Load is supposed to be delivered by Wednesday. Load is 9'6 wide. Easy bootleg. However, he has a drunk slam into the side of the trailer and the diesel bear that works that accident realizes that the load is 9'6 wide. What happens to the load?

"But why aren't shippers responsible, Six? They should be."

If shippers were responsible for their loads, they wouldn't allow their loads to be carried by any outside carriers. There wouldn't be any Keen Transport, only Caterpillar Logistics. There wouldn't be any WalMart trucks, just Johnson and Johnson and Proctor and Gamble Express. 50% of all miles on all trucks would be deadhead miles. Wouldn't be a cost effective way of shipping.