jumping out of the moving truck?

I'm kinda new to the net, but i gotta say "ILMAO" Hope i got that right... But practice jumping...? Come on now, I,m all about preperation but you can't be serious. Speaking of which... yeah, conventional wisdom dictates the safest place is of course belted in the driver's seat. Hypotheticals are fun, if ya don't take them too seriously. See what ya started Attrinal, now i got (what might be) an abstract thought. Stand by 4 new thread.

 

Unless you are a Steven's driver in the dumb and dumber training teams! I know a guy that was riding shotgun in their dumb and dumber policy (two newbies paired as teams after training with their own trainers) They were going down a mountain at the speed of sound. Seems the driver did not learn that part in training. Tried to downshift going down and found Georgia Overdrive!

 

Oh man! I hope they made it down okay.

 

They did. The co-driver referred to the driver as the person whose parents weren't married at birth. You ought to have heard the whole story. Got pretty interesting!

 

That's what I was thinking too. I know I couldn't live with myself if my truck went on and killed a family and I was just sitting on the side of the road dazed.

Maybe his school should play the song Phantom 309!

 

AFAIK, about the only reason to jump out of the truck would be if you were running the ice roads in the Great White North and your rig started sinking. At that point, I believe I'd be out of that truck so fast it'd prove Einstein wrong about the speed of light!

 

They think this guy jumped. Shame they can't ask him because he got himself killed.

"At approximately 3:15 p.m. Adkins lost control of the water truck on the steepest part of the roadway. The vehicle traveled through the berm on the right side of the road, proceeded nearly parallel to the roadway along a 35-degree slope for a distance of approximately 75 feet, and violently nosed onto a pond access road. The vehicle then overturned down a second slope, contacted a rock drain, and overturned a final time. The truck came to rest on the passenger side approximately 150 feet from the mine road. Adkins either jumped or was thrown from the vehicle during the accident. The victim's cap was found on the berm on the west side of the pond access road. The victim was found on the outer slope of the pond access road 40 feet below his cap."

http://www.msha.gov/FATALS/1999/FTL99C09.HTM

 

Yea so the moral of the lesson is stay belted in UNLESS you hit and kill someone else then jump out of the truck...... Don't forget to pop the brakes first.

 

I'd still like to see some of that 'proper' jumping out of your truck!