LOL WHAT IS THIS!? How does this happen? And is this fake?

In NY it is required on the yearly safety inspection to have a light in the cab that comes on when the dump bed is up.
Also I can tell you when loaded and the dump bed is up like that at road speed you sure as hell can feel that somethings not right.
Also I can tell you that driving down the road at road speed with a pto engaged makes the most god awful sound you can imagine.
Or if the pto were some how able to fall in to gear while going down the road they also make a horrific grinding sound.
No excuse for this to have occurred in my opinion.

 

Had this happen in Detroit a couple years back, killed the driver.

 

Was that the one that hit a pedestrian bridge and knocked it down completely?

 

First time I tried to engage a PTO without engaging the clutch brake two things happened. The PTO didn't engage and I nearly crapped my pants from the noise.

I've only used PTO's on pneumatics. I'm having difficulty understanding how the PTO could engage when driving down the road, unless it wasn't disengaged?

 

You wont believe what a professional.. erm driver does not see going on back there sometimes.

Hell, Ive gotten through some things I never saw coming. Sometimes waking up just enough to write the state line miles down and then dozing off following that convoy... dreaming about that red trailer light in front. Scary.

You can bet that driver did not do that for fame and fortune. I don't think he will be driving for a while after that.

 

it's real, he wasn't paying Any attention and took for granted it was locked down.

 

I'll smile and take the teasing from you. No problems.

I just worry now that today's trucks have gotten TOO Plush and easy to sleep in while it does the driving for you.

The PTO is generally inside of the shift column towards your airride seat. It can be real easy to knock it with a stanley coffee thermos or something as you go down the road. Up she goes just a little bit...

 

That’s for sure.
If you engage it with out putting the clutch in it sounds like you are stripping every gear in the transmission.
If you take off and forget to disengage it it sounds like an air raid siren.
This had to be one of those drivers that rides around with ear buds in their ears.