No Habla

"Psst.. hey mac... $500 bucks and you got a CDL."

Or if you were in Florida awhile ago you could have gotten one for $750. Until they were shut down.

 

let's forget about the "no habla english, senoir".............

what's the deal about lifting the RR Xing arm.........????

just because you had "hold it up" tells me that it was supposed to stay DOWN.....!!!

are you that crazy.........??? just because there wasn't a train for what you claim to be 15 minutes or so, what's to say there wasn't anything on those tracks (repair crew for instance) that set off the Xing arms to come down.......?? you should have played it smart(er) and called 911 or the local police, or even the Rail Road company, as most have phone numbers nearby, stuck onto the control box, usually located near the road........????????


i think you need to understand the severe danger you could have put yourself through...........


and, had at any time ANYTHING struck you. you would have been at fault..............

right now, my belief is that the non-english speaking driver, was smarter than you.........

RR Xing arms come down for a reason...............or weren't you ever taught that.........???


no, i think you made the mistake of starting this thread about a non - english speaking person, and have put yourself on the proverbial chopping block............you lost this one..................

 

In the state of Illinois that would have cost you your CDL for a year........Many other states are stiffrning the penalty for disobeying a RR crossing. Rightfully so............

 

He would have only lost his license for a year? Should have been forever in my opinion....This was just plain nuts!

 

Pro you posted exactly what I was thinking. It's actions like his that causes accidents between trucks and cars for that matter. And guess what? The train is always the winner.

 

As I was reading this, I had the EXACT thoughts that pro1driver did. Who in their right mine takes it upon themself to blatenly disobey a railroad crossing arm? There are HUNDREDS of video on the internet of STUPID drivers (truck and 4-wheeler) who put themselves and numerous others at risk, if not even killed themselves, as a result of this INSANE act.

Three years ago while in trucking school, we had a representative of Union Pacific Railroad give us a presentation about railroad safety. Eventhough it eventually got annoying, throughout his presentation he was trying to bestow up us the importance of railroad safety by constantly asking us, "What time is it?" The answer he was looking for was, "Train time!" The point of this exercise being to beat it into our collective thick skulls that ANYTIME you are approaching a railroad crossing, you should treat that crossing as if there was a train approaching regardless of any warning signals.

I'm wondering how the driver who originally posted this got HIS CDL? I don't mean to offend, but really man, that's just plain STUPID!

 

On another note... wow first red reputation square I've seen. :O

 

LOL Rev there was another red square a member got but he has been since banned.

 

I've been in that situation where the crossing guards were down across a highway but there was no train, no crew, nothing. It was when I was working for Pepsi. It was a railway that was owned by Phelps Dodge that they use to carry copper ore from the mines up near Silver City to the UP mainline in Deming. I went around the gates since the road crossed the tracks at an angle, which left enough space for a truck to get around. After I got around I drove up to the Phelps Dodge railroad control center and let them know about the crossing guard.