Preventable accident?

That photo doesn't even tell the whole story. Look close. The truck was backing along on the grass for a good long ways from the right of the cameraman heading to the left. So the driver side tires must have been in the grass for at least fifty feet that we can't see in the photo. Then when the passenger side tires also get to the grass is where the pavement under the passenger side tires crumbles.

The "sideways" tire track - the one heading straight towards the cameraman and the crumbled pavement - doesn't even look like an actual track from driving. It looks like a "scoop" from a tire being dragged sideways as the trailer was being winched out by a tow truck off to the left of the cameraman.

So I bet the truck backed all the way onto the grass then tried pulling out forward and got stuck in the worst damaged part, then the tow truck came to winch it out, and it was probably during the winching that the pavement actually got crunched.

 

Very perceptive! We're you an accident investigator in a previous life?

 

Nothing that a shovel and a couple of minutes won't fix

 

Nope, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.

 

I have also driven a mixer. I also used to haul portland cement & Potash that had to be "blown" into the silos. I also have hauled aggregates for the company. I have been in situations where a large dozer and a steel cable was the only thing keeping me from falling down a hill. I agree with @REO6205 hauling concrete won't make you better or worse, but it will make you wiser or get you killed!

 

Ya but in my book, neither the time nor the cost of the repair is the issue. The issue is how far into his blind side 90 degree backing did the driver get before finally getting out and looking.

 

Apparently "All the way"

 

BTW.....I was paraphrasing the OP with the shovel comment.

 

Ya I didn't get it until later. But he left out one small detail, that being the thousand dollar phone call to the tow truck company.

 

None of that matters.......it wasn't his fault!