Truck Uprooted Tree,Took Out Power Lines

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  1. mjd4277

    mjd4277 Road Train Member

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  3. cjb logistics

    cjb logistics Heavy Load Member

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    Where do they find these people? No #### wonder my insurance rates go up yearly.
     
  4. Anonymousproxy

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    If the idiot had stayed on front street he wouldve been back onto a main road or an interstate.
     
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  5. mjd4277

    mjd4277 Road Train Member

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    Article say there was road construction on that street. He may have gotten lost or overshot a detour.
     
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  6. lovesthedrive

    lovesthedrive R.I.P.

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    But my $1000 GPS said this is where I must go........
     
  7. FozzyNOK

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    They will be on here next week complaining that they were terminated after some minor damage and how unfair it is
     
  8. hotrod1653

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    You think he could’ve seen where he was going with those new headlights.

    Hey Charlie!!! Yeah Tate? Go grab the chainsaw!! We’s got us a truck to cut out the tree!!
     
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  9. Flat Earth Trucker

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    Some of these of road construction zones in towns offer a very poor or even nonexistent detour leading large vehicles into residential neighborhoods with narrow streets.

    Even happens on the interstates, too. I was in Denver a couple weeks ago and needed to get on I-70 from Havana street. There were so many A-frame barricades, cones, and traffic barrels at the on ramp, I crunched at least one cone.

    And Havana street is where the TA is, so they know #### well 65 foot trucks are going to need access through there. Nope. Instead they set up the cones and barricades to be passable lanes for cars, but not trucks.

    Anyways, that's one way to retire an old Columbia.
     
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  10. mjd4277

    mjd4277 Road Train Member

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    Actually that’s a Century Class truck.
     
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  11. Bud A.

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    The TA is on Quebec, not Havana, but I understand what you're saying. That stretch of I-70 is a mess. Honestly I quit worrying about their cones and barrels sometime last spring, since they always do that. I just hope I don't hit any debris that's going to flatten a tire.

    The best part is they keep changing it up as they make "progress" on their construction project. Now to get onto I-70 west from Quebec, you end up taking the frontage road for a mile or so to Colorado Blvd. Or at least that's the way it worked the last time I went through there. It might have changed since last week. It feels weird to say this, but you're generally better off getting onto I-270 to get out of that neighborhood.
     
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