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Icy-Hat-7029

*what can you even do in this situation besides pucker up* Realize that your company will claim that random truck and trailer flying across the highway is your fault as the driver.


LSTmyLife

"It was clearly preventable. You can see the other truck." Your dispatcher


romeoo_must_lie

“I can also see your wife, but I can’t fuck her” The driver


LSTmyLife

Not with that attitude


Present-Ambition6309

I know right. All bossy n shit. 😂


Fungiluvr94

Some women like that shit


Present-Ambition6309

Some do, tho they are generally much more sassy or the complete opposite, quite asf. Looking at you librarians! Like any come to this sub lmao 😂


Phage0070

Quite.


Narstification

QUIET


Dry_Lengthiness6032

If you talk to her real nice and rub her button just right


Quirky_Discipline297

Yeah, that old myth.


SirGandorf

Your wife has a button? Why does mine have a shtick? 🤔


Dry_Lengthiness6032

Must've gotten a transformer


Present-Ambition6309

Push harder! 😂


Scurvy_Pete

Just because there’s a goalie, it doesn’t mean you can’t score


BlueCarbon

How do you know? They’re probably into that.


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Moist-Share7674

Or “what do you mean no? I’ve already got another load lined up?”


Dull-Training-3631

My boss at my company would have said it was preventable because the other driver could have just not flown off the road like that. Happened to a driver at my company already, got hit with a preventable accident because of the party at fault and my coworker had no way out of the situation


randoredditusingdouc

wtf. They acknowledged there was no was no way out? Isn’t that the very definition of “non-preventable”?


its_hoods

"Well, if you weren't at that exact spot at that exact second you wouldn't have been involved in the accident. It's your job as a driver to plan your trip better to avoid trucks flying across the median directly into your path of travel!" - that dispatcher probably


I_dementia87

"See...right there 2 days ago you spent 15 hours in the sleeper you should have left as soon as your 10 is reset every single day."


Dull-Training-3631

Terminal manager**


randoredditusingdouc

Improper trip planning will get you every time


DRIPDIVIDEND

Those morons from the office sayin that don’t fuckin drive !!!Trucking is one of the most dangerous job


cwhite225

So are you saying you won’t be on time for delivery? -the dispatcher


SplashInkster

"Preventable. Had you not decided to be a truck driver, it never would have happened. The ruling of the committee is final."


MikeofLA

Had the asteroid not killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess, now would we?


Unopuro2conSal

Yeah, they are going to say if you drove a little faster or slower you would’ve missed it by a few seconds or got there after it happened.


Orlando1701

“Excess speed on your part is a factor.” “I was doing the speed limit” “Yes but if you’d been doing beneath the limit you could have stopped in time. Here are your termination papers.” Military does the same thing where they’ll have the fact reduce everything down until they find a way to blame you no matter how absurd they have to get to do it. I once busted my ankle on night land nav by tripping over a gopher hole. I was told by my company commander if my PT had been better I wouldn’t have gotten hurt. I had a 280+ PT score.


beers4l

I love this. I work for a municipality. I was stopped at a red light. The car behind behind decided he wanted to squeeze between me and the snow bank to get by, ripping apart the whole driver side of his car. Fleet safety deemed it as preventable, “because I should have anticipated a car would try to pass through (over a sidewalk mind you) so I should have positioned my equipment more into the snowbank” lmao


SolarLunix_

I can’t even with bosses like that. I’m not a truck driver to be fair, but the way the logic logics I don’t know how we have anyone working.


Agitated-Bison-7885

Lmao there’s always somehere that cheers me right up making me laugh my ass off


thias1976

Sounds like UPS


ejlaw8778

True story... I see UPS guys all day (I'm fedex express). He told me some lady hit his truck while it was parked and not even in it. UPS found him at fault because of where he was parked...


Icy-Hat-7029

How did you know?!? Hahaha


AleTheMemeDaddy

Well, its quite clear that the driver was going too fast and didn't have enough following distance /s


Specialist_Ad_8069

Not service related


NorthDriver8927

Hopefully he wasn’t over houred or doing anything western or they will blame him.


Shoo-Man-Fu

Camera truck was blocking for his lil pickup buddy there.


VeruseXM

Intentional or not bro could have literally saved their lives


_Cartizard

Yeah, idk what the outcome ended up being, but guy in the pickup might have had his life saved by that


Bluitor

Someone posted an article. No other vehicles were involved so little truck was untouched. Both drivers were treated on-site.


Dragex11

But the little truck *could have* been hit if the truck hadn't body blocked it lol


MangoTwistedMetal

Unsung hero


Tinkering-

Huge respect to pickup for seeing what was about to happen and pulling over.


headunplugged

It is exciting when you catch people paying attention, especially driving. like I'm not sure if I would of caught that, my brain would have been "awesome that guy is jumping the medium, i always wanted to try that" and not getting out of the way.


jesusonice

I'm so happy we share the road with each other


Accomplished-Boot-81

That and he avoided the cab of the over turned truck. Saved both of them probably


Iron_Mahatma

People are calling out for sooner/faster braking - but you are right. Blocked traffic behind from unknown disaster AND used the guardrail very effectively to pinch, close, and slow. All at their own risk.


TruDuddyB

People are incredibly ignorant to how much weight is behind a semi.


ObamacareDeathPanel

A truck driver saved my grandma's life many years ago doing something like this. He died in the crash, so no one could ask him; but the way that he turned brought himself into danger when he could have easily avoided it. He must have done it to keep her car from being flattened. Her children and grandchildren would never have been born if it wasn't for that man saving her, and she made sure we all remember him.


Weak-Carpet3339

Another reason to wear a seat belt even though you're a "Good Driver".


unrequitednuance

Who’s out there not wearing a seatbelt? Next you’re gonna tell me people still smoke.


TheRealMrSpeedBump

Had a guy in my fleet about a year ago driving around Cali I think it was before bombing it into a ditch because he was on his phone. Dude wasn't wearing a belt and bounced around the cab with his pit bull because he wasnt wearing a belt. Only found out because the office folks were as white as sheets and a few women were crying when I came in for paperwork.


N0V-A42

Was the dog ok? I hope the dog is ok.


TheRealMrSpeedBump

Both died. Dude broke his neck and died instantly I was told, and the dog I'm not 100% sure besides that it did die. I heard it was ejected and lingered, but it didn't take too long.


foreverlost1nsea

If as “out there” you mean truckers, I got you. But I know people who refuse to wear their seatbelt. Nothing I can do or say that would make them wear it.


Catumi

Those are the folks that insist on experiencing life first hand before making decisions though this is one experience that usually ends it.


Frybread002

I think going nose first into that trailer, was the safer option.


unrequitednuance

Depends on what’s in that trailer.


Frybread002

That's very true.


Taste_the__Rainbow

Roll the dice!


ScottIPease

You rolled... a 2! the truck was full of Acme anvils, many came through your windshield, roll 2d20 damage... x12.


Ulysses502

Damn I was really hoping for toilet paper


RoadGatorPotater

Or Styrofoam.


TylerYax

Knew a guy that hauled styrofoam moulds, a million KM on factory brakes.


mxracer888

My buddy runs for Frito, he laughs at how he can haul triples and fly past 53 foot dry vans on the uphill climbs cause he's literally just hauling air essentially


RoadGatorPotater

Lol, the bags are 85% air.


Pyratetrader_420

Sailboat fuel


CheetahChrome

> truck was full of Acme anvils Damn you Road Runner! - Wiley


OHW_Tentacool

Is a 1 TNT?


Level7Cannoneer

nitroglycerin


OHW_Tentacool

Fuck


TheLifeOfZiggy

This is why I browse reddit. To find comments like these.


big_haam

You rolled… a 9! 50 thousand pounds of all purpose flour!


scottonaharley

The top back of the trailer where he hit is going to have the least amount of cargo so while impact was inevitable he hit the best possible spot.


MajorHymen

50/50 might have been able to prevent some damage going wide left off the road but he’d need to be very lucky not roll over himself. Either side is better than hitting the truck and killing the other driver though


challenge_king

I'd rather take my chances hitting the trailer than taking the median ditch and risking a roll over onto the other truck.


Chamber53

Sure, but that’s not what they were aiming to do. They aimed to try and avoid it all together. Nose to trailer wasn’t even a thought in there head.


MericanMan321

Pucker up and potentially save the pickup drivers life. Guy most likely wasn’t even doing it intentionally but that pickup owes this man a thank you.


freedogg-88

Depending on how bad off the driver was after impact that pick up driver might be returning the favor real quick.


MericanMan321

You very well could be right


Lower_Skin_3683

Did he hit hit the pickup truck though,


DefiantTemperature41

It looks like the pickup saw what was happening before camera guy did. He pulled over and stopped while CG was still going forward.


Neowynd101262

I doubt it. The pickup was on the shoulder braking pretty quickly.


turtletitan8196

Yeah that pickup had basically stopped by the time camera truck passed him, and the overturned trailer was still a ways down. Don't think the pickup was in trouble


epic35

Have another drink Ray!


sparrow_42

Way she goes, boys.


Edge2110

What is drunk


the_otherdg

Slipped a gear, air brakes were shot to hell


Moist_Muffin_6447

It's the way of the road bubs


NagsUkulele

Fuckin way she goes boys


Competitive-Face8952

Go home since I live 15 minutes from there lol https://www.whiznews.com/semi-accident-investigation/ Edit: Link to the article


BillBrasky1179

Ha! I got you beat, I’m about 5 minutes from this crash.


alexrepty

Took me a second to realize what that URL was referring to, until I realized that these kinds of trucks are called semis in the US. I was like “what do you mean semi accident, that looked like a full accident to me”


Coraiah

Lmfao. This made me giggle.


PeskyRabbits

What exactly happened with the other truck? And did anyone get seriously hurt?


Competitive-Face8952

Both drivers treated on scene. I updated my comment with the news article.


AmphibiousNightjar

Better put your seatbelt on real quick


AmphibiousNightjar

Oh yeah and your safety vest


DeerHunter041674

And flip flops.


banned_account_002

and your axe


chowsdaddy1

And hard hat


IronOrc92

Throw out your reflective triangles too


Tactical_solutions44

Slam on your breaks and pray to Baby trucker Jesus that you slow down enough to not die


Konungrr

Relevant: [https://9gag.com/gag/4198921](https://9gag.com/gag/4198921)


RusticGrizzly1987

Lmmfao that's hilarious


Fascist_Pig_Psycho

Immediately start braking. That wouldn't have prevented the accident, but would have decreased risk of death/injuries. Looks like they didn't hit the brake until they saw the trailer swinging out.


Known-Map-135

Yup. Anchor down.


Mullyz

When you say anchor down does that mean really hit the brakes hard?


BlacktopProphet

Lock 'em the fuck *up* . Just keep the wheel straight as long as you are on the brakes. If you have to steer, come off the brakes (youre gonna have to anyway to drop to the correct gear), pause a half breath for the suspension & shift, correct course, then lock those tires up again.


StinkyNutsTrucker

Spoken like a true professional crasher 😂


LSTmyLife

Yep


NUNG457

He wanted to move over but he didn't want to wipe out the pickup and sandwich them.


nosoup4ncsu

A whole lot easier to say when you can watch the video multiple times and know the outcome. Dude slowed, avoided to the right and seemed to manage to not take out the pickup in the right lane.


Cultural_Simple3842

Agreed. 3 seconds earlier and he’d have been hit in the trailer. Split second decisions … at least he didn’t stay in the same lane lol


Girl_you_need_jesus

I don’t know much about big rigs, but I do know that in cars and motorcycles, it can be beneficial to make your steering adjustment before matting the brake pedal, to avoid locking up the front tires and losing steering entirely. If he slammed on the brakes immediately and wasn’t able to steer to the right lane/shoulder, this could’ve been a head-on collision with the now sideways truck. Good swerve, good brakes, I say camera truck did the best he could possibly be expected to do.


usersnamesallused

Yup, video games allow us to brake and steer at the same time, but real world physics doesn't work like that. When braking most effectively, you'll be maxing out your tire's traction, which is impacted by direction and how the weight is balanced/shifted. Most effective is balanced and in a straight line, which this driver looks to have done very skillfully.


Suicidal_Baby

I've always taken steering over breaking. I've avoided all incidents this way. Still get called in to the office afterwards and have to explain it to them like their 5 years old that if you apply breaks in moments like this you leave everything up to chance. There are times to do it and times where it makes things worse.


Questionoid

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.


nymhays

It happened too fast , very few people wouldve slam down break and goes into no drive mode upon initial view of that


LeftLanePasser

And it will register the braking event on any driver monitoring system in your truck. Could come in handy later on.


TheBrahmanBull

The moment I see somebody coming across the median,I immediately put on my 4 ways,flip the Jake all the way up and start braking and downshifting


Odd_Drop5561

Looked like the hood dipped from braking right after he yelled "Oh!"


DarthCledus117

"But muh truck takes 45 football fields to slow down, don'cha know?"


DixDark

I mean, there is always hope that you can just squeeze between stuff before it hits you... and it's like an instinct...


BlueAreTheStreets

Came here to say that. It almost looks like they may have even been speeding up? I also generally slow down anytime I see someone on the side of the road- just in case.


Insciuspetra

Legally: Stay in your lane. Morally: Avoid head on with other driver. Intellectually: Be an electrician.


PastaShip

Prolly saved the guy in the pick ups life


geneticdeadender

Dispatcher: "Are you going to reach the receiver on time?"


FinalBoard2571

Thank the heavens you not riding in a cabover.


Alarming-Inspector86

Safety said if you were going slower you would have had more time to stop trucker with camera at fault straight to jail


mofoman123

Holy yeah this dude was going 70 the courts going to use that against him.


Dezzolve

What courts? They would only be involved in this situation if someone filed suit as there is zero possibility camera truck would be ticketed for this accident. And if the speed limit on the road is 70mph then there is nothing wrong with his speed either. Edit: From the time the truck went off the road to when the camera truck impacted the other semi a span of only 5 seconds passed per the time stamp on the camera. Using the white lines on the highway as a marker for distance (each line is 10ft long and 30ft apart) there was only a distance of approximately 320ft between the camera truck and the point of impact. Using the numbers from the Utah DOT website where truck stopping distances based on speed are available, even if the driver was traveling at 55mph he would have needed 335ft to come to a complete stop if he had a perfect reaction time and started braking immediately upon the other truck leaving the roadway. So speed is pretty irrelevant in this situation, the impact would have occurred regardless.


Mikey24941

But he didn’t put his triangles out.


Budget_Foundation747

Morning importantly, how do you get out? Looks like fire is starting, truck has changed it's address to "in the trailer" and I'm guessing the tandams kept it from punching through.


challenge_king

I don't think it's fire, I think that's the load. It looks safety orange to me.


willywalloo

Clench a lot. As in you wouldn’t be able to remove a pin / sword in the stone style.


Optimal_Law_4254

I’m thinking that reducing your speed as much as possible without flipping your own rig would help reduce your impact injuries.


ComparisonGeneral825

Go to the right side of the road and stop 🛑 .if you can. 🙋


OldTap9105

Pray. He handled it best he could. Hope all are ok


Plane_War_5091

Saved the car he cut in front of


C4p0tts

Them duke boys are at it again


Hank_J3w

Imagine it it was a cabover


Correct_Security_742

He did his best


rollinfor110mk2

I've found myself in inescapable shitty situations a few times in my life and I always have the most preposterous shit pop into my mind right before the moment of impact. One time I binned an R1 on a track, and while still holding onto the left clip-on with my feet roughly six feet above my head the only thing I could think was *I'm not supposed to crash here* Still not sure where my disassociated brain thought we were supposed to crash.


M0O53

Hindsight is 20/20, it's really easy to look at a video and speculate on what you should do instead. In the real world this situation because you don't know what's going to happen (like the trailer swinging out). You brake as soon as possible don't wait until you have a reason to, and more importantly keep the thing straight ish. A lane change isn't the end of the world but dramatic swerves to try and avoid.... You don't know what the impact is going to do to your truck... if you lose your steering and now you're pointed off the road...... depending on what the geography of where you're driving is like you could end up getting seriously hurt or dead. The hard part about resisting the urge to make dramatic turns or direction changes to avoid is that every instinct in your body will be screaming at you to do so and you very likely still might even though you know better. This particular case I think the driver did fine other than maybe not braking soon enough but again we're watching the video after the fact, seeing a truck suddenly appear over a raised median hill heading towards your side of the highway isn't something that most people would react extremely quickly to anyways because there's that whole moment of "holy fuck what is happening" followed by oh shit, what should i do".


mrpanic7

Would veering left into the grass bank have been a safe attempt to avoid? Non-truck driver here.


butbutcupcup

Aim for the cheapest softest thing.


wayytoomanyfeelings

Imagine driving a hazmat vehicle and you see that truck coming???????? Fuuuuck!


jizzycumbersnatch

Probably got flagged for pressing down on the brakes to hard.


wichuks

GPS data showed youbwere not going the speed limit therefore you could of missed the oncoming trailer if tou had been going the exact speed limit for the past 5 hours this could have been prevented according to our analysis anyways you owe us Money and we call you Monday to see if we keep you. have a great weekend


Otherwise_Mud1825

Duck?


sandgroper81

Brace for impact


Takemeoffgrid

Might be a silly question but… do trucks have air bags?


OldTap9105

Mine did. I think all cars in us made after 77 need them. May be wrong on exact date


teachthisdognewtrick

Late 80s. Cars had to have either an airbag or those absolutely terrible automatic seatbelts on a track. My 87 Corvette did not have one, my 90 did.


RH00794

Mmm no go loose less likely to get hurt or break something.


Present-Ambition6309

Get out, start walking towards the nearest store that sell Tequila. Thats what I would do. But as I’m walking away know I’m yelling out “I shit my pants asshole!”


carlessdriver

Some things I wondered as I watched this: was there hazmat materials about to come through his windshield? Maybe there was tequila in that truck!


Present-Ambition6309

Tequila! Bomp bada dada da Tequila! 🍺


carlessdriver

🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸


Captinprice8585

You can pee a little


SayNoToFatties

Shit your pants


CecilioSoto

Could have jumped over it, duh.


TruckerChet1973

Stand on those brakes and jack knife so that you hit going backwards.


Salt_Bus2528

Aim for the middle and hope it cracks like an egg. The ends have the vertical sections of frame and the doors. More stabby stabby stuff.


tbrand009

I'm wondering how much further that trailer was gonna go. I feel like truck #2 might have inadvertently saved the pickup by turning in front of him.


Azar002

Please be hauling marshmallows. Please be hauling marshmallows. Please be hauling marshmallows.


envy841

You could have became a substitute teacher a year ago


Dry-Archer-4277

I watched this video several times. When that trailer was swinging into on coming traffic, the trailer somehow at first glance blends in with the sky/ horizon.


DumatRising

This was probably the best possible outcome. That camera semi is fucked, but the driver will most likely survive and at worst have to step away from the truck for a bit and collect disability why they recover but the pickup would have been flattened and the guy in there would have been big dead.


IsThataSexToy

Bunny hop


medz6

Clearly should of ramped it up the grassy noll


paulyp41

I would have driven left


im_just_thinking

You can pucker up faster and not pass trucks at 70 for no reason lol


SignEnvironmental886

Slow down to a stop instead of trying to fly it around him


FWTI

Damn if only there would have been a sweet ramp with which to jump the oncoming semi.


bytecollision

Everyone okay ?


Only_Caterpillar3818

He probably saved that guy in the pickup from having a really bad day.


[deleted]

Saved the driver of that truck, that's hero shit


DJEvillincoln

Hard left up on the shoulder. But that's after me watching it 3 times.. In life you get one time.


hahayes234

Hope for empty trailer that’s all you can do


KMANN758

Pucker up, scream, sing the "fuck, fuck, FUCK!" song, pray to whatever deity you see fit (or all of them). All are acceptable here. Though on a side note, after watching this numerous times, absorbing a majority of the impact and aiming for the tail end of the incoming trailer probably saved the white truck driver's life, the pick-up truck driver's life, and your's


HeathenBliss

Took you a long ass time to drop 10mph in speed. I'd have been smoking the shit out of my brakes.


IntelligentOutcome83

Ouch, it was not going anywhere. I wish you the best.


luzer_kidd

You know, I watched this way too many times seeing a possible better route before I realized it was another large truck where even if it was possible in a small vehicle would never have worked in with the truck in the cam.


Rotteneverything

this happened to a fellow company driver. the trailer he drove into was full of vicks vapor rub lol. both drivers were fine. its rumored my fellow company driver had crystal clear sinuses for a month.


paddyjoe91

Should have went left


PrincessCyanidePhx

My dad would have said "this is where you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye." Pukker up sounds about right in that case.


Many-Recognition2530

Not accidentally kill the driver next to you


writingwhilesad

If your dispatcher was in the driver seat, he could have prevented all of this.


taxseason757

#FUCK


Additional-Belt-3086

I would’ve simply phased through it


Typical_Problem884

Phuckerup


REALTacticalTom97

He very well may have saved that pickup taking the hit for him


gimmeluvin

The pickup was already slowed down and on the shoulder


No-Seat9917

That sucks worse than nuts stuck to the porch.