look what I did!
damn, I was almost going to make that deadline
Hmmm. Unlevel crossing?
I’ll bet the driver graduated from, the since shut-down and operator fined, Sunrise Driving School “with honours”
I’ll bet they plagarised the master card add in their school price list
Class 1 Certificate Licence Pass $5,000
Medical pass grade $1,000
Medical pass & cover up pre-existing
medical conditions $10,000
Honours rating $1,500
Log book fudging training $5,000
Finding out tractor trailers
make poor off road vehicles “priceless”
I’m curious to know what the story is behind this accident. There doesn’t appear to be a road anywhere nearby.
Tracks in snow are at an angle. No good.
Approach at right angle and with sufficient speed to promote a natural arc, thereby avoiding trailer buckle and clearing tracks.
Trailer separation while aloft is a severe potential risk, however. = TG
Iberia, it looks like a two-lane road (or a divided four-lane) on the right side of the photo and it looks to be a few feet higher than the railbed. I’m guessing he hit a patch of ice, spun out, slid down the small slope, onto the tracks and then over the edge.
Story = HEAVY FOG. Truck is travelling North. The northbound road “t”s into an east-west road. In the heavy fog, he missed the intersection, went into the ditch, and attempted to climb out of the backslope of the ditch. Unfortunately, said backslope is in reality the roadbed of the CP mainline. So he didn’t make it out of the ditch and back over. Sometimes, life’s got a nasty sense of haha.
This happened in Brandon, MB. Where the dangerous goods bypass meets the “low road to Shilo”. About 200 metres to the left side of that truck there is a level crossing. About 70 metres directly behind him is the road he overshot. Guess he shoulda stopped instead of trying to power out of the ditch. Hindsight is usually 20/20.
Those tracks were not these this morning. Nope. Snort.
he’s resting
I received this email with the message…
Seeking job as Oilfield Operator.
According to the person that sent this, the driver had been in Canada a few months. He had missed his turn by Brandon Mb.and figured he could go over the hill and continue on the road. Apparently he didn’t know there were railway tracks on top of the grade. The truck owner figured he had to hit the angle at 55 mph in order to make the top.
New to the country? Hmmm. Then I guess that would rule out my theory that the guy with the John Deere and the air-seeder took a truck driving job for the winter. 😉
I’m a railroad engineer at Brandon. We see this sort of thing on a regular basis.
Here is the text that came with several photos that a friend emailed me today:
Seeking job as oilfield operator.
According to the person who sent this, the driver has only been in Canada a few months. He had missed his turn by Brandon Mb. And figured he could go over the hill and continue on the road. Apparently he didn’t know there were rail tracks on top of the grade….. The truck owner figures he had to hit the angle at over 55 miles an hour in order to make the top. If you look close at some of the pictures you will see that it is only when the large reefer trailer pinched the rear tires of the truck that the truck stopped……
I had a guy operating a small packer for me a couple of years ago . Going back and forth and forth and back was too complicated for him . We let him go . Two weeks later he was driving a Kenworth pulling a b-train . I fear semis now .
As we would say in the army. “WTF OVER”?
Breaking!!
Liberal sources are disclosing that there were additional elements to the Cadman bribe!
In addition to offering a patient in the final stages of terminal cancer a one million dollar insurance policy, Harper is reported to have offered Cadman a unicorn, and a magical forest in which to ride his new beast.
Although experts unanimously agree that unicorns, magical forests, and million dollar insurance policies for terminal cancer patients, don’t actually exist, Liberal insiders are firm with their allegations.
Said one source close to Dion:
“Look, if Harper can manage to hold onto power for over two years, pass three budgets, a crime bill and maintain his Afghan position, with three left leaning parties holding more seats than the CPC, he can certainly produce unicorns, and insurance policies for dying patients.”
Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail is sending its crack team to investigate the obviously legitimate concerns of Conservative unicorn production. Stay tuned.
Looks like a land claim negotiation in progress.
First gear is a bitch.
Wonder if the driver’s one of those Mexican truckers?
Wonder if it’s a member of Al Qaeda, y’know, on of those who’ve gotten a fake tractor-trailer licence?
Of course, it’s even more likely that the driver is just stupid as hell. I bet he’ll make Spike TV, y’know, one of those “WTF!” or “You Gotta See This!” shows about complete morons who do the dumbest things and sustain squished balls, broken arms, crushed skulls, etc…
Or maybe “Canada’s Most Incompetent Truckers”…
Train tracks appear shiny as opposed to rusty,you know what that means dont you?
Driver: “I was just crusing along in a bit of fog,listening to PBS from the States on this here radio, when I heard that Obama fella yell ‘YES YOU CAN’, followed by all that there cheering.”
Officer: “OK, so how does that explain this little scene before us?”
Driver: “Well, I figured WHAT THE HELL, YES I CAN! So I hauled her down a couple a gears and tried it. I don’t think that dumb sum a bitch could do it either.”
If this had happened in the US, the trucking company would be suing the railroad for not properly marking its right-of-way (every linear foot, both sides, illuminated, multilingual….)as being hazardous to vehicular traffic.
Really. I know of one case where a drunk got off a train at about 3 AM, walked into a metal signalling equipment case, and then sued because it wasn’t lit up (it was painted silver) and didn’t have safety guards for people who might walk into it.
And he won.
For those who are Google Earth enthusiasts, I think this is the location:
49 51 28.93 N, 99 52 18.73 W
(Those are degrees, minutes, seconds without the symbols but GE’s search field doesn’t care; it works fine without them.)
…try explaining this one to the boss and insurance company.
look what I did!
damn, I was almost going to make that deadline
Hmmm. Unlevel crossing?
I’ll bet the driver graduated from, the since shut-down and operator fined, Sunrise Driving School “with honours”
I’ll bet they plagarised the master card add in their school price list
Class 1 Certificate Licence Pass $5,000
Medical pass grade $1,000
Medical pass & cover up pre-existing
medical conditions $10,000
Honours rating $1,500
Log book fudging training $5,000
Finding out tractor trailers
make poor off road vehicles “priceless”
I’m curious to know what the story is behind this accident. There doesn’t appear to be a road anywhere nearby.
Tracks in snow are at an angle. No good.
Approach at right angle and with sufficient speed to promote a natural arc, thereby avoiding trailer buckle and clearing tracks.
Trailer separation while aloft is a severe potential risk, however. = TG
Iberia, it looks like a two-lane road (or a divided four-lane) on the right side of the photo and it looks to be a few feet higher than the railbed. I’m guessing he hit a patch of ice, spun out, slid down the small slope, onto the tracks and then over the edge.
Story = HEAVY FOG. Truck is travelling North. The northbound road “t”s into an east-west road. In the heavy fog, he missed the intersection, went into the ditch, and attempted to climb out of the backslope of the ditch. Unfortunately, said backslope is in reality the roadbed of the CP mainline. So he didn’t make it out of the ditch and back over. Sometimes, life’s got a nasty sense of haha.
This happened in Brandon, MB. Where the dangerous goods bypass meets the “low road to Shilo”. About 200 metres to the left side of that truck there is a level crossing. About 70 metres directly behind him is the road he overshot. Guess he shoulda stopped instead of trying to power out of the ditch. Hindsight is usually 20/20.
Those tracks were not these this morning. Nope. Snort.
he’s resting
I received this email with the message…
Seeking job as Oilfield Operator.
According to the person that sent this, the driver had been in Canada a few months. He had missed his turn by Brandon Mb.and figured he could go over the hill and continue on the road. Apparently he didn’t know there were railway tracks on top of the grade. The truck owner figured he had to hit the angle at 55 mph in order to make the top.
New to the country? Hmmm. Then I guess that would rule out my theory that the guy with the John Deere and the air-seeder took a truck driving job for the winter. 😉
I’m a railroad engineer at Brandon. We see this sort of thing on a regular basis.
Here is the text that came with several photos that a friend emailed me today:
Seeking job as oilfield operator.
According to the person who sent this, the driver has only been in Canada a few months. He had missed his turn by Brandon Mb. And figured he could go over the hill and continue on the road. Apparently he didn’t know there were rail tracks on top of the grade….. The truck owner figures he had to hit the angle at over 55 miles an hour in order to make the top. If you look close at some of the pictures you will see that it is only when the large reefer trailer pinched the rear tires of the truck that the truck stopped……
I had a guy operating a small packer for me a couple of years ago . Going back and forth and forth and back was too complicated for him . We let him go . Two weeks later he was driving a Kenworth pulling a b-train . I fear semis now .
As we would say in the army. “WTF OVER”?
Breaking!!
Liberal sources are disclosing that there were additional elements to the Cadman bribe!
In addition to offering a patient in the final stages of terminal cancer a one million dollar insurance policy, Harper is reported to have offered Cadman a unicorn, and a magical forest in which to ride his new beast.
Although experts unanimously agree that unicorns, magical forests, and million dollar insurance policies for terminal cancer patients, don’t actually exist, Liberal insiders are firm with their allegations.
Said one source close to Dion:
“Look, if Harper can manage to hold onto power for over two years, pass three budgets, a crime bill and maintain his Afghan position, with three left leaning parties holding more seats than the CPC, he can certainly produce unicorns, and insurance policies for dying patients.”
Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail is sending its crack team to investigate the obviously legitimate concerns of Conservative unicorn production. Stay tuned.
Looks like a land claim negotiation in progress.
First gear is a bitch.
Wonder if the driver’s one of those Mexican truckers?
Wonder if it’s a member of Al Qaeda, y’know, on of those who’ve gotten a fake tractor-trailer licence?
Of course, it’s even more likely that the driver is just stupid as hell. I bet he’ll make Spike TV, y’know, one of those “WTF!” or “You Gotta See This!” shows about complete morons who do the dumbest things and sustain squished balls, broken arms, crushed skulls, etc…
Or maybe “Canada’s Most Incompetent Truckers”…
Train tracks appear shiny as opposed to rusty,you know what that means dont you?
Driver: “I was just crusing along in a bit of fog,listening to PBS from the States on this here radio, when I heard that Obama fella yell ‘YES YOU CAN’, followed by all that there cheering.”
Officer: “OK, so how does that explain this little scene before us?”
Driver: “Well, I figured WHAT THE HELL, YES I CAN! So I hauled her down a couple a gears and tried it. I don’t think that dumb sum a bitch could do it either.”
If this had happened in the US, the trucking company would be suing the railroad for not properly marking its right-of-way (every linear foot, both sides, illuminated, multilingual….)as being hazardous to vehicular traffic.
Really. I know of one case where a drunk got off a train at about 3 AM, walked into a metal signalling equipment case, and then sued because it wasn’t lit up (it was painted silver) and didn’t have safety guards for people who might walk into it.
And he won.
For those who are Google Earth enthusiasts, I think this is the location:
49 51 28.93 N, 99 52 18.73 W
(Those are degrees, minutes, seconds without the symbols but GE’s search field doesn’t care; it works fine without them.)
…try explaining this one to the boss and insurance company.