Reported as north of Airdrie, AB
“Curtains in the windshield, black ropes dangling from the mirrors…”
Via Skilled Truckers Canada on FB
Reported as north of Airdrie, AB
“Curtains in the windshield, black ropes dangling from the mirrors…”
Via Skilled Truckers Canada on FB
” Isn’t this the road to Edmonton?”
Accurate…
“Can I take this road to Edmonton?”
“No, we need it right here.”
(New Hampshire “humor”)
Maybe the driver considered that to be a major road given his, um, previous experience.
In the driver’s native land that passes for a superhighway?
ok, l gotta ask, whats with the curtains and rope?
sad there is a calculation somewhere the ‘savings’ in training, licensing and wages is
enough to send the contents of some trailers onto a dirt road ‘somewhere’.
and it WILL continue under the present regime.
Is that a creek? Does he think he is on Ice Road Truckers?
Bell, I bin on da road por tree daz now, yestaday, toda, and tomorro.
That was the way to the nearest beach to take a dump?
Good one! A smile for today.
He almost made it.
What’s the problem here? Doesn’t everybody do a little off roading in their eighteen wheelers? Haterz!
In 2008, we saw a trucker drive through a farmers field, and then got his truck high centered on the farmers railway crossing. Fortunately, train traffic was able to stop until someone got a loader and pulled him off the crossing.
This is not new, but it is happening more often.
Day one of my daughter’s moving trip … and I only witnessed the cleanup of three … yes … three big rig solo accidents. In CA and AZ. Saw no other cars involved. Jackknifed and rolled over big rigs … in one, the cab ended up spun around and hanging upside down over a small drainage feature.
We shall see what today brings.
We had an Amazon delivery driver walk back to the farm house, once.
Said his GPS took him down the wrong road, it was an access road, like this one seems to be, for the utilities and is clearly marked “Impassible” at both ends and looks as gnarly it sounds.
Wonder if he could even read in English, certainly lacked other common sense indicators!
A few years back, an East Indian guy showed up with a semi to pick up some equipment at a place I used to work at. Our loading dock was out in the middle of the yard with no obstructions and plenty of room to get straightened out. No matter how many times he tried, he could not get backed in straight. Our sales guy had to do it for him. I have no idea how he ever managed to get the goods unloaded at the destination. Probably by asking someone else to do it.
A mechanic told me that a truck owned by East Indians showed up at his shop for some work on the brake components. When he put the truck up on the hoist he discovered a toilet hole cut in the floor of the sleeper such that the frame and axles were covered in sh#t. It was off the hoist and out the door in about a minute with the driver sent away to look for some other sucker to fix his truck.
This was back on the 17th of March.
“Holy crap! What happened? Could you not see because of the sun?” a witness who goes by the TikTok username Sweetpeach 432.
The Indian driver could not communicate with the witness. It is unclear where the driver obtained his CDL.
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2026/03/missouri-highway-shut-down-after-semi.html
Based on the Google Earth views, he was southbound on a bit of road allowance. There’s a mile of it between two graded roads. It’s obviously not intended for traffic…just field access. I can’t imagine why he was going down this road to begin with, but it’s pretty obvious he got into a situation and couldn’t turn around to get out of it. If he had made it to the next road, he would have been a mile north of the Costco distribution centre, among other light-industrial businesses, so he possibly thought it was a shortcut.
As an additional point, the weather yesterday on the north side of Calgary was awful. We got a foot of snow at our place, and there was zero visibility at times driving on shitty roads, because both city and province got caught with their pants down. And another 3 inches overnight. It’s entirely possible he couldn’t see three feet in front of him.
But all that aside, it certainly seems like another puzzling case of, “Well, how did that happen?”
Any update on the load of irregulars?
ITS NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT ITS ALWAYS THEM….
Poor thing, must have got his flipflops muddy.
Oh it gets better.
This dude was taking the shortcut on QE2.
Hit the ramp on the overpass and mostly cleared the guardrail on the far side.
https://x.com/i/status/2036543629880115340
He should work in a Michael Bay movie.
Seeing this live would’ve been epic.
a prediction:
there will be a plethora of these stories. not MSM of course, they get bored real quick when its the same thing over again and again. plus the ‘optics’ thing.
many more for a long time. because the root cause will NOT be addressed because $$$$
its the same calculation Ford made with the Pinto gas tanks. cheaper to pay off accidental death suits chalked up to the gas tank than modify it at the assembly line.
‘ money makes the world go around the world go around la la la’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAXG_QcQNU
Joel Grey BRILLIANT in this role. he did an episode of Law&Order a deranged millionaire