again, watch gojirra99's video to see how this could have happened.

i see nothing 'lol' funny about this... in the second video the driver was crushed instantly and in the video you posted, many people could have easily been hurt or killed.

 

Recently, I was in a 3-car convoy going from Winslow to Flagstaff AZ on I40 West. Some of this highway has speeds of 75mph. Multiple times we were stuck behind semi-trucks in ALL THREE lanes, trying to pass each other - on long inclines! They were down to 40mph near the top of the inclines, with a long string of cars jockeying for position to pass them at the first opportunity. It is downright dangerous (and stupid) that semi-trucks can do this. In Europe and some parts of Great Britain, semi-trucks are restricted to the inside lane only. Also, in some parts they are not allowed to pull multiple containers. And have you seen how those trucks just destroy the roads? Roads have to be resurfaced almost every year because of the crowns on the road! As you can tell, I have little respect for stupid semi-truck drivers. When the hell will the Star Trek Transporter be invented - that would make the transportation industry obsolete!

 

Yes, I agree, it is an interesting video, and could maybe explain what happened here. I was not using the "LOL" in the context of the incident being funny , but more along the line of inattentiveness by the driver.....sort of like not using your checklists while flying.

One thing, though, that the video did not address......one would think that, with that big bed raised up like that, there would be an enormous amount of wind-resistance at the cruise-speed, air least enough for the driver to feel or to cause vehicle-buffeting.

 

That's the part that I can't understand. How can a dump truck driver not feel that type of wind resistance?

 

this was not an aerodynamic sedan. it has a lot of resistance and noise in all situations.

 

Every dump truck driver that's commented on this video says the same thing. It's impossible not to feel it, especially at highway speeds.

"Tippy" and "wobbly" are how most describe it.

I'm assuming meth or fentanyl contributed to this accident.

 

in the case of the accident in the video I posted, that section of the road is not at a major highway where you reach high speed, I drove through that road quite frequently, in fact, "the truck was stopped in traffic about 200 metres from the overpass, the RCMP said. When the truck started to drive forward, the box at the rear of the truck went up and slammed into the overpass."
Here is news article on that accident:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/man-dies-as-bridge-falls-on-b-c-garbage-truck-1.556439
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Sounds down right stupid and dangerous. I am in Massachusetts and here, and I assumed in most places, that the far passing lane is illegal for 18 wheelers to use, not that I haven’t seen my fair share of that law being ignored. YMMV

 

Agreed.

Maybe. Drugs are always a possibility. But, IF that is the case, marijuana would probably be more likely, simply because it is now legal and so much easier to get in a lot of places.

 

On the section of I-66 where the video I posted took place, though, it is a suburban Interstate highway, with a posted speed limit of 55....although traffic often goes faster than that if it is not backed up.

​​​​​​​So the RCMP investigates traffic accidents in your part of Canada? I was aware, of course, of their existence, but I'm not familiar with all of their assigned duties.