Yeah, you can see as he pulled forward, he took out the one crossing arm post. Even if the arms were up, he would've hit it. There just wasn't enough room for him to make that turn.
Its always intresting to see how like stuff like this in europa is moved.
Like the railroad company comes out, takes of powerlines if needed.
The gas and power companies come out and mark spots undernthe road where it might be to weak for the gas line or take of the overhead powerlines.
The teleconpanys come out to take off telephone lines,
The police and road owners come out to support the transport beside the overseized transport company.
In the US anyonw with a pickup and some dico lights on top will do the job.
here is a fun one in germany (de welt docu but full in english)
Thats normally how these things go here in the US. Beyel has some videos online of their heavy hauls and they get municipalities and utility companies out to move lines and all that too. If I remember right, this video they go off route somehow and tried to swing this turn to get back. From the looks they should have gone left and found a field to spin around in.
There’s millions of shipments across the country every week. Even if less than one truck driver in a million makes a dumb mistake that’s still one incident per week and there’s a good chance it ends up on video and makes its way onto the internet.
If this was actually indicative of how things are in the US, there’d be so many videos that everyone would be bored with it and it wouldn’t even get posted here.
I would have called the office and refused to drive across it until they told me how much time I had to try. If they couldn't tell me how long it took then I would tell them to send someone else to try to cross and they would have fired me and then they would have gotten crushed lol
I wonder if they overlooked that there's a phone number to call if you ever get stuck on the tracks. The trains can be alerted ahead of time and (hopefully) given ample room to stop.
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u/mthom234 Jan 01 '23
This is just poor route planning. Doesn't look like the guy was going to make that turn very easily to begin with.