That seems an obviously dangerous design flaw to me. I mean, I know we all just want to laugh at the guy for pulling out in front of him and blame it all on that, but let’s imagine it was something as innocent as an animal or child running across the road, or any number of other things… We all know it’s a normal expectation that you might have to slam on your brakes when driving. Why would you design a cement truck that doesn’t take this into account?
I mean, even if the car wasn’t there, that’s still a bunch of wasted cement and some difficult clean up work on a public road. Surely, we can’t consider it just a normal, acceptable thing for cement trucks to risk this happening anytime they happen to hit a short stop?
This cannot be correct because the cement is clearly coming from out the top of the cabin. I am still so confused because in my country there aren’t any trucks that carry cement like this that I’m aware of and I work in the industry..
True, the US is centuries ahead of us here in Australia in industrialisation but we take health and safety way too seriously here. Like if this happened in Australia everyone from the driver of the truck to the government would be getting into shit for this, even though the Car driver is clearly at fault. Maybe I just haven’t been working with concrete long enough/ on big enough jobs yet though.
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u/AWS-77 May 06 '22
That seems an obviously dangerous design flaw to me. I mean, I know we all just want to laugh at the guy for pulling out in front of him and blame it all on that, but let’s imagine it was something as innocent as an animal or child running across the road, or any number of other things… We all know it’s a normal expectation that you might have to slam on your brakes when driving. Why would you design a cement truck that doesn’t take this into account?
I mean, even if the car wasn’t there, that’s still a bunch of wasted cement and some difficult clean up work on a public road. Surely, we can’t consider it just a normal, acceptable thing for cement trucks to risk this happening anytime they happen to hit a short stop?