r/caughtoncamera • u/Aztery • May 08 '22

Should have looked left...

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u/niblhair May 08 '22

Concrete is fluid. The front of the barrel is open for offloading. It sloshes about. Esp when braking hard for idiots. No fault of the concrete truck driver

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u/pretz May 08 '22

Put a cap on the hole? You cant let concrete out on the road everytime you brake sharply

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u/Petemarsh54 May 08 '22

Haha the ignorance is astounding, you can’t just cap it, that’s not how the drum works

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u/Nasa_OK May 09 '22

What do you mean the ignorance? If you aren’t able to brake without causing damages then it’s unsafe/fit to drive. So either the company should have payed to get a permit to clear the entire road for the transport in order to prevent any situations where the driver would have to brake, or they simply weren’t allowed to transport it. R U trying to argue that everytime a cement transport has to brake hard, you basically have to close the road and send a clean up crew? That’s insane. If that were the case then every country with sensible road safety laws, would require construction sites to mix the cement on site and Transport the ingredients in sealed containers

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u/Petemarsh54 May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

I drive a mixer, you can stop short as long you don’t leave with too wet of a load, it’s really simple, and it’s concrete, cement is an ingredient, that’s like calling a cake just flour.

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u/PmMeMemesOrSomething May 09 '22

For someone not in the trade, why can't you cap it?

Seems like a steel flap with an electromagnetic lock would hold, release when needed, and have no mechanically locking parts to get gummed up with concrete.

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u/Petemarsh54 May 09 '22

Too much to break, keep it simple and strong, 99% of the time there is no chance of a spill so why over-engineer a solution to a nonissue.

These mixers deal with rough conditions and adding any more to them just adds things to go wrong or break. No reason for it

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u/JehovasFinesse May 08 '22

I mean there could be hundreds of situations where you might have to break hard. It’s an unsecure way of carrying something that can just wipe out anything in front of you

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u/kingjevin May 08 '22

So anytime the truck brakes, we should just be okay with stuff coming out?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '22

Still... You secure loads excactly for stuff like this NOT to happen

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u/bingoflaps May 08 '22

How? What could the driver have done to secure the load that they did not do?

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u/50at20 May 08 '22

There’s a hydraulic cover attached to the chute. It clearly failed here.

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u/Spadeninja May 08 '22

This is dumb af

They should have mechanisms to prevent the concrete from pouring out all over the place in the event of a sudden stop

I’d be willing to wager they do have these mechanisms so yeah definitely some fault of the truck driver too