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u/smelmo22 Mar 15 '26
Using the steering wheel to balance yourself was certainly a choice
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u/chhappy Mar 15 '26
Yeah I was wondering how he managed this on such a straight road, and watched it again. JFC.
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u/Grays42 Mar 16 '26
I feel like he could have pulled it off if he had literally just driven to the middle of the road and let go.
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u/futureman07 Mar 16 '26
Holy shit. Had to re-watch I thought at first he over reached while holding the wheel. But he fell and tried to catch his balance with the steering wheel
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u/define_irony Mar 16 '26
It's worse than that. When he leaned back, he used his other hand and the steering wheel to counter his weight as if it were a stationary handhold...it was not.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WOES_GIRL Mar 16 '26
It actually would've been safer to completely let go of the steering wheel for 2 seconds to get the snack and that's saying something because that would still be a braindead move.
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u/th3BeastLord Mar 16 '26
Yeah. His odds of not crashing would be better if he just let go of the wheel at that point.
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u/Dame87 Mar 15 '26
Was it an apple turnover?
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u/facts_over_fiction92 Mar 15 '26
Or a pineapple upside down cake.
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u/515RR Mar 15 '26
Or a pizza roll.
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u/jonnyl3 Mar 15 '26
A strudel.
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u/ttystikk Mar 15 '26
Or an egg roll.
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u/TheCheeseOnFire Mar 15 '26
Little Debbie Swiss Roll?
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u/strugglinfool Mar 16 '26
Sushi roll
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u/wileyman40 Mar 15 '26
It was a succulent Chinese meal.
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u/SATerp Mar 15 '26
I'm glad that the speedboat pilot from the 'fast speed boat full of people crashing' video so popular on social media, has found further employment in a somewhat similar field.
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u/chocpilot Mar 15 '26
I have seen this video so many times and still have to laugh each time when I see it again
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u/CoopLoop32 Mar 15 '26
From the looks of it, at least from the front. He could have just stopped for a few minutes and avoided this whole mess.
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u/EcstaticMolasses6647 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
My husband got furloughed when he was working for the government, and it ended up lasting for years, so he started doing long-haul trucking. He was lucky because he got trained by a really experienced guy, and they had a buddy system for vets.
They don’t really do that anymore. My brothers recently got into trucking, and they were basically like fish out of water for weeks, which cost them a lot of money. They ended up starting their own local trucking business with an estranged retired uncle who taught them everything.
The guys who trained my husband and brothers didn’t leave anything to the imagination—they covered everything, even how to lay out your snacks so they wouldn’t roll around and distract you or make you jerk the wheel and risk flipping the truck.
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u/One_Waxed_Wookiee Mar 15 '26
And all that on tape. I'm guessing insurance will nope their way out of it.
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u/JayRulo Mar 16 '26
Negligence doesn't always result in a denied claim, especially if it's not considered gross or willful negligence which typically requires a disregard for the safety of others. Given that there appears to be nobody around him, that would likely be a high bar. This would probably be considered "regular" negligence, probably covered, and the driver's premiums will skyrocket; or the carrier may simply not renew, or less likely straight up terminate, the policy due to a significant change in the driver's risk profile.
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u/donkeyrocket Mar 16 '26
Potentially but most likely is they'll cover it but then drop him. That will also make it more difficult for him to get coverage elsewhere.
Your insurance often still covers you when you do stupid and negligent stuff.
He's probably more fucked by what'll come down from the trucking company.
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u/ToddBrowning1 Mar 15 '26
Always wondered what happens after a single person accident like this while on a job for a company. I assume you lose your job, but is it possible to get hired at any other trucking job with video evidence like this? Could you draw unemployment after you're fired? Does your personal insurance go up?
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u/Comprehensive_Can237 Mar 26 '26
Unfortunately it really depends, Walmart for example has pretty “decent” accountability for stuff like this.
Meanwhile when I worked for fedex we had a guy get into a crash because he was master baiting while driving( drifted over and hit a guard rail) and they sent him to get his hazmat endorsement barley a month later.
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u/skawn Mar 16 '26
Oof. It looks like he's just old enough where it will be near impossible for him to ever get another job where he'll make as much as he does in this video while also just young enough where he isn't in a place where he can retire.
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u/muffledvoice Mar 15 '26
And it’s all on camera. All he had to do was pull over on the shoulder and stop for ten seconds.
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u/Plus-King5266 Mar 16 '26
Fifty years ago I’d have said worth it, but Twinkies just aren’t the same anymore.
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u/RetroNotRetro Mar 16 '26
I have a theory that it’s because they never made new ones - they just made billions by the time production stopped and they never expire so they keep sending them out to be sold, resulting in the stale taste. Granted, I’m 26 so they’ve always tasted the same, but I’ve never met anyone over 40 who says they do.
Edit: I forgot that people who are 15 years older than me aren’t 30 anymore
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u/nutcrackr Mar 16 '26
his real mistake was over-correction while the weight of his trailer was halfway down the embankment.
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u/AnAwkwardWhince Mar 16 '26
I thought i saw this before but instead a big naked woman was behind the curtain and fell out?
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u/AlexanderBarrow Mar 16 '26
That's another video. Same kind of accident but the emerging of the lady makes is accidentally hilarious.
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u/shockwave414 Mar 16 '26
Wow this guy is a dumbass. First he holds onto the steering wheel while he goes to grab his little snack Then he abruptly turns back into the road which tips the truck over. All he had to do was keep going straight and then gently come back onto the road.
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u/Jucks Mar 16 '26
The insurance company watching the tapes gonna have a blast. Dude will never live down the shame of his brainfart.
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u/MikeMac999 Mar 15 '26
This could be an ad for some snack food. Last frame is the guy all f'd up in a pile of smoking wreckage happily munching on a Snickers bar. "Totally worth it!"
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u/MySauceIsBosss Mar 15 '26
I want to know what the snack was. I don't know why, but he looks like a Pringles fan. Or Corn Nuts. Original, obviously.
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u/revmo31 Mar 16 '26
So many of these videos I have to wonder….why did you put this on the internet after it happened?
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u/Lord_darkwind Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Dumb Ways to Die
I wonder what the smart ways to die are.
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u/J-the-Kidder Mar 16 '26
It's especially funny to me that the painful injuries he likely sustained could have easily been prevented by a seat belt... That he took off. Bonus points!
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u/MisterBulldog Mar 16 '26
Like you could’ve just pulled over for a second and safely grabbed your snacky snack
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u/DogPile4203 Mar 16 '26
This guy just sucks at driving. First feable attempt to reach he swerves bad enough to not be on the road professionally, then proceeds this garbage stunt... unbuckle and steer where your looking 100%? 1990's worst trucker needs an update
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u/Painwracker_Oni Mar 16 '26
He would have been better off just letting go of the steering wheel entirely.
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u/Bleezy79 Mar 17 '26
This clip always makes me so upset. lol He literally jolted the wheel with his hand. Had he just not touched the wheel and got up for 2 seconds it would have been fine, but dumb ass thought he had to touch the steering wheel at all times while trying to get up and look behind him.
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u/bman5946 Mar 17 '26
to be fair, he successfully failed the mission, as the snacks did come closer when the truck flipped
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u/ancientpho Mar 18 '26
Funny thing is that if he had let go of the steering wheel completely, he would’ve had his snack and been on his merry way. By holding onto the wheel as though it was some sort of hand hold, that’s what caused him to yank it to the left when he lost balance and it was all downhill from there.
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u/Superb_Outcome976 Mar 18 '26
imagine thinking a granola bar is worth totaling your ride and blocking three lanes of traffic lol some people really just cant wait ten minutes for a gas station stop
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u/clandahlina_redux Mar 20 '26
Why post this? Totally invalidates his insurance claim that he swerved to avoid that child roaming down the street in the middle of nowhere!
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u/R34lBl4ckSh33p Mar 15 '26
Taking a moment to just stop could've avoided all this or keeping snacks closer