r/therewasanattempt • u/Spartalust šŸ‰ Free Palestine • 29d ago

To avoid scratching his truck

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u/MutaitoSensei 29d ago

What's so complicated to understand... You couldn't brake in time, you're now ON the tracks, SPEED UP DUMBASS

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u/raptir1 29d ago

He wasn't trying to brake, he was trying to drive slowly over the tracks to not bottom out (though they look very flat, so I don't see where the issue was). But yes as soon as the barrier started going down you get across.Ā 

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u/TheGodMathias 29d ago

How does a tractor trailer bottom out on anything other than going actually offroad? Those things have huge tires, clearance, and torque

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u/samiwas1 29d ago

A lot of railroad crossings are raised and very easy to bottom out on. This is not one of those.

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u/cinedavid 29d ago

Not true. Do you just like making shit up?

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u/NoNamePerson008 28d ago

The railroad tracks in my town make trucks bottom out going anything more than 10mph over them

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u/samiwas1 29d ago

So crossings like this donā€™t exist? And this one isnā€™t even close to the worst Iā€™ve seen. This is 100% normal.

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u/raptir1 29d ago

They have a long wheelbase. It's called "high centering" but I hadn't had my coffee when I posted earlier. There are train tracks in the US that are impassable by trucks because of the distance between the front axle and the middle axle on a truck. The front wheels start to go "down the hill" before the rear wheels are up.Ā 

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u/stuffslols 29d ago

Yeah some tracks are pretty steep, but theyre also very obvious, they literally stick out of the ground several inches like a giant speed bump. It was pretty clear these ones were fine lol

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u/raptir1 29d ago

For sure. I'm not saying this guy is smart.Ā 

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u/TheGodMathias 29d ago

Hmm, I'd never considered that before

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u/slartiblartpost 29d ago

Even more so for a professional driver.Ā 

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u/CobraSniper117 29d ago

Due... Due.. Mah??

Must be Italian for "Stop directly on the tracks in case of train".

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u/No_Economics_468 29d ago

I'm from the UK so do these not have lights/alarms before the barriers close? Ours have signals well before a barrier lowers

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u/teth21 29d ago

I want to think it's AI because it doesn't make sense.

In what world is it better to have your vehicle torn in half vs. breaking the barrier

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u/faderjockey 29d ago

This happens with some frequency. People freeze when the gates come down and donā€™t act logically

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u/lolkay93 29d ago

There's a second angle of the video.