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Thread: Truck loses back wheels trying to turn around safety barriers - video

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    I think you call them "Accredited Swift Employees" over there.

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    I don't know; I think that driver was an adherent to the "Bigger Hammer" theory of life and how to live it. But in his case, he's using the vehicle corollary: If you can't get past something, just back up and go at it faster. Works every time for curbs, hills, mud pits, standing water...except when it doesn't. Fail big or go home!

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    Or he was planning on it being his last and did not care.

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    Either on purpose or he had an axe to grind after being fired. Err maybe wanted to be fired.

    Maybe we witnessed one of those teenage car jackers jacking a truck.

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    Look how powerful is the safety barrier! Still standing upright!.. Or maybe something not right about the truck rear suspension.

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    The bollards are likely filled with concrete. Doesn't look like he got out of the truck once to see what the situation was. Maybe the trucking company has a zero damage policy.
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    The design of those particular trailers is very weak, they are made light weight and for light bulk cargo and good roads only, no thru chassis to speak of at all. The base of the side walls is where the strength of the trailer is, and the rear wheels are just connected to light weight cross members. Something like this proves just how weak that design actually is. Another video doing the rounds, shows that same sort of trailer turning a corner and the side and roof of the trailer just collapses. Horses for courses and you only pay for what you get and this design is B-A-D.

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