Funny pic/gif thread...

jimmyg

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why you dont "brake check" an 18 wheeler......

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The driveshaft on the ground confirms SUV or pick-up. I think this is a fairly old picture of a pick-up truck. There was nothing scarier than my cabover eighteen wheeler in bumper to bumper traffic. If I tried to leave reasonable space from the people in front of me three cars jumped into it. If I ran close enough that they couldn't jump in there was no way I was stopping if the people in front of me hit the brakes hard. The one saving grace was my height above almost all vehicles, I would watch eight or ten cars ahead.

After hitting Dallas/Ft Worth on a bad morning I never again hit that twenty mile or so stretch during rush hour. I would drive straight through or park the rig a few hours, whatever it took!

I did stop a truck that was too fond of my back bumper years ago but I did it slowly and gently leaving him completely stopped on a steep incline up an old bridge. I hope he twisted a drive shaft!

No picture and I wouldn't have taken one if I could but one of the damnedest wrecks I ever saw was a full sized pick-up smashed side to side until it was about an even two feet wide front to back! They had just draped a tarp over the passenger compartment, nothing more to be said.

Respect trucks, if you can't respect them, fear them! I never hang around trucks driving. I stay well behind until I can pass completely, not get in a string of vehicles creeping past a truck. A tire carcass weighs eighty to a hundred pounds last I knew. You don't want to be there with no place to go if a truck has a major blow-out! They can sling major stuff off of the road too and often can't avoid it in traffic.

This picture is a lot more interesting than funny as hard to imagine anyone surviving. However, I have been more surprised working wrecks that everyone survived in than those that killed people unexpectedly. I did learn that brains really are gray looking at windshields. I hated those vehicles around and tried to get rid of them as soon as possible.

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My olympic scoring experience indicates he came out of his tuck a little early, a little sloppy in the air, and he under rotated a bit. 8.5 is probably spot on. On the other hand, the chances of me trying that dive even in younger days would be 0.0!

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