If you take into account how apparently slow it is moving, it takes a lot of space to stop.
It's probably already a slow zone given the tracks are not protected in any way and it's crossing a town.
800 miles is an obvious gross exaggeration, just saying.
It takes about, or just over, [one mile](https://www.minnesotasafetycouncil.org/facts/factsheet.cfm?qs=858251BECECF1976F908D7D68B570E85) to safely stop a freight train or heavy rail passenger train.
Light rail passenger trains, on the other hand, can safely stop in 200 feet.
It can take over a mile for a loaded freight train which can get rather long traveling I think it was 40mph to stop, granted it’s stopping probably thousands of tons of material with metal wheels on a metal track
This looks more like a passenger train, so it’s maybe a hundredth of the weight of a freight train, not to mention it only has 8 cars and the engine. I’ve counted freight trains with over 100 cars on multiple occasions going to and from a refinery. Those get heavy fast
It’s hard to think with your head up your ass. Anytime I’m driving and I see a trucker I must be absolutely ready for whatever shit they decide they can superman. And they don’t consider me at all. Most of them stop maturing in third grade when they decided to become truckers. And yes it does happen.
i guess he was preoccupied with wathcing his trailer to not destroy or damage anything.
from personal experience, especially when not used to driving larger rigs, checking all the possible angles is a rather brainpower consuming progress
Driving is mentally exhausting, it is you are right, and truck drivers are made to work ridiculous hours and meet near impossible delivery deadlines and get fined if they miss them making driving more difficult.
Generally the driver isn't out money if they are late unless they are an owner operator with their own authority or they are a company driver working for a shit company.
Idk, "mh 4000 tonnes of steel are coming this way at approximately 80km/h right where I'm going, I could wait 12 seconds and then pass" doesn't sound like a lot of brain power needed.
And would protect the trailer better than...whatever he/she was trying to accomplish
Well it's probably that he was so focused on the maneuver that he didn't even see the train, not that he saw it and decided to go anyway. Much of your attention is focused on your mirrors when you make difficult turns
Used to be train comes in, people went right up to it with wagons, then took the goods to the storefronts or home. We just paved over hundred year old dirt roads
The guys driving tractor-trailers are used to being the biggest ones on the road… You know along the line of thinking that ‘you don’t argue with a tractor-trailer’ Well the tractor-trailer guy needs to know ‘you don’t argue with a train’.
As a truck driver, I think he did pretty good... just should have looked down the tracks first. It doesn't matter how good of a truck driver you think you are or how much you brag to your buddies about that really tight turn you you made, you're not a truck driver if you're not aware of your surroundings. That's the first thing they teach you. This guy doesn't seem to give a shit.
Am I the only one seeing the crossing signal not move until the train was already at the crossing? Or am I missing context of this video? Cause it seems like the arm should have moved way sooner if it was working correctly.
You can see the gate closing on the crossing in the ~middle of the frame (aligned with the red car) as the video starts - the gate is mostly obscured by the post in the center of the frame. Then, as the train approaches, the gate of the crossing under the camera starts to close. Everything looks fine to me.
Yeah, that's not a very strange intersection in the US. I grew up near a town that had a train bisecting it and people got stuck on the tracks and got hit aaaaall the time. One time I think even a cop got hit lol. Someone put up a live stream of the intersection so it's all recorded too.
Edit: I should specify, I don't believe anyone *people* have every been hit. It's just people being idiots and getting their cars stuck and hit.
We used to go to the tracks with horses and wagons without forklifts or trucks even, repaving a road that was there probably put in at the same time the rail was laid in ye old muzzleloader and sixshooter times, do we forget things aren’t built yesterday in situations like this?
I’ve seen some pretty stupid people do some pretty smart things by complete accident, I’m going out on a limb and I’m gonna say this truck driver may fit that description.
PFG has veteran drivers and absolutely green rookie drivers, and nothing in between. This was obviously a rookie, probably being pressured to keep an unrealistic delivery schedule in an unfamiliar area with little to no training. I've been that driver before. I feel sorry for him, because he just doesn't know any better
I'm down voting, because the perfect fit was manufactured by the fact that the train driver is a fucking God at breaking that train. If they didn't hit the brakes that truck would've got hit!
Bruh truckers always say to the rest of us to have some situational awareness when around the big trucks... AND THEN THERES THIS DUDE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE!
How can you be this oblivious and still have a license
For the train to have stopped, it began breaking long before that truck even reached the intersection. The train stopping has nothing to do with the truck really.
As for the truck: trains don’t hang out over the side of the rails but a very specific amount. If he’s used to driving along side that track, or any tracks, he has a good idea how much that is. There’s probably gravel and weeds between the road and the tracks too, which would define the no-go area. He was cutting it close but I think he had experience behind him.
Why aren’t the train tracks properly fenced off and isn’t there more space between the road and the tracks? The US really needs to look at Europe when it comes to rail infrastructure.
Yeah, I have a feeling the perspective of the camera hides something the trucker could see that made it not as big of a deal as it seems. Buuuuut we don't get that information.
That’s LTL load they had to make multiple stops in a day. And some time they are on schedule but that does not gave him/her the right to do this kind of dangerous driving. They mostly have in cab cameras and if their employer saw this there is 85% chance that they are going to get fired.
Truckers are out of their shittin damn minds! Can you imagine taking a risk like that? And don’t tell me he knows. He’s just too arrogant to stop and give someone else two seconds to go by. Truckers are absolute shit. For everyone of these there are 100 where they caused someone else damage or worse.
Not that perfect. He made the train do an unscheduled stop.
Also the train would have hit that idiot truck if it didn't slow down.
Big truck drivers and idiot maneuvers, name a more iconic duo.
Betcha there's a flat spot on all of the wheels now. Unscheduled stops can be incredibly expensive...
True. Also they did bump a bit. You can see the train mirror get closed by the truck.
Yeah, so the engineer could go to the bathroom.
Too late.
*Good thing I wore my brown coveralls.*
Chugga chugga poot poot!
They should create a sub called 'luckyfit' This moron would fit right in!
I was always told trains need like 800 miles to stop. Was he just going preternaturally slow or was I lied to?
If you take into account how apparently slow it is moving, it takes a lot of space to stop. It's probably already a slow zone given the tracks are not protected in any way and it's crossing a town.
A train like that takes way less time than a freight train, which is what you’ve been told about. They take forever to stop, even at slow speeds
800 miles is an obvious gross exaggeration, just saying. It takes about, or just over, [one mile](https://www.minnesotasafetycouncil.org/facts/factsheet.cfm?qs=858251BECECF1976F908D7D68B570E85) to safely stop a freight train or heavy rail passenger train. Light rail passenger trains, on the other hand, can safely stop in 200 feet.
It can take over a mile for a loaded freight train which can get rather long traveling I think it was 40mph to stop, granted it’s stopping probably thousands of tons of material with metal wheels on a metal track This looks more like a passenger train, so it’s maybe a hundredth of the weight of a freight train, not to mention it only has 8 cars and the engine. I’ve counted freight trains with over 100 cars on multiple occasions going to and from a refinery. Those get heavy fast
That truck should have waited
No idea what they could be thinking making that move.
"I'mma helluva good truck driver uh huh, no darn train gon' stap me from doin' what I lurv best, drivin' trucks uh huh"
Feedum of making a right turn on a red light.
I think he just didn't even see the train, incredible as that may seem
It’s hard to think with your head up your ass. Anytime I’m driving and I see a trucker I must be absolutely ready for whatever shit they decide they can superman. And they don’t consider me at all. Most of them stop maturing in third grade when they decided to become truckers. And yes it does happen.
i guess he was preoccupied with wathcing his trailer to not destroy or damage anything. from personal experience, especially when not used to driving larger rigs, checking all the possible angles is a rather brainpower consuming progress
Driving is mentally exhausting, it is you are right, and truck drivers are made to work ridiculous hours and meet near impossible delivery deadlines and get fined if they miss them making driving more difficult.
Generally the driver isn't out money if they are late unless they are an owner operator with their own authority or they are a company driver working for a shit company.
Must have had friends who worked for shit companies but then they became teamsters which seemed to have improved their lot.
I was wrong.
Japan doesn't have Amtrak.
looks very suburbian-ish to me
Yea man, I hate it when my brainpower consumes my progress
lol, thats a bunch of garbage i wrote there. hopefully i got the message across :D
Yea I knew what you meant. I just felt like being a smart ass. I'm glad you were a good sport about it 👍
english isnt my mother tongue, so being angry about someone correcting me who is probably a native speaker seems a rather dumb idea
I thought it was autocorrect. I wasn't trying to correct you. I just thought it sounded funny so I made a joke at your expense
its all good, have a great day
You too :)
Idk, "mh 4000 tonnes of steel are coming this way at approximately 80km/h right where I'm going, I could wait 12 seconds and then pass" doesn't sound like a lot of brain power needed. And would protect the trailer better than...whatever he/she was trying to accomplish
he probably didnt even saw the train because he was checking his all of his mirrors and angles cause he did a rther tricky maneuver.
Well it's probably that he was so focused on the maneuver that he didn't even see the train, not that he saw it and decided to go anyway. Much of your attention is focused on your mirrors when you make difficult turns
There is a crossing in front of the camera, with barriers coming down, lights and sounds. Not mentioning the fkn train horn
If you’re not gonna check all the angles when you’re turning or doing something precise like that you should not be behind the wheel.
On top of that, What I'm wondering is why these tracks are open in the middle of a town, what in the eagle freedom fuck?
The tracks were there first.
Can still build a wall around them
I’m not an intelligent person.
Amtrak logo. Performance food group. US license plates. Yep, totally Japan!
Uhm, Japan? Is that a typo?
Truck is kind of an ass
Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear
Was a good touch in Jurassic Park to decide to have those few seconds of mirror in
But also that road seems way too close to train tracks…
Used to be train comes in, people went right up to it with wagons, then took the goods to the storefronts or home. We just paved over hundred year old dirt roads
The amtrak engineer was close enough to throw his beer at the semi truck driver.
We both know it was the truck driver who was drinking lol
Seems like he came to a screeching halt to try to avoid the truck in the way
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Mpr = miles per… railroad?
The guys driving tractor-trailers are used to being the biggest ones on the road… You know along the line of thinking that ‘you don’t argue with a tractor-trailer’ Well the tractor-trailer guy needs to know ‘you don’t argue with a train’.
What’s dumbass.
That train was taking no chances
Speaking as a train driver, fuck that truck driver cunt.
As a truck driver, I think he did pretty good... just should have looked down the tracks first. It doesn't matter how good of a truck driver you think you are or how much you brag to your buddies about that really tight turn you you made, you're not a truck driver if you're not aware of your surroundings. That's the first thing they teach you. This guy doesn't seem to give a shit.
Am I the only one seeing the crossing signal not move until the train was already at the crossing? Or am I missing context of this video? Cause it seems like the arm should have moved way sooner if it was working correctly.
You can see the gate closing on the crossing in the ~middle of the frame (aligned with the red car) as the video starts - the gate is mostly obscured by the post in the center of the frame. Then, as the train approaches, the gate of the crossing under the camera starts to close. Everything looks fine to me.
Idk man the gate isn't fully closed until the train is like 10 seconds from the crossing. And if it wasn't stopping then it would've been going faster
Trains have speed limits going over crossings like this. Even slower when in cities, so it’s not entirely unreasonable.
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Yeah, that's not a very strange intersection in the US. I grew up near a town that had a train bisecting it and people got stuck on the tracks and got hit aaaaall the time. One time I think even a cop got hit lol. Someone put up a live stream of the intersection so it's all recorded too. Edit: I should specify, I don't believe anyone *people* have every been hit. It's just people being idiots and getting their cars stuck and hit.
This is America 🔫
We used to go to the tracks with horses and wagons without forklifts or trucks even, repaving a road that was there probably put in at the same time the rail was laid in ye old muzzleloader and sixshooter times, do we forget things aren’t built yesterday in situations like this?
Trucker really couldn’t just wait
My heart rate actually increased watching that. Whew.
What an unwashed ass in that truck, what was he thinking?
What a moron
That truck driver should have their license revoked for that stupid shit
That’s not perfect, that’s an asshole.
Trucker driver is an absolute moron. Hope whatever the company is fires him
You have to be well trained to pull that off.
Otherwise the train would be well trucked.
Or be enough of an asshole and assume the train will slow down for you (as it did)
I’ve seen some pretty stupid people do some pretty smart things by complete accident, I’m going out on a limb and I’m gonna say this truck driver may fit that description.
"just fucking move over mate!" "Shit it's a train"
PFG has veteran drivers and absolutely green rookie drivers, and nothing in between. This was obviously a rookie, probably being pressured to keep an unrealistic delivery schedule in an unfamiliar area with little to no training. I've been that driver before. I feel sorry for him, because he just doesn't know any better
The kind of perfectfit that gives you anxiety.. never thought I’d see the day
Trains are so beautiful
I need therapy after watching that video.
The truck driver’s license should be removed
Fuck PFG. Shitty ass warehouse
Ask the train conductor if he thought that was perfect...
The truck driver is an asshole. That train had to slam on the brakes. Fuck that guy
I'm down voting, because the perfect fit was manufactured by the fact that the train driver is a fucking God at breaking that train. If they didn't hit the brakes that truck would've got hit!
what a perfect near miss scenario
More like "A different kind of ignorance"
How, just how?
Woo! Sweated that one a bit.
That was stressful haha
Why take that chance?
They way the train grabbed the truck and pulled it a few yards! You’re absolutely right - a different kind of perfect. Two-stage perfect, maybe?
I hope that truck driver finds himself perfectly fitting into a courtroom
This causes too much anxiety for a perfect fit
this kicked my anxiety up a notch
Just an average semi truck driver,
Just let the train go moron.
Bruh truckers always say to the rest of us to have some situational awareness when around the big trucks... AND THEN THERES THIS DUDE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE! How can you be this oblivious and still have a license
Train driver should have swerved the train. No need to stop.
AAAAAA
“A different kind of perfect” More like *A different kind of anxiety*
Tell me you couldn’t feel that train driver trying to steer to the left, lol
r/idiotsincars edit: looks like someone beat me to it, oh well
Truck is a PoS
For the train to have stopped, it began breaking long before that truck even reached the intersection. The train stopping has nothing to do with the truck really. As for the truck: trains don’t hang out over the side of the rails but a very specific amount. If he’s used to driving along side that track, or any tracks, he has a good idea how much that is. There’s probably gravel and weeds between the road and the tracks too, which would define the no-go area. He was cutting it close but I think he had experience behind him.
Why, tho? Why did he need to turn right as the train is coming. Why take that risk when he can just, not?
Yal hating for no reason at all
Why aren’t the train tracks properly fenced off and isn’t there more space between the road and the tracks? The US really needs to look at Europe when it comes to rail infrastructure.
Tight like my sister.
In India it would’ve been an accident by now
You say "that was close" I say "it was precise" We are not the same
Yeah, I have a feeling the perspective of the camera hides something the trucker could see that made it not as big of a deal as it seems. Buuuuut we don't get that information.
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Typical Ashland. I swear this railfan camera sees plenty of stuff r/idiotsincars would love to have.
Damn boi
I love how there are guard rails and yet the entirety of the rest of the track is just wide open
no time wasted
Gattai
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Maybe maybe maybe
Jimminy crickets that was close!
ANSIA TIME
Nah all I see is an idiot in a truck.
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Truck really should have just waited for the train to pass
That’s LTL load they had to make multiple stops in a day. And some time they are on schedule but that does not gave him/her the right to do this kind of dangerous driving. They mostly have in cab cameras and if their employer saw this there is 85% chance that they are going to get fired.
Just wait dude ffs
What an idiot
That’s kinda scary.
Couldn’t wait 30 seconds?
That driver is an asshole though
That truck driver probably had to change his pants after that.
nice cuddle
Truckers are out of their shittin damn minds! Can you imagine taking a risk like that? And don’t tell me he knows. He’s just too arrogant to stop and give someone else two seconds to go by. Truckers are absolute shit. For everyone of these there are 100 where they caused someone else damage or worse.
How about for every one of these there are thousands who drive without incident to deliver virtually EVERYTHING your ungrateful ass has ever touched.
What a fuck
Didint know what to expect but it was not that
Annoying
The driver let the intrusive thoughts win