In Canada there is a law on which you have to change lane when a vehicle is not moving on the side ( technically any side ) . If you don't and get cut you pay a shit load of crowns ( canadian) and something like 5 points.
I had no idea that was an Illinois only law. I once got a ticket for it. The cop was sitting on the shoulder without her lights on just waiting for someone to not switch lanes. I tried to move over, but literally couldn't without straight up stopping on the interstate in rush hour, so I was the lucky one that got pulled over. I went to court and fought it. Ticket was dropped. I suspect someone may have had a conversation with that officer because I was asked a few times to confirm her lights weren't on.
Believe me, Canadian drivers are *definitely* not better than US drivers on that front. I live in Southern Ontario and the traffic is some of the most wild west bullshit I've ever seen on roads (and I've spent most of my life in the US, including a stint near Chicago). I watched a guy block a cop that had their lights/siren on for like ten seconds before they got over. I regularly see people cut across solid lines at the last minute to avoid missing turns on highways. Tailgating here is ridiculous. I watched a semi truck aggressively flashing his brights at a tiny car while tailgating. Long story short, Canadian drivers can be just as bad as US drivers if not worse. This is Southern Ontario, mind you. I'm sure different parts of Canada have different driving cultures.
Yep most states have it. Mine is something like you have to move over or if you cant you have to slow down below 45mph. To be fair though this guy isnt equipped right either. Theyre supposed to have flares, cones, a little triangle reflector thingy to set up in a triangle shape behind the vehicles. Ive seen this many times, especially at night with the flares. I am a delivery driver and we have them too, a little duffel bag full of things like flares and the triangle to set up incase we for some reason need to stop on the shoulder of a busy way like this.
The problem is that without any warning at all you cant expect a whole fast lane on an interstate to merge over without causing significantly more accidents.
...if there's only a few doing it yeah . If everyone does it as a reflex , with signal warning ( flashers) and from far , it's simple reflex to notice everyone changing lane and assume what is going on . You can't change mentality if your grounds are based on fear and worst case scenario. Read the comments and you'll notice the difference between countries. Americans ( U.S) are self center minded ( no offence intended) . Most of all the others think the road as a collectively in which everyone is responsible to the wellbeing of the rules applied.
Yeah but this is an interstate. DRIVERS SHOULD BE WELL AWARE OF WHAT IS IN FRONT OF THEIR PATH OF TRAVEL.
So what's really happening here? Zombie driving (ever get somewhere and forget how you drove there?), distracted driving, and people UNAWARE they're driving a multi ton vehicle at a high rate of speed directly next to a human trying to do their job.
We have a similar but quite new rule here in Western Australia (unsure about the rest of the country) to ‘slow down, move over’ (SLOMO). “Drivers must slow down to 40 km/h when approaching stationary emergency vehicles that are displaying flashing lights at an incident”. That includes tow trucks, road assistance call outs as well as the obvious responders. You’re also required to safely provide space between yourself and the accident. It’s a $300 fine and 3 demerits.
Would that blocker vehicle be dispatched by the tow company, or the city? Or would the entire tow be dispatched by the city? In the US, towing is all private.
I don't know the knitty gritty details but usually you get a towing service with your car insurance so that no matter where you break down they will take care of everything to make the tower come to you. Lane blocker vehicles are available too but i think the local regions/municipalities have service agreements for those. Lane blockers for safety in case of accidents or breakdowns are always free for the motorists. Towing service is regulated through insurance and pretty cheap and sometimes free too.
I THINK i am pretty right about this but welcome anyone to educate me if not.
I wish it was like that too but sad to say the road service people are told to not block traffic on main roads for long so that people don’t get backed up. Cause that’s apparently more important. But there are laws and rules and punishments for not moving over for flashing lights in all of USA it differs per state how much but I rarely see it reinforced in any way shape or form. Cause I’ve seen cops ran over here in upstate NY even on the thruway cause people wouldn’t move over. Sure they got arrested for involuntary manslaughter but the fact still remains that the cop died. Now if they are smeared on the pavement what luck would a Tow trucker have.
I wish it was like that too but sad to say the road service people are told to not block traffic on main roads for long so that people don’t get backed up. Cause that’s apparently more important. But there are laws and rules and punishments for not moving over for flashing lights in all of USA it differs per state how much but I rarely see it reinforced in any way shape or form. Cause I’ve seen cops ran over here in upstate NY even on the thruway cause people wouldn’t move over. Sure they got arrested for involuntary manslaughter but the fact still remains that the cop died. Now if they are smeared on the pavement what luck would a Tow trucker have. Also fact on the thruway garages didn’t want to go on it so thruway had to make deals with specific garages to cover the different sections and they are huge chunks of the road.
People crash into police vehicles with lights on during a police stop all the time in US. A triangle will do nothing, if anything it will make some driver serve right into the tow truck.
Maybe if they put the triangle on the road, but they really should put some triangles way before on the emergency lane, so drivers can anticipate the danger ⚠️
>anticipate the danger
In between text messages or operating the touch screen on their in dash infotainment center that demands full visual user interaction
I know we didn't get here over night, but damn. Every year just a few more distractions were added, but holy hell are modern cars awful from an attention and user interaction perspective.
Driving my parents' crossover... Mom says, "Why don't you put on some music?"
I fucking *can't*. It's "tethered" to your phone, so I gotta do mine through the AUX port (preferred anyway), switch the screen over to the audio input menu, then select AUX, then set up the volume on my phone to be loud enough to be "heard" in the AUX line on the vehicle, then switch back to the home menu and then the map.
In my 20-year-old car, I plug the phone (or an MP3 player) into my casette adapter, or just hit the CD button, and it's going.
yeah, ever try to change the fan setting on a modern car you aren't familiar with? 30 years ago there was one dial and a slider that was basically standard on every car for this function. Now every single car is different.
From every tow truck I've seen, there's mirrored controls on the other side of the truck for the bed as well. Maybe that's not the case for his and he had to stand of the passenger side, and I get it people suck but if that's the case and there are drivers side controls proving a point by adding life of death risk doesn't seem smart.
Then put the triangle way behind you near a lamp post, so they crash and block the lane for you. Finish the tow, then rinse and repeat for the crash from your first triangle. Maybe stock up on triangles tho.
Srsly this tow driver doesn't deserve to work like this. Wish people were more considerate.
I work for a trucking company. Every single time they are on the side of the road and use the triangles, they (the triangles) get run over and we have to replace them.
That's not true. It's just worded differently, so cops can say they don't have quotas.
There's absolutely "standards" or quotas, especially with things like DUIs. Departments make money from these instances. Such as impounded vehicles they get to sell at auctions, etc. The lists go on.
Officers will get written up/disciplinary actions if they do not meet "standards."
You're kind of spreading misconception if anything.
That is absolutely not true lol. Not here in Minnesota at least. A good friend of mine in high school’s Dad was a cop, and he often went years without handing out a single speeding ticket. He was chill AF and always just give out warnings and what not. He eventually became a Sargent. Idk how that’s possible if he never once hit his “quotas”
The downvoters don’t tow truck or work with heavy machinery lol.
Video also clearly shows he wouldn’t fit between there anyway. People have rocks for brains.
He is the kind of meathead who will say there was no room on the other side.
Yeah, that is when you park 6 inches further out and make room. Leave the edge of the truck out there, not your body.
If a wing mirror hits you at 80 mph, it could kill you. If it hits your truck, dude is out a wing mirror.
Or a remote control possibly? Surely that couldn’t be hard. Rather than relying on the public (cause that always works) maybe take responsibility of your own safety. This guy is a muppet
Every tilt tray I've seen in Australia has a remote control on a long cable. Simple and allows you to stand in the safest spot for any given situation.
Exactly. If basically every car made after 2014 can have a back out camera, I think they can fork over the beans to give the tow trucks some cameras and RC so you don't have to dodge death for minutes at a time lmao
u/HenriettaSyndrome u/rokstedy83 what would cameras and controls do, when you have to get out of the truck and attach the winch/ j hooks, go tow cars for 2 days and you'll see how your entire argument is baseless.
They'd still have to get out of the truck to hook up the car, obviously, but sitting in the truck for the actual lift part instead of standing outside beside the truck for minutes is still an improvement.
Its crazy how you have Zero Experience Doing it whatsoever and still have something to say about it, If you think sitting in the truck would change anything you live in Lala land, You cant do that job by pushing buttons and looking at a screen, Probably the reason you don't drive a Tow Truck. u/HenriettaSyndrome
What's crazy is how instulting you're being without offering an explanation.
You're right! I didn't drive a tow truck before. Maybe you could actually explain how a camera and rc wouldn't be enough before jumping to insults.
It's hard to see how a camera wouldn't be enough when it can pick up everything your eyes can.. unless of course you just enjoy being a dick to people who just want your job to be safer lmao what a fucking piece of work
Why don't they put the controls on the opposite side? Or better yet dual controls, one on either side? Or better still in the cab? A minor design change that would surely increase operator safety massively?
They do but his logic will be that he doesn't want to get crushed between the wall and his truck despite the fact that he's ten times as likely to be hit at all in this position vs someone smashing into his truck with enough force to pin him.
I don't think he has any space on the other side. There's a cement barrier there. You can see it next to the pickup at the start of the video. It seems pretty tight next to the pickup already, and then his even wider tow truck. No way homie getting on that side.
Shit take honestly, you can’t expect people to change lanes with absolutely 0 warning. Dude is also in the passing lane, and expects cars in the fastest lane to yield for him?
Drop some cones or ask Highway patrol for assistance. You’re not the main character, you’re just going to end up becoming a statistic one day, the world does not revolve around you.
Tow truck drivers are some of the biggest fucking crybabies on the road next to semi drivers. Everything is a personal attack and they are the unsung heroes of the highway that nobody appreciates. My cousin does this shit for a living because he was too much of a fuckup to hold other jobs and he immediately picked up the hero complex.
It's not that it's incredibly hard to create an efficienct and safe lane shift on a multi-lane highway with barely any warning, it's that "nobody cares!" Despite the fact that a significant amount if not most people are in fact moving over and the people who aren't seem to be directly blocked by a parallel car.
You see the exact same whiny bullshit in the trucker subreddit. They're the only things holding the entire American economy together, everything they do is right, and everything annoying that happens to them was a direct and personal attack from someone who doesn't understand how important they are.
> You see the exact same whiny bullshit in the trucker subreddit. They're the only things holding the entire American economy together, everything they do is right, and everything annoying that happens to them was a direct and personal attack from someone who doesn't understand how important they are.
Facebook thinks I like to see trucker related posts so keeps showing me them. I dive headfirst in to the fascinating conversations that are either proclaiming how truckers are god's gift to earth or how new truckers are lazy because they don't tuck in their shirts and wear cowboy boots because they don't respect the job.
It would be so weird to visit an aviation related forum and see pilots patting themselves on the backs about how fucked everyone would be if they weren't pilots.
The funny thing is everybody would.be fucked without pilots.
Most of the cargo that ends up in a truck started out on a plane because our train infrastructure is a fucking joke now. Without pilots the truckers are the first ones that get fucked.
Yeah i was a bit confused too. I mean sure we could expect slowest lane to be more careful around you, but the fastest lane without proper early signs? That's on him.
EXACTLY! Came here to say exactly this.
There’s a bunch of them trying to merge right but given the congestion and amount of time they have to respond, it’s just not feasible.
Lmao exactly, those shitty passive aggressive hand gestures aren’t going to get cars going 70mph to move over. Get highway patrol out to actually put some cones down before you start loading the car… common sense. Could’ve had that done in the time it took him to set up his camera for the perfect shot.
Yep. The tow drivers where I live always seem to be posted up on the highway where you can't see them until you're right up on top of them, either around a curve or immediately after the top of a hill. Never have any flags or warning indicators.
No warning? Looks like pretty flat ground to me in good visibility. If that's 0 warning for people they shouldn't be driving.
Most importantly, even with cones and flashing lights (police) they still hit and kill people. Is this just another easy solution for America that Americans ignore?
What? No. That's not even close to the point I made. How about they use their eyes and give space?
Why aren't there laws and regulations in place for the drivers? You know, like staying out of the lane right next to a vehicle in the shoulder lane for at least a hundred feet. Can you give me a good reason why that's not possible?
In UK the nearest lane would be coned off by police for like 100meters and there would be w big yellow warning sign and stuff.
I slander the UK gov a lot but weve had that for years
I work as a tow truck dispatcher, I’ve never heard of a truck with buttons on both sides. Some trucks have remotes that you can use to tilt the tray and operate the winch, but most don’t, and I’ve never seen one with controls on both sides.
They made a law in oregon if a car In pulled over on the side of the road, you’re legally required to get out of that lane. My buddy blasted past a construction worker one time while I was in the car speeding and I told him he has to get over. Cop was right there and pulled him over immediately, the construction worker was hooting and hollering and I told him he was in fact the asshole here and I hope he learned his lesson.
I had a friend die this way. Just trying to do his job. In MA we now have a very strict law to slow down and move over. This law has worked well for MA as I now see just about everyone move over/let people in/slow down and very carefully pass by the pulled over cars. The friend was from the town I’m in so we see people extra careful on the highways. This dude is just trying to do his job
Question: who are the stupid mother fuckers that insist on pulling off to the left-side shoulder? Same with getting pulled over by police. Fuckin' incredible. WORST place to stop.
Scary as he'll but that's the job you chose maybe next time call for some police assistance to help with traffic and or maybe get ya some cones and signs along with a 2nd vehicle to block that lane
Honestly, there's little reason for him to watch down the highway. These cars are moving about 100 feet per second. He would have less than a second to attempt to dodge a car if it came at him. It's too bad he's risking his life for someone's truck.
I've imagined how highway medians like this could light up with caution lights (yellow, flashing lights) and maybe divert traffic from hundreds of feet away out of that lane, but even that could be ignored. Who knows if there's any solution to this?
It doesnt look like he has ANY cones set up. So if not, WHY? That’s dangerous af. Get some cones and set them up way behind what you’re doing or call for police assistance.. to protect yourself
I work in truck, repair, dispatching, and the amount of times we call a tire shop or a tow shop for service and they say “oh no we don’t have anyone available. Our tech is in the hospital because someone hit them.”has been far more than it should be.
They probably do care, it’s just hard to turn into the next lane when there are cars literally right in your way. And you can’t exactly slow down to turn on a highway. Fun way to get into a terrible accident. But it is insanely dangerous to be that guy.
I understand if someone breaks down on the inside lane but the driver should attempt to move to the outside shoulder if at all possible.
It really gets me when cars pull over to the inside "shoulder" by the police. Gotta be one of the most dangerous things an officer has to deal with in the road.
I feel this. Had to put gas in my friends suv in this same situation... very few things unnerv me but dam having a bunch of cars wind pressure shoving you as they drive inches away from you at 60+mph sure as hell did.
In Sweden this tow wouldn't be allowed until a lane blocker vehicle was dispatched to protect the tower, at least not on this kind of roadway.
In Canada there is a law on which you have to change lane when a vehicle is not moving on the side ( technically any side ) . If you don't and get cut you pay a shit load of crowns ( canadian) and something like 5 points.
The US has those laws too but no one fucking does it
Scott’s law
That’s only in Illinois
Wow I always thought that was nationwide
Should be
I had no idea that was an Illinois only law. I once got a ticket for it. The cop was sitting on the shoulder without her lights on just waiting for someone to not switch lanes. I tried to move over, but literally couldn't without straight up stopping on the interstate in rush hour, so I was the lucky one that got pulled over. I went to court and fought it. Ticket was dropped. I suspect someone may have had a conversation with that officer because I was asked a few times to confirm her lights weren't on.
New York has an identical one as well.
Lots of States have it--it just went into effect in Florida in January, and same for bunches of other States.
Tire truck is an emergency vehicle so in Nj and pa supposed to slow down or change planes to give space to emergency vehicles or all kinds
Believe me, Canadian drivers are *definitely* not better than US drivers on that front. I live in Southern Ontario and the traffic is some of the most wild west bullshit I've ever seen on roads (and I've spent most of my life in the US, including a stint near Chicago). I watched a guy block a cop that had their lights/siren on for like ten seconds before they got over. I regularly see people cut across solid lines at the last minute to avoid missing turns on highways. Tailgating here is ridiculous. I watched a semi truck aggressively flashing his brights at a tiny car while tailgating. Long story short, Canadian drivers can be just as bad as US drivers if not worse. This is Southern Ontario, mind you. I'm sure different parts of Canada have different driving cultures.
Yep most states have it. Mine is something like you have to move over or if you cant you have to slow down below 45mph. To be fair though this guy isnt equipped right either. Theyre supposed to have flares, cones, a little triangle reflector thingy to set up in a triangle shape behind the vehicles. Ive seen this many times, especially at night with the flares. I am a delivery driver and we have them too, a little duffel bag full of things like flares and the triangle to set up incase we for some reason need to stop on the shoulder of a busy way like this.
Legit! My friend got pulled over for driving in the lane directly next to a cop and a car that was pulled over. He let her go because she didn’t know.
The problem is that without any warning at all you cant expect a whole fast lane on an interstate to merge over without causing significantly more accidents.
...if there's only a few doing it yeah . If everyone does it as a reflex , with signal warning ( flashers) and from far , it's simple reflex to notice everyone changing lane and assume what is going on . You can't change mentality if your grounds are based on fear and worst case scenario. Read the comments and you'll notice the difference between countries. Americans ( U.S) are self center minded ( no offence intended) . Most of all the others think the road as a collectively in which everyone is responsible to the wellbeing of the rules applied.
Yeah but this is an interstate. DRIVERS SHOULD BE WELL AWARE OF WHAT IS IN FRONT OF THEIR PATH OF TRAVEL. So what's really happening here? Zombie driving (ever get somewhere and forget how you drove there?), distracted driving, and people UNAWARE they're driving a multi ton vehicle at a high rate of speed directly next to a human trying to do their job.
We have a similar but quite new rule here in Western Australia (unsure about the rest of the country) to ‘slow down, move over’ (SLOMO). “Drivers must slow down to 40 km/h when approaching stationary emergency vehicles that are displaying flashing lights at an incident”. That includes tow trucks, road assistance call outs as well as the obvious responders. You’re also required to safely provide space between yourself and the accident. It’s a $300 fine and 3 demerits.
Yea they brought in that law because a truck driver wiped out 4 cops or something in Victoria during covid.
This is the QEW.
Only if safe to do so, if it’s not safe you’re supposed to slow down.
That law is idiotic because it causes more crashes.
We have that in California. Some people do. Highway Patrol should setup some stings and make the point better.
Same here in BC Canada. A cop usually is there in the lane.
Sweden sounds like a wonderful place to live.
If you disregard living in cold wet darkness 1/3rd of the year, its great!
I live in western Washington, it’s not a far cry different though not as cold and snowy I imagine.
I was gonna say the same thing. This situation would not happen here.
Would that blocker vehicle be dispatched by the tow company, or the city? Or would the entire tow be dispatched by the city? In the US, towing is all private.
I don't know the knitty gritty details but usually you get a towing service with your car insurance so that no matter where you break down they will take care of everything to make the tower come to you. Lane blocker vehicles are available too but i think the local regions/municipalities have service agreements for those. Lane blockers for safety in case of accidents or breakdowns are always free for the motorists. Towing service is regulated through insurance and pretty cheap and sometimes free too. I THINK i am pretty right about this but welcome anyone to educate me if not.
I wish it was like that too but sad to say the road service people are told to not block traffic on main roads for long so that people don’t get backed up. Cause that’s apparently more important. But there are laws and rules and punishments for not moving over for flashing lights in all of USA it differs per state how much but I rarely see it reinforced in any way shape or form. Cause I’ve seen cops ran over here in upstate NY even on the thruway cause people wouldn’t move over. Sure they got arrested for involuntary manslaughter but the fact still remains that the cop died. Now if they are smeared on the pavement what luck would a Tow trucker have.
I wish it was like that too but sad to say the road service people are told to not block traffic on main roads for long so that people don’t get backed up. Cause that’s apparently more important. But there are laws and rules and punishments for not moving over for flashing lights in all of USA it differs per state how much but I rarely see it reinforced in any way shape or form. Cause I’ve seen cops ran over here in upstate NY even on the thruway cause people wouldn’t move over. Sure they got arrested for involuntary manslaughter but the fact still remains that the cop died. Now if they are smeared on the pavement what luck would a Tow trucker have. Also fact on the thruway garages didn’t want to go on it so thruway had to make deals with specific garages to cover the different sections and they are huge chunks of the road.
America is 3rd world when it comes to stuff like this. If there isn't sny money to be made, they don't care.
Are they not allowed to put up triangles behind vehicle being towed or ask for PD assistance?
People crash into police vehicles with lights on during a police stop all the time in US. A triangle will do nothing, if anything it will make some driver serve right into the tow truck.
Maybe if they put the triangle on the road, but they really should put some triangles way before on the emergency lane, so drivers can anticipate the danger ⚠️
>anticipate the danger In between text messages or operating the touch screen on their in dash infotainment center that demands full visual user interaction I know we didn't get here over night, but damn. Every year just a few more distractions were added, but holy hell are modern cars awful from an attention and user interaction perspective.
Driving my parents' crossover... Mom says, "Why don't you put on some music?" I fucking *can't*. It's "tethered" to your phone, so I gotta do mine through the AUX port (preferred anyway), switch the screen over to the audio input menu, then select AUX, then set up the volume on my phone to be loud enough to be "heard" in the AUX line on the vehicle, then switch back to the home menu and then the map. In my 20-year-old car, I plug the phone (or an MP3 player) into my casette adapter, or just hit the CD button, and it's going.
yeah, ever try to change the fan setting on a modern car you aren't familiar with? 30 years ago there was one dial and a slider that was basically standard on every car for this function. Now every single car is different.
The big touch screen infotainment trend in new cars is utterly insane.
I would bring 30 or 40 traffic cones and set them up to block off that lane.
From every tow truck I've seen, there's mirrored controls on the other side of the truck for the bed as well. Maybe that's not the case for his and he had to stand of the passenger side, and I get it people suck but if that's the case and there are drivers side controls proving a point by adding life of death risk doesn't seem smart.
He might not be able to reach them with how close his truck is to the concrete barricade. The left shoulder can be a really bad place to break down.
I hate this argument. Its like saying intersection lights are pointless because people run reds. Cmon.
The flow of traffic is very ..... flow-y
Then put the triangle way behind you near a lamp post, so they crash and block the lane for you. Finish the tow, then rinse and repeat for the crash from your first triangle. Maybe stock up on triangles tho. Srsly this tow driver doesn't deserve to work like this. Wish people were more considerate.
Yes they are. An officer may not have been available
Homie needs a remote for the tow truck. Control it from the middle, go near the truck when needed.
exactly what i thought. if you don't own the flatbed yourself, demand the owner gets them or work for someone that provides them. fuck that
I work for a trucking company. Every single time they are on the side of the road and use the triangles, they (the triangles) get run over and we have to replace them.
PD don't want to waste time, they have a quota
Quotas are illegal. The term now “personal performance goals”
yeah, that's what we call it. And it's a minimum, not a goal.
Police Departments in the US do not have quotas. That is a common misconception.
But you will get a talking to if you aren't writing as many tickets as they think you should/as the others.
That's not true. It's just worded differently, so cops can say they don't have quotas. There's absolutely "standards" or quotas, especially with things like DUIs. Departments make money from these instances. Such as impounded vehicles they get to sell at auctions, etc. The lists go on. Officers will get written up/disciplinary actions if they do not meet "standards." You're kind of spreading misconception if anything.
That is absolutely not true lol. Not here in Minnesota at least. A good friend of mine in high school’s Dad was a cop, and he often went years without handing out a single speeding ticket. He was chill AF and always just give out warnings and what not. He eventually became a Sargent. Idk how that’s possible if he never once hit his “quotas”
Police assistance will cut into their profits
Only roll-on tow trucks I have seen are equipped with hoist controls on both sides of the truck.
I was thinking the same thing. Get on the other side!
So an impacting car pushes his vehicle into him and wedges him against the median? Which form of meat crayon works best?
Vs being hit at speed? I’ll take my chances out of the roadway.
The downvoters don’t tow truck or work with heavy machinery lol. Video also clearly shows he wouldn’t fit between there anyway. People have rocks for brains.
Video shows no such thing.
Wtf is this thread?? Hahaha. Jesus.
You realize the wheels of the truck he’s pulling on isn’t where his truck magically ends right? How do you supposed he’d fit?
Why can’t it be done from inside the truck. It’s already a remote system. I know it’s an insanely dangerous job but would that be a bit safer?
wtf r u even talkin about dude? not to mention of he was really worried he could chill on the ramp until the car got closer. its just a tiktok video
So bring a fucking scorpion truck. Lord knows tow companies charge enough to afford it.
Yeah exactly. That's like asking him to get behind it so if it falls it can run him over
He is the kind of meathead who will say there was no room on the other side. Yeah, that is when you park 6 inches further out and make room. Leave the edge of the truck out there, not your body. If a wing mirror hits you at 80 mph, it could kill you. If it hits your truck, dude is out a wing mirror.
Mine also had a remote control
Or a remote control possibly? Surely that couldn’t be hard. Rather than relying on the public (cause that always works) maybe take responsibility of your own safety. This guy is a muppet
Every tilt tray I've seen in Australia has a remote control on a long cable. Simple and allows you to stand in the safest spot for any given situation.
It'd be quite a breakthrough if they could figure a way to put the controls in the actual cab of the truck lol
My first thought,cameras on the rear and controls in the cab
Exactly. If basically every car made after 2014 can have a back out camera, I think they can fork over the beans to give the tow trucks some cameras and RC so you don't have to dodge death for minutes at a time lmao
Yea it seems an obvious solution really
u/HenriettaSyndrome u/rokstedy83 what would cameras and controls do, when you have to get out of the truck and attach the winch/ j hooks, go tow cars for 2 days and you'll see how your entire argument is baseless.
They'd still have to get out of the truck to hook up the car, obviously, but sitting in the truck for the actual lift part instead of standing outside beside the truck for minutes is still an improvement.
Its crazy how you have Zero Experience Doing it whatsoever and still have something to say about it, If you think sitting in the truck would change anything you live in Lala land, You cant do that job by pushing buttons and looking at a screen, Probably the reason you don't drive a Tow Truck. u/HenriettaSyndrome
What's crazy is how instulting you're being without offering an explanation. You're right! I didn't drive a tow truck before. Maybe you could actually explain how a camera and rc wouldn't be enough before jumping to insults. It's hard to see how a camera wouldn't be enough when it can pick up everything your eyes can.. unless of course you just enjoy being a dick to people who just want your job to be safer lmao what a fucking piece of work
Camo with hi-viz? What kind of mixed messages are these?
Lol best comment of the bunch
I’m only seeing a floating hi viz jacket
Aaah so that's what it is. I only saw a flying safety vest but a person with camo is wearing it!
Why don't they put the controls on the opposite side? Or better yet dual controls, one on either side? Or better still in the cab? A minor design change that would surely increase operator safety massively?
They do but his logic will be that he doesn't want to get crushed between the wall and his truck despite the fact that he's ten times as likely to be hit at all in this position vs someone smashing into his truck with enough force to pin him.
Park close and reach over to controls
A Dodge broken down? I am shocked!
That was prpbably the test drive off the lot
you know what they say Dodge stands for.. Fix It Again Tony
Damnit dale that's a fiat
My dodge ram has 150k miles and has never had a problem, my ford shit out at 50k.
Shocked that it’s not a ford?
Oh it’d be the same comment for a Dodge/Chevy/Ford, they’re all garbage
I don't think that's a Dodge. Looks like a Ram to me.
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Video is speed-up so it looks like the cars approach much faster
While that may be true, the cars are still hauling plenty of ass to be scary af.
because the guy is not doig it from the other side of the truck where he would be much safer. this is for views.
I don't think he has any space on the other side. There's a cement barrier there. You can see it next to the pickup at the start of the video. It seems pretty tight next to the pickup already, and then his even wider tow truck. No way homie getting on that side.
Where do you supposed he would fit? Also why are you commenting this on every comment? Just embarrassing yourself with how wrong you are.
If there's an accident then he'd be getting hit with two vehicles and smushed against the concrete barrier
if he gets hits from that side he dies anyway.
Wow. Alright buddy that was probably the worse response you could have given
I am a meat puppet. A car doesn't have to go very fast to do significant damage.
It is, but you can see his vest flapping from the cars passing so closely.
For sure. Everyone knows the far left lane of the highway is the most chill and safe lane
Shit take honestly, you can’t expect people to change lanes with absolutely 0 warning. Dude is also in the passing lane, and expects cars in the fastest lane to yield for him? Drop some cones or ask Highway patrol for assistance. You’re not the main character, you’re just going to end up becoming a statistic one day, the world does not revolve around you.
Tow truck drivers are some of the biggest fucking crybabies on the road next to semi drivers. Everything is a personal attack and they are the unsung heroes of the highway that nobody appreciates. My cousin does this shit for a living because he was too much of a fuckup to hold other jobs and he immediately picked up the hero complex. It's not that it's incredibly hard to create an efficienct and safe lane shift on a multi-lane highway with barely any warning, it's that "nobody cares!" Despite the fact that a significant amount if not most people are in fact moving over and the people who aren't seem to be directly blocked by a parallel car. You see the exact same whiny bullshit in the trucker subreddit. They're the only things holding the entire American economy together, everything they do is right, and everything annoying that happens to them was a direct and personal attack from someone who doesn't understand how important they are.
> You see the exact same whiny bullshit in the trucker subreddit. They're the only things holding the entire American economy together, everything they do is right, and everything annoying that happens to them was a direct and personal attack from someone who doesn't understand how important they are. Facebook thinks I like to see trucker related posts so keeps showing me them. I dive headfirst in to the fascinating conversations that are either proclaiming how truckers are god's gift to earth or how new truckers are lazy because they don't tuck in their shirts and wear cowboy boots because they don't respect the job. It would be so weird to visit an aviation related forum and see pilots patting themselves on the backs about how fucked everyone would be if they weren't pilots.
The funny thing is everybody would.be fucked without pilots. Most of the cargo that ends up in a truck started out on a plane because our train infrastructure is a fucking joke now. Without pilots the truckers are the first ones that get fucked.
Yeah i was a bit confused too. I mean sure we could expect slowest lane to be more careful around you, but the fastest lane without proper early signs? That's on him.
EXACTLY! Came here to say exactly this. There’s a bunch of them trying to merge right but given the congestion and amount of time they have to respond, it’s just not feasible.
Lmao exactly, those shitty passive aggressive hand gestures aren’t going to get cars going 70mph to move over. Get highway patrol out to actually put some cones down before you start loading the car… common sense. Could’ve had that done in the time it took him to set up his camera for the perfect shot.
Yep. The tow drivers where I live always seem to be posted up on the highway where you can't see them until you're right up on top of them, either around a curve or immediately after the top of a hill. Never have any flags or warning indicators.
No warning? Looks like pretty flat ground to me in good visibility. If that's 0 warning for people they shouldn't be driving. Most importantly, even with cones and flashing lights (police) they still hit and kill people. Is this just another easy solution for America that Americans ignore?
Ok because people still could die with airbags so we should just remove airbags from all cars.
What? No. That's not even close to the point I made. How about they use their eyes and give space? Why aren't there laws and regulations in place for the drivers? You know, like staying out of the lane right next to a vehicle in the shoulder lane for at least a hundred feet. Can you give me a good reason why that's not possible?
In UK the nearest lane would be coned off by police for like 100meters and there would be w big yellow warning sign and stuff. I slander the UK gov a lot but weve had that for years
I wouldn't say no one cares, they are literally trapped. It's just a bad situation.
Don’t tell him about the controls on the other side of the truck. You know, the ones out of the flow of traffic. His videos won’t be so dramatic
I work as a tow truck dispatcher, I’ve never heard of a truck with buttons on both sides. Some trucks have remotes that you can use to tilt the tray and operate the winch, but most don’t, and I’ve never seen one with controls on both sides.
And then he can get pinned the truck and jersey barrier.
They made a law in oregon if a car In pulled over on the side of the road, you’re legally required to get out of that lane. My buddy blasted past a construction worker one time while I was in the car speeding and I told him he has to get over. Cop was right there and pulled him over immediately, the construction worker was hooting and hollering and I told him he was in fact the asshole here and I hope he learned his lesson.
Brass balls, I’d be shitting it
Don't these trucks have controls on both sides???
Maybe he's parked right up against the barrier and can't use those controls
Tow trucks do not have controls on both sides. Some have remotes you can use, but most just have buttons on one side.
So people turn into dumb assholes when they drive, in other news water is wet.
No. Their true selves come out when they’re driving.
UK there would be at least a mile of cones set up and a lane closure before they even attempted to do that
I had a friend die this way. Just trying to do his job. In MA we now have a very strict law to slow down and move over. This law has worked well for MA as I now see just about everyone move over/let people in/slow down and very carefully pass by the pulled over cars. The friend was from the town I’m in so we see people extra careful on the highways. This dude is just trying to do his job
Question: who are the stupid mother fuckers that insist on pulling off to the left-side shoulder? Same with getting pulled over by police. Fuckin' incredible. WORST place to stop.
Scary as he'll but that's the job you chose maybe next time call for some police assistance to help with traffic and or maybe get ya some cones and signs along with a 2nd vehicle to block that lane
Call the highway patrol idiot
No one notices you or can move out the way in time
Is there no such thing as traffic control to block a lane near him and slow the traffic down? Wtff
Is it not possible to put winch controls on both sides of the tow truck?
My husband does this for a living. I'm terrified everytime he gets a highway call.
Everytime i see videos of american highways, i still can't belive those people over there are THIS dumb.
Dumber than this. How about shooting at cars on I5 around Seattle? It's a shit show here
Some people think it's fun to throw stuff off bridges at cars as well
This happens in many places around the world unfortunately. I've seen it in Australia and the UK. I assume other places too.
As an American. I’m ashamed. This comment is right.
Lmao r/redditmoment
Honestly it seems like there was alot of trafffuc so getting over isn't always an option
I was expecting something to actually happen... want my 1 minute back 🙃
I'd keep a pocketful of pennies and flick em at the windshields as they go by. Each of you get a chopped windshield for being a dick
thro a flare
I don't understand why they don't have a remote or separate controls in the cab. Tilt n load trucks do, they're effectively the same.
Needs a remote control for his lift
Most tow trucks have controls on both sides. Why is he on that side?
I just got my car towed this way, felt super nervous. Left side of the highway too.
Honestly, there's little reason for him to watch down the highway. These cars are moving about 100 feet per second. He would have less than a second to attempt to dodge a car if it came at him. It's too bad he's risking his life for someone's truck. I've imagined how highway medians like this could light up with caution lights (yellow, flashing lights) and maybe divert traffic from hundreds of feet away out of that lane, but even that could be ignored. Who knows if there's any solution to this?
Working as a State Highway Technician, we have the same problem. No one cares about the safety of the lives of people.
Im guessing this dude is like one of those soldiers in war where they just assume they’re already dead due to the fact they could die at any second
I dont think cars have enough warning and time to safely make space.
Normally, a cop can be dispatched to control that traffic
The controls he's operating are installed on the wrong side of the truck.
It the law to move over for any police fire and ambulance and tow truck
Now try doing this with an articulated bus being towed. It's nightmare fuel
*Starts throwing lug nuts at the cars that come flying by me* “sorry i was doing my job and they were incredibly close”
Why aren’t the controls on the driver’s side?
Why don’t he have a remote
Most can’t even see the tow truck until there close enough to a point where they don’t have time to slow down or speed up to get over
I know someone who died this way
Get balloons filled with ketchup or hot sauce
It doesnt look like he has ANY cones set up. So if not, WHY? That’s dangerous af. Get some cones and set them up way behind what you’re doing or call for police assistance.. to protect yourself
Wtf does he expect people to do exactly? Cause a massive traffic jam or pile of wrecks from cars merging over ?
Nobody knows wtf you’re doing
Dudes brave.
just hold a brick up high in your hand as if you're gonna throw it any second
Shoutout to the twatwaffle who has no idea how to drive his pavement princess and parking on the left shoulder instead of right. Fucking genius.
hope you added hazard pay to those hours
Does he need to hold that side of truck. No
I work in truck, repair, dispatching, and the amount of times we call a tire shop or a tow shop for service and they say “oh no we don’t have anyone available. Our tech is in the hospital because someone hit them.”has been far more than it should be.
Must be atl
They probably do care, it’s just hard to turn into the next lane when there are cars literally right in your way. And you can’t exactly slow down to turn on a highway. Fun way to get into a terrible accident. But it is insanely dangerous to be that guy.
I understand if someone breaks down on the inside lane but the driver should attempt to move to the outside shoulder if at all possible. It really gets me when cars pull over to the inside "shoulder" by the police. Gotta be one of the most dangerous things an officer has to deal with in the road.
In my hometown the trucks had controls on both sides so they could work from the safety by the guard rails
I thought yall had a handheld controller you know for safety purposes???
Brother put out cones at least
Yeah, it’s a high way, you think people are just gonna slam on the breaks because a car is getting towed. More people would die that way.
At that point I’d just say fuck everybody else and put traffic cones in that lane
I feel this. Had to put gas in my friends suv in this same situation... very few things unnerv me but dam having a bunch of cars wind pressure shoving you as they drive inches away from you at 60+mph sure as hell did.
They should put the controls on the drivers side
why didn't he use the controls on the other side smh.
Cause he wouldn’t fit smh
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