Epic crash of a raised dump trailer full of canola seed

[cebuan]

The trucker must have just started out moments before, as there was little backward shifting of the canola cargo from gravity and road vibration. The load seemed to be still fairly uniformly balanced front to back. The whole idea of the lift is to send the load tumbling out the back.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by jambo101

I find it odd that a truck like this one doesnt have some kind of warning or lock out mechanism making it impossible for the truck to move if the bucket is still in the raised position.

There's only so much you can do to make a truck idiot proof. The rest sort of just has to come, I guess, on a case by case basis. Because it's not always easy to predict how people are going to screw up. There've been airline pilots who forgot to put the landing gear down, amazingly enough.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

Well you solve the mystery in the thread title. I had seen the video and was wondering what was in the trailer to make it appear to explode like that. Gotta admit I never considered canola seed.

It's called momentum. One of the most powerful explosive forces on Earth. I'd say he hit the bridge doing about 65 mph.

[USMC1984]

Originally Posted by Led Zeppelin

There's only so much you can do to make a truck idiot proof. The rest sort of just has to come, I guess, on a case by case basis. Because it's not always easy to predict how people are going to screw up. There've been airline pilots who forgot to put the landing gear down, amazingly enough.

When you raise an end-dump trailer, you often must pull forward a few feet while raised to allow all of the material to clear the main pile.

[UrbanAdventurer]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

My son drives a truck, so he gets to talk to a lot of truck drivers. He says some of them aren't very smart.

I drive a truck and will tell you that too. Trucking has become a microcosm of the whole country. Used to be great but pretty much gone to the toilet now.

[UrbanAdventurer]

This might just be one of those freak accidents though. They don't usually let rookies anywhere near end dump trailers or long nosed Petes.

[wankel7]

Originally Posted by getatag

I find more interest in deciding what sort of vehicle the movie-making-while-driving person was piloting.

Appears to be a new Ford F-150 dash in the Facebook movie. Maybe a Platinum version.

What do you all think?

I don't care if it was filmed from a moving tricycle. My hat off to the driver for getting the video!

[Cloudy Dayz]

The Quebec Highway Code reform currently under consideration includes a measure requiring the presence of a warning light inside trucks when a truck’s trailer is raised, which is not currently the case, the department said.

Sûreté du Québec accident investigators and accident reconstruction specialists will try to determine how the accident occurred, to find out if the driver of the truck was negligent or whether the truck’s trailer raised by itself due to a mechanical breakage.

The Sûreté du Québec says it received a video showing the accident, but it was impossible to know if the driver who filmed it is exposed to sanctions since the video was made by a person who appears to be driving a vehicle while holding the device used to film, probably a cellphone.

Highway 40 pedestrian bridge near Repentigny to be dismantled after spectacular accident _ Montreal Gazette