I wonder why they would do that? They should have kept it lower.

@@42luke93 The natural progression of rail beds is that they slowly rise above the surrounding ground level. The vibration of the trains shakes the ties slowly out of the gravel bed until more gravel is added regularly. A level crossing is almost always therefore above the surrounding landscape.

Perhaps the sat nav should indicate the road camber on crossing along with the vehicle clearance.

Just as an asteroid hits the yellowstone caldera .🌎☄️🌄

@@tonyfrancesco3701 Oh the humanity.

@@TheRantingCabbie 😆✌️

And a lost baby crawling across the street.

@@catherinesegovia3255 Which brought everything to a grinding halt till it made it to the other side of the street. Then it all resumed.

+Carl Covington Worked 99.3% of the time for me.

+Carl Covington Good idea.

+Carl Covington What if a train arrives before you can jack the trailer up and roll it off the track? Remember: By the time a train crew sees the obstruction, they likely cannot stop in time. The railroad can also charge for trains delayed up and down the line. I heard $6,000/hour. If a train goes into full emergency, some railcar's wheels may get locked up by the brakes and flat spots created. You'd pay a fortune for their replacement and repair.

Robert Gift that is true I work for Norfolk southern as a engineer

Small jack u mean a 20 ton bottle jack, would certainly do the job ,as for that truck ,maybe new tires with decent tread would help with traction

^^^@cletrac12c .. Clang!clang!clang!clang!clang!clang!clang!clang!clang! Oh No!!!!!!!!!! ..

No one called the Railroad and told them about the problem?

Richard Roberson It was a joke. Simmer down.

How were you able to channel and communicate lm there frequency. I thought they used truncated radios

@@jimtate7610 Anyone can call in. Every crossing on the pole has a contact number and crossing Id number. I dont understand the radio side of enthusiast, but as a commercial driver, we were thought that the first thing to do when hung up on tracks is to call the crossing operator.

@@MicroAppleStudios Push to talk hand held radio. Once you get a frequency on it you can talk to whoever. I have one and their handy, tho mine statics allot.

That is the first thing that you do. Get the trains stopped! People always expect that a train can stop like a car or truck. It can take a mile to stop a train. Even when emergency braking.

8 years late to the party, but glad to hear that someone had the idea to call the railroad before this got worse than it was. I’m assuming it was one of the LEO’s who called in on the radio? Just wondering since they would have the UHF capabilities.

No, Mahk, they weren't hit by a train, those are called Chevys.

The pickup was a ford but I have nothing against either brand.

Thank you humans for letting the railroad company know there is a truck stuck over the tracks, not jesus this time

@@TheMW2informer yeah I don't think anyone's Jesus had much effect here.

You deluded fuck, your Jesus had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.. fuck it's sad to see so many BRAINWASHED PPL out there.... NO GOD, NO JESUS NO NOTHING ALL BULLSHIT FOR THE WEAK MINDED FOOLS TO BELIEVE IN .. Simple as that...

I know for that that price is not cheap I lost control hit a guardrail got stuck in a patch of mud had to call a tow truck and they charged me 150 just to pull it out the mud that was only 2 feet to pull it out and I have a 2005 Chevy trailblazer

@@nigeltapp7370 I do recoveries all time time. Price break down ,mans pay, truck cost, truck insurance, truck registration. truck fuel, permits, maintaining truck ,truck equipment, wreck pulled in that have no insurance and just walk away without paying. you can put 4 tires on your little Chevy for the cost of 1 on a big truck. Profit on 150 dollar winch job maybe 10 dollars.

Nigel Tapp Your Chevy couldn’t get itself on pavement 2’ away and you’re mad at the price of the tow? Being stupid gets pretty expensive doesn’t it?

Make a fool of himself

If you watch again, you'll see that it actually did move it some till the chain failed

So is the driver’s I Q 🚛

Good observation

That’s how low those trailers are. The driver should have eyeballed it and known.

Russ that's just how low they are. I've seen many. But he is pulling out that check book now.

He didn't make a wide enough turn. That's what got him stuck.

Yeah, I can see a couple of the cars he's hauling are smashed, but if most of them are drivable, and he unloaded them, the trailer might have rose up a couple of inches on its suspension. With that and less weight, the pickup might have been enough help.

yeah right !

But this is a Dodge ram 1500

ROFL

Good people willing to try even if it probably won't work either and apparently your one of them! Sometimes it wouldn't take much.

I Know right??? They have (DOH) engineers to figure out that stuff, but they NEVER EVER seem to get it right!!!! My 5th grader could do better at making the roadways meet the RR tracks in a lot of places...... without all the rough humps and bumps!

Stupid road design IT SHOULD BE LEVEL AS POSSIBLE ITS A WONDER LITTLE CARS DON'T GET STUCK ON some of the crossings.

Yes, we have a lot of similar problems here in the UK BUT normally there are road signs warning drivers of the grounding risk. And also, the majority of our level crossings are barrier protected, which are activated when a train is approaching.

Becky Shock j

@@beckyshock3099 68 mo ho

That's just what I was thinking, ever see one of those cars where they put a train horn in it?

there was a hump in the road where it has been paved over more than once.

Driver should have LOOKED and known.

I was thinking that very same thing. Many, many years ago a story went like this: Trailer stuck under an overpass, traffic builds, rush hour, cars creep along. A little child rolls up in a car and says to the crew trying to "unstuck" the stuck truck, "why don't you just let the air out of the tires". Simple fix for a complex problem. It worked. They reduced the air in the tires allowing for the truck to back out of the situation.

I think just getting it move at all was the issue. Driving the cars off would free it up but who listens to me???

@@The_Original_forresttrump Look again as the truck is underway again. They were smashed up junk cars.

The car trailers I see have leafs. Little wheels and compact leaf suspension tucked on either side with a low slung beam to tie it to keep the deck low.

Lisa Kelly would have known to do that.

i think if i were facing a trainwreck, a felony traffic citation, and/or $600 wrecker fee, i might try damn near anything.

He may have done that already but was so stuck it wasn't enough.

Mike Jones won't work on car carriers they are very low as it is

I would rather tape, and I have a bigger truck than that. I'm not ripping my rear end out for anybody who isn't gonna pay for it. When you volunteer, you can't make them pay for it.

That happens later ...

AC4400CW locomotive indeed

James Barrow I would say MONEY, would be one of the reason's.

+James Barrow Because that setup weighs way too much to put on a road tractor. Remember there is only a 80,000 weight limit and that would cost about the weight of one of his money makers. Besides there are not that many times he would use it so even the cost of installing or specing a truck with on is not worth that cost either.

James Barrow

James Barrow ....dude...costs...ur talking rationality...I hauled cars for 10 years with 80 other guys in 12yr old rust buckets...most car carrier manufacturers give u 5 to 7 yrs and then ur own ur own...My shop welded and rivited around the clock to keep the old girls going...till Toyota told them..ur not putting our new Toyota and lexus products on that junk..

James Barrow Ya knock a false hole in the ceiling and you run conduit, you run conduit straight down.

Looking at the damage to the truck door, maybe...

I'm afraid that is probably more than $800, at least here in Los Angeles it would cost closer to $1500, I had to deal with a rig that lost drive and towing it back to our shop alone was already around $300.

just a pull with no drop charge, so likely 400 to 600. here in hampton roads it's around 500 just to have the wrecker show up. you'll be charged the full cargo tow fee on your credit card before the driver hooks up. anything less and you'll get refunded. too many out-of-state drivers burned operators, so it's full charge up front now. LEOs call them so if you don't pay, city/state will pay the tow--to the police impound.

Your profile pic is a Ferrari 458

Dumb ass trucker.

Can the railroad police write a fine ? Consider the result if the next train coming doesn't have time to stop and it is a passenger train ?

Me too CN main line. Auto hauler. But I got off by raising the air suspension real quick

@Da Big Kahuna Catfish VERY good point and true. I learn better from my OWN errors because I OWN them, lol

@Da Big Kahuna Catfish it seems that as the entitlement attitude filters down to the newer drivers they don't need any common sense. Just call someone who knows what to do. I never learned who to call in my 39 years. If I have a taillight out, I fix it.

@Da Big Kahuna Catfish yeah, I know, yerright. But I'm enjoying it still hauling crude oil up on the Alcan, short haul. Still bringing in maximum rates and slip seating with a good hand in my own rig. I'm 62 and a half, lol

@Da Big Kahuna Catfish Well, when you get to FLA, look up Margie, who used to be a trucker, and she'll come sit on the beach with you. For me, I'll retire up to the Yukon or British Columbia, and work my claims and see iff'n I can't find me a poke o' gold.

Where does it say that?

It does not. You have to drive carriers over.

@@Intellectualpropa JS is a troll. Ignore him.

True that

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specialy if driver is stupid enought to not secure them on your trailer

Piotr Mech they are chained

It's one of the most difficult and risky jobs in trucking, but pays pretty good if the driver is careful, and has some luck. $7,500 a month is possible just driver pay. If you work for a good company and have a good dispatcher, and have some experience and can run careful and yet efficient. I exceeded $30,000 per month gross a few times with driver pay of 25%. But we had it where if the driver had a damage claim he had to pay at least insurance deductible which was $1,000. The last 3 weeks I drove I made $5,500, and lost $1,000 in one instant. when an expensive car bounced into an overhead deck on an extra hard bump and hit it's windshield. Had to get it fixed before hitting delivery point, receiving end never knew. But driving car hauler cross country was high stress and boring back and forth. I needed a lower stress and more interesting job, so I quit. Working in my home machine shop now making custom machine parts.

@@TnMtnRdr I make close to that pulling cans out of the rail yard.

Only the best and the biggest in Murica lol

partly, but darn, trailer was REALLY LOW

its always the driver's fault

ABSOLUTELY driver fault. He should have eyeballed it and known he couldn’t make it. When in doubt, get out and look. Any time you hit a stationary object, it’s your fault. The track didn’t run down the road and hit him. He knew how low his trailer was.

Yes they were........Believe it or not!!

+Steven Allan Jones How much does a tow truck co. charge for something like this...?

+Michael Cannaday Sometimes it only needs a little tug.

hell i had a ford f150 pull-start my freightliner before...

+Michael Cannaday Was worth the try.

Mobile parking lot collision. Good size insurance claim on his load insurance. I drove a rig just like that for awhile, had to carefully consider every hump, especially tracks. Don't take em if they look doughtful. Bad judgment to hit it like that. But there's a trick that can be used to get off if it's not too hung up. Pop the airbag control rod loose and prop it at a higher bag setting. It'll push the rear of the truck up a little to get off a hangup. I got hung in the middle of the road once after one of the duals left the axle. Just beat the tow truck to it when I figured out how to get the other axle to drop and gain traction.

@@TnMtnRdr .. Only a Real Trucker would figure it out and fast! Thanks for your Experience of how to get moving off of a low platform roadway or low platform truck situation and solution ..

Lmfao

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damn you are stupid as hell

speak proper English don't understand you're sentence.

Amtrak 449 Man Your*

Bryant Johnson Sick

Is there any way to know if you'll fit without any warning signs?

***** 39 years.

Where is the adjuster located?

CHRIS BROESKY On the tractor it would probably just inside the frame on the very back, on the trailer it's going to be just in front of the axles or just in the back of them. Everyone does everything different. But you will know what it is by, it is a valve with a rod attached to it.

Good to know, thanks.

CHRIS BROESKY It got me out of some problems, good luck.

Ray Smith He tried. Give the Good Samaritan credit

Great idea.....

Thanks!

Now that's a great idea........

Spooder King Better yet, higher smart drivers that wouldn't get stuck in the first place

+Jay Mitchell Perhaps the reason the trailer is stuck is because the driver was "higher" already

i was thinking that same thing

Nah they wont take his job or license. He will probably have to go through a training course again to help sink in the rules. Other than that he will probably be fine

@@creamsoda22198 fine as fine 👍 or fine as fine💰 lol

Dont be over dramatic if u your parents were able to shit u out this guy will keep his job .

Janez Novak a

Mo

Looks the same as all the rest from Bankhead or the rest of them. I've pulled a few and I see nothing wrong with it compared to a double drop deck or a few other OD trailers which have inches not many inches like you see after he is off the tracks.

Or just put up signs indicating that low-riding trucks cannot cross. =)

a no trucks allowed sign works but oh wait they would still get stuck because they are idiots.. happens all the time at a gas station where I live. ;)

Railroads don't own that road. They own the tracks and the bit in between the gauge. They own 20ft either side of the tracks as well except for roads.

Larry Hostetler Someone needs to regrade it

Boodieman72 That's not my job.

The rear of the trailer contacted, too. A lift on the kingpin would have decreased the rear clearance and it might have got stuck worse. You see in the video, after the front of the trailer was dislodged, the rear contacted as it was backing. As it made the original turn to approach the crossing, the rear must have contacted first.

When I was a driver over the road, I did come across a moving company semi that had an air suspension on the trailer that could raise the height a few inches. I watched it in action. Takes a while, but gets the job done. The stock clearance would not have been much different than that auto-transport in the video. He was unloading at a dock at the time.

David Gardner Get out and look first.

Well ... the cop didn't get hung up at the crossing. (Just sayin'.)

Top 50 stupid ideas for sign placement: after being all ready on the asphalt and the r/r crossing, some ahole decides "well, lets place a sign here so they know not cross with these big trucks." Brilliance absolute, knock your damn socks off brilliant. Now here we go: I am 73 feet long in combination rotating vehicle at or near 80,000 pounds, 13.6 high and 8.5 feet wide and some brilliant rocket scientist posts a no truck crossing sign at the very spot I need to cross. Now, Im stretched 68 feet into the intersection or street behind me to find out I cant cross the tracks. Guess what junior now I get to back up into my blind spot which is directly behind my trailer into ma and pa kettle in their nissan altima because their precious members of the city council dont get it! How about posting things like this 1/4 mile or greater BEFORE we get committed at the location. Bridges and overpasses do it but intersections, railroad crossings and the like cant. Why not? It doesnt show why not on a map, not on a hard ledger and not on a gps. Instead we as drivers have to fucking find out WHEN WE GET THERE! Absolute brilliance. Take your volkswagen and go get your products. Better yet, have the train stop by your house. Better yet build your house on the tracks...there is no sign posted not too, find out later why not. Get it?

R Sum And lose his rig, his job, his insurance, and maybe his license, plus owe for some damages. What an idiotic comment.

@@kathyyoung1774 yes agreed

All the cars were broken down on the truck, on the track.

The cars must have been driven onto the trailer, at least the ones on the lower deck, so they would have batteries to be able to unload them. Maybe the batteries were disconnected. Also, the cars may not have been transported to a scrap yard.

They are usually loaded by a tow truck and unloaded the same way. The scariest part of operating a tow truck that I have experienced! My boss was good at it.

THAT was the first thought I had, I was with a driver for 17 years, and saw/learned a lot......

ike fun ) No, there isn't a hump in the railroad line - as you say, that would be impossible - but there has clearly been a deep patch added either side of the track, and as Keithra68 says, the hump is excessively steep, and the road surface further away from the tracks hasn't been smoothed out properly (that would take longer and cost more money...) so far from the railroad being in a position to sue the truck company for delaying their trains, unless they put some clear signs warning of the excessive steepness, the railroad will have to pay for any damage to the truck due to the ineptitude of its contractor.

It is not the railroad's problem, it is the responsibility of the city to maintain the road surface. The railroad is only responsible for the train tracks and crossing infrastructure like lights and bells. The railroad may realign their tracks however they wish. Usually the railroad will rebuild the crossing if they are redoing track, but they don't always do a good job with the road surface (they are a railroad company, not highway constructors!) so it is up to the city to deal with the ramps leading up to the crossing.

KeithRa68

that's rt.

GPS takes them over it. They follow the GPS. Maintaining a safe and level grade up to the crossing belongs to the city as any lines under the road surface have to be moved or diverted.

Already. See wrecked cars transported all the time. Someone's making money with them.

probably

I sense an insurance scam: get a load of wrecked cars and make it look like they were totaled by the train. 😃 Edit:This is also possible on a larger scale, with a train with cars: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMCBlZeQ3a2lgqM.html 😀 (accident 2010 in Austria: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Eisenbahnunf%C3%A4llen_in_%C3%96sterreich#Ab_2010 )

@ike fun: 1) Reported by whom to whom? 2) Do you mean a retarder brake? 😬 3) Other than most people, I use smilies to provide information, not decoration - in these cases, to indicate jokes and irony (trains are made of iron, so irony fits them well).

@ike fun: 1) You did not read up to the part with smilies and what they can do. Thus I give you a summary: I WAS JOKING!!! AND YOU FELL FOR IT! 2) Not a joke: Legislation is not the same everywhere. And if someone breaks the law for money, he might cheat against any law in other places, if useful. 3) *plonk* (Look this up.)

Alecks1990 towed down? And they look save?

lenny from simpsons ew

A lot of people seriously overestimate their pickup trucks' capabilities, especially diesels.

+UP 5199 Productions No.....We got the train stopped about a mile from the crossing!!

hahaha lol

No

The railroad crossings gates are open

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