What's the story here? Out of control truck? It doesn't look like there's anything else for miles around.
Perhaps the truck was so small it could not be seen its only about 150ft long and sort of mean looking
Deaf bulldog! He did not hear the beeper as it was backing up!
Alright rare ss, you know the rules, you can't post pics like that and not have an explanation..:cool2
I'm not sure what happened as its just doing the rounds at the moment, to me looks as though the truck pulled up behind the loader and the operator didnt notice as for blame goes its debatable
It's the truck drivers fault, he didnt allow for the stupidity of the loader driver. Most loader drivers I've watched dont think they need to look behind them when moving.
its never either operators fault, its the machines fault.. therefore its the mechanic's fault or the person who ordered the machines faults which is why you have the "engineer out" any potenial hazards collision avoidance systems will become the norm in years to come
Standard in QLD....
DAMN!! That's gotta hurt! Dude had to be flying in that loader!
Ouch, That looks like it was actually a good looking truck.
what sort of systems are you running over there?.. in the coal i take it
With the hope that no one was hurt in this bad bit of parking, I bet the truck owner has veins throbbing in his neck at the thought of finding a replacment " Mount " to put his flask in, I would think trucks in that spec are a bit thin on the ground to drop on ready to roll, the truck does look repairable but all those parts take some sorting, I would think the outfit to be a big coin turning setup.
yeh, the company in question runs alot of these units.. they seem to be going T909 tri-drive Kenworths over Macks for their new batch of trucks at the moment, i was out at our local dealer and there was about 10 new ones sitting in the shop getting fitted out The company must have over 60 prime movers and i would say they would write off the truck.. with the exchange rate we can buy trucks out of the USA for pretty cheap (compared with years gone by) only thing holding them back now is Euro 5 emmission law's came out here in the start of 2011 which is holding them back on power which is why there afew Australian built "off road" prime movers coming onto the market now for doing this sort of high speed-long haul type of cartage rather than using rail
Was at our local KW dealer and they happened to have a newin sitting in there for the same outfit, wont look this good for long