One of our sister quarries had a mishap on Monday morning. The story is the 20 something year old driver fell asleep and took a 35 foot plunge with this loaded 769D. This is a picture after it was set upright it was upsidedoodle when it hit. Guess this could be a good one for showing the importance of proper use of seat belt. Am told driver was uninjured, maybe unemployed too. I would like to get this one as I believe it is a mate to the 769D we have, plenty of good spare parts!
Right front tire might have a slow leak! Glad the driver was Ok, it looks as if it could have been alot worse.
That driver is lucky to be alive. Glad only the truck was totaled.
I agree. And it's important to not asleep when driving. LOL
Pah, t'is only a scratch and will polish out with a bit of T-Cut........... if you want to total a truck try this. It was a 930E Komatsu beforehand ......... My comments about the operator normally revolve around was he single/married and did he have kids. Single and no would usually evoke the comment that he should have done us all a favour and qualified himself for a Darwin Award. We have them here too.
No more news on this truck, except my boss has called dibs on the fuel tank and hydralic tank. We have a 769D that has a very rusted fuel tank. Not sure why he wants the hyd. tank we just replaced the ouside half of ours a couple years ago. We have taken to coating new tanks on these trucks with bed liner to protect them. Seem to have a major rust problem now that they are keeping haul roads wet to control dust. Solve one problem create another! Almost forgot to mention I'm going to be driving our 769D this afternoon, hope I don't run off any cliffs!
We do the same (spray-on bedliner) with our fuel & transmission/hydraulic tanks as well. The major problem here is the extremely acidic groundwater that attacks any exposed steel which of course is what happens as soon as the OEM paint on the tank gets peppered off by flying stones.