You can see by the video that the grade has been recently increased. The rail crossing has raised over the years and the asphalt has been resurfaced to match.
@@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.
A good idea for the drivers that pull loads that are low to the ground is to simply disconnect the leveling arm to your air bags. Raise the air bags then secure the arm. Most of the time this will work or have a raise/ lower / ride valve installed on the truck.
@@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.
Had the driver kept a couple of pieces of 2" pipe and a small jack,raise one side of the trailer,put the pipe under it and just drive away,been a car hauler for 30+ years and always carry these tools as I've been stuck a couple of times myself, works 99% of the time.
+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.
Could have been worse. Could have been an 85 mph Amtrak on a straight stretch and the cars on the trailer still having gas in the tanks and a fireworks factory next to it beside an oil refinery down the road from a fertilizer plant next door to a hazardous materials loading dock and 100 feet from a picnic table full of Nuns right underneath hydro electric wires with a coal mine underground.
i thought most trucks could raise and lower their "saddles" ... but seeing how far back he had to go to get free... he must've been driving pretty fast :)
Pause it at 2:04 the added asphalt is what got him stuck! If I had to pay this Tow Truck driver, I would have at least had him pull the way I was going to get me over tracks!
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.
The trucks have an autoride that can be discounted and that will allow the truck to raise about 4"/6" he could have backed off by him self,,,just remembered to reconnect so you won,t blow the air bags...nice call to RR to stop the train
I was a weigh master at a Weyerhauser plant, we had double tracks in front that crossed the main entrance for trucks. One morning a log truck stalled on the tracks, I notified the plant and they drove a barko to help get the truck off the tracks, in the process the barko took out the main power lines coming into the plant... woohoo there was fireworks, and they did get the truck off the tracks and onto the scale, then had to wait for the power company to come and fix the wires over head.... that was one exciting morning!!! The barko operator was taken to the local hospital for testing..... cya.
I love how people come up with all these ideas and it's AMAZING...I'm sure the driver don't do this all the time 30 plus years of driving shit happens deal with it and learn from it
They added asphalt to build up the road at the tracks and did not get enough ramp further back from the tracks to allow a trailer like to safely cross.
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!
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.
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.
Sometimes it doesn't take much for one of these trailers to become stuck at a RR crossing. The trailer in the video seems to have even less clearance than some others.
At most rail road crossings there is a posted number you can call with a designated identifying number per crossing in case of such an emergency situation and most likely the rail road stopped all rail traffic for that particular line. The trick is calling in a timely manner to have time to stop trains
Great video. I'm glad you also filmed the train at the end. Very Very Cool. Can I ask you a question? When something like that happens or if something is stuck on the rail, is there a number available at the Crossing to immediately call? Do you call 911? What is the best way to notify the possible approaching train? Thank you.
Anyone in a similar situation, disconnect the leveling valve & raise the airbags until they are topped out. Easy way to gain a few inches of lift, maybe enough to get yourself out of a rough spot.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
They make an air operated 5th wheel riser assembly that lifts the 5th wheel plate 1' foot high which can be installed on any semi-tractor just like the yard spotter trucks have which use airbags instead of hydraulic ram hoist, also they make an air ride airbag extender that raises the trailers rear suspension even higher for going over crests like this. I just don't understand why someone would be in this type of business with a car hauler or lowboy trailer and not have the means to raise trailer 1' foot higher to get over these kinds of obstacles? The 5th wheel riser is available either through Fontaine or Holland dealers.
+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 ....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..
I ran car haulers for years. They only have about 4-7" of clearance. They scrape A LOT. Sometimes the even get stuck. I got stuck once, and the wife another time. You have to raise the tractor and sometimes also the trailer air bags by disconnecting the leveler valve arm and over lifting the bags, you'll get another 2-3" in height. If this driver would've been thinking straight, he could've done that pretty quick and saved on a $500 tow bill
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.
Which of the following is most likely to get stuck on raised railroad crossings? A. A low-slung car carrier. B. A single axle tractor making a return journey empty. C. A single axle tractor pulling a regular trailer. D. An empty moving van.
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.ruclips.net/video/zZQb4_xGARo/видео.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.)
@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.
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 ..
Had NS 736, led by BNSF ES44AC 5756, BNSF AC4400CW 5605, and BNSF AC4400CW DPU 5628, the loss would’ve been very expensive, especially with the damaged Volvo sedan and Ford pickup on the trailer.
well, yes, most trucks and trailers in europe have a simple manual override, controlled electronically with a wired in remote just inside the drivers doors on the trucks and either electronically with a same kind of remote located somewhere along the sides of the trailer or just a simple air valve with a handle somewhere along the sides
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.
For you folks who will get stuck in the future, all you need is a wrench to take off the adjuster on the air ride and you can lift the truck another 4 inches, that can also be done to the trailer if it is air ride.
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.
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
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.
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.
My dad's motor home had two steel caster wheels, 4 or 5 inches in diameter, on the back that allowed him to make the transition up the driveway without the back end scraping. Low boys like this one should have skate wheels to allow the truck to pull it across.
When i start my company and start building Car haulers,the trailers will have an Air Bag system to raise the trailer to give it about 20 inches or so of extra ground clearance for situations like this.
I might have unhooked tractor from trailer, then let tow truck lift trailer and pull across the tracks. Then at least the semi could continue in the direction he was heading.
Not hitting each other on top deck. That's a copart special. Most if not all of copart vehicles are trashed. A normal trailer would have made it across. Low haulers like kaufman and others are low and have small tires. This has happened to me on several occasions. Shit happens.
The truck driver was just taking a shortcut in Stockbridge Ga to get around the Walmart traffic. Neither Henry County nor is the city of Stockbridge trucker friendly, that little trick will cost him dearly besides the tow bill. The cops around there are big on revenue collecting!
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?
I think the people that repaved that when the train tracks where redone are morons. I think what happened is they redone the tracks and elevated them without raising the roads up to the tracks. That driver and that truck most likely has been though there before they raised it.
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.
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.
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.
Not only was a lowbed operator. I was also at one-time of track supervisor. The dispatch for the railroad should have made out of five mile an hour restricted to a supervisor got out there in okay the rail in case of damage to derailment. There's some really great dispatchers out there but for Short Line. They're usually sitting at a desk reading a book with not a care in the world.
i like how the cars on the trailer are towed down ... looks very save and if he is going a little over 30mph like he did going over the rails and clearly there is nothing dmged and then slams on the brakes im pretty sure not a single car will fall off and kill someone ...
pick up is attempting to pull the truck which has a combined weight of about 20 tonnes. For more clerance I wonder if the cars could have been driven off to take the weight off allowing the suspension to lift. It's ironic that when bridges, pipes and cables cross roads they show warnings and height limits, but when a hazard like a short sharp rise such as a rail crossing there is usually nothing more than a yellow sign with a little black steam loco on it. I almost hooked a rail with a drake trailer but had the sense to get out and have a look. I found a better crossing further along the road.
Did they call in to stop the train traffic? or were those just hardly used tracks, I know around here we get trains every 10-20 minutes going through but that's dual tracks
You can see by the video that the grade has been recently increased. The rail crossing has raised over the years and the asphalt has been resurfaced to match.
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.
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^^^@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.
A good idea for the drivers that pull loads that are low to the ground is to simply disconnect the leveling arm to your air bags. Raise the air bags then secure the arm. Most of the time this will work or have a raise/ lower / ride valve installed on the truck.
We contacted the train crew on the northbound empty coal train via radio & they stopped about 2 miles south of this location.......
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.
Had the driver kept a couple of pieces of 2" pipe and a small jack,raise one side of the trailer,put the pipe under it and just drive away,been a car hauler for 30+ years and always carry these tools as I've been stuck a couple of times myself, works 99% of the time.
+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
Could have been worse. Could have been an 85 mph Amtrak on a straight stretch and the cars on the trailer still having gas in the tanks and a fireworks factory next to it beside an oil refinery down the road from a fertilizer plant next door to a hazardous materials loading dock and 100 feet from a picnic table full of Nuns right underneath hydro electric wires with a coal mine underground.
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.
i thought most trucks could raise and lower their "saddles" ... but seeing how far back he had to go to get free... he must've been driving pretty fast :)
funny thing is, that the cars being hauled looked like they were hit by trains to begin with
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.
What was that guy in the pick up think he was going to do???😂😂😂
Make a fool of himself
If you watch again, you'll see that it actually did move it some till the chain failed
Pause it at 2:04 the added asphalt is what got him stuck! If I had to pay this Tow Truck driver, I would have at least had him pull the way I was going to get me over tracks!
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?
The trucks have an autoride that can be discounted and that will allow the truck to raise about 4"/6" he could have backed off by him self,,,just remembered to reconnect so you won,t blow the air bags...nice call to RR to stop the train
I was a weigh master at a Weyerhauser plant, we had double tracks in front that crossed the main entrance for trucks. One morning a log truck stalled on the tracks, I notified the plant and they drove a barko to help get the truck off the tracks, in the process the barko took out the main power lines coming into the plant... woohoo there was fireworks, and they did get the truck off the tracks and onto the scale, then had to wait for the power company to come and fix the wires over head.... that was one exciting morning!!! The barko operator was taken to the local hospital for testing..... cya.
The trailer's too low to begin with.
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.
I love how people come up with all these ideas and it's AMAZING...I'm sure the driver don't do this all the time 30 plus years of driving shit happens deal with it and learn from it
This was really trucked up, man. Truck & trucker could have been severely trained. Cheers!
Damn I was waiting on the train 🤣😂
Oh how well I remember those days!! Stuck out on LI in rush hour traffic!!
They added asphalt to build up the road at the tracks and did not get enough ramp further back from the tracks to allow a trailer like to safely cross.
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
It would’ve been fun to have a train horn up around the corner!
That's just what I was thinking, ever see one of those cars where they put a train horn in it?
old dude drove his rig right over a teeter-totter......
A pickup truck trying to pull a tractor trailer off the tracks now this is a perfect example of common sense isn't so common.
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.
Sometimes it doesn't take much for one of these trailers to become stuck at a RR crossing. The trailer in the video seems to have even less clearance than some others.
there was a hump in the road where it has been paved over more than once.
Driver should have LOOKED and known.
At most rail road crossings there is a posted number you can call with a designated identifying number per crossing in case of such an emergency situation and most likely the rail road stopped all rail traffic for that particular line. The trick is calling in a timely manner to have time to stop trains
This happens far more than one might think. Nice catch
Great video. I'm glad you also filmed the train at the end. Very Very Cool.
Can I ask you a question? When something like that happens or if something is stuck on the rail, is there a number available at the Crossing to immediately call? Do you call 911? What is the best way to notify the possible approaching train?
Thank you.
No vehicles were damaged....The truck was already like that!!
Looking at the damage to the truck door, maybe...
Anyone in a similar situation, disconnect the leveling valve & raise the airbags until they are topped out. Easy way to gain a few inches of lift, maybe enough to get yourself out of a rough spot.
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
First, i would have placed 2x6 boards behind and againsthe truck wheels. If the tires caughthe boards, it would have raised the trailer
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.
Thank you Jesus 4 keeping him safe..
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...
Respect that pickup driver at least he's trying to helping him out instead taping
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.
The cowboy with the pickup truck he's lucky he didn't pull his rear ends out or Bust the transmission
That happens later ...
Good job taking the truck off the tracks, but some of the vehicles got destroyed but it's ok because you can always fix them up.😎😎
That will be $800, Thank you come again.
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 ?
They make an air operated 5th wheel riser assembly that lifts the 5th wheel plate 1' foot high which can be installed on any semi-tractor just like the yard spotter trucks have which use airbags instead of hydraulic ram hoist, also they make an air ride airbag extender that raises the trailers rear suspension even higher for going over crests like this. I just don't understand why someone would be in this type of business with a car hauler or lowboy trailer and not have the means to raise trailer 1' foot higher to get over these kinds of obstacles? The 5th wheel riser is available either through Fontaine or Holland dealers.
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.
That Silverado driver at 0:25 thought they could move a semi loaded with cars, ha ha!!
I ran car haulers for years. They only have about 4-7" of clearance. They scrape A LOT. Sometimes the even get stuck. I got stuck once, and the wife another time. You have to raise the tractor and sometimes also the trailer air bags by disconnecting the leveler valve arm and over lifting the bags, you'll get another 2-3" in height. If this driver would've been thinking straight, he could've done that pretty quick and saved on a $500 tow bill
were they seriously thinking in the beginning that the pickup was going to pull the heavy load of the trailer??
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.
lol it clearly says in the cdl manual dont drive your car carrier over railroad tracks
Where does it say that?
It does not. You have to drive carriers over.
@@Intellectualpropa JS is a troll. Ignore him.
True that
Like the video and I love only 20 min from you photo picture
🚂 Awesome catch ! 👍🏻
I feel bad for the trucker. Hauling cars is difficult
ytttt
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.
if this ever happens, find the air level valve on your rear suspension disconnect it an pull up to over ride the air and raise it up ✌🏻
Which of the following is most likely to get stuck on raised railroad crossings?
A. A low-slung car carrier.
B. A single axle tractor making a return journey empty.
C. A single axle tractor pulling a regular trailer.
D. An empty moving van.
Were the cars on the trailer damaged do to the sudden stop or were they already damaged?
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.ruclips.net/video/zZQb4_xGARo/видео.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.)
Been there, Done that. With out any help. I feel sad for the driver. $$$$
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.
No the trailer was not damaged, He pulled up on the crossing very slow & it just drug to a stop...
I feel gypped.... What a set up for destruction!
Bryant Johnson Sick
Dah! (Low boy trailer )--Driver must of forgot what trailer he had..
Is there any way to know if you'll fit without any warning signs?
i would have laughed out loud if when he started going the other way there was crossing there and he got stuck on that one too LOL
Lmfao
CT Mason p
damn you are stupid as hell
speak proper English don't understand you're sentence.
Amtrak 449 Man Your*
I bet that truck driver got a ticket for that!
The jingle "What is your function" and the memes came just to my mind.
US roads are so well designed.
Only the best and the biggest in Murica lol
Now there's a good one, how do you explain how two vehicles on a truck had a head on collision.
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 ..
Had NS 736, led by BNSF ES44AC 5756, BNSF AC4400CW 5605, and BNSF AC4400CW DPU 5628, the loss would’ve been very expensive, especially with the damaged Volvo sedan and Ford pickup on the trailer.
AC4400CW locomotive indeed
well, yes, most trucks and trailers in europe have a simple manual override, controlled electronically with a wired in remote just inside the drivers doors on the trucks and either electronically with a same kind of remote located somewhere along the sides of the trailer or just a simple air valve with a handle somewhere along the sides
Tractor owner must be a Milwaukee Road fan????
Mo
oh my god... the train is cooooooooming, Nooooooooooo
Janez Novak a
This is not the drivers fault you can see the city added. New asphalt.
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.
that's some good ground clearance on that rig.
Bro I know where this is it In Stockbridge GA where I use to live
Did any trains hit the truck later?
+UP 5199 Productions No.....We got the train stopped about a mile from the crossing!!
hahaha lol
No
The railroad crossings gates are open
UP 5199 Productions p
Here's a thought. If you're worried about clearance issues dumb your air. If you scrap you much be able to lift up enough to back up.
The guy with the Chevy pickup jus knew he was gonna be in a commercial if he coulda pulled that off
For you folks who will get stuck in the future, all you need is a wrench to take off the adjuster on the air ride and you can lift the truck another 4 inches, that can also be done to the trailer if it is air ride.
***** 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.
There goes his job, big fine and maybe a loss of lisance
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 .
I recognized this crossing the town is called Stockbridge . . .but we call it Scankbridge !
You know what happens? You know what happens when you drive an oversized truck through a railroad crossing and get stuck? YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!
That trailer seems to be very low; even though it's a car carier
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.
A hydraulic lift 5th wheel is the best for situations like this. Rare luxury... i got one.
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.
nice video
My dad's motor home had two steel caster wheels, 4 or 5 inches in diameter, on the back that allowed him to make the transition up the driveway without the back end scraping. Low boys like this one should have skate wheels to allow the truck to pull it across.
Some municipality needs to regrade the road (or train company) so this doesn't happen again.
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.
For those of you saying that "anything big should be on a railroad track," well...it was!
Maybe the car transporter will take as many as 5 or 6 vehicles to either to the junk yard or to the auto repair shop.
So the cop observing the situation would've stopped the train by standing on the tracks? I like how people have to feel involved haha
When i start my company and start building Car haulers,the trailers will have an Air Bag system to raise the trailer to give it about 20 inches or so of extra ground clearance for situations like this.
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 might have unhooked tractor from trailer, then let tow truck lift trailer and pull across the tracks. Then at least the semi could continue in the direction he was heading.
i was thinking that same thing
Here's a tip. If in doubt, dump the drive axle air bags before crossing. If it hangs up, raise airbags and back off of it. Find another route.
David Gardner Get out and look first.
Ok i dont kno much about trucks but how was the pickup gonna help? You all took "like a rock" to the heart!
Ray Smith He tried. Give the Good Samaritan credit
5:14 the cop points him which way to go. DUH!!!!!!!! Which way do you think he was gonna go dummy?
Well ... the cop didn't get hung up at the crossing. (Just sayin'.)
Not hitting each other on top deck. That's a copart special. Most if not all of copart vehicles are trashed. A normal trailer would have made it across. Low haulers like kaufman and others are low and have small tires. This has happened to me on several occasions. Shit happens.
Finally a one with cars on it.
The truck driver was just taking a shortcut in Stockbridge Ga to get around the Walmart traffic. Neither Henry County nor is the city of Stockbridge trucker friendly, that little trick will cost him dearly besides the tow bill. The cops around there are big on revenue collecting!
Top 50 stupid drivers. Road signs are there for a reason.
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?
I think the people that repaved that when the train tracks where redone are morons. I think what happened is they redone the tracks and elevated them without raising the roads up to the tracks. That driver and that truck most likely has been though there before they raised it.
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.
No...The load was not damaged........He was making a slow right turn across the crossing.....It just drug to a stop!!
It would have been bad for the truck, the train would have been like, did you feel something?
It would be easier to pullhim off tracks if he had his steering tires straight😅
Not a single one of those Einsteins even thought of simply driving the cars off the trailer with the supplied ramps to lighten the load. Sheesh.
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......
Not only was a lowbed operator. I was also at one-time of track supervisor. The dispatch for the railroad should have made out of five mile an hour restricted to a supervisor got out there in okay the rail in case of damage to derailment. There's some really great dispatchers out there but for Short Line. They're usually sitting at a desk reading a book with not a care in the world.
Hey. The car that I ordered is on that truck. Better get that car hauler off the tracks before the Sunshine Express comes flying by.
That truck driver is lucky from getting hit by a train
i like how the cars on the trailer are towed down ... looks very save and if he is going a little over 30mph like he did going over the rails and clearly there is nothing dmged and then slams on the brakes im pretty sure not a single car will fall off and kill someone ...
Alecks1990 towed down? And they look save?
Disconnect leveling arm and manually inflate airbags.....problem solved
pick up is attempting to pull the truck which has a combined weight of about 20 tonnes. For more clerance I wonder if the cars could have been driven off to take the weight off allowing the suspension to lift. It's ironic that when bridges, pipes and cables cross roads they show warnings and height limits, but when a hazard like a short sharp rise such as a rail crossing there is usually nothing more than a yellow sign with a little black steam loco on it. I almost hooked a rail with a drake trailer but had the sense to get out and have a look. I found a better crossing further along the road.
You have some very funny bloggers here, couldn't stop laughing!
I could have pulled him off the track with my 1986 k car 90hp beast.
lenny from simpsons ew
white acura legend coup ;)
Those cars were already wrecked on top.
Did they call in to stop the train traffic? or were those just hardly used tracks, I know around here we get trains every 10-20 minutes going through but that's dual tracks