Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!
Let me guess: it happened because the relevant safety regulations were repealed or the authority in charge was dissolved or muzzled.
Or perhaps because the owners of the transport company may have refused to listen to safety concerns from employees because it would require expensive upgrades and additional personnel that they didn’t want to pay for.
In either case, I am sure this will be a “No one could have predicted this” situation, the driver of the truck takes all the blame, and nothing changes regarding company policy or safety regulations.
The company can only get away with this sort of thing if there isn’t adequate oversight. The root cause is political. If that indeed had anything to do with it, which is speculation at this point.
Yep. No matter the cause, I expect the responsible parties to face zero meaningful consequences.
And they wonder why we’re so fucking jaded 😂😂 but for real. Justice doesn’t exist anymore.
Depending on how the contracts are written, the transport company may now be extremely fucked too.
This always happens. Skimp on safety to save pennies, then lose millions in equipment in a disaster. The person buying this equipment is going to demand a new one for free, and the supplier is going to point at the transporter.
Justly so. Let them lose everything for trying to cut corners and killing people as a result.
The load was 10 times the standard limit
This is why I go out of my way to not drive by these big vehicles. I do not trust the overworked, and tired drivers, nor do I trust the companies they work for.
I don’t trust any semi nor truck.
That article is so garbage. Words missing, no real details, all the links are spam.
Here is the non-Fox News article:
"Temple police confirmed that two people died and one was seriously injured after an oversize load came off its trailer Saturday.
Temple Fire and Rescue responded to the crash around 11 a.m. on State Highway 36, west of Highway 317.
Crews found the oversized load pinning a vehicle beneath. The load being hauled by the transport fleet was 350,000 lbs. It took four hours to extract one victim, who was flown to the ER with life threatening injuries.
Officials say the cause of the accident is still under investigation. The road remains closed at this time."
The cause seems pretty obvious. Transporting an oversized load on a road that was obviously not designed to handle that kind of load safely. No public roads are really. The fact that it was even allowed on a public road is fucking appalling.
Yes we’ll just move these parts outside of the environment.
For the uninitiated:
My man 🤝
Or maybe move smaller safer pieces. It is a fucking PUBLIC road, may e the kind of thing that should be permitted to be safely and completely CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC if such an obviously dangerous load needs to use it. But, I guess a little government oversight and corporate ethics is too high a price compared to those dead citizens.
That’s why they have permitting processes that include route inspections, filed routes, and planning. Depending on the load they might have police escorts to basically shut down the roads following the load.
Big stuff has to be moved sometimes and things can go to extreme lengths to make it happen. If they don’t go on public roads, how else can things be moved?
In LA they moved a giant boulder to the LA County Museum of Art that had a whole documentary around it.
Then the amount of work put in to move the space shuttle. They had to move street lights and power lines out of the way. There can be so much coordination to move big loads.
If that had been true for this case these deaths could have been avoided. Thanks for mansplaining the very thing I was upset did not happen and did not save these people from a meaningless death.
Yahoo in 2024? Post Marissa Mayer? Post Verizon? Currently owned by VC crap? You’re saying the article isn’t good?
Now that’s some Final Destination level shit right there.
Imagine being late for work and getting stuck in the traffic afterward. I’d spend my whole day waiting for my imminent demise.
So I take it the guy who tugged on the straps and said “This is not going anywhere” before they left is going to be fired?
(In all seriousness this is a nightmare and Texas really needs to have better large load escort rules)
Reason #398 conservatives are valueless cockroaches: Deregulation.
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Looks like it might be a piece of refinery kit. Maybe a “cracking tower”. Being Texas, a big petrochemical plant part being shipped on the roads wouldn’t surprise me.
Maybe a cracking tower or part of one?
Flashbacks to Final Destination.
