As always, when I happen up something like that, I try and do a little googl-fu to find
more information. Igor even commented about it being a teaser.
What I did find, after spending time searching was another video from a tic-toc account
that the clean up company must have shot.
theservicesgroup is based out of Toronto. The clip above is on their tic-toc page.
You have to log in or create an account to see comments, which might have more
information regarding this dismantling of a semi cab.
Tic-toc asked if you would like to join using any of your social media or google accounts.
I chose my twitter to see what was involved to log it.
Here is the disclaimer for signing in.
Go ahead and read what "this application will be able to do"
You can do some reading about who owns tic-toc HERE<<
Ya, no thanks. I know this about the ownership and never signed up.
So, they can basically control your account.
Tic-Toc is one of the top social media accounts with close to a billion users.
If those users allow access via other social media and the authorization to control
the above list, then you can sure as hell know who can control the narrative as
they see fit. Now with AI making leaps and bounds in technological advances
we will never know the truth about anything. Most of us already know that as well.
Now back to the engine in the breakdown lane. Nothing more than the above.
It was a crash somewhere in the Toronto area. ( My assumption based on the company).
It was quite eye opening as to the volume of crashes involving semi rigs.
Googl-fu searches like:
Semi truck crash.
Diesel crash destroyed
Truck crash destroyed
Semi cab wrecked.
toronto truck crash.
They all lead to hundreds of hits and lots of devastation from semi truck crashes.
One off topic link was this one. 3000HP diesel blows up on the dyno.
Skip to the 3:30 mark if this embed starts at the beginning to miss the narration......
PSA from Uncle Irish...
Keep clear of Semi Trucks on the highways.....and dyno tests.
I love a good Cooder show..... They be all laughing and slapping their hats on their thighs. I also love the lack of safety equipment - especially the driver wearing just a T shirt and ball cap. What could possibly go wrong?
ReplyDeletesomething I learned a very long time ago from dad, NEVER FUCK WITH A BIG RIG. get out of their way as soon as you can, as they can crushed you and never even slow down. so, I always stay away from the big boys and their rigs. knew a few guys who did over the road gigs and they had a lot to say about assholes on the highways. so, yes. I stay away from the rigs. the main problem in this country is back in the 1960's funding went to the road system instead of the railroads. IKE had a hand in this as well, he liked the idea of the autoban and how easy it was to move troops and supplies along it, sowe had the interstate started. the problem is everything moves by truck in this country and the trucks are damn near on every road too.
ReplyDeletehere in backwoods pa, one tends to pick the time you take to the roads if you can, still it a scary thing to see a 18 wheeler coming up a 2 lane road at 65 plus and there not a lot of room if anything goes wrong.
and it doesn't help when you find out a lot of said truckers drink on the job too. or so I am told. not too many wrecks but a lot of torn up guard rails around here,,
Tik Tok is as evil as %$#Tube, F#!@kbook, G**gle Twi^$er etc.
ReplyDeleteCan't find the report right now, but there are several unknown data pullers on the app.
I knew from early on tic tok was chinese owned. I would say that to people and it was like no big deal to have china cork screwed straight into your phone. Never got it or used it. People never seem to amaze me. All my kids are on that shit but their adults now so waiting for them to act like it.
ReplyDeletehell, after I retired, the cell phone went into the burn barrel. never like them. just not happy with the idea of a tracker on me. and with the newer phones, hell. they can turn them on when you don't know it and all sorts of other shit
DeleteI don't care for. remember damn near ALL OF THE JAN 6th PEOPLE WHERE TRACKED BY THEIR PHONES. it is how the feds built the case against them, with their own phones. and as far as facebook and all the other nonsense, don't want or have any of them. fuck big tech. and now we have a whole lot of people who just stare into the damn phone, all day long.
seems kind of stupid to me.
DJT saw the problem early, and tried to kick TikTok out of the US. The liberals all wanted it, and Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit (also partly Chinese-owned) were unanimous about how Bad Trump was being mean to them.
DeleteOh, as far as explosions - search Youtube for "tractor pull fails." Some of those are downright spectacular.
DeleteMy wife likes wrecker videos; I often watch them with her. She follows Ron Pratt in south Missouri, Pepe's Towing in Los Angeles, and Matt's Towing out of Utah. Ron and Pepe have million-dollar "rotator" wreckers which are basically mobile cranes; they can pick up a wreck, swing it around to the other side, and set it on a trailer. Matt is one of the "off-road" guys; his primary recovery vehicle is a 1960 Corvair station wagon converted to 4wd.
ReplyDeleteRon and Pepe have worked some 18-wheeler wrecks so bad it took three trucks to haul away the pieces, but so far I haven't seen them handle anything like the video you posted. I'd like to know what happened there, too.
I keep clear of semi's because of the danger of being beside a truck or trailer tire blowout. While extremely rare it would also be extremely dangerous and likely lethal. Even if ya have your seatbelt on.
ReplyDeleteI was behind a semi on the expressway once when a tire blew and the rubber went straight up probably 70-80ft. I was far enough behind to have it miss me. Another time, driving to Chicago on I90 in the rain, got passed by 2 flatbeds hauling scrap or something and when the mist cleared, I was paralleling a chunk of I beam that then turned 90 degrees and fortunately I hit it dead on rather than glancing as that probably would have thrown me off the road. Lost my muffler but all good otherwise. This was in the days before ratchet tie downs.
DeleteAfter seeing what that car with the six teenage girls in it looked like after the semi rolled over the middle of it recently, anyone that thinks semi's are anything to be messed with doesn't have two brain cells to rub together. Back when I was regularly traveling up and down the highways, I saw the after math of a car/semi interaction. The drivers door was in the right side middle third of the front seating area of the car with most of the front of the car completely sheared off sitting at an angle to the rest of the vehicle. The semi looked to be unscathed.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be vid rolling around the interwebs of a young man and his girl friend in a car running from the law that came a T intersection which the runner tried to drive through at speed, either not seeing an approaching semi or thinking he could out run it. Ended with the car less than 2 feet thick after the semi ran over it from back to front. The semi hardly bounced.
Those rigs when loaded weigh 60,000 to 80,000 pounds depending on what kind load they're carrying, 35000 if they're empty. Simple matter of understanding that an interaction with that kind of weight/momentum and a 4000 to 6000 pound car/truck/SUV isn't going to end well for the light vehicle.
Nemo
Nemo that was my home state and a terrible situation. Teach your youngun's a seat belt saves lives and wrinkles cloths. Head on with no airbag and I am still walking the earth. Amazingly only got a black eye. There were 6 in the car and only 2 had their seatbelts on even though none survived it is heartbreaking
DeleteOregon -- 105,500#... and we have triples (two trailers behind a semi-trailer).
DeleteAnd in Canada they have B-Trains, two semi-trailers with a gross weight of 140,000 pounds over 8 axles. They're allowed over mountain passes in the winter (as seen on Highway to Hell).
DeleteIt makes no sense to me. The bigger the truck the bigger the wreck, IMHO.
My Mom aand Dad were side swiped by a semi last summer. If it wasnt for my Mom yelling for my Dad to go into the suicide land they would have been flattened. The crash occurred approx. 474" down the highway from where they entered at a stop sign. They were going the speed limit of 50 heading into town. The truck left over 300' of skid marks. I figure 80mph minimum. Flatten the whole right side of their car wall straight. Guy gets out speaking Guatemalan with a brand new NY drivers license working for a company out of Illinois. Cross the border, get off bus in NY walk directly into a voter registration building come out with a drivers license, get on another bus get off in Illinois and start driving big rigs with minimal instruction. My semi driver friends say none of them are on the CB so they don't know road conditions. The rot runs deep.
ReplyDeleteMF
I only saw a car go "POOM!" once on a dyno down at Carlisle. Nowhere near as dramatic as that. Just the sound and smoke from the exhaust. Glad it wasn't my car, but then I would never put a car I cared about on a dyno.
ReplyDeleteWifey Unit is a Florida girl, so after I got out of Uncle Sam's Flying Air Circus, we went back to my home in the Pacific NW. I informed her that logging trucks ALWAYS have the right-of-way, even if they are in your "lane". Those back roads in the mountains can get pretty hairy with a 35-40 ton logging truck barreling down the mountain road towards you. We were on one once and I darn near ran my '57 Chebbie off the edge to get away from one. She became a believer that day...
ReplyDeleteI have been telling my wife for many years to stay the hell away from trucks. If you need to pass one do at 90 mph. I saw a guy lose almost all of his hearing standing next to a semi when a tire blew up. I had ear protection on (airport ramp).
ReplyDeleteEven according to US DOT (who hates trucks) over 75% of car-truck crashes are caused by cars. (and that number has been steady for a long time.
ReplyDeleteReally you should go sit in a truck for a day. The amazing thing isn't that there aren't occasional crashes. The amazing thing (and that most car drivers should sit down and thank their lucky stars for) is that there aren't more.
A coworkers son was killed driving a logging truck. Coming down the mountain with a full load the brakes failed and he got crushed in the cab when he hit a tree.
ReplyDeleteI used to live in Illinois and they have potholes in their highways that would do that to a truck. I hit one in a box truck and you could hear washing machines in the back come a couple of feet off the deck and slam back down. And they never fix the potholes. The politicians would come up with repair money - and then stick it in their pockets. Good Democrats......
ReplyDeleteAlways pushing the envelope of the internal combustion engine. Some commenter above noted the lack of safety equipment at this venue. I agree with his statement totally. Perhaps these "good ol' boys" should incorporate ejection seats on their contraptions? Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteOhio Guy