Had this happen this week south of here.





https://www.ajc.com/news/traffic-al...state-bridge/UC52TA7OLFDJXFG3E63D2XVMAA/

According to the accident report the accident occurred when a female passenger "not in her seat" inadvertently engaged the PTO.

oh my imagine scenerio !

As many accidents resulting from raised beds. you'd think there'd be some sort of interlock or warning buzzer.

Thats gonna cost a bunch of money.

Generally in dump trucks there is a red light that is lit when the bed is raised even an inch. But looking at the length I'm saying tractor trailer so no light or buzzer. Hazing said that, coming from a truck driver thats pulled dump trailers and driven dump trucks, I have no clue how one could go down the road with their bed in the air and not realize it.

i pull an end dump. every pto i ever engaged had a light. its not in the dash though. the controls are on the floor beside the seat and so is the light. i hope nobody got hurt

Amazingly, no one did even though the tractor crossed the median through a cable barrier and ended up in the ditch on the other side.

Whatever that female passenger was doing it is going to cost somebody a whole lot of money

The "happy ending" for them didn't end up being so happy...?

Those with experience. Can the I beams be reset and moved? Or do they have to redo the whole over pass?

Bryce

Good question. I'd like to know the answer too.

I would imagine that on the engineering side any recycled or reused part would have to be recertified or otherwise tested to standards.

I bet that trip was blown.

That could blow a guy's day.

Apparently the passenger needed more head room. Some cabs are small.

I drove a bucket truck a few miles down the main street in town. The upper boom was down and the bucket was in the stowed position in it's cradle. But the 6' long lower boom was up and I didn't realize it. I got to the shop and one of the other guys ran out waving his arms to stop me. I would have taken out the garage door. I'm not sure how I made it through town without taking down a single wire.

A couple of years later, another guy in the shop came in the door the same way - bucket stowed but lower boom straight up. He tore out the header over the garage door, $10K in concrete block, and the garage door fell on the top of the truck.

That truck now has a limit switch on the lower boom and a buzzer.

A guy can never get a head like that.

That bill will be hard to swallow.

Got to wonder if the drivers new nick name is stubby.

Good night it's amazing no one was killed. Can you imagine being a car driving across that over pass at the time.