Moments later the crew of the 8h was very confused when they got fired.
My uncle used to fix trucks like that. Wonder what he think of this pic.
“Hold ‘RB’ to flip… wait, what? How did you do that?”
Is this for the Halo 3 Elephant?
Awww look at it, how cute, it wants belly rubs.
Its so trusting! I don’t know if I can bring myself to eat large trucks anymore.
Sad Optimus Prime sounds
For a mistake that big, someone’s boss gets fired. If you were even able to fuck it up that bad there have already been so many fuck ups.
Could be the person’s first day.
Exactly. And what are they going to hire a new crew tomorrow to flip that shit back over again and keep doing business as usual? Lol no.
Flipping it back over will be extreamly difficult, probably will require several excavators. Then they will have to inspect the engine, to see if its damaged. If it needs parts, it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair. The truck may need parts or welding as well. They will likely fire the driver who flipped it and replace him with someone. You can learn fairly quick.
It’s dumb to fire someone when you just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars teaching them not to do that again.
It’s all optics. Pretend to be the boss, how are you going to explain this to your boss? You can’t justify not firing. The current one did it once and its permanently on his record, better to get rid of him and make sure the replacement doesn’t cause a problem until this one is forgotten.
Also if you hire someone who can “learn fairly quick”, you’re going to be back in this same position fairly quick.
I would assume that for operating expensive vehicles like this, you get training on how to use them properly to avoid these kinds of issues. Flipped because they ignored protocol? Well, you already tried teaching them and it didn’t take. Try someone else. Did something unexpected come up to make this happen? Now that’s potentially valuable knowledge that you want to keep in your crew.
Some people just arent cut out for certain jobs. There is no good reason to ever flip that truck that way. Where i work at the only thing that will really get you fired on the spot is doing something really dumb like this, or putting someone else in an unsafe position. Also a few hundred grand is the low end. If the driver is really dumb and xoesnt cut the engine off as soon as he gets done rolling, he will ruin the entire engine which will cost close to a million just for the engine alone.
Its probably easier to disassemble the truck and re assemble right side up than it is to flip it
Definitly not. They will probably dig under one side or just get a couple of big excvators and chains. I had to flip a few of these in my time, not as big as this one, but ones about half its size.
Interesting! TIL
can the truck still be relied upon? Or does it have to be replaced to avoid future failure? I work in IT, and if something has a hint of being unreliable it gets replaced because the downtime of it failing when needed is more expensive than the replacement, and now you have a spare one in case of surprises
The tricks are very exspensive, ones like in this pic are in the millions. Stuff in this range of price is generally repaired for a long time and kept in service for decades. There isnt much on the truck that cannot be replaced. They are also suprisingly strong. This one is probably rated to carry about 80 tons, which means the truck probably weighs atleast as much. So you are looking at 160k ibs before being loaded and over a quarter million pounds ehen loaded. Every part of that truck has to exceed the shock forces of that at several gs. Thats why replacing them is more of a long term process. We have a bunch of 40 ton and some heavier rock trucks. We replace them about every 10-20 years. These trucks are more like mining trucks. They usually work in big mines since you have to take the truck apart to transport them on highways or move them on rail.
Many lieces if equipment half this size will have engine replacments, and other magornsystems in its lifetime. Sometimes axles, transmissions, even cabs and stuff. Companies usually keep some as spares when they get severly damaged to use as parts.
Thats a hell of a fuckin memory, I’d want a picture too
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Whats the problem just lift the bed until its right side up
And if that doesn’t work, try it again while violently jiggling the steering back and forth.
Just flip the 48 upside down and no one will even notice.
That’s what all earth movers do when they die.
saving this for trumps third term. thanks.
Rhetoric matters. Joking about that is halfway to accepting it.
