• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
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    34 minutes ago

    “Typisch Deutsche Bahn!”

    (TIL the notoriously unpunctual Deutsche Bahn (DB) owned a internationally operating logistics company, but sold it last year.)

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    The dashcam video seems to come from a safety car blocking that lane. The truck driver changed lanes in a very steep angle right after the safety car.

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    8 hours ago

    Always remember folks, modern day safety standards and regulations were paid for in blood. Although thankfully this guy survived by the sounds of things.

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    He just keeps on coiling the cable as he’s hanging there. “I’ll just be hanging out here if you need me”

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      “That, children, was why we used to have safety gear, before uncle Trump said equipment like that is for pussies and not something real Americans use.”

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      He likely blacked out from the whiplash. I hope he got checked out at the hospital. Soft tissue injury can take a few days to register, especially whiplash.

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        Wow, this is unjust AND incorrect …you completely forgot how they also arrest them on false charges and shoot everything that moves. Also nowadays they help to kidnap and deport people.
        Next time mention it, or else!!!

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          Pffff, and if there are protests happening they HAVE to go deal with that to ensure it’s unnecessarily escalated and people are oppressed.

          Won’t SOMEbody think of the poor pigs?

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      I’ve made traffic control plans for road construction and depending on the locality police are rarely involved with traffic control. This area clearly looks like the state’s DOT right-of-way, and these might be contractors in which case they are required to submit traffic control plans to the DOT and DOT confirm if it for safety. However, contractors have to actually execute the plans in the field. This could be a case of bad plans or a site supervisor who didn’t check the original traffic control plans matched with what was on the ground.

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        They’re idiots. They hardly ever have flaggers or traffic control when they actually should. All those reports do is cya nobody is actually checking to see if they’re doing it. Then an accident happens like this and they blame everything on the truck driver when they didn’t do their jobs correctly. It should come back on the engineer who approved those workers and didn’t check what they were actually doing.

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          I really don’t see how. Contractors created a hazard significantly below standard or posted height limits but allowed traffic to continue under. Should’ve either been higher or the lane closed.

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          Hiring “Timid Tom” to be a flag man probably wasn’t the best idea.

          Edit: Also the cones should cover the entire work area, not just the truck. Someone’s getting wrote up.

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    I can’t believe this scenario hasn’t been thought out. There must have been a failure in plan execution.