Semi Did It Again!

[scotchandcigar]

Coors Light catastrophe shuts down busy Florida highway

A cascade of Coors Light shut down I-75 in Florida after several trucks smashed into each other and sent a tidal wave of beer cases and cans into the roadway.

nypost.com

 

[HecticArt]

So......what do you use to wash water off of pavement????

 

[Wolf]

Dildos and Lube Seemingly Scattered Across Interstate After Truck Crash in Oklahoma

I miss semipenguin, would love to hear his reaction.

 

[HecticArt]

He shoulda kept both hands on the wheel....

 

[sadchild]

one of the trucks involved appeared to drop its load of dildos and lubricant onto the roadway as a result of the incident

"Drop its load"

 

[scotchandcigar]

Watch: Truck carrying 134-foot concrete beam demolished by train

 

[HecticArt]

I saw that!!!!!
DAYUM!!!!!!
Do you know how far that's going to put the project behind schedule????



Oh.... and sorry about scratching your train.

 

[Channel98]

If your gig is driving a big rig, this new California regulation is something you won't dig. You will think whoever came up with it is a prig and a pig.

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

If your gig is driving a big rig, this new California regulation is something you won't dig. You will think whoever came up with it is a prig and a pig.

MSN

www.msn.com

It's not like this is sudden news. They've had plenty of time to make required upgrades, or lobby for changes. Most vehicles have already been retrofitted.

 

[Channel98]

Fortunately the ground corn meal, bone meal, meat by-products, butylated hydroxytoluene, propyl gallate and sodium hexametaphosphate in the dog food was not affected by the crash.

Big Rig Carrying 75,000 Pounds of Dog Food Overturns on Freeway in Sylmar

An overturned big rig carrying a load of dog food caused a traffic tie-up Monday morning in the north San Fernando Valley.

www.nbclosangeles.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

Fortunately the ground corn meal, bone meal, meat by-products, butylated hydroxytoluene, propyl gallate and sodium hexametaphosphate in the dog food was not affected by the crash.

Big Rig Carrying 75,000 Pounds of Dog Food Overturns on Freeway in Sylmar

An overturned big rig carrying a load of dog food caused a traffic tie-up Monday morning in the north San Fernando Valley.

www.nbclosangeles.com

Always a good opportunity for a stupid pun:

Some dogged determination was required to get through the Monday morning drive north of LA.

 

[sadchild]

IAMSo interested in this story! That food becomes imPURINA freeway! Somebody stop me!

 

[HecticArt]

IAMSo interested in this story! That food becomes imPURINA freeway! Somebody stop me!

No no. You're doing ok without any adult supervision.
Since we don't have any adults here, you're going to have to curb yourself.

 

[Channel98]

"IAMSo interested." "imPURINA freeway." "Curb yourself." Look what you guys have unleashed! And now for the news:

Truck driver dies in crash between train, tractor-trailer

It happened right across the street from a fire station.

www.wsaz.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

Wonder if someone's gonna drop a dime on the culprits

$200,000 in dimes stolen from truck in northeast Philadelphia | CNN

Police are on the hunt for the people behind a "dime and dash" theft in northeast Philadelphia.

www.cnn.com

 

[HecticArt]

I saw that this morning.
Now they need to rob a truck with a load of those paper coin wrappers.

 

[sadchild]

Sal's not gonna get as many signs from above with all these missing dimes

 

[Channel98]

This article says the semi driver "allegedly crashed into a van." There is nothing "allegedly" about it – he crashed into a van.

Semi truck driver charged in Oregon crash that killed 7 and injured 4

Lincoln Clayton Smith was traveling on Interstate 5 when his truck left the roadway and hit a van, pushing it into another truck.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

Section of northbound I-95 collapses in Philadelphia after tanker truck catches fire underneath highway

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/11/us/philadelphia-i-95-collapse-fire/index.html

 

[HecticArt]

That's a hot mess!

Thanks Elon Musk!

95 is going to be shut down for a while. I winder if they will do a cross-over so that there are 2 lanes in each direction on the part that didn't collapse.