Probably to be loaded on a transport ship on its way to Ukraine.

That's an expensive mistake.

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That's an expensive mistake.

He'll be 1006 years old when he finally get discharged after pay deductions.

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That's an expensive mistake.

He’s gonna be flying rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong by this time next week…

Wonder what will cost more to fix, the train or the tank. I'm betting the tank, but it may be close.

All it takes is for them to redo the approach to the tracks just a bit and it can really fuck up your day in a drop deck low boy. Ours you can get out and manually raise it if you’re dragging, maybe he didn’t have that option. Not sticking up for the driver but there are many variables on why it didn’t clear, not always the drivers fault. If it was permitted and they permitted him that way, you never know with who they hire nowadays. Whoever was at fault, it’s costly.

The semi and semi-driver both appear to be civilian. He’s only going to lose a stripe when he changes his underwear.

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Ooops, looked like an Abrams.

No, it is a M109-series 155mm self-propelled howitzer, probably a M109A7 and given the paint job, probably straight from being reman'd/upgraded. Yes, travel lock is toast. I suspect the turret ring is also toast as I assume it was locked and the turret appeared to "free-wheel", too (the drive gear is definitely gone). The locomotive may have also hit the bustle rack in the back. I wonder if weight/low clearance caused the tractor-trailer to belly-up on the crossing - looks like a slight rise to the tracks? We're not talking chump-change to fix it.

I hope the driver wasn't in the cab!

Probably an A6 paladin, A7 were supposed to get the bradley chassis that has 6 road wheels, not 7 as pictured. A6 has hydraulic turret, so yeah its fubar.

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Aren't truck drivers supposed to know the upper and lower limits of whatever load they are hauling to prevent these types of senseless accidents? I've seen several videos of trucks getting stuck on railroad crossings and then getting walloped by a freight train.

Yes, and nobody is ever supposed to make a mistake, misjudge anything, or be momentarily distracted. Unfortunately though, because at least some of us are human and thus not infallible, sometimes shit does happen.

True, but somewhat local to me is a train crossing that trucks, box, tractor-trailer, busses can't cross. They will high center. There are "no crossing" signs all over. I mean a ridiculous amount of signs. Multiple ridiculous amounts of signs, flashing lights too, and you know what? There are at least a half dozen a month of fucking asshole, that high center on the train tracks. Fucking up traffic for half the county. Then every so often one gets hit. Then that REALLY messes things up.

Hect one day, there was a tractor trailer at the light to turn to cross the track, 3 signs and flashing lights in plain sight in front of the fucking moron. Me yelling at him that he can't cross the train track because of high centering. He just waves his hand in the "kiss off" wave, light turns green and he proceeds. You know what? He got stuck.

I picked up the bus mic and called dispatch and told them. They managed to call CRX just in time to get one of the trains, to stop. Like yards from that asshole.

We are talking close. This is a super busy line, and an emergency stop on a train takes forever to get back up and going again, and in this section of track, the train is blocked dozens of roads.

So, yeah, I have very little sympathy for those guys.

ARman

Well yeah, with a crossing like yours they should probably be drug out of the cab and flogged, lose their license to drive (not just CDL, licence period), and the fined the cost of any repairs or inconveniences. This picture didn’t look like that. It looked like he didn’t (or couldn’t)swing wide enough, the trailer cut the corner and got off the blacktop and he got stuck. I’m *not* saying that he’s blameless, just saying most folks aren’t perfect and occasionally make mistakes. This was a large, expensive one.