Mrkim Report This Comment Date: February 14, 2006 02:27PM
Wonder if the driver made it out alive? From the fact there's not even a
trailer behind the tractor looks like an even bigger fuck up on the crane
operators part.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: February 14, 2006 03:05PM
missed it by *this* much
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: February 14, 2006 03:24PM
given most the load is behind the cab and therefore tilted back, looks like he
would have made it... very lucky guy... do you think his next stop was a visit
with the crane operator?
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: February 14, 2006 03:35PM
Hopefully in the name of overall safety these drops are made without the driver
in the cab at all. Yeah I'd have been climbin the crane tower to give that cat
a piece of my mind after that BS. Definitely NOT a job to be taken lightly ...
or with a hangover!
My experiences with crane operators is that the young ones are more careful
while older operators get complacent and cranky as hell! I figure it has
somethin to do with having had peoples lives in their hands too long, seems to
get to 'em eventually.
Runnin a crane is every bit as stressful as about anything you can imagine.
My wife runs an overhead crane (like the one that would be used to load/offload
these type containers) in the military these days. I don't envy her job !
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: February 14, 2006 08:30PM
looks like the work of a union member......
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: February 15, 2006 04:24AM
note that the back of the container is not touching the ground, it is sitting
on what is left of a container chassis...
The black thing in the left side of the pic is a container loader, one means of
loading/unloading containers, it's a lot like a really big forklift...
I have hauled countless containers in and out of ports all over America and have
only had to get out of my truck one time...I think it was in Seattle, they had
overhead cranes that were mobile, they rolled up over the trailer and lifted the
container off and drove away with it...
As for the union guys thing...I had spent 6 hours in Port Newark (New Jersey),
one problem after another, finally had it all sorted out and the loader was
bringing my container up the aisle towards me, when he was just about 500 yards
away, he set it down on the ground, turned around and drove away...it was 5
o'clock...quittin' time...what an asshole...