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The Bigger they are...! The Accident Gallery. Page 2
When these trucks go up in flames, its a major catastrophe area especially if the truck is carrying coal. The tyres are also prone to being combusted with the initial heat of the main fire. I certainly hope the driver got out ok.
Below, the front wheels have collapsed under the weight of both the truck and its payload. Maybe some better engineering design is called for. Its just the absolute colossal weight that is involved with these trucks. Everything is either big or it is heavy and gravity is always against you.
Well it appears that they keep on falling over. It seams highly improbable that trucks as big and heavy as these could actually fall over...but alas...they do ! lets just hope that no-one was hurt !
The driver stands in the back of the trucks dumper and the size of these trucks can again be appreciated, albeit at a strange angle. There are quite a fair few of these truck smash photos, it can only give me the impression that these trucks are going over all the time !
Visibility for the drivers must be a problem in these trucks, if they are not driving over cars then they are driving over cliff edges. Why can't they design them so that the cab is ground level?
Lucky that the truck didn't go end over end and flip it onto its back there would have been enough weight there for this to have happened quite easily.
This truck drove
over a large boulder visible under it and broke its rear axle in
the process. There's a fair bit of wear on those tyres too ! too. Apparently this truck rolled down the embankment first then flipped over onto its side looks nasty, I hope the driver got out alive.
Three wheels on my Wagon..... Both front wheels became 'disengaged' from the rest of this truck and the front end dropped and bedded in to the ground. The front end ploughed up about a ton of earth in the proccess.
The rear set of double wheels have sheared off from the drive hub of this truck. I should imagine that these trucks suffer a lot from metal fatigue and stress from the terrific weight that they carry every working day, sometimes in the hundreds of tons.
Rescuing these stricken trucks would be a huge job in itself.
A closer view of the sheared off wheels. and I mean literally sheared right off the stub axel assembly. Weight, and gravity are the main culprits !
Sometimes the entire rear section can break away. Maybe they ought to redesign these trucks and make the components a bit stronger.
The two images below show what happens when one of these trucks rear wheels goes down a pot hole. The entire truck wants to follow it down with its colossal weight helping it. The truck under carriage distorts and the rear axle is wrenched away from the rest of the chassis.
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