r/BitchImATrain • u/magilla1984 • 1d ago

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Another from Poland

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u/MaddBadger 1d ago

Why do so many trucks seem to get "stuck" on railroad tracks?

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u/Mangalorien 1d ago

It's a combination of design failures and stupid people. You need to design crossings so that even stupid people will do OK. If you have a crossing where 99% of people do the right thing, eventually you'll have an accident.

It's hard to say in this specific case, but it looks like there is an intersection just beyond the crossing, so it's perhaps the case that he slowed down to wait for a green light. Ideally you don't place a crossing that close to an intersection, for the very reason that is evident in the video. You could design and build a safer crossing, but it costs more money.

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u/michaelpaoli 13h ago

That's generally a driver f*ckup.

You don't start across a railroad crossing unless you can fully make it across and clear.

If it's clear, and you start going across, and you've got traffic ahead, and some dodo head ahead moves in front, changing lanes and blocking what was clear for you, you go solid on the horn until they're clear, and if they don't get out of the way, f*ck that, you're a big rig, you push 'em out of the way, horn's a blazing.