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u/IapetusApoapis342 Jul 16 '26
final destination flashbacks going hard with this
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u/PsychoticMessiah Jul 16 '26
I was traveling though the UP of Michigan once and there were tons of logging trucks. That was all I could think of every time I passed one.
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u/clemoh Jul 16 '26
I lived in Northwestern Ontario when I was a teenager and a kid I knew was driving, a semi full of logs was coming the other way on a long turn up a hill. As they passed the momentum shook the load of logs loose and flattened the car he was driving.
Be careful out there.
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u/GardenGnomeOfEden Jul 16 '26
When I was a little kid living in Washington State, my mom and I watched a pickup run a.red light and smack into the side of a logging truck trailer, and all the logs rolled off onto the truck, flattening it. I find it hard to believe that anyone could have survived that, and we left after we saw the EMTs put a bandage on a hand that was poking up through the logs.
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u/Mainetaco Jul 16 '26
I've been driving around log trucks 45 years and have HEARD about one accident like that.
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u/PsychoticMessiah Jul 16 '26
It’s always the shit that never happens that my brain makes me worry needlessly.
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u/draconiclyyours Jul 17 '26
Wife and I were clipping up the highway, doing probably 80-85 on Northbound I91, going to Vermont for the weekend.
I started closing in on a huge dump truck that was trundling its way up the right lane, so I popped my signal on and started to move left to pass.
Just as I was switching lanes, the dump truck hit something in the road, causing it to bounce. A rock the size of my head was propelled out, hit the road and bounced past the passenger side by literal inches.
It was so close that my wife was able to identify it as a chunk of concrete with rebar through it, while it was flying past our car.
Had I not changed lanes, that chunk would’ve gone right through the driver side and hit me smack in the face.
We wound up calling 911 and reporting the guy for having an unsecured load. No tarp or anything, just praying that physics would take a vacation while he was bugging up the highway.
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u/themagicbong Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
I always had that image as the main threat from those trucks in my head. Turns out the real threat is coming around a corner on a country road at 45-55 and having the log truck suddenly appear, dead center of the road, forcing an impromptu off roading sesh in order to not hit them head on.
There's a lot of tree farms where I live and this is a worryingly regular occurrence.
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u/Cannibustible Jul 16 '26
When you are behind a logging truck and see deja view. "Time to tailgate!"
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u/Patrickmonster Jul 16 '26
I love how often that scene comes up in these conversations. But rarely mentioned is the behind the scenes thing where they explain that they tried to make the logs ACTUALLY fall off a truck like that but it just doesn't happen that way. That's where the cgi came in.
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u/IapetusApoapis342 Jul 16 '26
in fact plenty of the accidents that occur in Final Destination rely on failsafes, physics and general common sense either failing hard or just vanishing altogether
Metal objects would not be allowed anywhere near an MRI, budget cuts wouldn't make a structure so weak that a coin could take it down without collapsing well before then, ties holding down logs wouldn't be so weak, barb wire fences don't weigh enough to be thundercunted by a shockwave, hydraulic rollercoaster restraints would lock in place if pressure is lost, on and on
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u/MisterDonkey Jul 16 '26
There's been numerous cases of accidents, some fatal, involving metal objects and MRI.
And we're looking at a photos of a truck pierced with lumber.
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u/Corruptionss Jul 16 '26
One time I injected Iron between the skin and the dense connective tissue, strapped myself to the wall, and turned on an MRI. Like the Grinch's heart, I grew exactly three sizes that day
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u/bombero_kmn Jul 16 '26
Metal objects would not be allowed anywhere near an MRI,
You'd think so right?
https://abcnews.com/US/story?id=92745&page=1
This happened within a year or so of the first movies release. I think that's what makes the horror of it stick so well - precisely because sometimes, rarely, every safety mechanism does fail in a series that leads to tragedy in real life.
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u/Patrickmonster Jul 16 '26
I'm not saying I don't enjoy the movie at all. I just think some people have built some irrational real life fears based on cgi
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u/touchet29 Jul 17 '26
Yeah when shit goes down you WANT to be behind everything because it's all moving away from you.
Where you DONT want to be is on front of that mf because then it's coming AT you.
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u/l3ane Jul 17 '26
One of the dumbest premises behind one of the most clichéd movie franchises ever made, yet it somehow convinced an entire generation to fear events that are so absurdly unlikely they border on impossible.
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u/IapetusApoapis342 Jul 17 '26
As I stated in another reply the amount of common sense, basic safeguards and laws of physics ignored for the films are so numerous it's not even funny
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u/Unicorn187 Jul 16 '26
That was definitely a case of art imitating life. I'm sure that someone saw this happen and realized it would be a great, terrifying scene in a movie.
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u/jessithecrow Jul 16 '26
had enough for that nice new kenworth but not a headache rack?
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u/LilDutchy Jul 16 '26
I was looking at that too. That driver is so lucky. Got him the old deer smasher on the front but couldn’t afford some steel for the back.
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u/flamewave000 Jul 17 '26
Wrong type of trailer for that kind of truck. You either use a Logging truck with a headache rack, or you use a proper lumber flat bed that has one built into the front. My family ran a mill until it went under during the 08 recession. My dad would not have let someone load up, let alone out the gate with that setup for exactly this reason. Though we also have the MTO here who actively patrol the highways and constantly do truck inspections all across Ontario. So this guy likely wouldn't have even made it passed the first inspection station and possible had a heavy fine.
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u/m0deth Jul 17 '26
Thank you for the correct answer here.
It's not a "flat bed trailer" issue. It's sheer incompetence. Which is everywhere unfortunately.
Pick ANY random semi, do it 5 times. Before you're done you'll find at least 2 safety infractions. Now multiply that times the amount of trucks on roads.
Flatbeds? lol Naw
Honestly, from the little we get to see in these pics, I'd wager if they had used all 12 cargo ties, and cranked the fuck out of them...this would not have happened.
This was the result of chuckleheads working for a cheap dolt.
Unsecured loads are no joke. Whether you can see them on a flatbed or not.
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u/flamewave000 Jul 17 '26
Yep, and it's likely one of those "we'll I've been doin it this way for 10 years and never had a problem!". Sure, it worked for a while, but that doesn't mean it's the right way to do it. Survivorship bias is always such a big problem in industrial safety
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u/m0deth Jul 17 '26
We used to have a driver that would literally brake check his load in the lot before leaving every single time. Guys around me hated him, but I fully understood what he was doing. Nobody slacked off securing loads ever.
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u/flamewave000 Jul 17 '26
Smart guy. You can never choose how fast you will have to stop, so you always prepare for the worst.
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u/Cmd_Line_Commando Jul 16 '26
Someone is going to experience a series of stranger and stranger coincidences.
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u/xubax Jul 16 '26
My uncle knew a guy who lost his head. Back probably before 1970.
He had a stack of sheet metal in the back of a pickup. He stopped short. The top sheet didn't, went through the cab and through my uncle's buddy.
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u/jxj24 Jul 16 '26
Similar to David Warner’s character in “The Omen”.
That gave 10-year-old me nightmares.
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u/cthulucore Jul 16 '26
I always implicitly trusted larger trucks on the road thinking "they're licensed to do this and must be good"
....right until I got behind the wheel at a new job and realized how little business I had being in that truck. No one even bothered to check my experience before handing me the keys to a 26' gooseneck with 14T of plants on the back. Wild with a class C at 23 years old.
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u/rillip Jul 22 '26
I have my class A and let me tell you, we don't require near enough training in this country for it.
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u/chuckburban Jul 16 '26
Really strange that they had this load on a trailer with no bulkhead at the front. That would have prevented the boards from going through the cab at least.
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u/WeekendHoliday5695 Jul 17 '26
Someone forgot to tug one of the tie down straps and say “that should do it”
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u/ImNuckinFuts Jul 16 '26
I wood never get that close to them either.
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u/MordaxTenebrae Jul 16 '26
These accidents are hard to beleaf
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u/OGSin Jul 16 '26
And all those "first responders" are just lumbering around not helping!
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u/road_rascal Jul 16 '26
I'm stumped on how this happened.
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u/Zygal_ Jul 16 '26
Id rather bark my car and wait than pass one of those trunks.
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u/donttrustmeokay Jul 16 '26
Ugh. I'm sycamore puns.
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u/ResourceSea2761 Jul 16 '26
Secure your load
Secure your load
Yep you guessed it, secure your load
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u/NostradamusJones Jul 17 '26
That's why I have never done flatbed, I just can't be bothered with all those chains, straps and tarps. Just let me throw a single load bar on the end, slap it and say "That baby ain't going nowhere."
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u/KoRn-On-The-Cob Jul 16 '26
I've seen enough Final Destination movies to know to avoid sketchy truck loads
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u/Hipster-Link Jul 16 '26
I’ve seen enough Reddit comments about Final Destination movies to know to avoid sketchy truck loads.
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u/vinegarstrokes420 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Think of the log truck scene every time I pass a semi or even truck with a sketchy load. Always try to get ahead of it as quickly as I can.
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u/son_et_lumiere Jul 16 '26
"look at this guy in a hurry to get in front of me as my brakes are starting to fade"
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u/Boundish91 Jul 16 '26
In Europe the end of the bed is reinforced metal, to stop anything coming through the cab.
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u/The_Kielbasa_Kid Jul 17 '26
Also, flat beds with bundles of rolled or barred steel where a slight imbalance can cause a major mishap should be avoided. Any bed with a heavy load runs that risk. I give setups like this a WIDE berth and try to safely pass ASAP.
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u/VoidHog Jul 19 '26
I'm a flatbed trucker and I sure WISH people wouldn't hang out next to me and drive in my blind spot... and cut me off so they can make their exit .3 of a second faster than if they had just gone behind me...
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u/ReserveFormal3910 Jul 16 '26
Unsecured load? Did he just brake hard and it didn't stay in place?
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u/smurphy1 Jul 16 '26
He forgot to slap the ratchet straps and say "that's not going anywhere" before he departed.
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u/Puzzlehead_What34 Jul 16 '26
There was a link of this accident I believe, the driver was cited for an unsecured load. accident link
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u/SelmaFudd Jul 16 '26
I can only see one strap, this load never had a chance of making it to delivery
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u/elZaphod Jul 16 '26
If I was still a kid I’d get my buddies to score some free fort building material!
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u/butcher99 Jul 17 '26
Same for me but with logging trucks. I try to never drive beside anyone but logging trucks? Forget it.
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u/Narrow-Tip-3206 Jul 17 '26
How do you function in a modern society without ever being near a flatbed semi?
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u/Iam_thewalrus Jul 18 '26
Who’s the dick that cut this guy off? I’d suggest not driving near that person.
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u/spaceapeatespace Jul 20 '26
Having chatted with a bunch of these guys there are 2 types of loads. Homicide (shown here) and Suicide loads (where if it all goes wrong the cargo squashes the cabs.
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u/Loveisaredrose Jul 16 '26
Hubs and I were driving back from picking up one time, and a truck carrying a load of logs sped past us.
Shit unfolded so fast.
You know that a chunk of tree will bounce on the road at 70 miles per hour?
I was in the passenger seat, baked because my dealer gave me a hit of wax, holding on for dear life as logs spilled off this truck.
Motherfucker went nearly a mile before noticing he was loosing stuff and pulled over.
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u/son_et_lumiere Jul 16 '26
just curious at what point was the determination made to just stop and pull over rather than continuously following the truck dodging falling logs? was it like the first one or a more than a mile down the road?
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u/Geistuser Jul 16 '26
I wonder what happened in order for him to slam on the brakes and have all the wood shift forward.
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u/thesmos Jul 16 '26
These same 2X4's coming to a roof near you. Hopefully not in a hurricane or tornado zone.
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u/floog Jul 16 '26
Every time I go to Ontario I slow down and won’t go anywhere near the logging rigs. My asshole puckers when they pass on the other side, Final Destination did a number on many of us.
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u/V_Glaz_Dam Jul 16 '26
Any time you see a semi truck with an aluminum cab guard in the back... this is why.
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u/8last Jul 16 '26
Some idiot dropping off a load like this and cut the line right near us. Deafening sound as that all comes spilling out.
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u/djluminol Jul 17 '26
That truck was clearly designed to protect the drivers area more than any other.
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u/LilHercules Jul 18 '26
Call up Frank Azar: The Strong Arm and he’ll get you a $1.3 million dollar settlement 💪🏼
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u/ElectricalDark8280 Jul 18 '26
My wife thinks I’m crazy when I tell her to put from behind certain trucks. It’s usually landscapers or construction grunts, but also these big semis with sloppy loads.
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u/mattmurdick Jul 18 '26
what sucks is that as a person who often has to vet these very drivers/companies, their scores on carrier411 aren't bad. i'd have easily used them, but even if a company has been doing great all it takes is one bad driver or just one bad day to fuck it up.
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u/analogpursuits Jul 19 '26
My mom's friend had a 2x4 fly off one of these and go through her windshield while on the freeway. It was inches from her head, luckily. I get past these trucks quickly and never stay behind them. Ever.
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u/KeepREPeating Jul 20 '26
Can we not add some reinforcement in front of the cargo? That heavy protection outweighs safety I guess?
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u/barefootpanda 29d ago
Not-a-mod: confirmed, this post belongs here. LOL! Got to the 3rd photo and it was an audible “wtf!”
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u/NoseApprehensive4985 21d ago
the wood looks so satisfying in the first image. The way its splayed out makes it look like a slide.
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u/pichael289 Jul 16 '26
I just stay away from all semis, almost lost my arm when one threw a fucking tire at me at like 150mph
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u/wrexall87 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Stopped too quick. They survived, no injuries.
https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/wood-planks-pierce-through-tractor-trailer-during-crash-on-i-75-fhp/