• @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      61 year ago

      The amazing part is that both vehicles in this picture get the same gas mileage!

      /s

    • @SCB
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      31 year ago

      Inshallah

  • ɐɥO
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    81 year ago

    Holy fuck thats giant! What are these things used for?

    • @[email protected]
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      Hauling at mines.

      There are pictures of large pickup trucks (think Ford F250/F350) flattened like a pancake fire from trying to pass one of these without alerting the driver they’re there. When you’re on a mine, these things always have the right of way.

      • @[email protected]
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        Ah yes, a new picture every MSHA refresher. No visibility on a haul truck when you have to climb a staircase to get into the cab.

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          I imagine this beast doesn’t exactly stop on a dime, especially with a big load.

          Train rules apply. The train always wins. The vehicle with a staircase to the driver’s cab always wins.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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        31 year ago

        Reminds me of the signs they used to have in Seminole County by railroads (could have been elsewhere as well)

        “Big train, little car, are you passed the stop bar?”

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      I could be mistaken but I believe they move materials in rock quarries, at least that’s what I saw on an episode of some discovery show many years ago. I still think about them regularly too since it’s like 3 stories tall and has a stair case to get to the driver seat lol

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    AKA my zombie apocalypse truck. You could stick a fair sized RV in the bucket and live there.

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      When hauling for a quarry, it’s to keep the cab & driver from being smushed when the bucket gets filled with a big pile of boulders.

  • @sizzler
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    61 year ago

    These are the types of tyres, that when they blow have inch thick steel cable in the side walls that could decapitate three men in a go. Ask me how I know…