Thread: one way to fix a toyota........

LOL. I don’t think that truck driver would have hardly felt the bump.

You would even know it was a car after being run over. That truck would make a great Monster truck would win the car crush comps.

Oh dear,

I guess that there are some miners here so they will know that each one of the tyres on the big truck is worth about $40,000 if you can get one. The lead time on replacement tyres is about 12 months.

I don't think that management would have worried about a lost toyota (I suspect the motor was removed) Risking tyre damage the truck driver might not have a job now.

I would say that that was a demo for a driving or induction type course.
Attached is a real screw up. Driver was not in the vehicle at the time.



Trev.

Two similar events I know of come to mind - no photos unfortunately.

1. About thirty-five years ago the walking dragline (6000 tons from memory) at Moura mine walked on a D-8, apparently without noticing it. The driver of the D-8 saw it coming and bailed out. He was supposed to be levelling the path for the dragline.

2. Near Blackwater about twenty-five years ago a D-8 was clearing a seismic line. Reaching the end of the line at the end of the day he sent his offsider back in the (three week old Landcruiser) ute to wait for him at the next line intersection. Before the offsider got there he ran out of fuel and set off for town on foot. By this time it was dark, and the dozer driver was proceeding by starlight in the gap in the trees. He failed to see the ute and was alerted by the dozer pitching up as it climbed over the ute.

The first one I just heard about, the second one was on a job I was running but the dozing contractor cleaned the mess up before I got there - they were very embarrassed about it.

Trev.

Oh! it ate a dozer!



Trev.