• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    Truck driver is wrong for going out with an unsecured load. They were driving too fast. Even if it hadn’t been a car that got splattered wet concrete in the road would be a major hazard.

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        12 days ago

        Can’t confirm the quantity that would release, but a front-loading cement truck would certainly dump at least a small amount of concrete when slamming on the brakes that hard. The slump of the concrete seems to be 7-8”(loose) and there is no mechanism that would completely prevent concrete from spilling forward that I am aware of.

        That said, the concrete does appear to continue for a while after reasonably assuming gravity would stop the flow. Maybe he turned on the hydraulics since he was pissed?

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          12 days ago

          I think that’s the case, he probably turned on the hydraulics because at the start it spills from the front (Front of the camera, a lil to the left?) when he brakes then it just pours out of the right.

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          12 days ago

          Was thinking it could be the weight shift of the concrete all at once blowing out the hydraulic in the front leaving it to pour.

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      12 days ago

      This is also true but I still enjoy seeing someone who probably shouldn’t be driving face consequences for failing to follow basic road safety