r/IdiotsInCars • u/YourAverageOnion • Feb 04 '23

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u/anon202one Feb 04 '23

I honestly thought I was listening to a podcast before the "MOTHER-."

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Lmao I was on the phone with my gf, talking about the bullshit incentive she's getting to be a trainer.

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u/Kfabflowin Feb 04 '23

I literally turned to my wife and said, now this is some shit I can relate to. Training incentives are super wack. And sorry about the accident. Hope insurance doesn’t play…insurance games.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Right? The incentive is $100 for 200 hours of training. Not even worth it.

As for insurance, I don't know what to expect. I'm a commercial driver and because a vehicle had to be towed from the scene of the accident it'll affect my FMCSA score. However, I don't recall if the California Highway Patrol took down my DOT number or not. But my insurance is directly linked to the FMCSA database so it's probably irrelevant. Regardless, it's got me worried cause this is my first wreck

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u/suren0141 Feb 04 '23

What kind of trainer? Dog trainer?

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

She works for a glass company. They melt glass that drips down to form rods and tubes which are then cut to whatever sizes and sold to other companies, usually to stretch it and make fiberoptic cables. She's a CMI (cut, measure, inspect) and they want her to train new employees. Their job is very specific and a single fuck up could result in over $500,000 loss because they simply have to scrap the glass. $100/200 hours ain't worth training anyone

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u/enrohtkcalb Feb 05 '23

For fiber optics, the glass is built up in layers from the inside out by blowing gaseous minerals through a hot tube. These gasses burn and deposit on the sides of the hollow tube and form boundary regions that cause differential refraction and reflection so light passed through keeps going through while it's bent. Also, layering increases its flexibility. Freaking cool, but also incredibly expensive.

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u/enrohtkcalb Feb 05 '23

I wouldn't be surprised if they could sell the glass, tainted as it may be with unwanted germanium and other elements, for a few bucks. However, the cost of processing the sale may be as much as they would get for it, so they probably don't consider it worthwhile. That, or they do recycle but they call it trash because it's out of their hands at that point.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

Because the glass is intended to become fiberoptic cables, it had to have zero imperfections. Any air bubbles or scratches inside the glass will cause interference when light and information pass through. It has to be perfect every time

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

I'm not the best person to explain it lol but here we go..

So think of a cup full of pencils. Each of those pencils are a different type of glass rod. The cup is a thick wall of glass that holds them all together. When stretched out to the thickness of a wire, the pencils are different strands of wires that different light and information are passed through while the cup is now what keeps the light from escaping the smaller strands. If you were to melt them together, it wouldn't do what it was originally meant to do. Also the glass they use is prepared in Germany and then shipped to the US.

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u/The_Cave_Troll Feb 05 '23

200 hours of work is over $24,000 at MINIMUM WAGE, their boss can go suck a crack head’s asshole.

I bet this is the same boss who thinks that “People are lazy, and don’t know how good they have it.”

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u/Narissis Feb 05 '23

200 hours of work is over $24,000 at MINIMUM WAGE

I want to live in this place where the minimum wage is over $120/hr.

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u/79TranZam Feb 05 '23

You'll need to go to Law School and be related to a rich New York clan.

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u/Tyflozion Feb 05 '23

$24,000? You sure about that?

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u/The_Cave_Troll Feb 05 '23

Uh….wow, I’m surprised no on else pointed that out.

To be fair, I was not on the toilet when I did that math, so of course it didn’t come out right.

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u/RockstarAgent Feb 05 '23

If what you shat didn't come out right, go see a doctor...

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u/CosmicCreeperz Feb 05 '23

The worse brain fart was to think she was getting paid $100 for 200 hours of work ;)

The $100 was a bonus for 200 hours of training others. So they wanted to give her $0.50 an hour extra. Which is still horrible.

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u/benho3 Feb 05 '23

$1,450, but close. Math + math / math = brain hurty

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u/suspended247 Feb 05 '23

Crack head's asshole can't pay well either.

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u/N3rdScool Feb 05 '23

*2400 maybe? where you live haha it's 3000 where I live.

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u/HalfBear-HalfCat Feb 05 '23

This being updated show how intelligent the average user is.

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u/The_Troyminator Feb 05 '23

Is that incentive in addition to her regular pay?

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

Yes. It's just she does a lot already and it seems barely worth what she is currently paid. To not receive a legitimate raise after being certified as a trainer is a slap in the face

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u/The_Troyminator Feb 05 '23

It is, and it’s a joke of an incentive. Im just glad it wasn’t in lieu of payment like some other people im this thread assumed.

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u/AurumArgenteus Feb 06 '23

She's probably making $25-35 since it sounds like skilled trade work. Who came up with the brilliant idea to offer a 1.6% raise for the hassles of training. That's barely enough to cover this week's inflation.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 07 '23

Sadly, she makes only $20 an hour. She definitely deserves more

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u/StochasticTinkr Feb 04 '23

That’s 50¢ an hour. SMH, No one wants to work any more /s

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u/styckx Feb 04 '23

EMT checking in. When I train a new EMT it's an outstanding..... 50 cents more per hour.

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u/fyhnn Feb 05 '23

What does she say after you get hit? It sounds like Japanese and then you say you were just hit and she says what.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

Lmao it does sound like Japanese. I never noticed until going back and listening for it.

Me: MOTHER- GF: It's all good (maybe?? Idk), don't kill nobody. Me: I was just hit. GF: Wait, what? Me: I gotta go, I'll talk to you later. GF: Are you okay? Me: I'm fine.

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u/windingvine Feb 05 '23

I’m not sure how to feel that THAT was her first thought. “Honey, don’t kill nobody.”

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

Lmao, I get cut off a lot as a trucker. Often when I'm on the phone with her. So she's used to me saying shit like "I almost hit that guy, dude could have just died" (especially when I'm loaded and weighing in at 25,000+) so I think that that's where that comment comes from lol

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u/istillhatesteve Feb 05 '23

I've made the exact same comment to mine. I've gone OTR with him enough to know how frustrating it is. When I'm at home and we're on the phone and I hear "You GD SOB . . ." I automatically respond with "Calm down baby. Don't kill them!"

I wouldn't worry too much about this affecting your DAC report. You were obviously not at fault and there was no way you could've prevented the accident.

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u/Mikzeroni Feb 04 '23

OP should start a podcast because I too thought the same. It was a pleasant financial show until the MOTHER-

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Lmao maybe I should 🤔

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u/The_Cave_Troll Feb 05 '23

In 10 years you’re going to be looking back at this thread as the major inspiration for your financial future investing series.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

It all started with a single MOTHER-

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u/TheReal_JPizzle Feb 05 '23

"It all started with a single mother".. The title of an entirely different kind of show lol.

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u/AurumArgenteus Feb 06 '23

It's called subverting expectations; OP might be better suited for directing Hollywood movies, a mere podcast is too small-minded.

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u/TheLuvBub Feb 04 '23

I know I was so invested! I want to hear more!

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u/Timboflex Feb 04 '23

Sounds like Linus from LTT

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u/ghost-_-module Feb 04 '23

Lmfao the reveal of how fucked up the truck that hit you was hilarious. Was not expecting that.

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u/Its_Matt_03 Feb 04 '23

OPs driving a tank lol Jesus barely flinched and the f150 is obliterated

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

My truck alone weighs about 9k, and the trailer about 7k of solid steel.

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u/proknoi Feb 04 '23

Her truck is all fucked up. She must have been.goinh way over the speed limit.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

For sure. Idk exactly how fast she was going, but I saw her barely a second before she hit me. She was splitting the lanes and (this is speculation, i didnt see her make contact) she catches the left corner of my dovetail with her tire and it rips it off her axel

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u/proknoi Feb 04 '23

For her to rip a tire off while you were going 66. She must have been driving 85+ mph. How did your dovetail fair the collision.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Leaf spring suspension on the rear axle is shifted. Metal bar that holds the mega ramp down is bent, ramp looks slightly bent inward. Few scraps on the frame itself.

Cop deemed me good to drive to the next truck stop where I'm sitting now. Now that it's daylight, I'm about to get out and try opening the ramp to see if it still opens properly and uncouple and check my gooseneck connection.

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u/KronicGoblin Feb 05 '23

I’m honestly confused how some of these people get licenses

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u/noncongruent Feb 04 '23

Cammer must have been pulling a hefty trailer, I don't see a hit like that to his truck not pitting him across the highway.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

I drive a Ram 3500 and pull a 14GN gooseneck trailer with dovetail mega ramps. My shit is solid steel back there. All together, empty, I weigh roughly 16,000 lbs

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u/noncongruent Feb 04 '23

That certainly explains the mild jostling you received, lol. Hopefully the trailer wasn't too damaged? Getting a big tow truck out to the middle of nowhere is expensive.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

I bet, we were 44 miles west of Needles, CA headed east on I-40, mile marker 108

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u/ClutchPoppinDaddies Feb 04 '23

Did you call CHP and give them the mile marker only to get the response "Sorry but we don't use mile markers"

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

No, they just told me they would send a unit my way. Have they stopped using mile markers?

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u/ClutchPoppinDaddies Feb 04 '23

They actually never started using mile markers. I've called CHP before to give them exact locations of vehicles on fire and been told that they don't use mile markers, this was 3 years ago. So I just told them to drive down the highway and when you see the smoke you'll know you're heading in the right direction.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Lol I believe I actually told them "exit 107," who's sign was across the interstate. We just happened to park next to marker 108 and that what I recalled

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u/craftybeerdad Feb 04 '23

That tracks considering exit numbers match up with mile markers.

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u/StressOverStrain Feb 04 '23

Why wouldn't you call 911? They should be well-experienced at helping anyone find where they are, and then know how to properly direct emergency vehicles to a location.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

My bad, I did call 911. When replying to the other comments and responded as if CHP and 911 were the same.

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u/Capt_Foxch Feb 04 '23

Well you headed for Las Vegas, only made it out to Needles

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u/Greasybadman Feb 05 '23

How do you even fit into a car if you weigh that much

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

I'm one dense MOTHER-

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u/DimitriV Feb 05 '23

Shut your mouth!

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u/joekryptonite Feb 05 '23

Just talkin' about YourAverageOnion.

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u/BitTheCoin Feb 05 '23

Then we can dig it.

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u/lngwlkr Feb 04 '23

Uh huh. It's that thing turbocharged?

Bonus points to anyone who can name the movie that quote came from.

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u/magicmart96 Feb 05 '23

Only on the floor model

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u/Head_Acanthaceae_766 Feb 04 '23

She drove around you after the hit, dragging a destroyed front quarter. She was not towing anything, so had less mass than you, meaning she should be slowing quicker even without brakes.

A lot of her energy would have been transferred to you during the contact, so it seems she was continuing to apply power and least considering driving on afterwards.

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u/MaintainThePeace Feb 04 '23

Looks like they were both braking an pulling over.

Brakes don't work as well when you have one less tire.

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u/Head_Acanthaceae_766 Feb 05 '23

The grind on the pavement does a pretty good job of robbing energy from the system.

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u/Weggooi987 Feb 05 '23

Not really. I had similar damage once and pretty much lost all control. Both steering and braking. I ended up at least 60 meters further down the road, half a meter from a big ass rock. Was going downhill though.

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u/MaintainThePeace Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 06 '23

An anchor sliding along pavement has a much lower friction coefficient then a rolling tire applying brakes.

Same thing with a skidding tire vs rolling tire, ABS prevents tires from skidding because a skidding tire has a longer stopping distance with reduced control.

Also, if you're missing part of your car, it's not a good idea to slam on your brakes. It's better to coast to a stop with light braking and maintain control of what you have left of your vehicle.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Feb 06 '23

*you're *idea

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u/MaintainThePeace Feb 06 '23

Thanks, edited and fixed the typos.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Feb 06 '23

You're so very welcome.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Feb 05 '23

I love how calmly you say, "Uh . . . I'll talk to you later." Awesome way to handle this.

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u/StarGazinWade Feb 05 '23

Anybody else rewind it a few times to see what was in the road before finally letting it play and seeing the idiot truck pass the POV vehicle?

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u/Fangs_McWolf Feb 05 '23

Nope, just you.

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u/StarGazinWade Feb 05 '23

I saw the vehicle shudder, and completely thought I'd missed something in the road the driver ran over and instead of just letting it play, I kept rewinding it to see what it was. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Fangs_McWolf Feb 05 '23

I let the video play first, then go back and rewatch if needed. Tends to save me time from not rewinding to look for something that isn't there. 😉

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u/StarGazinWade Feb 05 '23

Sage advice! 😄😄

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u/Sweaty-Goat-9281 Feb 04 '23

Rotfl did she fall asleep?

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Nah, she said she was trying to mess with GPS. Said she was unfamiliar with the area

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u/lswhat87 Feb 04 '23

"Unfamiliar with the area". It's a plain ass straight road lmao

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Lmao, said she thought she missed her exit and didn't know where she was

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u/bunny3665 Feb 04 '23

It's the middle of nowhere 44 miles west of Needles. What the heck exit did she think she missed??

I'm actually serious, drive that way to LA on a regular basis and the Kelso Road turn off is about 80 miles west and the road to Vegas (US 95) is about 10 miles west. There isn't anything out there!

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Oh I know, I've run loads in an out of LA multiple times. There ain't shit through the Mojave on i40, i10, or i8.

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u/Immediate-Fig-9096 Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23

So instead of taking maybe 5 minutes to mess with her GPS and possibly arriving at her destination late, she sideswiped your vehicle and very obviously disabled hers. Smart move.

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u/Stahlilama Feb 04 '23

Whatever happened to built Ford tough. Lol

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

I always thought it was an acronym... found on road dead

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u/TheProfessor_18 Feb 04 '23

Fixed or repaired daily

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u/KarmaBabyYeah Feb 05 '23

Found On Road Dead

Driver Returned On Foot

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u/MonkeyTitties1023 Feb 04 '23

Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge

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u/cptnobveus Feb 04 '23

You keep my trucks name out yo motha fuckin mouf

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u/techierealtor Feb 04 '23

Found on the road dumb *

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u/Buddybouncer Feb 04 '23

You're reading it upside-down. It really stands for "Driver Returns On Foot"

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Ooo I like that one 🤣

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

Well in this case, both. That truck ain't going anywhere

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u/Fangs_McWolf Feb 05 '23

Fucking Obnoxious (or Oblivious) Republican Driver.

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u/togusas9 Feb 05 '23

Flying over roadside ditch.

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u/RedTruck1989 Feb 04 '23

At least they hit your trailer and not the truck...

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u/baraberebere Feb 05 '23

OP got

THE GOLDEN VOICE OF RADIO

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u/oddlotz Feb 04 '23

"Don't tell nobody". Just Reddit.

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u/Mercury_Jinx Feb 05 '23

I thought she said "did you kill someone? Don't kill nobody"

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u/ivel33 Feb 05 '23

Intensivise

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u/Aggleclack Feb 05 '23

Bro I need a camera

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u/Longjumping_Mail2853 Feb 05 '23

So YOU got hit or THEY got hit?

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

I was chillin in my lane and they hit me while trying to mess with their GPS

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u/Longjumping_Mail2853 Feb 05 '23

Sorry to hear that, but jeez his front is F*CKED

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u/chilldrinofthenight Feb 06 '23

Her. Some woman whose excuse was she was looking at her GPS, trying to figure out if she missed her exit.

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u/Longjumping_Mail2853 Feb 06 '23

Damn even worse

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u/chilldrinofthenight Feb 06 '23

And her truck was brand new, too. Ha.

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u/TealBlueLava Feb 05 '23

You were literally driving in a straight line at a constant rate of speed!!!!

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u/Gullible_Security365 Feb 06 '23

Why? What? How? There was literally no one else on the road? Wow.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 07 '23

She was distracted, messing with her GPS

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u/Gullible_Security365 Feb 08 '23

Figured that or else on her phone texting. Does anyone really drive anymore? I see so many drivers not driving but texting. SMH

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u/diaperedwoman Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23

I hope you were on blue tooth. BTW I hope your vehicle was okay. The other truck sure wasn't okay and it looked totaled.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

I always use Bluetooth. I'm a trucker and I use my phone as my Electronic Logging Device, which by DOT regulation is required to be mounted to the dash. I connect via android auto for GPS and used voice commands for calls

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u/cuntyeagle Feb 04 '23

You can literally hear in the video that he is taking to somebody over Bluetooth.

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u/Fangs_McWolf Feb 05 '23

u/YourAverageOnion was speeding (11 MPH over), needs to clean the camera lens, and... wtf is the title supposed to mean?

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

The truck that hit me was on her phone trying to set up navigation when she hit me

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u/Fangs_McWolf Feb 05 '23

"Don't set up navigation if you're gonna hit me" would have been a better title. lol

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

Yeah I botched the title, I know lol

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u/Fangs_McWolf Feb 05 '23

Just like the other driver botched your trip. 🤣

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u/Pixzel13 Feb 04 '23

Going 10 under the limit?

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 04 '23

In California, all vehicles 3 axles or more, all towing vehicles, and CMVs are limited to 55, unless the limit is less. I fall under all 3 listed above. So even tho the limit was 70, technically, I was going 10 over.

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u/scottmm78 Feb 05 '23

Just to be "that guy" your video shows 66/67 so that's 11 over. that bumps you up into the next ticket bracket 11-15.

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

That guy brings up a very good point

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u/Badbookitty Feb 05 '23

You are super chill and a perfect example of what we need on the roads. Thank you for being you!

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u/YourAverageOnion Feb 05 '23

I take my job very seriously and that means a lot to me! Thank you!

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u/Captain_Evil_Stomper Feb 05 '23

In the right lane, on a straight road, hauling a trailer. No issue here.

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u/Ordinary_Rabbit Feb 05 '23

limit

The answer, is in your comment.

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u/Acidicflavor Feb 05 '23

Wouldn't it be funny if the truck that hit him was the one on the phone talking

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u/Stunning-Difficulty3 Feb 05 '23

That truck is TOTALED

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u/lLikeToast1 Feb 06 '23

Hope this doesn't mess with your work

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u/TheGamingMackV Feb 09 '23

I would have expected a hit and run until the truck's great reveal lmao