If he only had another 20 miles per hour on he probably would have made it. :wink:

 

I hope driver driver did not get hurt...

 

I have not seen these pics before. This has got to rank somewhere up near the top of sheer stupidity. What's next??? A sheer cliff?????

 

Considering it was March 23, 2007... I really don't think it was two years ago.

 

Being foreign is NO excuse for being dumb, as my wife pointed out.

 

Hmm...you think the trailer was loaded?

Seems to me a loaded trailer would have bucked near the middle after climbing the hill (along with the beef sliding out the back doors).

'Course I'm assuming he had some speed going up the hill. If he had her in granny gear, well I take it all back! :lol:

 

Look at the angle of the embankment. If he'd had it in "granny", he would have done little more than point his nose up. To get that high up with that steep an angle, you MUST take a run at it. His first clue that he was in trouble should have been when the top of the trailer hit the top of his sleeper at the very bottom. I once delivered panels for a house up a 45 degree hill. We had to have a D-9 Cat and a big BACKHOE on steel tracks to pull the trucks up the hill to the top to get them unloaded. No possible way he would have driven up there slowly. :arrow: (next...)

 

The trailer was empty..no way does it make it up that grade with even a partial load on.

 

No. It could have had a load on. Someone said he hit the bottom of the grade at 50mph. But, at that speed, I'm wondering how his back is doing. The G-force with the sudden climb should have pushed his shoulders down to his pelvis. Wouldn't surprise me if his stature isn't about 6 inches shorter than before he tried that stunt.

 

I would have to say as steep as the banking is, that if he hit it at 50 that truck would not of gone up and over. I would guess it would of done more plowing and given the truck a huge face lift. But then again who knows?!