Most Idiotic Plowing Ever Seen?

[Kodiak450]

This law actually extends to all DOT trucks, whether they are snow plowing or not. When I spoke to some DOT official, because one of their drivers damaged one of my trucks at a dump site when I was unloading material, he told me about this law because NJ was getting to many lawsuits. I told him that maybe if they hired safer, more responsible drivers, that maybe, just maybe, there wouldn't be claims against their drivers. I remember times after cleaning up a certain commericial account of mine, one of the managers of the stores calling me up telling me that they got threatened a sitation if the snow is not cleared off the sidewalks. I asked him what sidewalks was he talking about, cause I just finsihed plowing and treating the ice there no more then 4 hours ago and he said the front. So I go back there and see that the stupid DOT snow plow operators literally pushed the snow from the edge of the road all on my cleared sidewalks I did hours before. And the inspector who goes around and answers calls that have sidewalks covered with snow tells one of the store managers if it is not cleaned up in 12 hrs, they will get a fine. If this guy had any common sense and bothered to look at the rest of the sidewalks, he would of seen that they were all cleared and treated, and that the DOT was responsible for this. Perhaps the idiot that plowed the snow onto the clean sidewalks, was in bed with this inspector so that he is able to meet his quota with sitations, who knows.

 

 

 

 

Wow I would move the hell out of that state!

 

 

The way it works is if a DOT truck damages your vehicle you would go through your comp insurance and in return would not have your rates raised because of it. Your insurance would naturally try to go after the DOT for the money spent anyways, but would most likely keep their fingers crossed. It's a real stupid rule that these drivers can be exempt considering the damages I usually see from time to time from some of these careless drivers.

[Somepunk396]

Here in Canada, we just have a ton of idiots now using a pull-behind blower on a kubota.... except they think they're cowboys and use the inertia of the tractor locking up when they go from 30 km/hr forward right to reverse to turn... then they wonder why there machines are all messed.

[Silverado4x4]

Was waiting to pull out on a road and a guy was plowing a small parking lot with a 4 wheel atv on the other side road, so as I was waiting for traffic I sat there watching the guy plow at about 15 mph going straight well on the second pass I saw he hit something hard I think it was the parking curb stop under the snow with the plow blade and stopped the atv solid, he went over the handle bars and landed in front of the plow blade. I had a spot to pull out on the road but couldn't because I was laughing so hard I couldn't move. He got right up and looked around brushing himself off see if anybody saw him but I tooted my horn and he looked at me and took a bow. This happened a long time ago but I still remember it like it was yesterday.

[DareDog]

Best one......full size mid 90s blazer with 9' fisher x blade. Plow was almost hitting the road and back end was very high. It was towing a very small trailer and tongue was 80 degree angle. I did double take when guy drove by.

[GP9]

I live along a state route in New York. The plows used to go balls to the wall. They wrecked everything. Now they eliminated the wing man, so they are limited to 35 mph.

 

Backs when they went fast, my mailbox was hit many times. I thought of putting an I beam, or a used piece of rail into the ground, encased in a whole lot of cement.

[L86 All Terrain]

I have nine plow contracts, I have seen some interesting things over the years. My favourite being when contractors plow their entrances sideways creating huge banks that cars can't see over. The most common by far is stuck transport trucks. I usually have enough cash to do some nice Christmas shopping by pulling them out of ditches, up grades, and around parking lot barriers. Even dragged out a light pole, massive boulders and a shopping cart shed that became entangled with drivers rigs. One guy last year decided to take an ally into the next businesses parking lot; too bad it wasn't an ally but instead a lawn with a 30" retaining wall at the bottom. The truck made it but the trailer hung up, that was a good recovery and payout to match lol. The season is upon us, get ready guys and girls.

[VTBulldog]

A buddy of mine that I had worked with had a problem with the town truck hitting his mailbox on EVERY storm.

He got pissed and called the supervisor, he came out and said that it is not their problem. Soooooooo he decided

to put up a new box. Took out his tractor and dug down 8', set in a steel i beam, and filled the hole with concrete within

a foot from the top (filled that with topsoil). He covered the beam with wood and put in 2 mailboxes, filled the first

one with concrete, and lettered his other one. Storm shows up, and here comes the town truck. Stopped the truck

dead in his tracks! The supervisor and the police show up, and my buddy comes out of his house with the USPS

specs on installing a mailbox within certain distance to roadside. The supervisor was angry, telling the cop to do something, and my buddy told them both......not my problem! Needless to say, that plow driver stayed away from that mailbox.

[sdeeter19555]

A buddy of mine that I had worked with had a problem with the town truck hitting his mailbox on EVERY storm.
He got pissed and called the supervisor, he came out and said that it is not their problem. Soooooooo he decided
to put up a new box. Took out his tractor and dug down 8', set in a steel i beam, and filled the hole with concrete within
a foot from the top (filled that with topsoil). He covered the beam with wood and put in 2 mailboxes, filled the first
one with concrete, and lettered his other one. Storm shows up, and here comes the town truck. Stopped the truck
dead in his tracks! The supervisor and the police show up, and my buddy comes out of his house with the USPS
specs on installing a mailbox within certain distance to roadside. The supervisor was angry, telling the cop to do something, and my buddy told them both......not my problem! Needless to say, that plow driver stayed away from that mailbox.

My folks did the same thing, only it was a piece of 8" railroad rail about six feet long set on an 8" holes with concrete, they only left about 6 inches above the ground a few inches in front of the mailbox...ripped the wing plow right off the truck. They came, gathered up the plow, and the supervisor apologized to my dad for his driver getting that close in the first place.

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[Logan Lanfear]

My grandparents live along a state road here in VT.  Their neighbors had a mailbox that seemed to attract the plow blades of the larger trucks (full size dumps running sanders and wing blades). They replaced it with a 3/4" plate box on top of a 10" I beam sunk in about 4 feet.  Once the ground freezes here that post wasn't getting bent.  One afternoon, a plow hit it during a storm and it bent the wing blade right in half, Ill see if I can find the picture.  

[RubiconJoey]

Back in 2009 the county I lived in got 1.5 to 2 inches of ice. Roads couldn't even be cleared with plows because of all of the downed trees. The ice ended up melting off before any plowing got done but, I lived on one of the roads the county highway department uses to get to the dump. They were hauling all the downed trees and limbs on trailers with limbs sticking out everywhere. Sure enough, one of them tagged our mailbox with a limb hanging off the trailer. Thankfully all it took was a couple phone calls and they paid for a new one.

 

This thread reminds me that I need to get a tow strap for the truck this winter. I'm sure it will pay for itself in short order.

Then there's also this...The road ahead of me is a two lane highway maintained by the state, the spotless road to the right is the dead end single lane road I live on maintained by the county. Both were plowed on the same day.

 

[GPGuy]

Saw this guy plowing a grocery store parking lot one time that had one main entrance to the lot and the guy plowed it in. To get to the store you had to go into the main lot of the mall and come in that way.