well like already has been said, I hope no one was in that truck, BUT it's a pretty funny pic regardless of the make of the wheel chock.

 

i dunno. Ive seen this pic before and alot of people claim its fake and it sure looks fake to me. Unless that truck was completely crushed (pancaked) I would imagine that the earth mover would be more uneven, but in the picture it looks really level. I also don't think that the angle of the collision quite adds up. The 2 trucks seem to be pointing almost the same direction but the damage looks like the ford was T-boned. And just by looking at the picture for a while it looks like someone cropped a picture of the ford and just pasted it in front of the earth mover.

 

what a shame.

 

My dad was working at the same mine as that ford when that accendent happened.


Nick

 

Some people !!!! I saw Elvis !!!

 

I think I've seen that picture before in a MSHA video.

 

Was that at the Syncrude mine?

Story I heard was the ford pulled up to do some maitenance on the truck. There was two of the 797's parked, he pulled up to the wrong one. Driver of the 797 couldn't see the ford, and ran it over. No one was hurt. Never heard about the driver having a heart attack, but you never know. As for a photo shop, not likely. Empty weight of those trucks is over 600 ton. Considering most of that weight will be on the front tires, the ford isn't gonna put up much of a fight.

 

Yes the photo is real, no, nobody was in the truck. Yes, its been used in MSHA videos.... as a good reason to not forget radio communications between servicemen and operators. Only reason I know is because I saw the photo back in 2001 on a Caterpillar engineers laptop and he was talking to us about it. haven't heard about the operator having a heart attack. There were several more views of the same incident when I saw it, including one from the rear of the end-dump showing just how flat the Ford is.

 

I'm glad somebody finally figured out what a powerjoke is good for

 

Toyota will probably use this as one of their Toyota Phenomenon commercials....
Those are great!....

 

HAHAHAHA!!!... Ya know, I didn't think about that, but you're probably right!!!. Guess the Cat will get carried on the back of the 'yoda up a steep hill, creep down it with only the front disc brakes, across a canyon with Hurricane Katrina blowing, then win a tug-o-war with the Cat....

 

For the longest and longest time ford has been a choice among VERY many industrial outfits for the F450/F550 very strong truck I know I abuse one daily.....and I used to have a c5500----what a pile of crap.....

That pic has been around for a long time. And knowing mines like I do its never the operators fault its always the small truck drivers fault. U need to act as if there are no humans driving those things and act as if they were computer controlled with no reguard to humans. They have right of way 100% of the time.

 

CatDiesel... How are you liking your new service truck??? Just found out we're getting rid of the D-maxi's

 

ya built as good as a toy. Im pretty sure my dodge would have done the same work.

 

^^^^ correct and correct.
It does happen, probably will again. The ever loving demand for oil has these trucks running 24/7 year round. These trucks will be dumping there loads into crushers every 2- 3 mins, approx. 400 tonnes per load just to make the gooey black stuff.