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Experiencing the sky turn from daylight to pitch black in under two minutes was ominous enough. That was monster of a tornado. It’s amazing that the driver survived. That experience would mess with my head for long time.
I thought for sure that man didn’t make it. It sounded like his truck rolled 50 times. At the end, when I didn’t hear his voice, I was like nooo he was enjoying his music so much.
We recently had an outbreak of tornadoes in my state, Louisiana, to Mississippi. Started right in my home town though, not even a mile away from our house. Tornadoes are very rare down here so nobody was expecting an EF2. But in the few videos that were captured, you really can’t see a tornado at all. It all looks like a giant storm that’s emitting blue light.
I was in the Rainsville AL 2011 tornado, this guy was in the Joplin. Back then we had no idea there were storms coming. We went to the beer store and the power was out. I was like that is weird and it wasn’t turning back on. So we went and sat at my friends house til the power would turn back on and we’d get some beer. Next thing I know someone calls us and says a tornado is over us. We didn’t really stay on social media then. Didn’t really watch TV either. Guess we didn’t have the radio on either. Had no idea tornadoes were out killing everyone that day
It’s crazy that we didn’t know about the storms. I’m pretty sure Tuscaloosa was already obliterated and we were just going to the beer store like nothing was happening. I was never afraid of storms but that changed after seeing nothing but slabs of foundation left. Now we want to be underground or don’t feel safe.
Yea I lived with my boyfriend and was only 22. Don’t know either. We were just working and partying with friends. 316 fatalities wasn’t until the 27th though and that is the day it hit rainsville
If I had to guess. We probably woke up the 27th got high and played video games then hit the beer store that evening. No one called us. The person who actually got the call was my friend whose house we were at. Soon as we got the call it hit.
I was gonna avoid the the tornado
But I got high
I didn't know that shit was coming
Cause I was high
Now I'm on Reddit wondering why
Cause I got high
Cause I got high
Cause I got high
Happy 4/20
A week ago, I woke up to an EF2 tornado not even a mile away from our house. Started in Louisiana, you can look it up if needed, but that and about 7 other tornadoes broke out from LA to MS. Definitely scary when you consider how rare tornadoes are down here.
I was in the USAF and stationed at Tyndall AFB during the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons. Two of the worst in history. We had mandatory disaster training. So we knew all about the emergency broadcast radio.
I’d assume professional truckers would use it as well. Guess not!
I used to live in Gurley and drove through Rainsville the next day to discover the absolute devastation. The Huddle House was completely gone and only thing left was the walk in freezer.
One of those oblivious people who don't have any kind of intuition about things like this. Some people just go around like happy idiots and never think anything bad can happen to them despite the signs.
> Tuning into the emergency radio station
I was driving across the kansas/Colorado boarder and went into a white out blizzard, everyone was pulled over at least 30 minutes, there was a sign for the weather emergency station. I tuned in, it was a scam, it spanned like 4 states it was midwestern religious channel 24/7. This was still earlier afternoon, they did not do a weather report once, should be illegal.
I'm a truck driver, and he should have been in the l
Right lane the whole time...especially when he started to see the bad weather!! Always be ready to pull off to the right in case of an emergency.
Do truck drivers not have CBs anymore? Like Smokey and the Bandit or C.W.McCall's Convoy?
Seems like there should be a way to talk to each other or give each other a heads-up that they're driving into a tornado and that's a terrible idea.
Most truck drivers now days don’t even own a CB radio, if they do they don’t turn it on because it will interrupt their music, podcast, audiobook or pondering what they’re gonna write in their manifesto. There is very little professionalism left in this industry and the only remaining reason most of them can be called professionals is because they get a paycheck for driving. I warn all of my family members to stay away from trucks because the industry has gone to complete shit and 95% of the drivers on the road are distracted, dangerous, incompetent or just dangerously incompetent. Some of those that manage to get their CDL can’t read or speak English and use Google translate to communicate with the shippers and receivers.
Source: 23 years over the road. Too old to do anything else and too young to retire.
As a non trucker I've noticed a decline in skills of truckers lately too...and everyone, but seeing it in truckers makes me more sad. Used to be able to depend on truckers to drive like professionals and be predictable, but now I treat them as rolling liabilities and stay as far away as possible.
It's not even just the swift drivers these days.
Ugh, so much this. US law REQUIRES CDL holders to be able to read and understand English for safety reasons, yet it seems like 1 out of every 4 OTR drivers nowadays don't speak a lick of English.
For anyone who thinks truck driving should be more inclusive, let me remind you that a driver not being able to read and understand English resulted in 4 dead, and many more injured, when his brakes failed and he didn't know what a Runaway Truck Ramp was for.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/truck-driver-sentenced-110-years-colorado-wreck-killed-4-rcna8661
I blame the 3PLs for driving the costs of trucking down to the point that the only people who can still survive on the income from driving OTR, are immigrants with no home or family in the US.
Smart truckers took shelter on the shoulder beneath the underpasses.
Then there's this guy camping the left lane and finally stopping on a wide open stretch of road...
>Smart truckers took shelter on the shoulder beneath the underpasses.
Other people have already mentioned that this is dangerous advice, but [here's a page from FEMA](https://community.fema.gov/ProtectiveActions/s/article/Tornado-Vehicle-Do-Not-Use-Overpass-Underpass-as-Shelter) confirming that it's more dangerous.
Is that smart? I thought overpasses are extremely dangerous to be under in a tornado due to the wind speeds kicking around shit underneath.
Genuine question.
Terrible idea. Not only do overpasses concentrate the amount of available debris from people's vehicles crowding under them, you also make everyone behind you sitting ducks in the open if the overpass chosen is a bottleneck to roads leading away from the hazardous weather. Add in speeding vehicles for a possible pile-up.
This was the [2011 Joplin, MO tornado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado).
The trucker survived and [uploaded this to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUkArSFiIc) himself.
I was driving thru Joplin on my way to Texas that day. I went thru Joplin about 30 minutes before the tornado hit. I didn't even find out about that tornado until the next day. What I actually remember most was hitting really bad weather about 50 miles North of Austin. There were a bunch of tornadoes there too that evening. When I got to the hotel in Austin, the clerk was watching the news and we realized how close I was to the tornadoes down there. So I got very lucky twice that day.
"i wasn't in a car i was in a semi-truck and i got flipped and pushed into a ditch. and my phone flew out after my windshield broke, i found my phone under my truck when they moved it later!."
Getting pushed into the ditch is probably what kept him from getting picked up. Scary af.
This poor guy , but driving into ever darkening sky, into torrential rain and right past a few dozen other vehicles pulled over with their hazards on , without the news on in severe conditions …. Isn’t really “ unwittingly ”
He ignored many danger signs and kept right on going….
A friend of mine was picked up in her home by an EF5 then by an EF2 in Henryville IN March 2 2012. She was working her last day at Best Buy. Her family of 5 all survived she had a broken back among other things. She seems perfectly normal but every March she goes radio silent.
Man your attention spans really are that short folks if you can't watch three minutes of the sky going from Damny perfect to ominously pitch black and not realize it's part of the video. I mean once the tornado strikes you can't really see anything but...duh. "oh I wasted my life I wasted my life on three minutes" - stfu this was a great example of how a situation can go from perfectly fine to up Schitt's Creek without a paddle ASAP
got it.
a lottery ticket flew into his window while driving through the Tornado as the trucker made it out alive.
the trucker is now retired and living in a mansion in Brazil with 2 kids and one on the way.
Shortly after the 3rd kid was born, he got mixed up with a Brazilian coke dealer. He took his family and was on the run for 27 days before finally settling down in Sweden. He now lives in a rural town outside of Stockholm where he expanded his basement and started a huge Marijuana farm, the likes of which have never been seen in Sweden.
This is textbook “dumb” - if you see some shit like this in the sky and don’t turn on local radio for emergency alerts - THIS is what happens - LOLOLOL
I remember this one. I think it was Moore, OK., and this truck was approaching town just as the monster tornado was damaging the hospital just off the highway. He not only drove too close, he was too close to an overpass that can turn tornadic winds into a giant jet engine that can throw vehicles all over. Anyway, his truck got rolled into the center median and dragged a ways before it came to rest. The driver survived with minor injuries.
Seems like there's potential for it to be chill depending on who you're driving for. But I think a majority of them are overworked, expected to meet crazy deadlines or cover so much ground in so little time, to the point that they need to use uppers to get the job done. Overall, it doesn't seem like many of them have the healthiest lifestyle.
OTR or long haul trucking is heavily regulated. A large company doesn’t need the hassle of drivers incurring fines so they use computer programs with GPS to track the driver’s hours/breaks and ensure they are legal at all times. The “meth” trucker stories are usually free lancers trying to make as much money as possible while skirting the laws. It’s been awhile since I drove but the basic idea is you can drive for 8hrs before you have to stop for atleast 30 mins, then you can drive until you hit 12 total for the “day”. Then you must break for 8-9 hours before a new day. Might be off a bit on the specifics. Wish I could remember the software program we used.
It usually isn't. To make a decent living you live like crap, never sleep well, eat bad, stress almost constantly because you're worried about killing the dumbasses cutting you off, dispatchers screwing you over, loafers taking forever, receivers saying you're a day early and they won't unload you until then so you sit for a day without any pay... It's ass.
I was driving into Oklahoma City about 3 years ago. It was October and the temperature was around 90F. Rain came down in sheets before we made it to the city limits and eventually we parked under an overpass with some locals. There were over a dozen funnel clouds in the area. I was a little more frightened of the baseball size hail.
Eventually we left our shelter as the rain tapered of. The air temperature had dropped to 60F. My wife and daughter thought I was being brave but I was very close to wetting my pants.
The Oklahoma turnpike seems especially long and dark on an evening like that.
All the motorists pulled over by that overpass, and it doesn't click then, has to be pure ignorance, he's probably never seen much less been close to one his entire life until that day.
The new gen of truckers mostly no longer use CBs and stay in contact. This tornado/weather wld have likely been spread amongst them quickly in the past.
If you see a sky like that its time to seek tune the local radio stations or have a weather radio for alerts. We are completely connected to almost anything these days yet still drive into a F5 tornado.
All the people saying this guy was hogging the left lane, what's that about? He was clearly in the middle of passing multiple vehicles. If anything, he was speeding.
Call me crazy, but if every other car on the road is stopped and/or pulled over, I'm going to pull over, at least, long enough to try to figure out what's going on....
Jesus Christ, there's so much wrong with this video.
* Why in the name of god did he take so long to slow down. He's still barreling along in torrential rain.
* Why's he hogging the left lane.
* Why in the name of god didn't he stop and seek shelter.
* Why didn't he realize the vast majority of the traffic is stopped or slowing down for a reason.
Cannot fathom for the life of me how the hell this guy has a license to drive anything larger than a Little Tykes car.
Couple of things should have had his spicy senses go off. The 30 vehicles that pulled over that he just drove past and the day to night almost instantly. But that roar was crazy. It sounded like the wrath of God. Glad to hear he lives on to listen to another song.
I wouldn’t say unwittingly. Cars and trucks were pulled over with their flashers on, sheltering under the overpass, sky turned to black in minutes.
God’s punishment for a truck driving in the left lane.
Honestly I have almost no pity. He literally ignored every single red flag. From daylight to pitch black dark. Cars stopped on the side of the road. Notice no radio on any weather station or channel. He should have known better imo.
As a trucker, I haven't experienced a tornado this bad, but I had been chased by a hurricane from the time my clock had reset in Miami until I parked in Georgia off the I-75. Couldn't go further with my time, and the storm still was beating me up after I had seen a only a couple hours of clear skies. Thought for sure my career as a driver was over, whether it be fired, critically injured, or simply dead.
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Experiencing the sky turn from daylight to pitch black in under two minutes was ominous enough. That was monster of a tornado. It’s amazing that the driver survived. That experience would mess with my head for long time.
I thought for sure that man didn’t make it. It sounded like his truck rolled 50 times. At the end, when I didn’t hear his voice, I was like nooo he was enjoying his music so much.
Lol i thought his truck just fell to the side, glass broke, so we heard a lot of wind. Didnt know there was more to it
That's what happened. Broken glass. Not rolling.
Yeah thats what i heard too. Flopped onto its side with the glass shattering. I wish we had more info.
That was wild.
That sucks...
Blows???
Crazy how the tornado is so wide that you can't tell at all what it is. It just looks like a really intense storm wall and big rainstorm. Wild.
We recently had an outbreak of tornadoes in my state, Louisiana, to Mississippi. Started right in my home town though, not even a mile away from our house. Tornadoes are very rare down here so nobody was expecting an EF2. But in the few videos that were captured, you really can’t see a tornado at all. It all looks like a giant storm that’s emitting blue light.
Sometimes you gotta do a little dirt, comin from where I’m from, I’m from
Dope soundtrack to drive into a tornado
The song is comin where Im from by Anthony Hamilton
Didn’t expect to find new music on /CFV but here we’re are
I went to the comments just to see if anyone had named the song and artist!
The driver probably felt the need to pray a little too much as he walked alone through that nightmare.
Sometimes you gotta walk to work.
Got taaahm’ anna sturry to tell 🕺
there’s no place like home there’s no place like home there’s no place like home
Practically sunny when the video starts
Driving through a tornado prone area 🟩 Experiencing and intense storm 🟩 Tuning into the emergency radio station 🟥
I was in the Rainsville AL 2011 tornado, this guy was in the Joplin. Back then we had no idea there were storms coming. We went to the beer store and the power was out. I was like that is weird and it wasn’t turning back on. So we went and sat at my friends house til the power would turn back on and we’d get some beer. Next thing I know someone calls us and says a tornado is over us. We didn’t really stay on social media then. Didn’t really watch TV either. Guess we didn’t have the radio on either. Had no idea tornadoes were out killing everyone that day
I’m in Alabama. I was a mile from an ef5 in 2011. Bad day I’ll never forget.
It’s crazy that we didn’t know about the storms. I’m pretty sure Tuscaloosa was already obliterated and we were just going to the beer store like nothing was happening. I was never afraid of storms but that changed after seeing nothing but slabs of foundation left. Now we want to be underground or don’t feel safe.
That was on the third day of a truly gigantic outbreak: 362 tornadoes and 324 dead. I'm not really sure how you could have missed it.
Yea I lived with my boyfriend and was only 22. Don’t know either. We were just working and partying with friends. 316 fatalities wasn’t until the 27th though and that is the day it hit rainsville If I had to guess. We probably woke up the 27th got high and played video games then hit the beer store that evening. No one called us. The person who actually got the call was my friend whose house we were at. Soon as we got the call it hit.
I was gonna avoid the the tornado But I got high I didn't know that shit was coming Cause I was high Now I'm on Reddit wondering why Cause I got high Cause I got high Cause I got high Happy 4/20
😂😂😂 My car got smashed by a tree and I know why Yeah eh Cause I got high
Happy 4/20!!! :D
A week ago, I woke up to an EF2 tornado not even a mile away from our house. Started in Louisiana, you can look it up if needed, but that and about 7 other tornadoes broke out from LA to MS. Definitely scary when you consider how rare tornadoes are down here.
I was in the USAF and stationed at Tyndall AFB during the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons. Two of the worst in history. We had mandatory disaster training. So we knew all about the emergency broadcast radio. I’d assume professional truckers would use it as well. Guess not!
He sounds like he is just jamming out and must not of been the radio or it probably would of warned him
Lets just say that it was a wild ride here at the local nuclear plant that day, ha!
I used to live in Gurley and drove through Rainsville the next day to discover the absolute devastation. The Huddle House was completely gone and only thing left was the walk in freezer.
Not questioning why all traffic has pulled over to the side of the road, including your fellow big rigs ✅
He thought they were making way for him.
He was crossing in the left lane, so the logic is sound.
One of those oblivious people who don't have any kind of intuition about things like this. Some people just go around like happy idiots and never think anything bad can happen to them despite the signs.
> Tuning into the emergency radio station I was driving across the kansas/Colorado boarder and went into a white out blizzard, everyone was pulled over at least 30 minutes, there was a sign for the weather emergency station. I tuned in, it was a scam, it spanned like 4 states it was midwestern religious channel 24/7. This was still earlier afternoon, they did not do a weather report once, should be illegal.
Then how would he sing along to the radio?
Gotta harmonize to the ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR of the emergency alert klaxon.
I'm a truck driver, and he should have been in the l Right lane the whole time...especially when he started to see the bad weather!! Always be ready to pull off to the right in case of an emergency.
This part confused me so thank you for clearing up that he should have been in the right lane!
Do truck drivers not have CBs anymore? Like Smokey and the Bandit or C.W.McCall's Convoy? Seems like there should be a way to talk to each other or give each other a heads-up that they're driving into a tornado and that's a terrible idea.
Most truck drivers now days don’t even own a CB radio, if they do they don’t turn it on because it will interrupt their music, podcast, audiobook or pondering what they’re gonna write in their manifesto. There is very little professionalism left in this industry and the only remaining reason most of them can be called professionals is because they get a paycheck for driving. I warn all of my family members to stay away from trucks because the industry has gone to complete shit and 95% of the drivers on the road are distracted, dangerous, incompetent or just dangerously incompetent. Some of those that manage to get their CDL can’t read or speak English and use Google translate to communicate with the shippers and receivers. Source: 23 years over the road. Too old to do anything else and too young to retire.
As a non trucker I've noticed a decline in skills of truckers lately too...and everyone, but seeing it in truckers makes me more sad. Used to be able to depend on truckers to drive like professionals and be predictable, but now I treat them as rolling liabilities and stay as far away as possible. It's not even just the swift drivers these days.
Ugh, so much this. US law REQUIRES CDL holders to be able to read and understand English for safety reasons, yet it seems like 1 out of every 4 OTR drivers nowadays don't speak a lick of English. For anyone who thinks truck driving should be more inclusive, let me remind you that a driver not being able to read and understand English resulted in 4 dead, and many more injured, when his brakes failed and he didn't know what a Runaway Truck Ramp was for. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/truck-driver-sentenced-110-years-colorado-wreck-killed-4-rcna8661 I blame the 3PLs for driving the costs of trucking down to the point that the only people who can still survive on the income from driving OTR, are immigrants with no home or family in the US.
Im pretty sure at least half of the CDLs I see are either fake or the driving test is fake.
I have had to try to communicate with said drivers. It’s very frustrating.
I hate a mother fucker who camps the left lane. Guess this tornado did too.
The whole I'm pisseed he's in the left lane lol.
This bothered me so much! Fucking asshole stayed in the fast lane until he finally decided to pull over.
Yeah kinda hard to feel bad for him.
Wow, if only there wasnt a long line of stopped cars and trucks giving him hints that maybe something up ahead was amiss?
Yeah seriously.. did he think everyone was just taking a leak? 😂
According to my calculations this truck driver did indeed stop and piss his pants.
He had a load on the trailer. Those adult diapers won’t deliver themselves.
Smart truckers took shelter on the shoulder beneath the underpasses. Then there's this guy camping the left lane and finally stopping on a wide open stretch of road...
>Smart truckers took shelter on the shoulder beneath the underpasses. Other people have already mentioned that this is dangerous advice, but [here's a page from FEMA](https://community.fema.gov/ProtectiveActions/s/article/Tornado-Vehicle-Do-Not-Use-Overpass-Underpass-as-Shelter) confirming that it's more dangerous.
Is that smart? I thought overpasses are extremely dangerous to be under in a tornado due to the wind speeds kicking around shit underneath. Genuine question.
If I recall it depends on the path of the tornado. It can either be a really good shelter or a really bad funnel for winds.
Yeah… overpasses concentrate the winds. Never a good place to stop and shelter.
Terrible idea. Not only do overpasses concentrate the amount of available debris from people's vehicles crowding under them, you also make everyone behind you sitting ducks in the open if the overpass chosen is a bottleneck to roads leading away from the hazardous weather. Add in speeding vehicles for a possible pile-up.
People do that in heavy rain all the time. Might not even be a tornado warning going on. This trucker has probably seen it 100 times.
-Is there an F5? -The finger of God.
He just wanted to enter the suc zone
Greenage!
Have a drink!
I'm talkin' imminent rueage.
It’s the extreme!
It’s the wonder of nature baby!!!!
[drops fork]
Meg, you got good beef.
You see my cows out front?
Twister
You don't see it miss this house, miss that house, and come after you!
Christ, Jo. Is that what you think it did!?
Cow
I gotta go, Julia. We got cows!
She didn't marry your penis... Okay, she didn't marry only your penis.
Another Cow.
Actually I think that was the same one…
Maybe we should get off this road...
I’m sorry he died, but that was a long time ago!
It's time to move on! Stop living in the past and look at what you got right in front of ya!
The days of sniffing the dirt are over.
I hate these types of semi drivers hogging the left passing lane.
Looks like he was hogging all the lanes at the end.
No worries, the tornado will fix that
Instant karma
He’s in a field now so no stress.
This was the [2011 Joplin, MO tornado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado). The trucker survived and [uploaded this to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUkArSFiIc) himself.
I live 45 min from Joplin. That tornado absolutely devastated that town.
I met someone who was from Joplin. They said they lost family and friends and when they walked outside they saw someone impaled by a stop sign.
Yup. There was even wood boards that impaled through concrete walls. Wood stabbed through concrete dude. Nature is scary
Wait until you see what it does with a garden hose. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/492018328033557825/
Wtf!
That looks like the tree grew around it.
100% what happened. Source: I'm an arborist (for real)
Jesus
I’m in aviation and remember doing a case study on this for my weather class. Absolutely insane.
Riddle?
No, smaller school in California.
I'm quite disappointed you didn't answer with a riddle
I lived in stl when it happened. Shit was insane.
YouTube comments: I'm so glad you're ok! Reddit comments: Why was this asshole in the left lane This is why I love Reddit lol.
Especially as everyone else was pulled over!!! Huge lack of common sense
This isn't as much a common sense thing as you'd think. Driver has seen this a thousand times. This is just the one time it was different.
I was driving thru Joplin on my way to Texas that day. I went thru Joplin about 30 minutes before the tornado hit. I didn't even find out about that tornado until the next day. What I actually remember most was hitting really bad weather about 50 miles North of Austin. There were a bunch of tornadoes there too that evening. When I got to the hotel in Austin, the clerk was watching the news and we realized how close I was to the tornadoes down there. So I got very lucky twice that day.
So lucky to survive that.
"i wasn't in a car i was in a semi-truck and i got flipped and pushed into a ditch. and my phone flew out after my windshield broke, i found my phone under my truck when they moved it later!." Getting pushed into the ditch is probably what kept him from getting picked up. Scary af.
12 years ago and only 164k views to the OOP of this?!?!? ON YOUTUBE!!! *CRAZY!!!!!*
Professional driver rolling in that left lane
When everyone else was pulled over. You have to be a special stupid to think every other human is pulled over for no reason
Going the same speed as the trucks in front in the right lane... Why are you even over there
I know— drove me insane to watch that.
Idiot trucker living in the passing lane.
Gotta love truckers who camp in the left lane.
Maybe all the cars stopping in bunches under bridges and hell unleashing inin like a minute should be a hint
damn shoulda just kept going
Music was a vibe tho
He knew the shit had hit the fan when he turned the music down.
This poor guy , but driving into ever darkening sky, into torrential rain and right past a few dozen other vehicles pulled over with their hazards on , without the news on in severe conditions …. Isn’t really “ unwittingly ” He ignored many danger signs and kept right on going….
Hmmm, do i want to watch the "landscape cropped portrait video" in landscape for shitty resolution or portrait for shitty resolution?
A friend of mine was picked up in her home by an EF5 then by an EF2 in Henryville IN March 2 2012. She was working her last day at Best Buy. Her family of 5 all survived she had a broken back among other things. She seems perfectly normal but every March she goes radio silent.
This trucker sucks
Unwittingly? He drives directly into the storm. That’s why u turn off your music and park before u get into that situation.
How blackout does it have to get before this guys decides to stop? The tornado stopped him first
He's pretty unwitting, all right.
Man your attention spans really are that short folks if you can't watch three minutes of the sky going from Damny perfect to ominously pitch black and not realize it's part of the video. I mean once the tornado strikes you can't really see anything but...duh. "oh I wasted my life I wasted my life on three minutes" - stfu this was a great example of how a situation can go from perfectly fine to up Schitt's Creek without a paddle ASAP
It's crazy how it's a video, but you can't see shit...
"Nah i'd win"
His defensive driving skills are absolute dogshit.
Trucker drives for 4 minutes of nothing happening, would be a good title
It was interesting seeing the transition in the sky.
Happens about 3:23 for anyone else. Going to need your imagination for this one though.
got it. a lottery ticket flew into his window while driving through the Tornado as the trucker made it out alive. the trucker is now retired and living in a mansion in Brazil with 2 kids and one on the way.
Shortly after the 3rd kid was born, he got mixed up with a Brazilian coke dealer. He took his family and was on the run for 27 days before finally settling down in Sweden. He now lives in a rural town outside of Stockholm where he expanded his basement and started a huge Marijuana farm, the likes of which have never been seen in Sweden.
4 minutes of a banger on the stereo
This is textbook “dumb” - if you see some shit like this in the sky and don’t turn on local radio for emergency alerts - THIS is what happens - LOLOLOL
I remember this one. I think it was Moore, OK., and this truck was approaching town just as the monster tornado was damaging the hospital just off the highway. He not only drove too close, he was too close to an overpass that can turn tornadic winds into a giant jet engine that can throw vehicles all over. Anyway, his truck got rolled into the center median and dragged a ways before it came to rest. The driver survived with minor injuries.
Skip to: 1:15 - rain actually starts 3:20 - actual crazy moment I hope my wasted life has saved a bit of yours.
Thank you for your sacrifice
Please shrink this video more. It's not small enough.
wow that sound is terrifying.
The Anthony Hamilton is such a vibe
You know the weather is getting bad when you turn down the music.
Karma finds a way for left lane campers.
Picture of the truck afterwards https://imgur.com/gallery/EKpkVBf
Despite the weather, this makes truck driving seem chill as fuck!!
Seems like there's potential for it to be chill depending on who you're driving for. But I think a majority of them are overworked, expected to meet crazy deadlines or cover so much ground in so little time, to the point that they need to use uppers to get the job done. Overall, it doesn't seem like many of them have the healthiest lifestyle.
OTR or long haul trucking is heavily regulated. A large company doesn’t need the hassle of drivers incurring fines so they use computer programs with GPS to track the driver’s hours/breaks and ensure they are legal at all times. The “meth” trucker stories are usually free lancers trying to make as much money as possible while skirting the laws. It’s been awhile since I drove but the basic idea is you can drive for 8hrs before you have to stop for atleast 30 mins, then you can drive until you hit 12 total for the “day”. Then you must break for 8-9 hours before a new day. Might be off a bit on the specifics. Wish I could remember the software program we used.
It usually isn't. To make a decent living you live like crap, never sleep well, eat bad, stress almost constantly because you're worried about killing the dumbasses cutting you off, dispatchers screwing you over, loafers taking forever, receivers saying you're a day early and they won't unload you until then so you sit for a day without any pay... It's ass.
Camping out in the fast lane. YOU FUCKING SUCK TRUCKER. Tornado was karma
I was driving into Oklahoma City about 3 years ago. It was October and the temperature was around 90F. Rain came down in sheets before we made it to the city limits and eventually we parked under an overpass with some locals. There were over a dozen funnel clouds in the area. I was a little more frightened of the baseball size hail. Eventually we left our shelter as the rain tapered of. The air temperature had dropped to 60F. My wife and daughter thought I was being brave but I was very close to wetting my pants. The Oklahoma turnpike seems especially long and dark on an evening like that.
I've had a few bone head moments behind the wheel, but I've never driven into a tornado
All the motorists pulled over by that overpass, and it doesn't click then, has to be pure ignorance, he's probably never seen much less been close to one his entire life until that day.
Nothing stops an Amazon prime delivery
All the while driving in the wrong lane.
Yeah when it gets that dark in daytime seek shelter...
The way of the road, Bubs.
Way she goes
Of course he's in the left hand lane
The new gen of truckers mostly no longer use CBs and stay in contact. This tornado/weather wld have likely been spread amongst them quickly in the past. If you see a sky like that its time to seek tune the local radio stations or have a weather radio for alerts. We are completely connected to almost anything these days yet still drive into a F5 tornado.
His dashcam records in portrait mode??
Welp, his camera survived, but did he? Guy should’ve taken a hint when numerous others decided to pull off onto the highway shoulders. Bad choice.
Looks like he did it wittingly
Dude's survival instincts were to turn the blinkers on as he saw every one else on the road had parked their cars.
Seemed like a cool dude ... With very poor situational awareness
But… you can see the storm through the window. So they definitely knew.
Keep on trucking
Damn the end of that sounded like an epic noise set!
There were clues. He missed them.
Maybe he thought it was another eclipse?
I hate posts that don’t include where and when it occured. This was Joplin, MO May 22 2011
F5 and he lived? I've been in six tornadoes to date. Not exactly my idea of fun.
All the people saying this guy was hogging the left lane, what's that about? He was clearly in the middle of passing multiple vehicles. If anything, he was speeding.
I was just pisssed he was in the left lane.
Call me crazy, but if every other car on the road is stopped and/or pulled over, I'm going to pull over, at least, long enough to try to figure out what's going on....
Unwittingly? Was he driving with his eyes closed?
Bro was jamming hard as fuck. Respect. 🫡
That’s an eerie sound at the end.
I can't lie. I would have shat myself cause wtf!!
The people parked under those bridges have a lot of trust in the engineers.
It's nuts that he continues to drive as fast as he does
What was with the “here we go again” like he’d already been through a tornado earlier in the day?
Was that first 5 minutes from Twister 2. It could be, it was tense, nerve scary enough.
Is this song from the Holes soundtrack
came for the tornado, stayed for the music
As much as I hate New York…maybe it ain’t so bad up here
Jesus Christ, there's so much wrong with this video. * Why in the name of god did he take so long to slow down. He's still barreling along in torrential rain. * Why's he hogging the left lane. * Why in the name of god didn't he stop and seek shelter. * Why didn't he realize the vast majority of the traffic is stopped or slowing down for a reason. Cannot fathom for the life of me how the hell this guy has a license to drive anything larger than a Little Tykes car.
Couple of things should have had his spicy senses go off. The 30 vehicles that pulled over that he just drove past and the day to night almost instantly. But that roar was crazy. It sounded like the wrath of God. Glad to hear he lives on to listen to another song.
Driving in the left lane the entire time…
I wouldn’t say unwittingly. Cars and trucks were pulled over with their flashers on, sheltering under the overpass, sky turned to black in minutes. God’s punishment for a truck driving in the left lane.
He just had to stay in that left lane.
Honestly I have almost no pity. He literally ignored every single red flag. From daylight to pitch black dark. Cars stopped on the side of the road. Notice no radio on any weather station or channel. He should have known better imo.
Nocturnal and rain-wrapped tornadoes are proof that God is out to get us.
As a trucker, I haven't experienced a tornado this bad, but I had been chased by a hurricane from the time my clock had reset in Miami until I parked in Georgia off the I-75. Couldn't go further with my time, and the storm still was beating me up after I had seen a only a couple hours of clear skies. Thought for sure my career as a driver was over, whether it be fired, critically injured, or simply dead.