It figures....

Was the driver from Mexico? Maybe he couldn't read the
instructions?

It's funny that you ask, but the paver's work crew appeared to be
all-Mexican. (Although this was apparently NOT the paver's truck
driver that hit the hangar.)

And, yes, their insurance will pay to have the hangar repaired.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Was the driver from Mexico? Maybe he couldn't read the instructions?

It's funny that you ask, but the paver's work crew appeared to be
all-Mexican. (Although this was apparently NOT the paver's truck driver
that hit the hangar.)


Paver's dump trucks had very clean, all white boxes - he said they're clean
because, 'he wants to keep up his company's image'


Montblack
"Captain, the irony meter can't take much more of this!"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

But, still, it's ridiculous. I mean, how in hell do you back a semi
into a BUILDING? I mean, it's a BIG building, with 16 T-hangars.
It's not like it jumped out in front of the guy.

I drove trucks for five years in high school/college, (admittedly not
semi trucks), and was always amazed at the number of backing accidents.
All ya gotta do is LOOK, for criminies sake...

Looking is one thing. Understanding and reacting to what you're seeing is
quite another. If you don't have the depth perception and judgement to know
what you're seeing, all the looking in the world won't prevent accidents of
this type.

You can see the same thing and it's opposite every day in shopping center
parking lots. A person will be making a sharp turn in the process of
leaving a parking space: head canted upward in the strange belief that
this somehow enhances the view, slowly ceeping through the turn while
carefully looking, hoping for no contact, while in fact there is a 5 or 6
foot gap between the subject and object vehicles. Most people have no idea
where their corners are, and I suspect that includes a large number of
locally hired truck drivers.

If you don't have the depth perception and judgement to know
what you're seeing, all the looking in the world won't prevent accidents of
this type.

Is somebody going to tell me now that a deer was driving?

Jose
--
There are more ways to skin a cat than there are cats.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

("Jose" wrote)
Is somebody going to tell me now that a deer was driving?


We thought that part was obvious.

....since the hangar wasn't moving.


Montblack

"Jose" wrote in message news:J95Ng.322

Is somebody going to tell me now that a deer was driving?

What relevance does that comment have? Could you clarify?

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

But, still, it's ridiculous. I mean, how in hell do you back a semi
into a BUILDING?

Well, he probably had to swerve several times...

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Bob Noel wrote:
In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

But, still, it's ridiculous. I mean, how in hell do you back a semi
into a BUILDING?

Well, he probably had to swerve several times...

Years ago an acquaintance was studying to become a mechanical engineer
and needed a thesis topic. He decided to look into why the standard
design for a loading dock was something like "do the design, compute all
the loads for the largest shipments, the weight of forklifts, etc AND
THEN MULTIPLY ALL THE SUPPORT SIZES BY 4." This was uniformly accepted
as safe practice.

It was true. Anything less would crumble within a short time. The
answer was that trucks would back into the docks.

You should see the spots in our asphalt where drivers, once backed up to the
dock, will continue to push the accelerator rather than floating the clutch
and applying the brakes... 3-4" deep gouges in the asphalt from the drive
tires spinning. Then there are those that actual back into the dock and
bounce off... unreal.

Years of experience around guys like these prove how inexpensive
overbuilding and using lots of steel and concrete is compared to repairing
buildings.

Jim

"Stubby" wrote in message
. ..
Bob Noel wrote:
In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

But, still, it's ridiculous. I mean, how in hell do you back a semi
into a BUILDING?

Well, he probably had to swerve several times...

Years ago an acquaintance was studying to become a mechanical engineer and
needed a thesis topic. He decided to look into why the standard design
for a loading dock was something like "do the design, compute all the
loads for the largest shipments, the weight of forklifts, etc AND THEN
MULTIPLY ALL THE SUPPORT SIZES BY 4." This was uniformly accepted as safe
practice.

It was true. Anything less would crumble within a short time. The
answer was that trucks would back into the docks.

Jay Honeck wrote:
y.

I drove trucks for five years in high school/college, (admittedly not
semi trucks), and was always amazed at the number of backing accidents.
All ya gotta do is LOOK, for criminies sake...

Maybe the driver needs one of these to avoid hitting buildings:
http://www.preco.com/PreView/index.htm