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The guards on tractor-trailers designed to stop the back of a truck full of 20-gallon mayonnaise drums from decapitating you in a rear-end collision are often worthless even in crashes as slow as 35 mph, according to insurance industry tests. More »
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The driver of this semi either can't read, didn't see the sign or is a tremendous pedant. His rig does have 22 wheels, after all. [Reddit] More »
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Volkswagen in the US has carefully crafted an identity of high-quality cars offering premium features at reasonable prices. You'd never know they also build heavy trucks that are ten kinds of badass. Like this — the VW Constellation. More »
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On the way home from work in Louisville, KY, reader Aleksey spotted this crinkled up semi truck resting just past the low bridge the driver had used to turn his trailer into a convertible. More »
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A high-on-drugs Dutch trucker en route to Gothenburg, Sweden, was masturbating while driving and lost control, flipping the truck and blocking multiple lanes of traffic. While in the wreckage, he kept masturbating. Under police interrogation, he kept masturbating. That's determination. More »
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We're not quite sure how to size this 1995 Peterbuilt up as a hot rod. It was fabricated for something call the "Big-Rig Build-Off" and it certainly lives up to it's name "Rock Bottom". How many of those Crosley Davidsons do you thing could fit on that massive deck? No wonder the world chromium supplies are so expensive, they all went into this truck. What does one ever do with one of these when done? Is it even usable any more? So many enormous questions, not enough enormous answers. More »
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I'll be traveling through the lovely little southwestern Michigan town of Paw Paw on Saturday, and you can bet I'll be happy I won't be driving a semi-truck. We've heard the town's home to a roving gang of wheelchair-rolling hitchhikers employing a unique brand of thumbing it. They'll just roll right out in front of semi trucks and hitch themselves a push-start ride strapped onto the grille. That's what a 21-year-old wheelchair-bound resident of the double baby bear hand-named town did yesterday afternoon. The man became lodged in a semi truck grille after rolling in front of a truck leaving a gas station. The truck driver, not noticing the man lodged in front of his cab, proceeded to hit the highway for about five miles before police, alerted to the scofflaw, pointed it out to the truck driver. The unharmed man was taken to the hospital for a check-up, and then we're assuming right to jail. Didn't he know hitchhiking is illegal in Michigan? Wait, what's that you say — he didn't mean to be taken for a semi-ride?!? Oh man, then that's just terrible. – Ray Wert More »
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Ever make the perfect purchase? It doesn't matter whether it costs ten million dollars or six euros, it's something you simply must own, and if it's remotely within your wherewithal to do so, you are helpless to resist. Such was the case with this suction-cupped DAF banner meant for the windshield of a long-haul truck. We employed it in various fashions from the point we picked it up at a Hellenic truck stop. In fact, we slept with it last night. We expect the Loverman to shoot us in a fit of jealous rage in the time it takes between the moment this post goes up and the far end of the E.T. between the endpoints of the 110 freeway. Sorry, Loverman, you lengthy lothario you. We await our demise. Bis später! (Note, one of these photos might be NSFW.) – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Meet Bob Anderson. He's got the second-largest custom-built semi in the country. Who's got the first-largest? No idea. Anyway, Bob's truck is the poop. It's got 43 lights in the bumper alone, suicide doors, and 8-inch exhaust stacks. The inside is basically a small RV — including a 30-inch flatscreen with satellite TV. If his rig is this nice, then what does Bob's house look like? More »
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Australia in the '00s seems to us, watching from afar, like America in the 1970s. RWD cars, mad hoonage, that peaceful easy feelin', and truckin'. Mad truckin'. Retired semi-driver John Atkinson hitched his Mack prime mover up to 113 loaded trailers and towed the whole train 382 feet. The gross vehicle weight? 2.87 million pounds. Where's Hal Needham when you need him? More »
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