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This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
So I haven't worked in the airline industry since 2011, but I am fairly certain that part of training these days is you never drive under a jetbridge...especially in a deice truck
http://www.kfyrtv.com/home/headlines...at-Bismarck-Airport-363489401.html
http://www.kfyrtv.com/home/headlines...at-Bismarck-Airport-363489401.html
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- flyDTW1992
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RE: This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
As someone who worked deicing for three years......OH COME ON!
Honestly, you really shouldn't drive under anything in those things. Even if you're perfectly confident you'll make it. That, and if you're going more than 5 mph that close to a jetbridge, plane, etc. in a confined space, you're going to have a bad time.
That said, there's not an intelligence test to work the ramp. I've seen a deice truck rolled over due to carelessness, among other nonsense like this. You can't fix stupid.
Honestly, you really shouldn't drive under anything in those things. Even if you're perfectly confident you'll make it. That, and if you're going more than 5 mph that close to a jetbridge, plane, etc. in a confined space, you're going to have a bad time.
That said, there's not an intelligence test to work the ramp. I've seen a deice truck rolled over due to carelessness, among other nonsense like this. You can't fix stupid.
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A very stupid driver!
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- northwestEWR
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RE: This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
Dude he wasn't even close. Usually this sort of thing happens when a vehicle will just barely fit or only fit at a certain bridge height.
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One drug test coming up!
RE: This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
I spent 4 years at MAF and witnessed the same thing twice, though not a full size truck but rather a pull behind deice cart. Driving under the jetbridges was allowed, and being in a tug, both drivers forgot they were pulling the cart and got it stuck. After the second mishap driving under jetbridges became prohibited. I'm assuming it's probably a similar scenario here too, but how do you forget you're driving a huge truck?
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RE: This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
They did it wrong: you're supposed to apply Type 1 before the Type 4.
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| Quoting PDX88 (Reply 4): I spent 4 years at MAF and witnessed the same thing twice, though not a full size truck but rather a pull behind deice cart. Driving under the jetbridges was allowed, and being in a tug, both drivers forgot they were pulling the cart and got it stuck. After the second mishap driving under jetbridges became prohibited. I'm assuming it's probably a similar scenario here too, but how do you forget you're driving a huge truck? |
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RE: This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
Well, at least there'll be a very clean patch of pavement there.
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From the article:
"A driver transported to hospital for non-life threatening injuries."
- and to check if there was a brain
"A driver transported to hospital for non-life threatening injuries."
- and to check if there was a brain
RE: This Is Why You Don't Drive Under Jetbridges...
Lucky someone(s) weren't in the jetbridge when that came though.
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