freight trains collide with vehicles

[schlimm]

ChuckCobleigh

 

 

BaltACD

Not freight and not US.....

 

 

Ебена мать!

 

Google Translator suggests "Holy s**t!" which seems to capture the likely wording and spirit of the poster's usage.

[Murphy Siding]

South Dakota just had an accident where a truck ran into a moving train. The 16 year old boy who was driving the semi is in the hospital. It appears that he was driving a semi truck that was hauling two loaded trailers of wheat. The news report said the  truck crashed into the side of one of the locomotives on a train going about 20 mph, so I'm guessing he couldn't get the truck stopped. Maybe no one taught him how to stop a truck like this. At 16 you know he doesn't have a CDL.

http://www.capjournal.com/news/truck-driver-injured-in-crash-of-semi-tractor-trailer-rig/article_3b278200-83a4-11e7-a333-bff9370d9593.html 

[BaltACD]

Murphy Siding

South Dakota just had an accident where a truck ran into a moving train. The 16 year old boy who was driving the semi is in the hospital. It appears that he was driving a semi truck that was hauling two loaded trailers of wheat. The news report said the  truck crashed into the side of one of the locomotives on a train going about 20 mph, so I'm guessing he couldn't get the truck stopped. Maybe no one taught him how to stop a truck like this. At 16 you know he doesn't have a CDL.

http://www.capjournal.com/news/truck-driver-injured-in-crash-of-semi-tractor-trailer-rig/article_3b278200-83a4-11e7-a333-bff9370d9593.html 

Don't know the DMV laws in S. Dakota.  In some states paint 'Farm Truck' on it and drive anything wherever you want to go with it.

[Murphy Siding]

BaltACD

 

 

Murphy Siding

South Dakota just had an accident where a truck ran into a moving train. The 16 year old boy who was driving the semi is in the hospital. It appears that he was driving a semi truck that was hauling two loaded trailers of wheat. The news report said the  truck crashed into the side of one of the locomotives on a train going about 20 mph, so I'm guessing he couldn't get the truck stopped. Maybe no one taught him how to stop a truck like this. At 16 you know he doesn't have a CDL.

http://www.capjournal.com/news/truck-driver-injured-in-crash-of-semi-tractor-trailer-rig/article_3b278200-83a4-11e7-a333-bff9370d9593.html 

 

 

Don't know the DMV laws in S. Dakota.  In some states paint 'Farm Truck' on it and drive anything wherever you want to go with it.

 

Yeah, about that... You can get a 7 to 7 license when you are 14. You can drive a tractor on the highway at 14 and I think you can drive a flatbed, single rear axle farm truck during daylight hours at 16. 

[zardoz]

RME

 

 

Deggesty

Please translate "Yebyena Mat'."

 

 

You'd probably rather not know.  On a family-friendly forum.

The original meaning is a Slavic goddess, a bit of Mother Nature and a bit of Ceres.  But remember that commercial where 'it wasn't nice to fool Mother Nature?' ... with the lightning flashing?  What kind of woman does that?  That's the common connotation of the phrase in colloquial Russian...

For our purposes, the "best" translation would be 'Holy Crap!'  But it loses quite a bit of the force in the original when cleaned up to that point...

 

¡dɐɹɔ ʎןoɥ

[Dakguy201]

Although a 16 year old driving a multibottom semi is unusual in SD, especially during harvest season teens pulling multiple farm carts with either a pickup or a tractor is extremely common in rural counties.  Absent some glaring equipment defect or unusual vehicle handling, no law enforcement type is going to inquire into their license status.  After all, prosecution of such an offense would rely on an elected county official who is likely to view doing that as career limiting.  Instead, the farm operator is very likely to hear from friends and neighbors regarding any misconduct on the part of their driver and apply swift corrective action.

Indeed, at times the line awaiting unloading at the local elevator can resemble a teen hangout!

Legally, a 14 year old can obtain a restricted driving permit allowing operation of a vehicle between 6am and 10pm.

 

     

[tree68]

Dakguy201

Although a 16 year old driving a multibottom semi is unusual in SD, especially during harvest season teens pulling multiple farm carts with either a pickup or a tractor is extremely common in rural counties.

We don't see it as much as we used to (all the kids in one family in particular have grown up), one of the farm operations around here deals in a lot of hay, resulting in seeing 12 year olds running a tractor with two or three full wagons of hay behind them.

OTOH, it's not unusual to see some youngsters in full charge of the Amish buggies and wagons hereabouts.