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Mar 7, 2017

TRUCKER'S SKILL * South Korea one avoid a turning over

* Seoul - Truck driver avoids turning over, making a film maneuver

  (Video by Viral expert) 

--- A skilled trucker, the driver of this truck, lost control of the vehicle on a South Korea's road and was about to tip over, avoiding it...
Seoul, South Korea - Yahoo - March 6, 2017

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Jan 17, 2017

TRUCKER'S SKILL * USA

* California - Driver negotiates truck down icy mountain after it jackknifes

 (Video by AMAZING/Credit: California Highway Patrol - Jan 13, 2017: A FedEx driver guides a big rig down an icy mountain road) 

--- FedEx driver guides big rig down icy California mountain road after brakes lock on trailer hitting a patch of ice and skidding off the road can cause any of us to have a slight panic attack... The FedEx driver kept his composure when his 18-wheel truck jackknifed at the high point of the snowy mountain pass Thursday near the California-Nevada border, KTLA reported... The driver was pulling two trailers when the truck jackknifed on Interstate 80 near Floriston near the Donner Pass, a pass in the Sierra Nevada that rises more than 7,000 feet at its crest... CHP blocked the traffic and escorted the truck as it drifted down the road to the next shoulder area. This location was a safer spot for the truck to wait for a tow, KTLA reported... 
 Donner Pass, CAL, USA - Cox Media Group/KTLA, by Bob D'Angelo - January 14, 2017

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Nov 16, 2016

TRUCKER´S SKILL * China - He's in a tight spot !!!

* Trucker shows off his skills threading his truck through a tough spot

 (Video from Camvideo HK - Nov 13, 2016)

 --- A trucker showed off his prodigious skills recently by threading his rig through a tight gap in a busy neighborhood in an unidentified Chinese city... Shot from a high balcony somewhere in China, it shows a cab over Scania hauling a multi-modal trailer stuck in a very narrow gap–just wide enough for the trailer to pass through–between two buildings... For about three minutes, the trucker attempts to get his rig out on to a main street without damaging the surrounding buildings or getting hit by cross traffic. As he performs his 72-point turn, backing in and out of the tiny gap, helpful passersby spot for him, guiding him through and covering his blind spots. Eventually, miraculously, the driver gets the truck unstuck without damage to himself or surrounding buildings and goes on his merry way... How did he get in this predicament? Why was he driving an 18-wheeler in a dense residential neighborhood in the first place? Is he some kind of truck driving god who has come to teach all of us how to parallel park and absolve us of all our driving sins? No one knows for sure. There's no information in the video's description, and precious little to go by in the video itself. All we can do is bask in the glory of this amazing feat of driving and rest assured that this driver is out there, somewhere, doing his thing and being amazing... 
China - Autoblog, by Jason Marker - Nov 14th 2016

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May 18, 2009

RIGS CONTESTS * USA - Truck drivers show their skills and vie for a spot in state match

Any fool on the road can drive fast, commercial truckers say

Houston,TX,USA -The Houston Chronicle, by CAROLYN FEIBEL -May 17, 2009: -- When truck drivers compete, their maximum speed tops out at about 1 mph. They inch tankers, double trailers and step vans forward, with scientific precision, through an obstacle course of orange cones and snaking lines of tennis balls... Because it’s not about speed. Or aggression. Forget NASCAR. Any fool on the road can drive fast, commercial truckers say... It’s about dealing with those fools and the road’s surprising twists and turns. That takes a meticulous instinct for the geometry of truck movement and a deep background in safety gear and preparation... Houston’s best truckers gathered Saturday to compete for a chance to advance to the state contest in June. The all-day event began with a written test, continued with truck inspection skills and finished with a 300-point obstacle course in the parking lot of San Jacinto College in Pasadena... (Photos by Julio Cortez/Chronicle - 1. The competition also involves searching for planted defects in the trucks. Among the competitors are David Bolden, right, and Raul Mendoza, bottom left - 2. Art Trevino, a truck driver for HEB, straddles his 18-wheeler over an obstacle course marked by tennis balls at San Jacinto College on Saturday)


* Old rivals meet at truck-driving contest - Drivers demonstrate safety, promote professionalism

Bangor,Maine,USA -The Bangor Daily News, by Judy Harrison -17 May 2009: -- The battle of the big rigs raged Saturday as truckers from across the state descended on Dysart’s Trailer Shop in Hampden to battle for top honors in this year’s Maine Professional Truck Driving Championship... Both men agreed that the contest, sponsored by the Maine Professional Drivers Association, was about promoting and practicing courtesy, safety and professionalism on the road. To compete in the annual contest that has been held since 1949, drivers must not have been in an ac-cident or issued a speeding ticket or cited for any other violation in the previous year... (Photos from BANGOR DAILY NEWS/by KATE COLLINS: 1 -above-: Volunteer Roxann Gargac of Dexter checks competitors in to the 2009 Maine Professional Truck Driving Championship on Saturday at Dysart’s Trailer Shop in Hermon. Sponsored by the Maine Motor Transport Association Inc., with assistance from the Maine Professional Drivers Association, the event featured trucks from throughout Maine competing in several classes including five-axle, tank truck, flat, sleeper and twin trailers. - Photo 2 -below-: Frank Anglin of Con-Way Freight holds the score earned by a participant in the side park portion of the 2009 Maine Professional Truck Driving Championship held on Saturday at Dysart’s Trailer Shop in Hampden. The Championship, which was presented by the Maine Motor Transport Association Inc. with assistance from the Maine Professional Drivers Associa-tion, featured driving competitions in a variety of truck classes, including five-axle, tank truck, flat and step van delivery trucks)

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Jan 20, 2009

TRUCKERS SKILLS * USA - Trucks' drivers held to high standards and trained well

Duluth,MN,USA -The Duluth News Tribune by John Mianowski-January 20 2009: -- Any commercial driver’s license holder has received considerably more training and is held to a much higher standard than any non-commercial motor vehicle operator... That said, within any group there are some who are better drivers and others who are not. On average, though, commercial truck drivers are much better drivers than their four-wheeled counterparts... It isn’t always easy to keep 80,000 pounds of truck exactly where you’d like it to be on the road. Drivers of much smaller and more nimble vehicles would be well advised to give trucks all the space they might need... Every driver should take a commercial drivers’ training course. Their eyes would be opened wider than they could imagine. If anyone thinks truck drivers are bad, they should see what people in four-wheelers do on the road!...

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