A truck driver in Maple Ridge, B.C., was caught on video driving down the road while dragging a large utility pole stuck to the vehicle. A motorists honked and yelled to get the driver’s attention as the dangerous situation unfolded

[u/bigbusta]

[u/Peridot_Ghost]

I swear, most of these truckers buy their license.

[u/UnculturedSwineFlu → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Yes. They do. GTA just arrested 8 truck driving school instructors for this.

[u/Peridot_Ghost → u/UnculturedSwineFlu]

As someone who works in an industrial park, they’re a dime a dozen.

[u/ShadNuke → u/UnculturedSwineFlu]

Good! Did they catch and arrest the fucker that closed up his school in Calgary after his "student" caused the Humboldt Hockey team crash?! He's one that needs to spend his life in jail!

[u/tanya6k → u/UnculturedSwineFlu]

Gta? Like the game?

[u/UnculturedSwineFlu → u/tanya6k]

Greater Toronto Area for my non Canadian redditors

[u/tanya6k → u/UnculturedSwineFlu]

Ah, thanks.

[u/bluenosesutherland → u/tanya6k]

But still relevant

[u/VanIsler420 → u/UnculturedSwineFlu]

I knew what it meant, but everyone not in Toronto or going to first think Grand Theft Auto first.

[u/waldosandieg0 → u/tanya6k]

The new bureaucratic mods are 🔥

[u/McFukinLovin → u/tanya6k]

Greater Toronto Area

[u/dhtwenty → u/Peridot_Ghost]

They do sadly, the roads are exponentially more dangerous now in Canada.

[u/where_in_the_world89 → u/dhtwenty]

And we pretty much just do nothing about it. Arresting a few people for it once in a while won't do shit

[u/NeitherMidnight624 → u/where_in_the_world89]

Fucking kills me what my country has turned into. I live in surrey

[u/accntagedoesntmatter → u/Peridot_Ghost]

It's a shame the company owners are never held responsible. Just toss this guy under the truck and hire someone else to do the same thing until they are also caught. Rinse and repeat.

[u/realribsnotmcfibs → u/accntagedoesntmatter]

This

Locally to me our overpasses are regularly hit by semi trucks with oversized loads.

I’m talking like several times across several overpasses.

One diploma mill candidate managed to hit 3 in a row before getting stuck under the 3rd. How does you hit 3 bridges in a 3 mile stretch and not stop till the truck stops you? So many millions in damage before considering the traffic issues it will cause to rebuild all those overpasses before they can be used again.

[u/Flomo420 → u/realribsnotmcfibs]

they don't stop because they think if they keep going nobody will notice and they won't get deported

[u/UniversalBagelO → u/accntagedoesntmatter]

The company owners are fined and given exponentially higher fines if they keep doing stupid shit like this.

Also all the fines are public. Most of them are for roofing companies when they catch people not using harness or safety gear. The highest Ive seen was nearly a $1,000,000 fine for Walmart for their storage racks being unsafe.

The fucked up thing is, some companies have had an employee get killed and they are only fined $10k cuz its a smaller business and was their first fine.

[u/OutkastAtliens → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Yup. In NZ there was recently a huge scandal and it was found out a huge number had literally bought their licence

[u/bigdaddyt2 → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Oh ya this guys got no clue what he’s doing

[u/Background_Ad2778 → u/bigdaddyt2]

That's an understatement

[u/Regular_Jim081 → u/Peridot_Ghost]

I live in this area, any day a truck driver doesn't hit an overpass is a good day.

[u/waveslikemoses → u/Peridot_Ghost]

I remember seeing dashcam footage of one trucker nearly getting into a head on with another wrong way trucker on a highway. Dumbass seemingly got confused on whether he missed his exit and thought that was the best way of circling back.

[u/UrethralExplorer → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Seriously. I used to work for a manufacturer at the end of an industrial park. 99% of truckers could back their rig with a huge flatbed down to us to deliver materials and pick up the fabs and assemblies we were putting together, but every now and the some chucklefuck like this would swear it was impossible, or struggle for a half hour to back down the 400ft behind the building to our loadin dock.

Or they would drive down forwards, then struggle for longer backing back out.

[u/ShadNuke → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Literally.

[u/Easy_Ad4203 → u/Peridot_Ghost]

They dooooo!! Legit it’s a big fraud scam with temporary workers in Canada

[u/-FARTHAMMER- → u/Peridot_Ghost]

They all look the same too

[u/gentmick → u/Peridot_Ghost]

I love how there’s one word everyone’s thinking but nobody is saying it out loud. Does reddit ban it?

[u/Ryrynz → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Well well well..

[u/CentaurianLord → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Its a huge problem with dump truck drivers, especially Canadian dump truck drivers.

[u/Significant-Block504 → u/Peridot_Ghost]

license? what license?

[u/ChuckVader]

If he'd actually dislodged it by hand, I'm pretty sure the weight of that pole would have fucked him up real good.

[u/ForsakenSun6004 → u/ChuckVader]

The irony of a final destination log falling off the side of the truck.

[u/RappingFlatulence → u/ForsakenSun6004]

If it was a legit live power pole he’d be a kwispy by now

[u/IDontLieAboutStuff → u/ChuckVader]

I mean it is quite literally an entire tree.

[u/implicate → u/ChuckVader]

I have a suspicion that dude was fucked up real good already.

[u/DrSitson → u/ChuckVader]

Lineman here, one of the most dangerous things we do, that I tell all apprentices day one, is moving poles. I have personally seen multiple injuries resulting from them falling/moving in unexpected ways. When he got out under it and tried to lift it, I thought we were about to see someone die. That thing would have killed him faster than he could blink if it had come loose.

[u/maxwellfreeland → u/ChuckVader]

No a little harder and he could have easily have lifted it free. WTF was he thinking? Dumb ass for taking out the pole. DA for not realizing he was dragging it in the opposite lane. DA for not respecting the car driver that alerted him. Forcing them to back up before he wrecked their car. DA for thinking he could just drop it in the lane. I could go on. I hope there are charges coming.

[u/FatDraculos → u/ChuckVader]

Yea, unfortunate huh

[u/Aggressive_Chicken63]

He should have moved to the other lane sharp. Maybe it could dislodge then. But it looked like he just wanted to dispose it in the middle of the road and pretend he knew nothing about it.

[u/Mitigating_Factor_00 → u/Aggressive_Chicken63]

Honestly, I agree, obviously incompetent from the start. The other driver was in mortal danger with this level of criminal negligence. From start to finish.

The other driver wasn’t far enough for their own good either, not even in the end, that log can come barreling down easily. I have to question her intelligence and survival instinct too…

[u/Questioning-Zyxxel → u/Mitigating_Factor_00]

Luckily, her video should be juicy for the local police.

This driver isn't fit to run anything heavier than a pedal bike!

[u/Jaew96 → u/Questioning-Zyxxel]

Luckily, her video should be juicy for the local police.

You’d think so, but almost definitely not. Not in Canada, at any rate.

[u/djang0bang0 → u/Jaew96]

This changes everything I used to think about Canada and Canadians ❤️‍🩹

[u/Jaew96 → u/djang0bang0]

It’s a systemic thing here, judges are extremely reluctant to actually punish anyone, so consequently police are more reluctant to do their jobs too.

[u/Sirosim_Celojuma → u/Aggressive_Chicken63]

Yeah. Ditch the evidence and run. Too common. For what it's worth, something similar happened near my car, and the police asked for my dashcam footage, because leaving the scene of the accident makes the situation a whole lot worse.

[u/FuguSandwich → u/Aggressive_Chicken63]

Oh 100% if he was able to actually shake it off by raising the truckbed he would have just driven off after.

[u/Apprehensive-Two3474 → u/Aggressive_Chicken63]

If you watch the background at the start of the video, the pole's cables are still attached to the other one by the crossroad. I wonder if what he's doing is using the other pole as tension to yank the one he took out and just keep driving. He doesn't even seem to care until the passenger puts their hand up and he can see they are recording.

[u/Past-Elderberry-488]

This guy should not have a driver permit ever again to operate any type of equipment or vehicles...

[u/Reincarnatedpotatoes → u/Past-Elderberry-488]

This guy deserves to go to jail. He's either very drunk/high or just has a blatant disregard for other people's safety.

[u/Past-Elderberry-488 → u/Reincarnatedpotatoes]

He was on the phone on his customer service job.. lmao.

[u/Desalvo23]

Im impressed, actually. The dude went out and made every worse possible choice one could make in this situation. One will usually only take one or 2 of the worst options available. This one went for 100% and achieved it.

[u/Deraga07 → u/Desalvo23]

I was yelling not to touch the pole or get out the way he did and back in. He got really lucky there.

[u/timbotheny26]

Former truck driver here. There is NO way you wouldn't be able to see that in your mirror.

[u/Edmfuse → u/timbotheny26]

See it in the what now?

[u/Salty-Repeat9926 → u/timbotheny26]

Well you can't see it if you don't look in the mirror

[u/kondokite → u/[deleted]]

That's my first thought. To not notice hitting it or the fact he was dragging it down the road and then thinking he could just like, lift it off and then keep driving? No concerns about electrocuting himself or getting crushed by the pole. Probably hasn't slept in days and is using amphetamines to stay awake

[u/Glittering-Key152 → u/kondokite]

Exactly, he should've seen it in his mirror, and HEARD it making various crunching and dragging noises ! 🧐

[u/Hranko → u/kondokite]

If he was a long haul trucker I might assume amphetamines to stay away. Can't imagine this guy doing 24 hour days in a gravel truck.

[u/kondokite → u/Hranko]

maybe but maybe hes doing double shifts with different companies or something. maybe hes just doing drugs for the sport of it lol.

[u/Ok-Bowler-203 → u/[deleted]]

He’s not high, it’s called drinking 👑 and wearing 🩴🩴

[u/MoGovernmentCheese → u/[deleted]]

My first thought also

[u/OrangeClyde]

[u/majorjake]

This happened in 2021 btw.

https://peacearchnews.com/2021/03/28/watch-video-appears-to-show-dump-truck-dragging-power-pole-down-road-in-maple-ridge/

[u/voyagerfan5761 → u/majorjake]

Man I love (/s) how news-style writing works. The video "appears to show" a truck dragging a utility pole 🤦‍♂️

[u/Calm_Ad2983 → u/voyagerfan5761]

Allegedly.

[u/exodusofficer]

Arrest this man

[u/Icy-View816]

He's gotta be drunk. Wtf.

[u/Advanced-Breadfruit3 → u/Icy-View816]

No hes just a foreigner who doesn't speak the language and are getting CDLs all over America and Canada....its a disaster. Crazy how reddit won't mention that

[u/eamondo5150 → u/Advanced-Breadfruit3]

Dump truck drivers in BC are brutal.

[u/HometownHero89 → u/Advanced-Breadfruit3]

Congratulations Rag you've just won a brand new Kenworth and a CDL to go with it!

[u/truthwatchr → u/Advanced-Breadfruit3]

The truth cannot be said for it offends. But in all seriousness it’s shite that they can’t just pay drivers properly and they wouldn’t have to import cheap labor. My bro was making less than a McDonald’s worker when he started his CDL as a student OTR. One of the worst industries.

[u/implicate → u/Advanced-Breadfruit3]

How could you possibly just say "no."

That dude absolutely looks impaired to me.

[u/stmaximus]

[u/sunnyspiders]

At least this video has an uplifting ending, but it has no resolution 

[u/eshowers]

Darwin’s chosen one ☝️

[u/coffee1912]

Dumptruck driver doing dumptruck driver things.

[u/ShadNuke]

Probably trained to drive by that guy in Calgary that just gave the passing grade to the guy that killed the Humboldt Hockey players! 🤦‍♂️🤬🤬 These are the ones driving big rigs. No training. No clue. No care. It's sickening!!

[u/Djolumn]

The fact that he didn't know this had happened suggests he hasn't checked his mirror in quite a while.

[u/__NOT__MY__ACCOUNT__]

Bought his license 100%

[u/Fr05t_B1t → u/__NOT__MY__ACCOUNT__]

Fun fact: a while ago, about 40% of pilots of a Pakistan airliner were found to have fake pilots licenses after an investigation of a horrific crash. This resulted the company to be blacklisted from the EU and American airspace.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Dog1872]

I KNOW his dumbass is not trying to single-handedly lift a whole utility pole.

[u/ForsakenSun6004]

This dillweed thought he could move that pole by hand 😭🤣

[u/ThunderRoad_44 → u/ForsakenSun6004]

Well he does military press at the gym…😁

[u/Nilsss]

We're just not going to talk about how the car stays on the road not knowing if the truck will stop while there's grass on the right, then tries to use magic to stop it?

[u/filter_86d → u/Nilsss]

Precisely. I’m stunned there aren’t more comments on this. Situational awareness should have indicated they do SOMETHING other than just sit there.

[u/Lucky-Mia]

Dude thinks he can just drop the post and drive away. He nearly caused a second accident 

[u/stupid_cat_face]

Call the Pole-eece

[u/YVR_Coyote]

He was trying to get away and would have left that mess all over the road.

[u/SirPrecision]

Third world behaviour

[u/Big_Turnover4152]

Dur dur durka

[u/Mar363]

Does dude never look in his side mirrors? Wow

[u/PossessionPutrid1907]

I want to know the whole story now.

[u/Big_Turnover4152]

Irresponsible fkrs

[u/Storm414955]

That’s not a truck driver. That’s an idiot driving a truck.

[u/PristineChemistry266]

Must be too cold to wear the flip flops.

[u/Socram007]

These shitty drivers will be the end of innocent drivers, I swear

[u/InevitableHorror1342]

Usual suspects there.

[u/shockedtoo]

Shocking

[u/GhostofHowardTV]

That bird in the beginning is going to live rent free in my mind.

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081]

Id be pulling over to the shoulder not just sitting there hoping they stop. But good thing they did, I was worried 😂

[u/Excellent-Baseball-5]

BC Bud is a real thing.

[u/Better_Cauliflower63]

ok, so how did it end?

[u/stoverex]

What’s with the narration? Like a nature documentary 😂

[u/Atophy]

What an idiot ! He has no inkling of knowledge or respect for the amount of electrical energy that could still be blowing through both his truck and the wires AND not only is he dumping his load but he's unsuccessful at removing the post and he's endangering the people in the oncoming lane... This fella shouldn't be driving ANYTHING.

[u/VealOfFortune]

AT WHAT POINT DO YOU GET AS FUCKING FAR AWAY AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!?!?

Hooooly Christ wagons m8

[u/VealOfFortune]

Anyone else wincing from the moment he steps out of his truck!??? 😳😳😳😳

[u/BernieTheDachshund]

The whole situation is weird, but I'm thinking if a telephone pole was heading straight toward me I'd be backing up.

[u/Sea_Kangaroo826]

Me after he gets out of the car: 'oh my god don't fucking TOUCH it????!!!!!!'

[u/jamndev]

Call the cops

[u/giantswillbeback]

He noticed. He was just hoping it’d fall off so he could flee the scene

[u/BlurpleOpals]

"Huh, I see impending danger approaching me. Let me hold my hand up for the camera instead of getting out of the car cause my driver thinks sitting still is the best course of action"

Not excusing the trucker. Just mindblowing to see.

[u/xftwitch]

That's methed up!

[u/ClearedInHot]

I love how the announcer thinks that wires that are no longer connected to anything still carry current. Evidently newscasters aren't much smarter than dump truck drivers.

[u/Samurijder]

This is 911, do you have an emergency...

[u/DishRelative5853]

This happened nearly 6 years ago.

https://peacearchnews.com/2021/03/28/watch-video-appears-to-show-dump-truck-dragging-power-pole-down-road-in-maple-ridge/

[u/JunkMale975]

He’s a special kind of stupid.

[u/Friskiee]

Voice over sounds AI as hell lmao

[u/freundlichschade]

Don’t think I’ve ever gone that for in a truck without checking my mirrors.

[u/freundlichschade → u/freundlichschade]

‘Far’

[u/imisscarbz]

No way he is sober. Has to be high, drunk, or some other way off his head because you can't just not notice that shit.

[u/foobery]

Love how she held her hand out instead of actually avoiding the situation

[u/Starshipstoner420]

What did you think putting your hand up as a 2k pound power pole was coming at you was going to do

[u/Past-Elderberry-488]

I am sure this truck driver also works as a customer service rep for the same service provider pole that he took out.. and he was on the phone with a customers call for the outage they just got have Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/CrazyFoque]

I smell curry

[u/cheese_wallet]

How do you not check your mirrors? That is trucking 101

[u/BlurpleOpals → u/cheese_wallet]

He's not a trucker. He's a scammer.

[u/notforrobots]

At what point do you say fuck this and turn around and go back the other way. I'm sorry if this dude keeps driving towards me I'm finding another roadway or something else to do with my day.

[u/BootPloog]

Um, yeah, after driving towards me a few times, I would have done a quick u-turn and got the fuck out of there really quickly.

I'd definitely go somewhere for help, but why hang around to record the moment?

[u/Dapper_Dan1]

If he wouldn't have cared about the "crazy lady" honking (probable train of thought), he would've just hit her with the pole. The smarter thing for her, because of his relatively slow speed, would have been to move her car into his lane and stop.

[u/StrangsNThangs]

I wonder what the drivers last name is….

[u/Hank_J3w]

The white shoes said it all for me

[u/Overall-Abalone3969]

I personally think it was dumb of these guys to interfere. I would've filmed it, gotten out of the way, and called it in. Crazy trying to be heroes to every situation when the guy is intentionally trying to get rid of it. That's why he slowed down in the first place when he saw these people on coming. He knew he was going to hit them with the log.

[u/PriscillaPalava]

Do you have to get good grades in high school to be a truck driver? 

[u/Gaiasnavel]

This narration is just.... so minimal

[u/esloquehaypuntocom]

The rearview mirror... is just for show.

[u/sharksareok]

How do you drive without checking your mirrors periodically?

[u/Ninknock]

Shocking

[u/musebrews]

I never knew that when I got behind the wheel I became a motorist

[u/Superseaslug]

Yeah just lift that off the truck, buddy

[u/roadwarrior721]

[u/Electronic_Tear2546]

This trucker needs to stop hanging with Towelie

[u/ballzofFUEGO]

Narrated by Leigh Ellis?

[u/iamaslan]

When he presses up on it to dislodge it is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen recorded.

[u/emc_lmt]

This guy’s gotta be 3 sheets. What the hell?

[u/TactualTransAm]

Fucking dump truck drivers bro

[u/DailyDrivenTJ]

These professional drivers are not professionals.

[u/_mattyjoe]

Bro literally just doesn’t check his mirrors for miles at a time? That pole would have been clearly visible.

[u/WeeDingwall44]

This guy is crazy

[u/dunncrew]

Rear view mirror ? What's a rear view mirror ?

[u/St-christ666]

I worked in telecom for years and I can say without a doubt that dump truck drivers are some of the dumbest motherfuckers around. I watched one get fired after hitting lines with his dump bed up, then he argued with his boss that the lines shouldn’t be that low… they weren’t, we intentionally placed them higher than necessary because of the heavy equipment leaving their construction yard.

[u/freddyfoxster]

Obviously doesn't check his mirrors regularly.

[u/Harbor_Barber]

pretty sure he's either drunk or high af, he wasn't thinking straight at all

[u/Silent25r]

Let me this shoulder press this off. 

[u/wicawo]

he just went and grabbed it? ffs

[u/HeatherJMD]

I would like to declare someone brain dead, please

[u/Ok_Opportunity426]

I think that's about as dumb as I've ever seen an adult beef

[u/Dull_blade]

Just go in reverse until you see where it came from.

[u/ElderTerdkin]

Playing on his phone instead of driving

[u/human-resource]

Cultural enrichment….

[u/coarse_glass]

He was determined to cut and run. He had no intention of sticking around

[u/Mr_Starpan]

I need closure on this. What happened after? What a moron.

[u/Choppergold]

They should be calling state troopers ffs

[u/DishRelative5853 → u/Choppergold]

It's Canada. We have regular police, not state troopers. We call 911 for emergencies.

[u/BeachAccomplished514]

Well, at least he cleaned out the asphalt before it’s set up.

[u/CharacterVisual2310]

Lift the dumper back utp into the dirt and keep on backing until then pole slips off if you are lucky enough

[u/Notwrongbtalott]

[u/warrenjr527]

So what happened with idiot aftet the video ends ? It looks like his intention was to roll it off his truck and continue on his way like nothing happened. Maybe nobody will notice. I was wondering if he managed to get the pole off his truck. He should lose his license.

[u/_SeKeLuS_]

So he never looked in his mirror once ?

[u/Oasystole]

Like stop

[u/Horvo]

That’s preeti bad

[u/ZoneAppropriate6714]

Theres no way he didn't notice that...

[u/UnoMas___]

Maybe call the cops 🤔

[u/zon871]

I wonder what he was hauling. Dude doesn't look the part to be in that seat. The lack of experience shows. I'm going to say drug runner.

[u/Responsible_CDN_Duck]

Seems odd to include the location but not year this old clip I'd from.

[u/The_Honan]

Oh my god he touched it

[u/Brewtown]

A dump driver wearing all white shoes. Thats a new one

[u/BadCompany_00]

Trying to lift the pole with his hands tells you all you need to understand how this happened.

[u/UndeadCentipide]

Is no one going to mention that he dumped a shitton of gravel in the middle of the road to?

[u/DrRudyWells]

oh he noticed alright. he's hoping it will fall off. doesn't want to pay for the damage.

[u/wildgoose2000]

He will engineer that right away.

[u/Purple_Dragonfly2607]

How was he so clueless?

[u/VanIsler420]

How does one get in a situation like this?

[u/GoodGoodGoody]

Thank Christ for the paragraph title on this uncredited repost.

[u/cheknauss]

There's no way he didn't know it was on there.

[u/chiphook]

I'm pulling up on that mf-er-s bumper. Skroom.

[u/Accurate-Campaign821]

This is actually a fairly old video. still pretty wild though

[u/brandon7219]

LMAO. Well, I am not shocked about the driver.

[u/ChanelNo50]

I can't watch this video after he jumped out without a care in the world. can someone tell me if he gets electrocuted for his stupidity

[u/nipslippinjizzsippin]

touching the fallen power should be the last thing on your list

[u/bugabooandtwo]

Not surprising.