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• DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Flipping it back over will be extreamly difficult, probably will require several excavators. Then they will have to inspect the engine, to see if its damaged. If it needs parts, it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair. The truck may need parts or welding as well. They will likely fire the driver who flipped it and replace him with someone. You can learn fairly quick.

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s dumb to fire someone when you just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars teaching them not to do that again.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also if you hire someone who can “learn fairly quick”, you’re going to be back in this same position fairly quick.

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    • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Some people just arent cut out for certain jobs. There is no good reason to ever flip that truck that way. Where i work at the only thing that will really get you fired on the spot is doing something really dumb like this, or putting someone else in an unsafe position. Also a few hundred grand is the low end. If the driver is really dumb and xoesnt cut the engine off as soon as he gets done rolling, he will ruin the entire engine which will cost close to a million just for the engine alone.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would assume that for operating expensive vehicles like this, you get training on how to use them properly to avoid these kinds of issues. Flipped because they ignored protocol? Well, you already tried teaching them and it didn’t take. Try someone else. Did something unexpected come up to make this happen? Now that’s potentially valuable knowledge that you want to keep in your crew.

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    • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s all optics. Pretend to be the boss, how are you going to explain this to your boss? You can’t justify not firing. The current one did it once and its permanently on his record, better to get rid of him and make sure the replacement doesn’t cause a problem until this one is forgotten.

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  • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its probably easier to disassemble the truck and re assemble right side up than it is to flip it

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    • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Definitly not. They will probably dig under one side or just get a couple of big excvators and chains. I had to flip a few of these, not as big as this one, but ones about half the size.

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      • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Interesting! TIL

        can the truck still be relied upon? Or does it have to be replaced to avoid future failure? I work in IT, and if something has a hint of being unreliable it gets replaced because the downtime of it failing when needed is more expensive than the replacement, and now you have a spare one in case of surprises

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