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Whoops
By roadman on Fri, 03/10/2017 - 2:55pm
Salt spreader just flipped over making turn from Charles Street on to Park Plaza - by the Four Seasons. Fire and EMTs on scene.
Edit: Updated to include a close-up photo that a co-worker took from a different vantage point.
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Who salts for the salt truck!
Who salts for the salt truck!?
I doubt any salt was required to remove the flipped truck.
I left for an appointment shortly after I posted this, and noted the streets and sidewalks were bare and wet. So it appears that they were pre-treating the roads in anticipation of the squalls that came through about 4:30 and the colder temps we are expected to get later on.
Parked car
I'm curious as to that parked car at the corner. I wonder if that vehicle being there (if not an emergency responder's vehicle) had anything to do with it.
It does look like it's parked too close to the corner.
Not a parked car.
After I took my original photo, I noticed that traffic was still allowed to make the turn onto Park Plaza.
crap
how much do you have to toss over your shoulder for a spilled truckload?
View from MassDOT 10 Park Plaza
Hey Roadman,
Do you work at 10 PP like me? I recognize that view!
As Lt. Anderson of the TV show
Black Sheep Squadron would say: Yupper!
I'm sorry but..
that's frigging hilarious
seriously - how did you manage to flip one of those things?
wish we had a full video of it
Fully loaded
The trucks are built with the load high up for a couple of reasons:
1. the salt has to run down to the auger at the bottom to be distributed.
2. these rigs are often modifications - some are even set up for "plug and play", where different stuff for different applications can be switched out on a chassis. That means they go on top, rather than be built into the frame.
Top heavy system, full load of salt, just a little too much speed and OOPS!
Was that picture
Taken from the Transportation building? I specifically remember a view of that building across the street when I had a consulting gig there. And there has to be some sort of irony watching that scene from that building, if not schadenfreude...
Yes, I took the photo from my cubicle, which adjoins a window
on the 7th floor of the Transportation Building.
And I do appreciate the irony of the situation, even though it was a City of Boston contractor and not a MassDOT one.
Small world
I worked on the 7th floor, too.
Now I know
I was wondering how they spread that much salt on the streets around Savin Hill.
All that salt is not good
All that salt is not good for you but I bet that situation would "shake" things up. It really did "pepper" the sidewalk.