We will just have to agree to disagree on how much actually know about this subject. You literally started your comment with “Would love to hear from a truck driver on this one," but it sounds like you actually don't want that input...

HP has nothing to do with it. Torque has everything to do with it. That truck has a LOT more pushing/pulling power than that Mercedes does. Once the tires break traction, they aren’t offering all that much resistance.

All that likely happened in this case is that the Benz was pitted by the truck. If that were the case,…

I bet he dropped a Deuce-and-a-Half when it started bouncing him all over the cabin.

Your first two points really don’t apply when the two vehicles are so different in size/mass/power.

I work in transit. Fun fact: It isn’t uncommon as you’d think for someone to rear-end a transit bus hard enough to more or less total their car - or at least crunch the front end up badly enough to require a tow... and for the bus driver to continue on their route none-the-wiser. When a 3,000 lb car strikes a 42,000…

The very rear axle is the driven axle. That’s where the engine and everything is, so it makes for a much simpler setup.

Also makes it a nightmare in the snow, since it pushes from the very rear. I once accidentally drifted the center axle around a turn in the rain once. Ours were hybrid-electric, so they had a lot of…

My family was coming back home to NJ from... somewhere in PA. We were on I-78... and were just a few miles into NJ when everything came to a complete stop. We hadn’t seen the collision, but it was only about 1/8 mile ahead of us. Apparently someone had fallen asleep at the wheel, crossed over the wide grass median,…

Lol. It wouldn’t be any more difficult! The rear doesn’t steer, but the pivot points so far behind the axles allow the whole thing to “train” along a single path without the rear axles drifting to the inside of a turn :P

This was the first image I found on Google. Its a bit odd, but it gets the point across methinks.

Yup! I drove them in Blacksburg Virginia (Virginia Tech), so our routes were twisty and curvy. I loved riding in the back and watching it flex all over the place.

Yup! They’re like gentle giants. I much preferred driving them over the 40-footers for a variety of reasons. They’re much easier to drive than you would be led to believe at first glance.

I know this isn’t comparable to a triple trailer, but it’s still a fun fact: I used to drive articulated transit buses. The long 60-footers you see running mainline routes in most cities. A standard “full size” transit bus is 40 feet. The articulated ones are 60 feet.

I used to love going to the roofs of parking decks back in college to watch the nasty thunderstorms that rolled through. One day, after watching the storm pass, I just kind of hung out and watched the sunset. I got into my car, and (the roof being completely empty), did a big, lazy, curving reverse maneuver to turn…

Try driving an old bus without power steering. I had to make a u turn by backing into someone's driveway on a narrow road, and I literally had to get out of the seat before I was able to crank the wheel hard over, lol.

Because of a small manufacturing error that was likely the result of one miscalibrated, or failing robot? You have to be joking. Shit happens.

“Since everyone is probably distracted, and staring at the plane that just landed, let me take this opportunity to swerve all over the road.”

Footage from the cockpit:

What are you talking about? It takes 6.5 seconds to hit 60. The Twins can do it in under 7 as well...

Ha! It took me a minute...

Well it wouldn't sell here anyway. It is about as fast to 60 as the Toyobaru, and nobody in this country wants one of those because they are "way too slow."