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You’ve Probably Never Seen a Semi Make a Left Turn Quite Like This

Nov. 19, 2012 5:00pm Liz Klimas

Semi-trucks can be down right scary for motorists in smaller vehicles. Seeing one creeping into your lane on the highway is enough to cause you to lay into a full on honk. Watching one make a right turn onto the street where you’re in the left lane waiting to turn might have you thinking you should back up a touch as you chant “Don’t hit me. Don’t hit me.”

But, the drivers deserve credit for the amount of control they have over the massive rigs and trailers. Take this semi driver for example. In the video below, he starts to turn left, but since he appears to be going a tad too fast, he begins to skid. Amazingly, he corrects the skid making it look like it was intentional and he was just pretending to be 007 in an Aston Martin.

Footage Shows Semi Truck Skidding Into Left Turn But Driver Pulls It Under Control

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the footage taken by frightened passengers behind him on a rainy day (Warning: Some strong language):

We can’t confirm when the video was officially taken. The timestamp in the clip states 2025, but those timestamps are wrong or altered. We do know it was uploaded to YouTube Friday by a user named rousnek located in Germany. This is the only video the user has uploaded to the video-sharing site.

(H/T: Reddit)

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mcmeador
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:14am
I’m glad The Blaze seems to be retiring the “most amazing thing you’ve ever seen” or “never seen this before” kind of titles and going with “probably” thus finally admitting there is a chance that we very well could have seen something more amazing before.

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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:57am
  Good-bye noble hyperbole. We knew thee well.
  
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karen162
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:45am
Germany? It looked more like something a Russian would do. :-)

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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:38am
Cool video

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Government_Goodies
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:35am
bot much?

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Olieman
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:29am
Was that a UPS truck? I thought they weren’t supposed to make left hand turns.

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- Honest_E
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:21am
  Lol
  
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- 19RANDY59
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:02pm
  Big NASCAR fan
  
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MadAsHeII
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:44am
Sign him up for the next Bond movie.

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asdlb4
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:48am
The craziest part is that this video is from 13 years in the future…

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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:34am
  Nice!!!!
  
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dukestreet
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:12pm
I once watched a semi driver drive head on into a bridge abutment rather than drive into vehicles on a highway. He didn’t make it but got high praise for his willingness to save many lives at the likely cost of his own. I have a great deal of respect for people like that. Unfortunately, a lot of companies seem to be going for saving money by hiring inexperienced drivers rather than paying the ones who save lives by their knowledge and courage. There’s much more carnage on the roads as a result.

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Pontiaku
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:40pm
“Warning: Some strong language”
That’s okay. I don’t understand Russian.

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- idarusskie
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:31pm
  I know my Russian wife would not teach me those words…:)
  
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blackyb
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:37pm
Glad it worked out for everyone.

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nichevo
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:29pm
Are you in the correct comment thread. Conservatives pissed off about the election is on the right mmmkay

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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:13pm
All LEFT turns are bad, mmmkay?

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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:23pm
  All left turns lead to a (jack) knife in the back.
  
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- ICanComment
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:43am
  @Jack
  
  Especially true in NJ, where you have to use those danged jug handles. (No, I’m not from there)
  
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mdavid
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:01pm
Is that… it can’t be! It is!

Dual lane drifting!!!

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- Pontiaku
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:40pm
  Not as cool as multi track drifting.
  http://i46.tinypic.com/1zdw1oj.png
  
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:56pm
Nothing new, he was just practicing truck drifting.

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Bobj_1960
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:31pm
Tokyo Drift my A$$

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Comcast3
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:07pm
In Soviet Russia, truck turns you.

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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:34am
  lmao
  
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proliance
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:33pm
This video is from the future.

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dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:06pm
sounds Russian in which case i’m not a bit surprised.

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- Thomas_Jefferson
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:22pm
  Whats with the Russian cars & dash cams?
  This aint the first time.
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:28pm
  Jeff no one in that country really knows what the laws are since they tend to change all the time…video evidence is a safe way to prevent crooked cops and officials from taking you for a ride. Russia is one screwed up wild west of endless red tape, graft, bribery and corruption…a lethal leftover from the Soviet era.
  
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nomsain
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:38pm
As a retired truck driver, I would say that this driver started to slow down for his left turn a little too late and locked up the wheels on the trailer due to excessive foot pressure. The trailer may have been mt or near mt and that coupled with the wet roadway, caused a sideways slide. As is usually the case, the tractor wheels kept their grip and allowed the errant driver to recover and continue his route with minimal embarrassment and expense.

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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:56pm
  You’ll notice the ONLY way to ‘right’ the trailer ‘skid,’ is…. ‘pulling the trailer’ so that it doesn’t continue its jackknife — experienced drivers just ‘know’ if the rpms are maxed out (governed at the upper end) they have NO control of that trailer — unless they have another gear they can grab before the trailer breaks 45 degrees and ‘talks’ to the driver :-) And they say military ‘brass’ has ‘courage — Booool ****… drive a TRUCK cross-country for 1 year (all four seasons) then come back and talk to me about ‘courage.’
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:03pm
  I was thinking the same thing about coming up on his turn too fast, but it looks like he cranked on the hand brake, thus locking the trailer brakes while leaving tractor wheels free to maneuver. That’s the way 18 wheel cowboys used to do it in the snow.
  
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- ApostolicIlx
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:43pm
  Yeppir. It also helped him to have that extra set of tires on his rear tandems. To me, and anyone who has driven as many professional miles as I have, you recognize the amateur factor here. He was going too fast in the rain. Only two things you don’t want to do when its wet or snowy out in a rig, change speed fast, or change direction fast! LMFAO!
  
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bonesiii
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:36pm
Why did they happen to have the camera pointed right at it like that? It doesn’t really matter but the truthseeker in me is curious anyways — feels like a setup to me.

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- 22hornet
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:29pm
  In Russia almost all cars have cameras to prevent fraud
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:33pm
Got lucky.

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wrathnordesire
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:32pm
Just a routine Crazy Ivan maneuver.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:39pm
  Lol.
  
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- Exidor
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:49pm
  lol!!!!! Crazy Ivan….
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:58pm
  Yep, Craaaazy Ivan.
  
  Can’t find the Youtube of that “Hunt For Red October” line.
  
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- Cueballjonez
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Nice one. Have you heard of the Semi-llenium Falcon? It’s the truck that made the Kessel turn in less than twelve parsecs.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:09am
  Ha ha. Haven’t heard that phrase in a long, long time.
  
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- wrathnordesire
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:34am
  Grayling… Hmm, since 93? Maybe you know first hand eh? My only experiences were all drills.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:13pm
  Actually experienced several Crazy Ivans in the Med during the summer of ’77. Although I was a radioman, sonar was right next door (and you could hear their communications with the Conn in radio).
  It didn’t make much sense to me. We never trailed at the same depth and was easily avoided without detection. Maybe it was just paranoia on the part of the Rooskies.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:23pm
That was some expert drifting and over-steering… good driver in the semi!

Was that “Bolly-Wood” music in the background of the Eurofag car?…

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:33pm
  My husband was a short-haul truck driver and always pointed out to stay back in the left turn lane because those things don’t turn on a dime. The amount of effort it takes to control those big rigs is amazing. In the days when he drove and I often took the kids and rode along, he talked often about the “Truck Driver’s Code” that if it’s a question of flipping your rig and dying or taking out a car, only the most selfish trucker would do the latter. God watched over many of those truckers, alas, the code doesn’t seem to be around anymore and I’ve been around truckers who scare you for the fun of it. But that guy had a lot of mastery of that rig, you’ve gotta admire it.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:11pm
Uh, okay. Huh? What’s the point?

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one.dakine.howlie
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:05pm
Oh, those silly Russians…

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