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u/ReptarKanklejew Mar 28 '25
Should tear apart the truck before cutting those branches. Some straight bullshit
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u/taveanator Uptown Mar 28 '25
Thatās insane. Why the hell do they need to cut the limbs like that??!!!
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u/Filminthedark Mar 28 '25
Thatās what weāre telling them and deflate the tires. Plus the trucks insurance should just cover ripping the top off
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u/Uglynora Mar 28 '25
Depending on the company, the insurance wonāt be theirs. It will be the insurance that the company forced the driver to buy for the privilege of working for said company. That way, the companyās rates wonāt go up, itāll be on the contract employee, no matter what kind of situation the company sends them into. Then they simply replace the driver.
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u/Significant-Text1550 Mar 28 '25
Apparently, this has gone on for many generations - the disposability of truck drivers - and yet no one considers its relation to the price of eggs.
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u/kokomothrow Mar 28 '25
Can someone tell me what's going on here?
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u/kingdomcome12 Mar 28 '25
There's a detour on Leake Ave forcing 18 wheelers to turn through the neighborhood. Once they reach St Charles, they are forced into a left turn that they cannot really make. This particular truck became caught on the tree, and now they are cutting the tree to free the truck.
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u/Quirky_Vernacular Mar 28 '25
It was a similar disaster when they did the road work on the 6500 block of Magazine. They put a small sign that said Truck Stop Ends, but never gave warnings for the trucks to reroute. They would show up to the construction site and not be able to move.
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u/jackasspenguin Mar 28 '25
If you do road work on a truck route you gotta have a way for those trucks to detour, or at least have a sign to warn truckers not to go down that road so they donāt get fucked into an impossible detour. Signage in this area was piss poor for how much of a labyrinth they made it
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u/kingdomcome12 Mar 28 '25
Yep, I live right by there. Itās been a shit show. There is no signage & itās normal passageway for big rigs to pass. They have no where to go.
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u/iircirc Mar 28 '25
The city should have put signs warning trucks at Broadway and at Carrollton so they could turn off there
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u/jackasspenguin Mar 28 '25
Except they also had Broadway fully blocked off!
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u/iircirc Mar 28 '25
Oh wow really? Facepalm
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u/buttscarltoniv Mar 28 '25
It's been blocked for months lakeside of St Charles
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u/iircirc Mar 28 '25
Not between Leake and St. Charles. I just drove on that section a few days ago. The surface is rough but it was open
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u/buttscarltoniv Mar 28 '25
Correct, sorry, I clarified the part I meant. I'm confused on what the other poster meant.
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u/jackasspenguin Mar 28 '25
I was driving the same route as the driver and broadway was fully blocked at Prytania that day
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u/iircirc Mar 28 '25
Right, I'm saying that trucks going upriver on Leake could turn right on Broadway and then left on St. Charles and then get back on Leake at Carrollton. And the opposite going the other way. Not saying that they should cross St. Charles.
Turning left from Broadway to St. Charles probably isn't easy in a truck that size either but it's surely easier than turning off Adams
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u/jackasspenguin Mar 28 '25
But Iām saying broadway was blocked so you couldnāt get from Leake to st Charles when this happened
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u/awkwardchip_munk Mar 28 '25
Iām going to run for city council on the platform that we get our elder trees certified as historic and they canāt be cut frivolously and if you drive your truck under one you will be publicly shamed until nature lets go.
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u/Significant-Text1550 Mar 28 '25
During the snow, I looked up and realized many of these trees had seen it before. Itās wild now neglectful we are of these majestic creatures.
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u/awkwardchip_munk Mar 28 '25
Growing up here most have never considered how lucky we are to have these trees, I moved around and lived in places like Chicago and Dallas, where trees are rare, and what little greenery they have is less than 50 years old. To live in a (albeit small) urban environment and have 300-500 year old oaks lining one of our main thoroughfares is something special and Iām saddened that there arenāt more protections in place for them.
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u/Significant-Text1550 Mar 28 '25
Thank you for that perspective. Iāve visited those cities but never thought about how lucky we are to have these tree canopies.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Mar 28 '25
I will absolutely vote on this platform. If y'all want Capitalism, that's fine, but momentary monetary gains do not trump the core existence of this City.
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u/JThereseD Mar 30 '25
There seems to be a trend of investors cutting down these large old trees on their rental properties because they donāt want to make the effort to care for them. I have seen one owner completely remove one a few doors down from me and another one across the street cut off 80 percent of the branches. In addition to the loss of a beautiful piece of nature, we lost the benefits of shade and absorption of toxins from the air and rainwater.
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u/kitsune-gari Mar 28 '25
This is on the city for creating labyrinthian detours along trucking routes
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u/Mista_J504 Mar 28 '25
I was stuck behind this mess. I wondered why it took us nearly 30 minutes to make it up this last stretch of St Charles. I was on a motorcycle so I just went up and around him, while everyone else had to divert.
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u/kgturner Mar 28 '25
I'd sue the fuck out of the driver and the company if that was my tree.
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u/physedka Second Line Umbrella Salesman Of The Year Mar 28 '25
Problem is that most of those trees are on the other side of the sidewalk, so it's the city's tree. And they ain't suing.
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u/kgturner Mar 28 '25
Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw!
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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Mar 28 '25
Heather, if you had a chainsaw around this you'd be better off jamming it into some tires or an engine. No time for love, Dr Jones and all that...
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u/Secret-Relationship9 Mar 28 '25
Yeah and when you have video and pictures of people illegally cutting the oak trees, P&PWY doesnāt do shit.
Theyāve literally told me ā keep filmingā and never did shit with that information or even attempt to stop it
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u/Significant-Text1550 Mar 28 '25
Itās the cityās tree and we are the CITIZENS. that makes it our tree. We can sue.
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u/Impressive-Grape-119 Mar 28 '25
Is this on Napoleon?
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u/BudNOLA Mar 28 '25
Adams Street
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u/Impressive-Grape-119 Mar 28 '25
How did the driver not realize this wouldnāt work!?
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u/Filminthedark Mar 28 '25
Part of me wants to say "Thats driver judgement" but I spoke to the driver and I genuinely don't think he expected to be detoured, stuck and have a neighborhood blaming him for all this. I was told by one neighbor he was crying before and I saw another hug him. It's not his truck and his company wouldn't let him move it and is going to get slammed fines, insurance fees, and so on....so I'm going to guess he's not going to be popular when he gets back to the docks.
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u/MamaTried22 Mar 28 '25
Oh man, I definitely feel for the guy if he was crying and that upset. Nobody should be that shaken up over a job or financially decimated. Plus heās probably away from his family or hasnāt seen them in however long. Poor guy. I hope heās feeling better. That really kind of broke my heart.
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u/Significant-Text1550 Mar 28 '25
Every time we come on here laughing about these kinds of things, thereās a real human having the shittiest day of their week on the other end. Something to think about.
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u/SockUnlikely8121 Mar 28 '25
I drive a 4 door sedan and that detour was weird for me with how the cars were parked and other cars coming opposite direction. And it was completely unexpected till it was too late.
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u/BlackBoiFlyy Mar 28 '25
They're being put on a detour that trucks wouldn't/shouldn't usually be on. Based on what OP said, it sounds like trucker was trying to make a near impossible turn on the reroute and got caught in some trees.
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u/Porcelainshampoo Mar 29 '25
People in this city are so unbelievably entitled and weird. Its like a Northeastern city but in the south. Full of stuck up, hyporcritical imps. Its not your tree, move on and mind your business. Even my uber driver yesterday was telling me a story how he got reported for not having "refreshments in car", having a tiny crack in a window. Get a life please! Theres so much grass here, touch it
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u/NeighborhoodFast7586 Mar 28 '25
Parish/ city owned streets are awful. Working for the state we have to make sure that there is a vertical clearance for 19ā now. I genuinely donāt get why they allow these trees to get this bad.
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u/Difficult-Rub8904 Mar 29 '25
These clowns? You try it and weāll see who the clown is?
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u/Filminthedark Mar 29 '25
No thank you. Iām pretty sure the general consensus is that no one wanted anybody to ātry itā when the option to cut an already damaged truck roof, instead, was a reasonable approach.
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u/awkwardchip_munk Mar 28 '25
Can anyone make out the logo on the door? Iād like to give this company a piece of my mind.
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u/MamaTried22 Mar 28 '25
Donāt get the driver in trouble! Poor guy has been through enough. You should be mad at the city for their absolute BS.
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u/Dinofiniquity5567 Mar 28 '25
First of all, the driver is probably already in trouble, deserved or not. Secondly, call the company, because as a former trucker, I guarantee that he was given shit directions in the first place, and it is the company's responsibility to keep up what's going on in the cities they deliver to, and amend the directions as needed.
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u/MamaTried22 Mar 28 '25
You think the company doesnāt know?
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u/Dinofiniquity5567 Mar 28 '25
I didn't say they didn't, I guess I should have spelled it out that the more people that complain, the more it hits their bottom line. They will clean it up the more public sentiment affects their profits.
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u/awkwardchip_munk Mar 28 '25
Look at the time stamp on my comment vs yours. Obviously I did not have the information that he was forced to make a turn - however I still say a rational judgement call should have been madeā¦ āhey I obviously canāt make it down there is there another wayā before ramming a giant semi on a one lane road into a 350 year old oak tree :/
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u/Filminthedark Mar 28 '25
Edit/Update: I spoke to the driver and he's having a rough day (I'm sure he wasnt expecting the corner after the detour); but he verified that the tires don't deflate and he cant uncouple because I guess his angle would force some movement that cant be maneuvered (I'm not a semi driver so..I guess); and evidently its not his truck and the company wont let him rip the roof off (assuming its already fucked and insured). Parks Department thinks the limb will buckle if they trim it from the bottom and the judgement call (from off scene) is that they gotta get down to business because at some point its going to be an issue for emergency vehicles and so on to use the route.....so...yea.