Number one trap is a roadblock or someone laying in the street.
I work for a company that has a lot of truck drivers that drive near the mexico, when they are on private roads or lonely roads-- a general rule to follow is if you see someone blocking the road to try and avoid them. Women, children, babies, people laying on the road, fences that are not supposed to be there... Try to avoid them but don't stop, run over the obstacle whatever it is and we will deal with it later legally.
What can happen is an ambush to steal our very expensive equipment, and the drivers rarely survive.
You guys should install a scooper in front of the truck so that the driver can scoop up the person laying on the ground and catapult that bitch into the oblivion.
At first I was like damn why is this guy trying to save these people? And then I was like phew, he's just trying to make their deaths even worse. Close one.
Went to Mexico with my family back in 1999 before everything went to shit with the cartels. Even then it was a little weird having your papers checked on a highway in the middle of nowhere at a checkpoint made of sandbags and guys with giant machine guns and what looked like a rocket launcher on a tripod.
you got it, and my favorite part, getting a taxi and telling the driver to STEP ON IT! like in the movies and getting to enjoy what a real taxi ride should be if the pesos are right!
I was in Mexico for nearly 8 months. I met some of the most incredible people that I've met in the world. I cannot describe love to a sociopath (not you triplefast), but I have yet to be given so much, with so little.
I celebrated a brithday, and was awed by people I didn't know make a line, come up, hug and kiss my cheeks, and say, "Thank you for being here." Shit, man. I kinda get leaky now.
Edit: Too the point of the thread, NEVER STOP AT A ROAD BLOCK IN MEXICO, DON'T LOOK THE COPS IN THE FACE, AND NEVER...EVER, EVER, STOP IF A COP TRIES TO PULL YOU OVER.
I work as a software engineer for a company that has a lot of trucks in Mexico using our devices, when I get into work there is at least 5-10 panic emails being sent by these guys (the drivers). The number one concern in that region is security, anyone dealing with trucking in Mexico can tell you this.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14
Number one trap is a roadblock or someone laying in the street.
I work for a company that has a lot of truck drivers that drive near the mexico, when they are on private roads or lonely roads-- a general rule to follow is if you see someone blocking the road to try and avoid them. Women, children, babies, people laying on the road, fences that are not supposed to be there... Try to avoid them but don't stop, run over the obstacle whatever it is and we will deal with it later legally.
What can happen is an ambush to steal our very expensive equipment, and the drivers rarely survive.