At no point during this video will you relax. Watching that heavy truck drive off the pier and onto those flimsy ass planks will have you as wound up as humanly possible, but there’s a payoff, don’t worry. A few things to consider: Why are Brazilians so insane? How did that truck get sideways on that narrow pier in the first place? Why would anyone risk their truck falling into a river and taking out an entire dock by driving onto two tiny pieces of wood?!
Now get to the watching of the video and meet me on the other side of this GIF:
HOLY HELL how did he not fall into that river? How did those planks hold up? I’m truly flabbergasted. This was the first video I watched today and already I have to change my pants.
I’ve done some foolish driving my day, even driven onto some ridiculous river barges in Panama and Costa Rica where the water current was ripping so hard the boat was actually moving as we drove onto it from the dock…but never anything as crazy as this. I’d call this driver foolish if they didn’t succeed, but they did, so I won’t. This driver’s a hero.
This video came to us by way of Reddit, where one of the commenters provided some background info on just where (Northern Brazil) this took place, and what we’re watching (pics of the barge, etc).
For reference though, this is what the boat looked like that the driver was pulling that truck into, and the camera man was filming from the 2nd level:
Again, pants were soiled in the making of this video. But I’d like to send a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to the driver of that truck for making it onto the boat successfully.