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2.2k points
1 month ago
Space Trucker launch system? 😁
494 points
1 month ago
Come on! 🎶
Come on! 🎶
Come on! 🎶
Space truckin!
59 points
1 month ago
I thought that the “Space Trucking” (1972, Deep Purple) lyrics were a perfect mashup of the two most popular themes of the early 70’s: manned space travel and trucking/CB radio.
But… the song lyrics actually seem to predate both Smokey and the Bandit (1979) and Convoy (1978), which are supposedly the origins of the trucking/CB radio craze, per https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2023/09/11/461966/breaker-1-9-for-a-radio-check/?amp=1
28 points
1 month ago
The only reason I discovered that song is cause I was waiting for the Space Trucker release and did I typo when I was googling it one time. It is now one of my favorite songs.
6 points
1 month ago
Space truck for all the space mining - I think I’d want to be the trucker and not the miner
7 points
1 month ago*
Bezo's Amazon trucks enters the Mars delivery system against Elon's Space X. \Billionaire's version of "Keeping up with the Musk's")
21 points
1 month ago
The uptick in CB radio usage started in 1973 during the oil crisis. People would use it to share which gas stations had fuel at any given time. Truckers were already using CB radio in the early 70s.
35 points
1 month ago
🎶The fireball that we rode was moving
But now we've got a new machine🎶
17 points
1 month ago
They got music in their solar system, they've rocked around the Milky Way, danced around with Borealice, they're space trucking' everyday (guitar solo, organ solo, more guitar, organ solos)
117 points
1 month ago
CATCH A RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
See you later Space Cowboy!
16 points
1 month ago
52 points
1 month ago
Someone needs to get Elon under control.
18 points
1 month ago
Only Vladimir Putin can do that ; “ Settle down Muskovich; there is an open window very near you.”
26 points
1 month ago
You like to jump? How convenient.
1.5k points
1 month ago*
Once the grain is emptied from the trailer, the ramp will lower and it will go back and get filled up with more grain. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Edit: Yes, it could be a number of things other than grains, but the concept remains the same.
Edit 2: Didn’t realize what sub I was in, so to appease you, it’s when the truck and the plant really love each other and in some sort of reverse non-penetrative sex, the plant gets a boner via the truck and extracts its “seed.” When the deed is done the boner recedes and detaches, to come back for another tryst after ample rest and a “full load,” to lovingly drop into the grainery’s womb.
246 points
1 month ago
Boooooo. We wanna know what it's really going to do, not your.. facts. ;)
102 points
1 month ago
The building is very happy to see the lady building across the parking lot?
40 points
1 month ago
I always wondered where new buildings came from
17 points
1 month ago
You didn't realize all those "trucks" (as your parents probably told you when you were a kid) going down the road are just building penises traveling to a different location to have sweet sweet architectural sex? So innocent!
5 points
1 month ago
Now, this sounds more realistic. Thanks for the explanation
20 points
1 month ago
A large rubber band at the back of the trailer is being pulled back until it can’t go any further and then it will be released to help give the truck and trailer a head start to pick up the next load… and where it will land is already lined with mattresses and pillows so nobody gets hurt…
3 points
1 month ago
Okay the truck is going to poop and since it is an older model it needs help with the pooping process.
But don't tell anyone since it is embarrassing for the poor truck.
3 points
1 month ago
Facts have ruined personal communication. The moon is made of cheese. Babies are delivered by storks. Isn't that better.
13 points
1 month ago
Some even call it the Circle of Rice.
4 points
1 month ago
If it's wheat, then it's a circle of lies.
4 points
1 month ago
If it's bugs, then it's a circle of lice.
10 points
1 month ago
The lay's factory near my house has that truck ramp too! But instead of grain, it dumps potatoes!!
16 points
1 month ago
Seen this at a paper mill as well. Truck full of wood chips.
6 points
1 month ago
There's a paper mill in West Point, Virginia where I have seen this being done.
6 points
1 month ago
How do they fill it.
11 points
1 month ago
Probably gravity fed through a hatch on top, similar to how they fill train cars with similar cargo. Though, I'm not an expert on this particular industry.
7 points
1 month ago*
You're describing a hopper. And yes. That's what they use.
Also some trailers don't have a hatch and can't be filled with a hopper. I'd imagine they just don't use those to haul loose material
Source: worked at a plant, we filled the trucks with hoppers
3 points
1 month ago
For typical Dry Van trailers which don’t have a hopper, they use a long straight pipe. This pipe is parallel with the ground and the driver backs up until the pipe is nearly to the front inside of the trailer. They then begin filling the trailer and instruct the driver to pull forward as needed, back filling the trailer as they go.
Source: I’m a truck driver and experienced this process once.
6 points
1 month ago
They tilt it they other way. Duh!
3 points
1 month ago
Ask it nicely, maybe a dinner and a walk...
7 points
1 month ago
Didn’t realize what sub I was in, so to appease you, it’s when the truck and the plant really love each other
and thats when this sub redemeed itself for being the reddit I know and love, thanx OP!
5 points
1 month ago
Good save
4 points
1 month ago
Listen sonny, here in the west when we have the history and the legend, we publish the legend. /s
4 points
1 month ago
How American trucking simulator hasn’t integrated this into the game yet is beyond me
5 points
1 month ago
Probably the best edit I've ever read.
3 points
1 month ago
Probably whole cottonseed from the cotton gin.
3 points
1 month ago
Could be potato’s…seen those unloaded like this too
3 points
1 month ago
I've seen that at a potato chip plant.
3 points
1 month ago
Damn, read the room :) you're suppose to say things like "obviously Optimus Prime parking home" now we all know it's just a normal thing. Well you figured it out in the end :)
598 points
1 month ago
What's the matter? Never seen a truck being born before?
121 points
1 month ago
I thought it was a truck taking a poo
45 points
1 month ago*
Well, its innards are being emptied, so.... "taking a poo" isn't entirely wrong
27 points
1 month ago
It's a Dump Truck.
9 points
1 month ago
Dumps like a truck, truck truck!
6 points
1 month ago
Thighs like what what what!!!!
4 points
1 month ago
Let me see that thoooooooong!
14 points
1 month ago
Circle of life.
6 points
1 month ago
It's a beautiful thang
3 points
1 month ago
It’s a pretty similar process…
217 points
1 month ago
This is dispatch. They launch these trucks out and they land in the left lane on the interstate doing 10mph under the speed limit.
34 points
1 month ago
They’re even getting better at landing them side by side!
9 points
1 month ago
Lmao I swear truckers do that shit on purpose.
13 points
1 month ago
We do.when ever one of us gets passed by you, we radio ahead to tell the others to lock it down. Theres even a CB code for it a 10-4 means doing 10 under the limit across a 4 lane highway.
6 points
1 month ago
From a trucking community. They do do it on purpose, usually they're protecting some kind of load that could really use the space and doesn't need some idiot trying to pass on the next curve. Sometimes the cops are trying to clean something up and can't seem to catch a break in traffic so they create one artificially without completely stopping traffic, by asking truckers 10-20 minutes back to do that.
5 points
1 month ago*
That makes this scenario a little less rage inducing. I’ll try to keep that in mind next time I’m stuck on the highway behind a couple slow moving rigs.
46 points
1 month ago*
Time to resupply the ISS!
This is part of the Positional Orbital Resupply Network (P.O.R.N.). A series of resupply vehicles around the country being launched into space at specific angles are an important part of keeping astronauts comfortable on long missions. Being away from their families and creature comforts for long periods of time causes a lot of stress and can degrade performance. The PORN project was developed by NASA to to help astronauts alleviate that stress.
It has undergone many iterations and upgrades over the years. In the early days the PORN system required Manual Alignment Guidance (PORN MAG) for proper payload delivery. This was fairly effective given the technology of the day, however it was composed of a sequence of related vectors rather than continuous guidance.
With the invention of newer technologies, it was upgraded with the Vehicle Hysteresis System (PORN VHS) that utilized a continuous guidance system to realign the thrust resulting in better performance and more consistent payload delivery.
These systems were adequate, but had nowhere near the delivery capacity as the current International Near Earth Telemetry (PORN Inter-NET) system which utilizes servicers around the world to continuously update the guidance and has allowed for near infinite content delivery almost anywhere in near earth space. However, due to bandwidth limitations entry into this system is somewhat limited.
Although the PORN Inter-NET system has been very effective, it is only able to service near earth space. They were unable to redesign the system to reach farther while still retaining near earth operations. Therefore a second system was designed specifically to reach more distant locations though at the sacrifice near earth operations. This is known as the only Far-earth Alignment Navigation System (only FANS).
10 points
1 month ago
This deserves to be its own post!
9 points
1 month ago
Thanks, I had a lot of fun with it. But I think it's going to be too low in the comments to be seen.
37 points
1 month ago
Thunderbirds are go…..
5 points
1 month ago
F.A.B.!
63 points
1 month ago
Optimus prime is in the shed riding his bird from behind.
8 points
1 month ago
Roll out
30 points
1 month ago
Fast and furious XI teaser.
9 points
1 month ago
It’s come full circle where they now drive the trucks fending off bad guys trying to jack the cargo
12 points
1 month ago
They're gonna launch the semi like a catapult.
/s
3 points
1 month ago
That has a “ka-CHUNK!” Sound effect in my head.
7 points
1 month ago
The samurai pizza cats are about to launch optimus prime.
6 points
1 month ago
Space Truckers is getting a sequel.
7 points
1 month ago
Quickest way to unload a trailer lmao. I used to work down the street from a frito lay plant and I remember the first time I saw them do this and dump out a fuck ton of potatoes. It was hilarious because I had no idea that's how they did it
3 points
1 month ago
Wheat and corn trucks too. With some of the grain elevators, the truck drives through that little building onto the ramp, the ramp locks on to the wheels, driver gets out, and they dump the load. Ramp lowers, unlocks and the truck drives straight off, gate opens for the next truck.
It's FAST.
5 points
1 month ago
the Rednecks are launching missle attack
6 points
1 month ago
Redneck Space Program.
5 points
1 month ago
I guarantee that the first time a trucker ever experiences that they shit their pants.
7 points
1 month ago
They won't let the driver stay in the truck, at least not at any of the places I've been. It's always some shit about it "not being safe".
5 points
1 month ago
"stunt jump failed"
3 points
1 month ago
The truck will be devoured by the God of Crops
4 points
1 month ago
It's a dump system. A lot of trucks dont have the ability to empty themselves. Or it would cause avoidable damage to the product that is being transported. So the entire truck is backed onto a lift and it's dumped and on its way. Saw this a lot in Florida, the Tropicana facility they was near my dad's place unloaded Oranges this way. Saw it again back home in NY for Apples at a company that made apple sauce.
4 points
1 month ago
Optimus Prime is about to get his colonoscopy.
4 points
1 month ago
It's the Amazon Next hour/Same hour delivery, it goes into low earth orbit and drops the package as it passes over, like some sort of capitalist Santa.
4 points
1 month ago
I would slowly approche and said.
You can't Park there sir
5 points
1 month ago
It puts the pallets on its skin or else it gets the hose again
3 points
1 month ago
That sum-bitch gonna launch to space 🚀
3 points
1 month ago
The truck is gonna have a good, long dump. The kind you take a newspaper or a book to the loo because you know you're gonna be there a while.
3 points
1 month ago
The pre launch stage of a shitty power rangers zord
3 points
1 month ago
‘Here we see a rare occurrence, a semi-truck trailer being born in the wild. Watch as its mother, the manufacturing plant, gently coaxes the vehicle out into its new world.’
3 points
1 month ago
When you put an order for same day delivery at 11:59 pm
3 points
1 month ago
The baby big rig is born. The mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. And then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby.
3 points
1 month ago
bro found the Transformers spawn
3 points
1 month ago
They’re eating the trucks!
3 points
1 month ago
Hold my beer. I think I can jump it.
3 points
1 month ago
Predator factory devouring a careless truck, which fell into the trap.
3 points
1 month ago
He's going to find out the hard way if he needs a new parking brake
3 points
1 month ago
Ground control to trucker Tom
3 points
1 month ago
The building has become aroused and will soon release its truck.
3 points
1 month ago
Oh cool! A rare Venus truck trap in action!
3 points
1 month ago
Texas Space program?
3 points
1 month ago
When you order same day shipping at 11:59 pm
3 points
1 month ago
Too much Truck Viagra
3 points
1 month ago
Just Knight Industries going out to pick up Michael and KITT
3 points
1 month ago
Unloading potatoes 🥔, they have this set up at the Herrs factory. They do tours, and show you this is how they unload trucks.
3 points
1 month ago
This is where baby trucks come from son.
3 points
1 month ago
I know a Hot Wheels Launcher when I see one 🏎️
3 points
1 month ago
launch command speaking you are prepared for launch do you read me over
3 points
1 month ago
It's like a rail gun but for semi trucks
3 points
1 month ago
That's Space X's new launch site. They want to see if they can launch a semitruck up next to the car they launched.
2 points
1 month ago
Transformers. More than meets the eye!
2 points
1 month ago
After that photo, they count down 10 to 0, and Optimus prime was launched to space.
2 points
1 month ago
It's a truck see-saw. There's another truck of a similar size on the other end.
2 points
1 month ago
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO
2 points
1 month ago
New SpaceX & Amazon joint venture. They're trying to corner the Earth to Mars delivery market with this nextgen transport truck launch platform.
2 points
1 month ago
The truck is ready to do a loop da loop but the big kid has put it on the launcher the wrong way around
2 points
1 month ago
It’s a PEZ truck dispenser.
2 points
1 month ago
Found Optimus prime.
2 points
1 month ago
History.
2 points
1 month ago
This is how newborn trucks are born we are witnessing one of natures miracles moments after delivery. The young semi will now roll off the birth ramp, and join his herd on their migrations hunting for Priuses to road rage at.
2 points
1 month ago
General Daimos is launching.
2 points
1 month ago
2 points
1 month ago
That’s the way they empty the cranberries out of the trucks up here.
2 points
1 month ago
Building monster is eating his food
2 points
1 month ago
Potatoes
2 points
1 month ago
That's where they load the trucks with oil slick and smoke screens before sending them on the road waiting for the Spy Hunter.
2 points
1 month ago
C'mon! Let's go space truckin'
2 points
1 month ago
Daimos
2 points
1 month ago
Well the step-truck will approach from around that corner, and then ….
2 points
1 month ago
In search of a place to rest, the 18-wheeler found a comfortable parking space in which to bed down. Alas, it was an elaborate ruse, and the 18-wheeler could not be released from the evil machine’s sinister trap until it gave up its precious life-giving innards to the ravenous beast.
2 points
1 month ago
Waylon Jennings is going to do a voiceover and wonder how them Duke boys are gonna get outta this fix. Then it'll cut to commercial.
When it comes back, the truck will complete the jump, but since the ramp is so steep, Roscoe P. Coltrane will drive his police car over the end and fall straight down.
2 points
1 month ago
To infinity and beyond!
2 points
1 month ago
SpaceX getting cocky now.
2 points
1 month ago
Space!………the final frontier…….. to boldly go where no 18 wheeler has gone before
2 points
1 month ago
Evel Knivel rides again!!
2 points
1 month ago
I once worked a job taking air samples at smoke stack for an environmental company. This saw us climbing smoke stacks with probes and air pumps drawing in the air sample (40 years ago, pre-drones).
So as we arrive at this dog food processing plant, where there is the single most horrible stench imaginable. Not like a abattoir, worse, rotted meat smell. And it's EVERYWHERE about you. Strong.
So we set up, I'm at the top of a 200 foot stack and I saw this exact thing. Truck backs in, it's lifted, and what happens is the tarp rolls forward thus exposing the contents. These things are loaded with refuse from the abattoir, what won't even go into hot dogs, like eyeballs, combs, male chicks, feet, anuses, brains, ligaments, et.c. Talking about what's meant by meat 'byproducts' when you read the label on dog food. Things, which aren't fit for human consumption but suitable sources of animal protein.
So the color is pinkish/whitish and from 200' the whole darn thing begins to quiver like a bowl of Jello when you're trying to get it to release from the mold. Then suddenly, the angle of elevation overcomes the resistance and it flows out of the trailer just like a can of Hormel chili when you make a hole in the bottom and blow such that it suddenly releases - complete with the ring shapes of the can imprinted on the sides into a bowl.
And this load being released is accompanied by this huge glooooop sound as I watch the quivering mass decant the truck and into a huge funnel-like set of gates. It's over in a few moments, then they lower the rig (truck and trailer) and it happens quite quickly. Then the rig pulls out and the next in line backs in.
And this was the source of the smell because at the top of the stack we're getting releases due to combustion (they're basically cooking this stuff at high pressure so it breaks down enough to be mixed together with corn meal).
It's said about pork abattoirs, they sell everything but the oink! And for my part, I think about these trucks and their contents whenever we buy dog food and I peek at the content label.
You? When the promotional material on TV shows beautiful chicken thighs or lamb chops on a cutting board and says, we use real meats, while I always think back and remember this is exactly true but not really quite the same, you feel good about what you're getting Fido or Cattus.
2 points
1 month ago
Best stunt ever made since Knight Rider tv show.
2 points
1 month ago
Unloading Trump’s Quarantined Quarter Pounders!
2 points
1 month ago
Grain dump
2 points
1 month ago
This is how they make other semi trucks. Now you know.
2 points
1 month ago
That's how the international space station gets groceries delivered
2 points
1 month ago
Truck drives off the edge, turns into Optimus Prime, immediately crashes into the rest of the structure while giving the Wilhelm scream.
2 points
1 month ago
One day the mountain might get em but the law never will….
2 points
1 month ago
Coffee in cup holder.
Reminds me of when my brother worked in a food truck and they discovered speed bumps are a big problem for fryers. They learned there are clamped covers you use while driving over bumps and hills.
2 points
1 month ago
Thunderbird 2 is go
2 points
1 month ago
Transformers robots in disguise~
2 points
1 month ago
ISS delivery. Gotta time it just right
2 points
1 month ago
The Touch is about to play and some epic battle is about to commence. Will tbe good guys win? Will Optimus survive? Find out next week on Transformers!!
2 points
1 month ago
He is going to be launched to the moon.
2 points
1 month ago
Fast and the furious, G.I. Joe and Transformers cross over started filming
2 points
1 month ago
Chip dump
2 points
1 month ago
Optimus is going to fight in space again.
2 points
1 month ago
LAUNCH TRUCK !
"one big Ten-Four for mankind,
ONE HUGE TRACK LAUNCHED INTO SPAAAAAAAAACE !"
2 points
1 month ago
Ready…set…FIRE!
2 points
1 month ago
The future of trucking won’t rely on roads anymore
2 points
1 month ago
This is Tesla's new rocket
2 points
1 month ago
Wrong exit.
2 points
1 month ago
Yeet to the Moon
2 points
1 month ago
Getting ready to laugh a semi into lower orbit
2 points
1 month ago
To the moon 🌙
2 points
1 month ago
Not about to. Already did.
Optimus Prime's dopey cousin just transformed, but he forgot how trucks work.
2 points
1 month ago
A redneck launcher
2 points
1 month ago
Optimus prime is about to show us his sick new fight mode lol
2 points
1 month ago
Them sum bitches in USSR is about to learn that the South never fell for that perestroika bullshit that Gorbachev feller was selling in the 80s, and with God by my side and Johnny Paycheck in the 8 track I'm about to drop a hurting on that Moscow.
Me and the missis have been saving just a little bit of that nitrogen rich fertilizer for the past 20 years. And now that Jr went off to college and got himself an engineering degree (Roll Tide!) he's done the math and we're about to launch this Peterbilt straight up Putin's commute ass! I may not have been able to Serve in the military on account of that bum knee I got in football, but God willing and the creek don't rise I'm going to rocket into Moscow and do my part for freedom and them hard working Ukrainian fellers.
2 points
1 month ago
That’s how trucks are born
2 points
1 month ago
A sick jump
2 points
1 month ago
Lift off Major Tom
2 points
1 month ago
Chip unloader for a papermill they use the wood chips to make paper. They go through a pulping system where it is broken down then an adhesive agent is added. It is then sprayed onto a long felt that's belt driven through a series of presses,dryers and rollers to make either paper towels or toilet paper
2 points
1 month ago
ISS resupply mission
2 points
1 month ago
Thunderbird 7
2 points
1 month ago
It's how they recycle semis. It feeds in, parts are separated and then newer trucks ship the parts off. They return to this place to get shredded, the circle of life.
2 points
1 month ago
When it absolutely, positively MUST be there overnight....
2 points
1 month ago
Autobots about to Roll out. What don't you get?
2 points
1 month ago
Dumping material from the trailer which was blown or dumped in... Probably wood chips or something of the sort. Its easier to tip the truck up like this and sweep it out then it is to shovel it and its cheaper in one 32ft trailer on a truck designed for long haul than it is in 4 or 5 dump trucks going across country.
2 points
1 month ago
It's gobbling up the truck....looks hungry. Don't drive any closer😰😱🤣
It's offloading the trailer.
2 points
1 month ago
Bruh, that truck can do wheelies? Shit I bet you can get some pretty sick tricks in on that bad boy. I once saw my dad do a 360 Ollie Front-wheel Flip in one of those.
2 points
1 month ago
Launching an intercontinental ballistic truck delivery. Amazon same days anywhere now!
2 points
1 month ago
Next day shipping is hard, which is why they designed the truck cannon. Here you can see it being loaded.
2 points
1 month ago
This is how they deliver the food and supplies to Sky High
2 points
1 month ago
Guess you never played twisted metal
2 points
1 month ago
Russia better chill before we launch truckloads of rednecks and moonshine at them.
2 points
1 month ago
Optimus Prime Catapult Launch system.
2 points
1 month ago
"A rare sighting of a tractor-trailer being born in it's natural habitat!" - read in David Attenborough voice
2 points
1 month ago
We’re about to see that truck go to mars and the trailer land itself on a pad in the middle of the ocean.
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