VIDEO: Sewage Truck Explodes in Traffic

A sewage truck explodes in traffic, making sure everybody has the worst day possible.

Shitty things happen and there’s nothing we can do about it.

We have to embrace them and try to laugh, even if it’s at our own expense sometimes.

icreative.am asks: Have you ever had one of those days where literally nothing seems to go right?

I know I have, and they are absolutely miserable.

You’re always thinking about what the next thing to go wrong is.

The world just keeps piling on until you literally can’t take anymore and you snap.

Well I have to imagine that this is what was happening to the drivers around this sewage truck in this video.

This guy’s dash cam caught something extremely gross at a traffic stop.

I would be heading straight to the car wash after this!

According to Wikipedia, a vacuum truck or vacuum tanker is a type of tank truck that has a pump and a tank, designed to pneumatically suck liquids, sludges (such as fecal sludge), slurries or sand/water mixtures without the contact of any mechanical equipment.

They are used to transport sanitary waste (human excreta mixed with water, e.g. from septic tanks) as well as for some industrial liquids or slurries. They can be equipped with a high pressure pump if they are used to clean out sewers from sand.

Vacuum trucks are used to transport the collected material to a treatment or disposal site, for example a sewage treatment plant.

Several types of non centralized sanitation systems are served by vacuum trucks. They are used to empty septage from cesspits, septic tanks, pit latrines and communal latrines, for street cleanup, for sewer clean out, and for individual septic systems.

The trucks are used in the cleaning of sanitary sewer pumping stations. Vacuum trucks are used to empty portable toilets. In commercial aviation, vacuum trucks are used to collect waste from airplane toilets.

Vacuum trucks discharge these wastes to the sewer network, to a wastewater treatment plant, or—usually illegally, for example in many developing countries—into the environment. The latter practice, called “institutionalised open defecation”, is dangerous since it constitutes a public health and environmental hazard.

Vacuum trucks are used in the petroleum industry, for cleaning of storage tanks and spills.

They are also an important part of drilling oil and natural gas wells, as they are located at the drilling site. Vacuum trucks are used to remove drilling mud, drilling cuttings, cement, spills, and for removal of brine water from production tanks. They dispose of this in sump pits, treatment plants or if within safe levels may be spread out in a farmer’s field.

Vacuum trucks are also used for exposing underground utilities. The ground is jetted with water, and the vacuum truck sucks up the muddy product. This exposes the buried utility without the possibility of damage, as would be possible if a digging machine were used (i.e. tractor backhoe, tracked or wheeled excavator, ditch witches).

Vacuum trucks can also be used for cleanup of contaminated soil.