Fruit-filled semitrailer buckles on I-15

Someone pulled his tandem pins. Or his fifth wheel didn't lock when he moved it?

OR the acid from the oranges and lemons combined into a super acid and melted the frame.

 

Metal fatigue. A lot of paper mills refuse trailers over 10 yrs old because of trailers falling thru or breaking in half like that one did. You can bet that a load of fruit is as heavy as roll stock paper.

Had to look close at it, was the same color truck and plain jane trailer as my company, but we have 3/4 length side aero skirts on our tractors. Whew. Seems to be a lot of incidents out of the St. George vicinity this year.

 

Im dock for the night parked next to a trailer just like that but had tires on it, I strategically parked next to it in the corner to make it my closed bathroom door.

 

Fruit filled? Was it on its way to a gay bar?

 

Was it rooty tooty and full of fresh fruity?

 

I think 53 footers are too long, also a contributing factor in most high wind blow overs, but the extra capacity is worth the risk.

 

Good thing it didn't roll over, woulda been a fruit roll-up

 

He must have stoped at the Pilot there in town and tweaked his trailer on their messed up entrance.