Wind, speed, quick direction change, improperly loaded pot, I'll buy one or a combination of the previous excuses, but not cattle getting loose in the top deck. Getting loose from what?

Something don't sound right. He deliberately laid her down? Sounds more like he dozed off and over corrected in a panic. Three people run out of gas waiting for it to clear up? If my gauge is on E and I know I have just enough to get to a gas station, I'm shutting it down. Got to have that AC. Well they ended up with no AC and no ride. Dang it's hot out here!


Most of us forget accidents over time, but I have one burned in my memory from when I was a kid. We were going on vacation to Florida on I-95 and come up on a cattle truck wreck. Some how the back gate come open and they were jumping out the back and some onto cars. I just remember chaos everywhere as we slowly went through it. There was a little river of blood running down the road. I looked the other way and someone was holding a white towel to the back of some mans head and it was soaked in blood. Cattle were everywhere, some dead, some injured. I'm thinking it was around Baltimore somewhere because I remember getting excited as a kid going through the McHenry tunnels. I think that was my first interest with big trucks was on that trip.

I don't know about this... I know horses have stalls but cattle?... they roam free within the confines of the cattle car. I haul liquids in a smooth-bore tanker, if I 'purposely laid it over' because it became 'unstable' my license would justifiably take a hike along with my HazMat endorsements and driving career.