Seems very/most likely. Gotta watch those mirrors and put every set of tires exactly where you want them.
Loses load a mile from destination
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by AppalachianTrucker, Aug 27, 2014.
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I would bet the ramp was too banked. 70ton load, even on that low of a trailer, has a pretty high CoG compared to the width of the trailer. Even a slight bank like that is kind of scary with that kind of load. Couple that with the fact that the truck is at an angle to the trailer/jeep, which causes further instability, and a slow speed which meant everything had less centrifugal force to hold the load upright, and voila. He might have gotten off the inside a bit too, which obviously wouldn't have helped, but like someone else said you don't get to haul those kinds of loads by being a first-timer with OD. That being said, I did see an overlength load hung up on a guard rail on an off-ramp on US22 in Allentown a few years ago... long enough that he had front and rear escorts. *shrug* So who knows.
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arent those back jeeps steered by the escort ????
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