Semi overturns in Milwaukee

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  1. 201

    201 Road Train Member

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  3. Big Don

    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    OOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! At least the (likely to be unemployed) driver was not seriously injured.
     
  4. 201

    201 Road Train Member

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    Hi BD, that's a brand new ramp, just finished. CTS is an outfit out of Green Bay and hauls paper products. They had to call out the HazMat team for spilled diesel fuel. You know THAT ain't gonna be cheap.
     
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    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    Must have been running a bit "hot" to lay it over like that. Wonder if his load shifted on that long curve.
     
  6. moraramis

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    I truly feel for that driver. He must be feeling like utter crap. I wonder if a carrier will even hire him after this.
     
  7. 25(2)+2

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    Having no idea whether he was hauling rolls,which would be low and relatively stable, or other products with a high center of gravity, or scrap, which could also be a high center of gravity load, it is hard to say how he will fare.

    Guys will have to go another way to get to places along 241, but there are plenty of ways to not use that ramp.
     
    "semi" retired Thanks this.
  8. Mev

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    Unfortunately> Your only as good as your last run in this business

    Sucks , but its true
     
  9. Marksteven

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    I would be shocked if the driver is fired. CTS is the Bottom of the Bottom of the Barrel for sure
     
  10. 201

    201 Road Train Member

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    Hi moraramis, I feel bad for them too, but again, they drive these things like sports cars. The load could have shifted, but I've hauled a lot of loads, many top heavy, and easy usually does it, and I've never rolled a semi. Just today, I went on a small trip in my pickup, and the way these trucks are being driven, I don't know, tailgating, constant lane changing, and the dreaded semi roadblock, just seems so different today.
     
  11. 201

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    Hi Marksteven, see, that surprises me. I used to work in Green Bay, and CTS was a really good company. I used to haul a lot of paper, and I'd go to the same places those guys did, and they were a great bunch, of course, that was 20 years ago.
     
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