Does it get any worse?

Had one of my hot shot pick ups hit a trailer that had jack knifed across his lane.
He did not even have time to react.
Luckily only a sore leg but pick up is a write off.

 

That's why you should use extreme caution if the tail lights in front of you suddenly disappear.

 

Slowing down the video you can see the truck did have his hazard lights on, but from the side there it was hard to see them. If conditions were bad enough to spin a truck under a load out, than clearly that 4-wheeler was driving too fast for conditions.

 

The truck going the other way flashed their brights, I would have suspected something. Once, going across 80 in Iowa , snow blowing sideways, kind of night. I wasn't going very fast, maybe 25 or 30, and out of the darkness(whiteness?), I see the bottom of a trailer. A CF doubles lost it, rolled the unit, the back trailer was half across the driving lane , the front trailer, was across the passing lane, and the single axle cabover Freightliner pivoted on the truck axle and the cab was pointing straight in the air. The only way past was on my shoulder. That was a close one!

 

might also look for big rigs flashing their light at you, if he was paying attention he might have seen that and figured something was up.

 

love those russian videos

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4341284]The truck going the other way flashed their brights, I would have suspected something. Once, going across 80 in Iowa , snow blowing sideways, kind of night. I wasn't going very fast, maybe 25 or 30, and out of the darkness(whiteness?), I see the bottom of a trailer. A CF doubles lost it, rolled the unit, the back trailer was half across the driving lane , the front trailer, was across the passing lane, and the single axle cabover Freightliner pivoted on the truck axle and the cab was pointing straight in the air. The only way past was on my shoulder. That was a close one![/QUOTE]

CF doubles? You're dating yourself, Semi.

 

Hi Joetro, yeah, I've got a bunch of stories like that. I worked with a guy that had driven for CF in the 70's, driving a cabover Freightliner, pulling doubles. It had a 290 Cummins, a straight 7 speed (no range selector). The only 2 gauges, besides the 2 "pimps" ( tachograph & speedograph) was an air pressure gauge and a water temp. He said in a stiff headwind, he never would get it into the last gear (7th) and would limp along at 47 mph in 6th. So that's why us old timers could even blow the doors off of CF trucks, no matter what we were driving.

 

Motorists easily become accustomed to out-driving their headlights... if they ever in their lives didn't do it. Usually, nothing happens.