Cheese Truck Breaks in Half

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by ironpony, Feb 25, 2015.

  1. ironpony

    ironpony Road Train Member

    17,502
    12,015
    Sep 23, 2007
    Ask my GPS...
    0
  2. Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.

  3. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

    14,962
    29,144
    Oct 3, 2011
    Longview, TX
    0
    That's something you just don't see very often ... later model fleet reefer trailer ... tandems far forward ... and that type of structural failure? Would be interesting to see how that was loaded. Nothing about that makes any sense but I guess some sort of crash contributed to the failure? or was the failure the crash?

    Possible some previous driver hit a dock REAL HARD, and it suffered some internal issues in the walls that took a while to get stressed to the point of collapse?
     
  4. ironpony

    ironpony Road Train Member

    17,502
    12,015
    Sep 23, 2007
    Ask my GPS...
    0
    I believe from the story, the guy ended up in the median, and the trailer failed. Wonder how much cheese they really did pile in there?
     
    HeWhoMustNotBeNamed Thanks this.
  5. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

    12,048
    60,659
    Dec 9, 2011
    South west Missouri
    0
    I gouda avoided that if it were me. Looked like a Sharp bend in the trailer too. Can't trust these Utah companies, they hire a lot of Swiss.

    Many motorists who stopped to gather the spilled product were held back by police, who were shouting "That's nacho cheese!"

    That's all I got!
     
    Mr Ed, magoo68, albert l and 18 others Thank this.
  6. SHOJim

    SHOJim Road Train Member

    3,399
    17,201
    Apr 19, 2011
    Columbus, Ohio
    0
    The cheesiest company strikes again.....
     
  7. SHOJim

    SHOJim Road Train Member

    3,399
    17,201
    Apr 19, 2011
    Columbus, Ohio
    0
    Wow that was a muenster of a mess....
     
  8. HeWhoMustNotBeNamed

    HeWhoMustNotBeNamed Crusty Pogosticker!!

    3,454
    19,722
    Jan 25, 2012
    Cartoon Network
    0
    yep, that looked like a [​IMG] - ident ...... hey, don't blame me ! I didn't start the corny jokes .... for a change ... ( bad axe - ident ) ( in case the pic is too small to see well )
     
  9. KW Cajun

    KW Cajun Road Train Member

    2,383
    3,652
    Apr 12, 2013
    Copperhead Road
    0
    People used to think I was nuts when I always said "NEVER over-torque the screws on your side marker light!".

    See what happens!! I'm vindicated!!
     
    tsavory, ironpony, Shaggy and 4 others Thank this.
  10. Shaggy

    Shaggy Road Train Member

    3,116
    2,599
    Sep 21, 2006
    FIGMO
    0
    Mechanics can do that?! Pfft imma company driver!
     
  11. OldHasBeen

    OldHasBeen Road Train Member

    1,269
    923
    Dec 16, 2010
    0
    A lot we don't know about it yet in a way it looks as if he might had piled it up high in the front and with 40,000 pounds of cheese loaded that way it broke the trailer.

    Perhaps if that was what he did, if he had spread the load out the trailer might have not broken.
     
  • Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.