Maybe now you will keep it upright and not drive off the road figuring out those pesky gears.
I Flopped my truck over with a load of rocks.
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I'm sure you know this was coming so may as well be from me lol....you need to get into a safer line of work and I think God is telling you it's time to pull a prune barn ....aka reefer.
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As your steer & drivers got pulled off the pavement because the shoulder is sinking(giving way) to the truck weight. By now it's all over but the tears as the load is going over no matter what.
Look at the right side drivers compared to the left ones. The left ones were still on the pavement till the truck got pulled over. There clean.
My take is you dropped the right steer tire off the pavement and the rest is Physics. It should of never happened, driver error. Maybe harsh tidbit but we don't want you to get hurt out there. No judgment here. Like I've never slid off the road in a log truck. I was luck and never rolled.Shackdaddy, Hammer166, rank and 11 others Thank this. -
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It used to take a lot of damage to warrant an insurance total out. Used to be a time when you just roll them back over fix damage and go back to trucking. When my father in law’s uncle and cousin still had their truck and trailer shop across the street behind Stewart Stevenson in San Antonio they used to rebuild stuff a hundred times worse. Then insurance companies went the easy “total out” route and business slowed and changed. They closed down, sold property and retired after 50 years in 2016 because it was getting harder to get insurance to pay out for new or salvage repair parts by then. They just wanted to total it out and have it scrapped. Throwaway stuff nowadays. They rebuilt tons of stuff for H-E-B, Coca-Cola, Coastal and whatever the big truck dealerships had towed in over the years.
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