The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

What's This Foolishness I can't even right now.

 

I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to oversize stuff but I can’t imagine they’d route him this way.

 

Unless that’s where he had to deliver. Idk. Wv will give you a pretty ####ty route sometimes.

I went to get an excavator once. The guy told me I had to go to the end of the road and turn around at the church parking lot. then come back and we’d load in the road. I made it about an 1/8 of a mile and came to a hairpin curve. Rockface on the right shoulder and drop off on the left with a guardrail. With a 3 axle trailer and a sleeper truck I couldn’t get through.

Had to walk back and get the hoe. Pick the back end of the trailer up and walk it over.

I hate West Virginia

 

And judging by the coal bucket laid over he’s probably going to a mine

 

My ignorance of oversize had me incorrectly assuming that all parties involved would have their act together. In my mind I thought when you send in all the measurements to get a permit that someone would realize it’s not going to fit.

Next question, what is the solution when a long truck and a stretched trailer isn’t the right tool for the job?

 

Yeah 90% of the time nobody has their #### together. Especially if it came off the broker board. Things get left out when you have multiple people involved.

The guys at the job site have no clue how you will get in there. They just know they get in with a pickup or a daycab with a 38’ bucket comes in all day long. The state routing people don’t know Jack #### about truck. Just that the computer give a red line or green line.

Honestly I don’t know this exact situation or job site. Probably what should have been done was trans load at the bottom of the hill on a short trailer with a lot of overhang. Or should have loaded it on a trailer with steerable rear axles. ( those are rare and expensive) which is probably why they didn’t.

 

That gave me a good chuckle.

No, NO ONE communicates, very few people are competent even in a narrow domain.
Talk to the midwest truckers that refuse to do east coast, or city drivers that cant cope with nebraska, seasoned rocky mountain drivers that smoke their brakes in wv and pa, and vice versa.

And lest anyone think im talking about "kids these days", no, its ALWAYS been this way.

 

A couple posts down he has an "after action video". He was coming out of Jersey headed west, but Ohio wouldn't give him a permit to travel through because he was 15'1".

He also said that he called other OSOW carriers posing as a shipper to figure out if he could haul this with his equipment and what rate he should charge. So in short, he doesn't really know what he's doing, he's agreeing to haul loads that his equipment can't/shouldn't handle, and is under cutting competent carriers.

 

Lol! Well…. That changes things completely.

 

I may be wrong but at 15’1” he shouldn’t have had an issue in Ohio, over 15’6” they generally won’t issue a permit to pass through the state.

There’s two solutions to his situation that I see. Depending on how close he was to delivery, once the tow truck was on scene they could have followed him up the hill and drug the back end around the tight corners.

Or they could have picked the load and shorted the trailer up to make it easier to get around.