I-64WB At I-295 Interchange -Sandston,VA

As often as these types of crashes occur, one would think that the companies that utilize trailers with a rising bed would take more interest in training their drivers to actually make use of the tractor's mirror or equip their tractors with devices that alert the driver when the bed is raised.

Better still would be a system that inhibits speeds greater than 5 mph while the bed is raised.

This isn't some localized issue as these types of crashes occur nationwide and even overseas.

 

Is that a Payne trailer

 

I hope

 

Lucky it was empty.

 

I just don't get it. I can feel it and hear it when there's a tiny change in anything on my truck or trailer. I just can't see a dump trailer/dump truck raising up without knowing it. And if I was around a truck on the highway with this happening I'd get in front of him and slow him down one way or the other, and I mean quick.

 

Totally agree with your post, but…. It’s a crying shame a micro switch has to be put on a dump bed because the driver is lazy, or just plain dumb and needs a job shoveling asphalt instead of driving a truck….