The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

Actually, it looks more like a Menard's Mess.

 

One of the reasons I'm glad I didn't run with Maverick. They didn't like me asking too many questions.

 

I've been looking at this for a while now, and I have to think this was a bit of a hotdog move. The skid marks of the cab paint on the asphalt road and the fully extended bed, and what looks like previous asphalt going up toward the gate of that driveway make me think this cowboy was trying to do a quick dump and run with the bed already up...and the momentum threw the front of the dump over to the right and then the cab came down onto it's roof and was still skidding. Impatience is my vote. I could be wrong, but it looks that way to me and those little lorry front cabs don't have the kind of weight that it would take to resist that back dump taking it to it's side and pole vaulting the dump onto it's head, and then gravity pulling that cab downward.

 

Not a Hall of Shame, but curious if anyone has hauled these? Those cradles are mighty shallow, it just looks a little lacking in lateral restraint, and wondered if any of y'all had experience with them to fill us in.

 

Yes, and perhaps I was lucky in having a longer wheelbase than that bloke so that the bed touched the ground before the rest crossed the centre of gravity, also that I was stationary, maybe he, as has been said, let in the clutch to go thinking to spread rather than dump the load.

 

Easy, I see the Constructicons do it all the time.....(some will get this reference)

 

What you talkin bout….I got 9 straps on there. Thats hunnerd percent on the load.

 

How fast was he going to crumple the boom that much?

 

This is off topic but, who is your phone provider? I haven't seen 3G in ages. 4G is snails pace couldn't imagine only getting 3G these days....