pickup truck with unsecured load

No sh#!, driver!!!

We had a woman killed by a bounding truck tire here on I-5 in Dago... the tire crossed the median barrier and CRASHED through the woman's windshield. END OF STORY. Poor gal probably never knew what hit her, except at the very last moment, 10?

Ain't no joke with this tire-rolling-and-bounding business... if your elderly mom were dealin' with it, I guess you'd be a little angry, yeah???

All I know is what I tell my friends and relatives: "IF YA SEE A TIRE OR WHEEL BOUNDING TOWARD YA, DUCK YOUR HEAD UNDER THE DASH OR OVER BEHIND THE UPRIGHT STRUT TO LEFT OR RIGHT... LET THE TIRE OR WHEEL SLAM INTO THE VEHICLE AND THEN CALL THE INSURANCE COMPANY." No piece-of-junk vehicle is worth your life... I don't care if it's a STINKING LAMBORGHINI DIABLO, it's STILL a piece of JUNK compared to your life and the lives of loved ones, 10?

That's my $.02, for what it's worth. "ADIOS!!!"

"THE RAILSPLITTER"

 

All too often I see a pick up with a load of anything and nothing holding it down. Does the law ever go after them? I bet not.
I know every driver has seen the things alone the road that flew out of the back of a pick up. One day my wife is driving and I'm in the jump seat. We are passing a guy with a sofa in the back of his truck. Just as we get along side that sofa goes airborne. I look down at him and looks up at me and I point to the back of his truck. You should have seen the look on his face. Yes he slammed on the brakes.

 

I think this is one of the most maddening things that I see with current law enforcement. And I see a LOT of it. Cops talking on their #### cell phones instead of "taking care of business." Yeah, I know it may be a call connected with their jobs, but come on. Constantly?

 

Yeah, they do. At least in some areas. That is, if they aren't too busy talking on their cell phones. . .

 

had a cop pull me over one time because I have some 10 ft. boards in my 8 ft bed.

he wrote me a ticket because I didn't have a red flag on the back.

Now I know that the law says that you only need a flag if it sticks over two feet and since I had the tailgate down it was even with the back of the tailgate and therefore was more than legal, BTW it WAS tied down.

a day out of my life taking it to court, I did get a bit of satisfaction when the judge ripped the cop a new azzhole for writing such a chickenzit ticket and taking up the courts time, the judges words not mine.

BTW this was a Ohio super trooper not some village idiot

 

should have called 911 and reported it.

 

Thanks what 911 is for. I'm sure the mattresses could have lead to a large problem.

I saw a wood 4x4 on a bridge over the Columbia river and did not call it in. Sadly there was a minor fender bender due to it laying in the road on the zipper. I felt very bad for not calling it in. Hind sight..