Holiday crash

And they wonder how bridges get stressed. I bet the wheelbarrow guy is feeling bad about now.

I remember one time coming up US-71 in to KC. Four lanes of heavy morning traffic and a guy lost a large blue tarp. I saw it fly up in the air like a sail and I knew it was going to be bad. I backed off in the right lane. It landed perfectly on a guy's grille stretching over the windshield blocking all vision. He was in the 2nd fast lane. He did perfect and held a straight line and didn't panic. He drove a good 300 feet before it blew off and went to the shoulder. Everyone else was scrambling.

 

had to dodge a bbq that fell out of a pickup in front of me--it pretty much bounced over to shoulder so it wasnt bad

 

Well, the minimum he will get will be a ticket for "failure to secure load".

They ought to make him pay for all the accident clean-up.

 

I had to dodge a bike that fell off a rv onto the drivers lane. I dodged to the left passing lane.The truck behind me dodged to the right shoulder. We passed the owner a mile up the roadwalking back to the bike.

 

Poor Wheelbarrow.

 

Ok, so as a truck driver, who's company specializes in furniture transport, I swore I'd never tell this story, but I as tho it fits in here so allow me.
Many years ago my father was helping a friend remodel a house. In the process the friend offered his older, but new, furniture to my dad for his vacation home in Hazleton pa.
So one Sunday morning my dad and I got in a steak body truck, headed over to nj, just outside Cherry Hill Nj, we get there. Load the truck up withnthe following
1. Full length couch
1. Pull out sleeper sofa.
1. Love seat
2. End chairs
Multiable ottamends a ton of cushinons and a ton pillows.
AND on the bottom of all of the furniture we laid a giant blue tarp to protect the furniture from dirt and grease ( truck is used for heat and a/c work )
We had another big blue tarp in the side box incase it rained enroute from Cherry Hill to Hazelton roughly a 120 mile trip. Weather man called for a wintry mix but knew we could make it to hazleton before the wintry mix started.
While on our way we started to hit some strong head winds just north of Landsdale, and shortly after we started to hit some light mist. We decidedbthat we would just keep going cause we would be there in about an hour and according to then radio we should be ok. Well as we were coming up to the lehigh tunnel we decided itbwould be best to pullover and cover the furniture cause the cars going south had snow buildup on them. Meantime my dad and I were knee deep in conversation, prob about a girl, I was in 7th grade, as we got out og the truck and walked to the back, my dad stopped and got the big tarp out the side box and i climbed into the back of the truck, all while still talking about the same girl, I'm standing there, in the back, and my dad is standing at the back, on the ground, just staring...with his jaw on the ground, and I'm asking his what's wrong
" dad! What's the matter? What's wring dad?". Nothing. Just an open jaw with the look of major shock!
"dad! What the heck is wrong wit you? Why are you standing there like that? Give ke the tarp the furniturebis going to get wet!!! "
Welllllll....... What I didn't notice was that The only thing in the back of the truck was one lonely looking pillow....that's all their is in there....1tiny pillow.
This girl I was talking about must have had me really going because I didn't notice a big truck of furniture missing.
After we got ourselves together we went to the next exit and flipped around in search of our missing furniture, and took notice to the traffic heading not, or the lack there of..... A few miles Down we round a curve and notice flashing lights of all kinds. Red lights, blue lights, yellow lights, big fire trucks, small fire trucks, big cop cars, little cop cars, volenteer fire fighters, paramedics, tow trucks, and Penn DOT trucks of all kinds. We stop on the shoulder of the southbound side, and are quickly approached by Pa state police and interacted to pullnoff at the next exit and await for a state trop per to come by. He arrives and informs usnthat an elderly lady in a brand new(1day old) Volvo slammed into the pull out sofa and needed to be taken to the area hospital for treatment. She was also rear ended I. All of this closing the northbound side. Pa police tell us we are not held responsible that it's classified as an incident and nobody isnresponsable. Whilentalking to the cop, a 16 passenger van pulls in owned by Penn DOT along with a small dump truck, and inside these trucks are beat up pieces of furniture, and in the van, filled with cushions. They told us that because we came back we are responsible for the disposal of the furniture.
To this day we don't know how it happend. Cause ten stk body has 4footnsides on alln4 sides the only thing we can come up with is that the tarp we had on the floor of the truck got wind under it and with driving 65-70 mph into very trong head winds blew it up kind of like a balloon and lifted everything up and we drove it fell straight to the ground thus causing the wreck on 476.
Sorry, just felt like this fit here, and this is the first time iv talked about this since I started driving a truck.