Macon accident, truck loses paper rolls

Only it it is turned inward!!

 

Wonder how much a setup like that costs? Looked like a good quality video. Better than some of the footage on wildest poilce.

 

Looked like a morgan trailer. Wonder if that was a live load or drop trailer. Maybe straps and friction mats would help. I've hauled large paper rolls before and they would put 3 rolls near the front and 3 over the tandems.

 

Looked like they were stacked and not so well! Might have had one not centered on the bottom one and that's all it took was that last little turn of the wheel. You could see the roll fall and hit the wall before it went through! He's better feel really lucky thats all that got taken out was the fire hydrant as those rolls could have killed someone!
You know the more I watch it and start and stop it I swear it "hit" and then it came through the wall pretty high! I wonder how they had it freaking loaded? I know after hauling a lot of paper they might have had a space between the front 5 and the 5 back ones and one in the back was tipping or something but he did apply the brakes just at the intersection and start of the curve but it is a really light right curve nothing that I would have thought would have made anything tip over that hard! But you see it hit bottom the way the trailer jerks.
I'm glad I never felt that kind of a jerk in the trailer!

 

I seriously wonder if that trailer was rated for paper. Paper trailers are beefed up, sides and bottom. Load them side down and stack away.

 

I've used standard vans for paper on MANY loads... we carried lots of these loads at Total. They stack those bundles 2-3 high in places, load it 'til if falls out, scale you, take some off... always right at 80k...

 

I used to haul a lot of bigger rolls in a box. That are not secured like coils, but can be just as big and dangerous as coils. A lot of times they just roll them in suicide and nail 2x4's down in front and behind them. I have never seen them loaded shotgun.

 

Nice catch!!,........................

 

we haul allot of the big Rolls of paper 6000lbs +/- each, they are almost as tall as the trailer, and more then half as wide (can only fit 7 in a 53' Trailer and gross 79,500lbs (im only 32,000MT), with regular dry vans......Never heard of a Paper Trailer





American Trucker

 

Just because you never have heard of it doesnt mean your trailer is rated for it either.

I got my info from these people. http://www.mainetrailer.com/

Go ahead and haul paper if you want. If your trailer isnt rated and the above accident happens? Whom do you think the company will blame? The DM? Guess again.

Ignorance is bliss isnt it?