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Why you should always check your fifth wheel.

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by boxcarmonument, Dec 14, 2012.

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  1. Dec 14, 2012 #1
    boxcarmonument

    boxcarmonument Light Load Member

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    I was getting onto 295 today off of 64 and had a WTF moment. When I see a trailer sliding down the road in front of me. After the trailer veered into the left lane and almost ran a pickup off the road it veered right and went to the shoulder and stopped. This scared the crap out of me and thankfully no one was killed or injured.

    Sorry the video is so grainy my connection was kind or slow when I uploaded the video. I will reload the vid tomorrow and hope it comes out a little better. Also watch in full screen.

    Here's an updated shorter version with better clarity and no ghosting.

    Full length with the Caddy cutting me off in the end.
    [video=youtube_share;pQCLnKLNKCE]http://youtu.be/pQCLnKLNKCE[/video]
     
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  3. Dec 14, 2012 #2
    flc120

    flc120 Heavy Load Member

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    hoe the crap did it change lanes then followed him to the side of the road? it didnt even look as if there were air hoses still connected. good thing it wasnt loaded or the mess would have been big.
     
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  4. Dec 14, 2012 #3
    flc120

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    another person in a hurry to hook up and book it.
     
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  5. Dec 14, 2012 #4
    boxcarmonument

    boxcarmonument Light Load Member

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    Yeah it went into the left lane and than went to the shoulder on the right side and stopped out of traffic. You couldn't of asked for a screwup to go smoother I guess. I was driving down the road thinking that idiot truck driver is going to run that pickup off the road trying to get arount that bobtail. Than said OH S$%^ there is no truck attached to that trailer
     
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  7. Dec 14, 2012 #5
    DocWatson

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    Wow that trailer followed him over to the shoulder like a good dog. I can't believe how it parked itself almost perfectly in the lines on the shoulder. Unreal. That could have been disasterous.

    Was I seeing things right or did that white Caddy SUV cut you off from the shoulder on the right? What was the purpose of that? Idiots. Even if he was merging it looked like he was 7 feet in front of your front bumper when he cut over but it didn't appear to be a merge.
     
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  8. Dec 14, 2012 #6
    Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    That was cool.

    On another note, upload speed makes no difference to the video quality.
    You could upload at 1 MB/s or 1 k/s, bad quality video is bad quality video. It won't get any better if you re-upload the same file.
     
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  9. Dec 14, 2012 #7
    CaptainKirk

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    That's what you call an emergency braking system working like it should....kudos to mechanical engineers everywhere!
     
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  10. Dec 14, 2012 #8
    boxcarmonument

    boxcarmonument Light Load Member

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    That's what I don't get the video is perfect on my laptop. So I don't know why it uploaded like that.
     
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  11. Dec 14, 2012 #9
    technoroom

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    Wow...truly amazing. Bet it doesn't always go that way.
     
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  12. Dec 14, 2012 #10
    Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    Well, it's not grainy.

    There seem to be reflections and ghosts.
     
    Moosetek13, Dec 14, 2012
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