How hard is it to roll a trailer?

What Patty said...perfect! We have one in Houston. However ours is a progressively tightening curve and its elevated and not banked. ( Thank you Mr. Engineer ) Been many a truck take it posted and figure out he's too hot too late.......

Safety tells us 15 less than posted.......but then put us on commission so we'll hustle. Go figure.... ( had to get that in there )

JMO

 

Add that to your bucket list.

 

You can't deliver the load if your tiz up in the ditch. I belong to the "Tip the Tub Club". Yes you can flop a trailer when you are parked. We have an old say'n. There's 2 kinds of tub drivers. Ones that have and ones that are going to. That's why safety is of the up most importance. Never raise a bed if you don't have clearance to the sides and the top.

 

Top heavy trailer and esp. container can flip over doing the speed limit on a tight ramp. load shift, negative grade, loss of traction are often contributing factors. need to brake before the curve not when you are in it. some exits are worse because the sign is posted too late. I prefer to take a look at the ramp on my GPS like a mile ahead of time. Often driver would be too tired and snooze when its time to react.

 

They are pretty easy to roll if the driver is an idiot. Slow down!!! A last min hard brake BEFORE you turn is better then trying to go faster then you should through it. Some loads are worse then others. Anything loaded high will be worse. Most roll overs are do to a driver about to miss their exit and they take it last min and don't slow enough.

 

My bucket list is full of fun things, none of which is rolling a truck over...lol

 

Probably not as hard as it looks.

You can certainly feel the trailer start tugging against the truck if you're too hot in a turn.

Not a good feeling..

I would suspect most people who roll them are dog ### tired and drop their guard
going around a exit or entrance ramp

 

No such thing as a "bad ramp".. just bad drivers

 

Came close to doing that. Dropped my loaded trailer and only empty tandems was on a pile of Snow and when I hooked to it and started to pull out it started to lean over onto the trailer next to it. I had to drop it and The yard Dog tried and still he was not able to. I had to bobtail out and come back in the Morning to get an Empty.