Heavy haul oops...

The guy in the second truck bailed out, I wonder what was on his mind?

 

(newbie question) moving too fast?

 

Insufficient braking power, (traction), they had a truck tethered to rear for braking purposes, this was the guy that bailed out.

 

Repostilicious

 

I'm wondering if all the axles underneath had equally distributed brakes throughout? If not, there is no way those two trucks could hold that weight in check down that steep dirt road. That's gonna cost somebody some money.

 

Really don't believe there was anything they could do to stop it anyway.

 

this is probably a dumb rookie question--apparently i am driving my CDL school instructors to drink with my "endless questions"--would you mind helping me visualize what you mean by "equally distributed brakes"?

is it as simple as the crane weight was not evenly distributed across all those lowboy axles? so some were taking all the weight and others were not even involved? should they have disassembled the crane where they could have then spread out the total crane weight better across the lowboy platform?

 

I guess what I should have said was I was wondering if the "trailer" axles had brakes daisy-chained from front to back or are they simply axles with no braking means, air, hydraulic, or otherwise. Those mammoet units are generally designed to move heavy items short distance across level ground, so maybe they weren't equipped with brakes? But I find that hard to believe. It takes a lot of work to bring 5,000 tons from 3 MPH to a stop in a reasonable amount of time.