Rolled my truck

cr england is not that bad,

there are alot worse.

 

Always the mystery vehicle that caused it got away.

Just 3 weeks ago I was sitting in a parking lot at an intersection of two state highways in TX and heard a crash. Looked up and saw a flatbed with his I-beams slid up against his cab shield. I knew right what he did. Hit the brakes when he realised he was going too fast to make his right turn. Chains were too loose on the steel and the load hit the back of his tractor. I walked over to see if there was anything I could do for him. He asked if I saw it. I said no I heard it and looked up. He then made up the mystery car who cut him off and kept going. I don't remember seeing any vehicles around him as I looked up when I heard the crash.
I walked back to my truck and played back my dashcam video and there was no one who cut him off. He just made it up to take blame off himself.

Just sayin. Can't blame us for being skeptical here.

 

Glad you're OK.


But I'm with Dinomite in that your story strikes me as strange. Either the road was snowy/icy (in which case an oncoming truck's wake could conceivably slide a 70,000lb truck a few inches over but even still you'd be going WAY WAY WAY too fast), or the snow wasn't sticking (in which case you probably got nervous drove onto a soft shoulder and either got sucked in or panicked and steered too abruptly towards the roadway).




Having grown up in the Sierra-Cascades, I'm more comfortable in snow than most, but I wouldn't be going 55mph on this road in inclement weather especially with traffic anywhere in sight.

 

Sorry wasn't trying to imply you were untruthful. just no roads like that around here. (im a yankee)

 

so,you still have a job or did they send you down the road?

 

When it snows in Oklahoma its bad,even the slowest drivers have issues.If roads aren't cleared and you don't even know if you're in your lane or if you're too close to the ditch,then its time to find a place and call it a day.You're not making any headway anyways.

 

Chewy352

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The wife just got on the truck with me yesterday and already got thrown out of the bunk. I had to break hard for a deer on a 2 lane highway and yelled deer a second before hitting the brakes. Next think I know the wife is in the cab with me. After checking that she was alright she got the "thats why i told you to use the net back there speech.

Other than thats it's been nice.​

If it's not one thing it's another. Glad your wife wasn't with you on this last trip.