Loses load a mile from destination

Seems very/most likely. Gotta watch those mirrors and put every set of tires exactly where you want them.

 

I dont think that driver could had gotten that far in his career and on that load to make such a foolish mistake, the statement presented here makes it look like the driver was pulling a dump trailer, pneumatic, or a tank.

 

I would bet the ramp was too banked. 70ton load, even on that low of a trailer, has a pretty high CoG compared to the width of the trailer. Even a slight bank like that is kind of scary with that kind of load. Couple that with the fact that the truck is at an angle to the trailer/jeep, which causes further instability, and a slow speed which meant everything had less centrifugal force to hold the load upright, and voila. He might have gotten off the inside a bit too, which obviously wouldn't have helped, but like someone else said you don't get to haul those kinds of loads by being a first-timer with OD. That being said, I did see an overlength load hung up on a guard rail on an off-ramp on US22 in Allentown a few years ago... long enough that he had front and rear escorts. *shrug* So who knows.

 

Check with your Safety Department on that. The 5th stage of competence is complacency.

 

arent those back jeeps steered by the escort ????