Heartland Express now making beach deliveries

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by SteveScott, Jul 2, 2018.

  1. Demonrogue

    Demonrogue Light Load Member

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    It should of been a bigger wrecker to pull that tractor trailer out
     
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  3. Atlanta trucker

    Atlanta trucker Road Train Member

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    Maybe he just wanted a beach day
     
  4. BlackThought

    BlackThought Medium Load Member

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    You guys are fools....he was delivering the same place he was taking his 34!

    I wish I had it figured out like him.
     
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  5. TravR1

    TravR1 Road Train Member

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    I got to witness something similar to that. Lol
     
  6. brian991219

    brian991219 Road Train Member

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    That wrecker is plenty big enough, but the wrecker operator has about as much common sense as the Heartland driver.

    #1 rule in recovery, hook to what is stuck!!!
    #2 rule, when in sand or soft ground don't have the driver spin their wheels, it just makes it worse.

    Wrecker operator should have been off-center to the passenger side of the trailer, attached to either the holes in the nose of the trailer at the 5th wheel plate or the tractor frame/axle. The trailer nose would have been better, he would have lifted it up and off the drives as he winched it back.

    The way he is hooked just stresses his truck, winch line, rigging and the trailer floor.
     
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