$1900 Tow Bill

Yup. Happens often enough. The difference is a decent driver doesn't keep on the gas and go farther into the soup.

 

Regarding employees getting "profit" as wages, that ain't the way it works. Employees are expenses just like equipment, profit is what's left AFTER expenses.

Regarding the mess shown here, is it possible the driver dumped the air on the forward axle by mistake? The guy screwed the pooch no doubt, is it the worst thing no, nobody hurt. In the grand scheme, the damage is minimal. Tearing up 4 tires would have been that costly at least.

While the guy may not be the driver of the year, this is one of those things you had to be there.
Long ago I was taxing an airplane on a parking ramp near a river bank. There was no sign of any problem with the surface, I am rolling along at about a fast walk. The right wing drops the right prop makes a horrible noise and, I can't even comprehend what happened. The blacktop was actually oiled gravel that has been on the sandy river bank for decades. The river bed was generally dry, an El Nino rain caused the sink hole my landing gear fell into. the deductible on that was 10 grand, the airport claimed an act of nature and I got stuck. I would never expect an event like that, it was a sunny dry day.

There is no telling what the corner looked like when that trailer tried that turn, I still think he may have dumped the wrong axle?

Steve

 

That mirror looks like it’s really ####ed.
Most these trucks once you start a turn you can only see the tandems out of the convex mirror or the hood mirror.

 

Eh you’re just arguing to argue.

 

All depends. We didnt always charge the max. We would take into consideration a owner op, or cash/self pay. Or really simple and eazy. Now because insurance companies like to play games they got the full amount everytime. They pay about as good as bad brokers!

 

Best thing he could have done is laid into and see if he could pull it out. Stop and your done.

 

Or he wasn’t sure it wasn’t going to get worse and stopped. That’s what I’d have probably done.

 

I doubt gassing on it would have help that situation

 

I highly doubt he was going far gassing on it or not. But once in that situation it is the best chance. So to say a decent driver wouldn't keep gassing on it is wrong.

 

When things go south I usually stop.