I Flopped my truck over with a load of rocks.

Maybe now you will keep it upright and not drive off the road figuring out those pesky gears.

 

I'm sure you know this was coming so may as well be from me lol....you need to get into a safer line of work and I think God is telling you it's time to pull a prune barn ....aka reefer.

 

They call that a 2 lane road? How far out into the sticks is that anyway?

 

Probably a lot in the current market honestly.

 

Its definatly going thru my mind. I am young and dumb and have made expensive mistakes all my life , what can i say

 

You may get used to that real quick. I did when I drove this, ahem, white Volvo lol

 

Ya its a 2 lane road up to the quarry, we call out mile markers onthe cb so we dont run into eachother.. The wreck happened about 6 miles up the road from the highway. And the quarry is about 8 miles from the highway. Im glad my cb still worked even upside down 2 miles away. Those boys came down to rescue me in under 3 minutes .

 

I'll give it my best guess. First look at the shoulder. Its dry soft dirt and your tracks are equal and divergent off the pavement. In other words your right steer tire started the chain of events.

As your steer & drivers got pulled off the pavement because the shoulder is sinking(giving way) to the truck weight. By now it's all over but the tears as the load is going over no matter what.

Look at the right side drivers compared to the left ones. The left ones were still on the pavement till the truck got pulled over. There clean.

My take is you dropped the right steer tire off the pavement and the rest is Physics. It should of never happened, driver error. Maybe harsh tidbit but we don't want you to get hurt out there. No judgment here. Like I've never slid off the road in a log truck. I was luck and never rolled.

 

You may be on to something , but it is not paved road it is all dirt. I was in the middle of the road the entire time as can see by the tire tracks up by the pickup. and my trailer started tugging at me which is the tracks u can see in the ditch by where the road is washed out from all the rain over the weekend. so i yanked to the left as it was pulling me towards the ditch . I rode the ditch for a couple seconds with the truck before it yanked me over, which would explain the right tires being dirty and the left not dirty. The truck was in the middle of the road until it pulled me over by the tree. Im not saying it wasnt my fault but i never touched the ditch with the truck, it was my trailer that gone down there first . How it got down there i dont know. I might of taken that turn a little to fast and made my trailer slide towards the side of the road. By the point i felt it tugging, i did all i could to keep it on the road but it kept pulling me towards the ditch and eventually over.

 

It used to take a lot of damage to warrant an insurance total out. Used to be a time when you just roll them back over fix damage and go back to trucking. When my father in law’s uncle and cousin still had their truck and trailer shop across the street behind Stewart Stevenson in San Antonio they used to rebuild stuff a hundred times worse. Then insurance companies went the easy “total out” route and business slowed and changed. They closed down, sold property and retired after 50 years in 2016 because it was getting harder to get insurance to pay out for new or salvage repair parts by then. They just wanted to total it out and have it scrapped. Throwaway stuff nowadays. They rebuilt tons of stuff for H-E-B, Coca-Cola, Coastal and whatever the big truck dealerships had towed in over the years.