I had a bad day!

I just saw this. I am so glad you made it out with nothing hurt but maybe your pride! Man that was a humdinger! Someday I should post pics of the one my hubby did!

The KW you are looking at appears to be one SWEET ride! And I LOVE the color! Good luck getting it, and ROLL SAFE!

 

I would, but first I have to find them!

But I will tell you what he did! He was on I-5 in a VERY BAD SoCal windstorm, down near where 5 meets 58 in Buttonwillow... running bob-tail.. in a CAB OVER! (NOT a good idea!) As he started to cross the 58 on the over pass, the wind caught the back of the cab, and blew him all the way across both lanes of traffic! He hit the median. And when he did the latches that hold the cab down BROKE! BOTH OF THEM! The cab flipped. He was looking at the fronttires coming right at him, and he was hanging UPSIDE DOWN in the cab! The truck spun, and he was going backwards down the southbound lanes of I-5!

When everything stopped, he was sitting on the side of the median, facing north, northwest, hanging upside down. The windshield was about 6 inches high, and the roof had been crushed around the drivers seat, and INTO the passenger seat! The transmission and driveline were laying about 100 yards away in the middle of the outside southbound lanes of I-5. Pieces of the truck were later found in the westbound lanes of SR-58.

The truth is, that incedent SHOULD have killed him. But he got real lucky that day. He was beaten and bruised and missing a patch of his beard for awhile, but he WALKED AWAY! He looked like he had been beaten with an UGLY stick! And one HUGE bruise where his seat belt had been! And less than 3 days later, the idiot got right back in another cab over truck, and left to retrieve the load he had gone after that day!

And as soon as I find where I put those pics I will show them to everyone! The tow driver took alot of them; he couldn't believe the driver was alive, much less walking and talking!

Remember SEATBELTS SAVE LIVES!! If it hadn't been for his that day, I would not have him now!

 

Yes, and no! Do you know how freakin scary it is to get a call, and what you hear on your end is "Hun, I totaled the truck; I'm where we had lunch..." and then the line goes dead? Because of that day, I am PARANIOD about windstorms in that area! It took me and Bob 5 hours to find him, because dispatch was being a jack***!

And to have him get back in a truck just like the one he wrecked, working with the same dispatcher.. it makes a wife worry.

BUT, this happened in his "idiot" days. In that first year of trucking when you actually BELIEVE that dispatch is calling the shots, and you HAVE to do what you are told. He's much better now about using common sense.