Legal definition of a sharp turn vs jackknife

What in the hell were you doing on a goat trail in a road truck? That's what the phone call sounded like on the other end.....Ask me how I know.

 

Looking for goats what else lol

 

A jack-knife is a jack-knife regardless how it occured or causation. Either way, inattentiveness put you in a jack-knife position causing damage to truck, trailer or both. You referred to it as a jack-knife yourself, yet are confused when they report it with same term.....?

 

I'd much rather be navigating goat trails in a big truck than cruising down the interstate in ANY vehicle...the smaller the road, the happier I am to drive on it. No road? No problem...I've got a Mack, and it'll run just fine where there ain't roads, too.

 

I have dipped a wheel into 2 feet of mud off road delivery flatbedding into construction during the rain at times. They love their shingles in that kind of weather.

But when I return to the yard with certain damage or cosmetic problems from tramping off road with a big truck, Ive some splaining to do sometimes.

One Brickyard shipper near York PA is literally 3 miles through the woods, across the fields and meadow walking with the deer as the crow flies. In good weather it's awesome. But in rain? boo hoo...

Certain OTR trucks should NEVER take off road, I cannot think of any at the moment, but generally the plushier they are the worst they will be off road.

 

Aerodynamic plastic skirting has no place off road. There are ground conditions where no trucks run fine,they just sink up to the tanks.

 

Two places come to mind. The Triple T in AZ and the old 76 in stoneyridge OH (Don't ask which, there were two I think. One of them to the south...) had moonscape gravel lots where you did sink to the tanks then hang on the lip of the crater. If you went too fast you ripped everything. Or just got stuck there jamming everyone... fun times.

Skirts trailers would have been laying all over those lots by now.

 

No road, no problem.

 

Classic jacknifes--