Load Shift / Tip Hazard?

I'm a Yard Spotter and my job is to shuttle loaded trailers of shredded paper bails to the docks to be unloaded then move the empties back to the yard. This one trailer started leaning so I turned around and left in the yard to figure out what was going on. When I open the doors it looked like they loaded in a row down the center and most of it had slid to the right.

 

Not a tip hazard unless you drive like you're from Hazard.

 

I kinda doubt they moved, i used to haul that crap all the time and never had any of them shift. I think maybe it was loaded by a newbie forklift driver who didn’t know what he was doing. They can be real idiots sometimes, especially the new ones.

 

Hauled plenty of loads like that, I doubt they shifted either. If the wagon was leaning, I'd think spring or airbag. A load has to be to the ceiling to be tippy.

 

Several years ago I was making a delivery in Hazard,KY and was chatting with some guy in front of the place. Somehow, weed became the subject of the conversation. He said, "Man, I've got weed and it's some good stuff. Come here, I'll show you weed." He opened his car trunk and it was full of packages of weed that was shrink wrapped; like bricks. Told him, he better be careful showing that stuff to someone he doesn't know. He'd been smoking the stuff and was really high. No, I didn't snitch him out, just told him to shut the car trunk.
The guy was funny; looked like an old mountain guy; reminded me of "Popcorn" Sutton, except he was much younger.

 

If the trailer is leaning, it's suspension or airbag.

That load is not a problem in that van unless you were a wild man inside the driving.

 

I'm sure Boss Hogg got his cut lol.

 

Okay I wasn't sure. I was discussing it with the guy in the scale office and looking out the window he could see it leaning to the side to.

I think it freaked me out because the yard I work in is terrible with potholes and the trailers lurch side to side as it is, so I wasn't thrilled about having that combined with a trailer that's already leaning to the side like this one.

 

Find you a good right turn, and snatch the wheel. Take a level to the rear of the trailer and check. Keep doing it until the bubble is dead center. You’re welcome.