Swift at it again

Oh yeah, I recall seeing them tanker yankers pulling double tanks and they were big tanks too.. was very slow going up that hill

 

That is all it takes to be a big boy truck? It's a little different than 80k I'll admit but my first job out of school was pulling 100k on tridem flats.

 

I just pulled a 46,700 pound load of chemicals all way from Chicago to Greenville SC this past weekend.. it was a preload that a local day cab had gotten loaded. It was my run home so I just got it and ran Saturday and a hour sunday with to finish the trip. I was probably over 80k.. i didn't have to enter a single weigh station at all the entire trip thank god. But anyways it was some super surging stuff, it beat me and beat me the entire trip. At times I felt like I couldn't hardly keep the truck straight going down the road. Probably the heaviest load I've ever done. I can't imagine pulling 100k pounds of chemicals in a non baffled tank. It hurts my neck just thinking about it

 

You all see the video of this incident?? Sad! Crowded him over and kept going...

 

Well given they know the time and the trailer number, that dude should be about done trucking for awhile.

 

According to FOX 8 truck was traveling northbound when it just lost control. Made my living for years with JBH dragging these over all the mountains on the best coast.



Tractor Trailer Crash Closes Northbound US-52 During Morning Rush Hour

 

Those paper rolls are something else and they can get away from you if you're not paying attention to what you are doing.

 

My thoughts EXACTLY! I have pulled those before. You have to drive GENTLY.

 

I shuttled some of those down from Flag a few weeks ago. I asked the mechanic how structurally sound he really felt some of the 20+ year old trailers were. Told him it seemed like there were a lot of post / articles on Live & FB about trailers that had been snapped in half. I don't want to be one of those lol.

 

Yessir! I actually had one load SHIFT on me when I was pulling dry vans for Western Express.
Load was going from the West Rock plant outside of Florence,South Carolina to a customer in Montgomery,Alabama. Had a four wheeler cut across in front of me trying to make exit on I-20. When I hit the brakes the load shifted forward to head of the trailer. Stopped at the Pilot in Lugoff to check the weight-the drives ended up weighing 35,700 pounds! Even when I slid the tandems forward to the limit the drives ended being 34,600 pounds. The only thing that saved my *** was that the scale houses in Georgia and South Carolina were closed for the day!