The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

It’s possible but I think that was caused by the weight of the load falling on to the front trailer axle.

 

dropping a bridge from 4 feet will shear the trail arm pivot of most trailers.

 

Yup, she's a cookin, good thing the wind was blowing in the direction it was...

 

Well its toed in, not negative camber is what I'm looking at.

But who knows.

 

Right, im talking about the toe also.

Lead axle driver side trail arm mount or bolt or whatever fails while brakes are on hard. it turns until it slams into the axle behind it. Thats why the forward axle is fixin to take a left up at the light.

 

sorry, not buying it. he didn't tie it down correctly. I've done more than a few double T's and they are heavy but all the weight is on two points. (we did them on stretch trailers, that looks like a pole trailer, same concept though) You can only tie down in those two spots (usually right under the lift points) but you still have to use enough chain/straps for the weight. (50% of the total). I only see one chain laying there in back and 1 chain in front. That's not enough. Even a small 40' long 8' wide Double T weighs 40,000lbs. So 50% additional plus all the weight on only two points, yeah it's not moving. hard brake or not.

 

He could have had 50 chains on the load. Doesn’t really matter when the anchor points fail. The rear anchor points are torn out of the load. Just my opinion.

 

Saw this today. I have no idea what was in those boxes or how far he made it.

 

All the typing about high hitches made youtube suggest this cool coupling slomo vid. Good ckear image of whats going on when you hit the pin. A high hitch is when the jaw grabs that shank at the bottom instead of in the groove.