What u think!!!!!

Hi tony, I agree, must have been a B buster. I've seen loaded trailers go in a ditch and not buckle like that. Once, years ago, big backup in Chicago, as usual, finally get up to the "obstruction", and there's all this road gravel all over the road, but no dump truck. Here's a van trailer with the floor broken out, and it was FILLED with road gravel. Can you imagine how heavy that thing was?

 

I actually saw that one live, and thought oh boy is he in a pickle

 

Yea That's what I was thinking. Either that or a very old trailer? Looks like an Extra Lease trailer so its probably been through the mill anyway.

 

Yea he usually sits across the street in that vacant lot. Last time I was in there, there was a truck sitting right behind one of the fuel islands, had two blowouts on his right rear side of his tractor and his mudflap was twisted up under the trailer at the 5th wheel. still haven't figured out how he did that? The truck was just sitting there like he was waiting for fuel? I guess he was in the store?

 

I say common sense is not as common as we think. What would seem obvious and natural to me would probably not even concern someone else.

We take it for granted every day that other drivers will be alert and do the right thing. I've seen too much craziness to assume anyone will have 100% of their attention focused on the road.

I agree.. he was most likely a rookie. If not.. shame shame. Another reason for the public to have a bad perception of truckers.

Hurst

 

The turn is not difficult if you set up wide. I suspect the driver never saw the danger. They surely weren't watching the tandem all the way through the turn.

Sad state of affairs in the industry if this is happening daily.

 

Yeah, you can make the turn even with your tandems slid all the way back. Just requires that extra bit of attention.

 

Can't even get into a truck stop with a wide open turn, how the hell do they get around in a downtown city environment ? Or doing local deliveries jack-knifed off of streets?

 

Or do they just get the huge warehouse deliverys/pickups with an acre of room to take an hour to straight line back 50 feet?