Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Soundguy]

there is a lowes about 6m from my house. I noticed a guy had bought once of those 1 piece shower / tub fiberglass frame jobs and put it in his small pickup and drove it partially home. I passed it on the roadside all cracked up.

It didn't even make it 2m from the store... I felt sorry for the guy.. kinda...

 

[Soundguy]

there is a lowes about 6m from my house. I noticed a guy had bought once of those 1 piece shower / tub fiberglass frame jobs and put it in his small pickup and drove it partially home. I passed it on the roadside all cracked up.

It didn't even make it 2m from the store... I felt sorry for the guy.. kinda...

 

[TomSeller]

I need to haul a small backhoe tomorrow, my flatbed trailer is a couple of hours away so I called around the city I am hauling it in to rent an equipment trailer. One place assured me that they rent car trailers and car dollies all the time to people hauling "them loaders". The guy really did not to want to let me off of the phone. Finally I practically had to hang up, and I found a place that rents equipment and, of course, equipment trailers. But you have to wonder if some of the rental joints are part of the problem. I know that first place would very well be.

 

[Mace Canute]

LOL! A guy I knew (who was a real idiot anyway) bought a new refrigerator at Lowes. He loaded it upright in his pickup and didn't strap it down. Inevitably, he took off from a stoplight and the fridge slid to the back of the truck and flipped over the tailgate. Yep, it was totaled. What a putz.

I saw much the same thing happen back in the mid 70s! A couple of guys came from the direction of an auction mart and stopped at the stop sign. When traffic cleared the driver floored his half ton truck and with a squeal of rubber they took off across the intersection. Unfortunately the stove which I presume had just been purchased at the auction mart was sitting up tight against the front of the box with zero tie downs so it ended up sliding quite quickly to the back of the box where it made a resounding crashing noise upon impact just before it tumbled out and smashed all over the road. I'm pretty sure the passenger was the stove's owner because he was some ticked off and the driver was walking the walk of shame when they went to pick up the stove parts.

 

[GManBart]

Saw this guy today rolling along at highway speeds (was directly in front of me, but I moved over). The front shocks were totally gone, so it was bouncing up and down, and I kept waiting for one of the ladders to launch! He had a small rope on the front, and another on the back holding them in place, but they were sliding all over his roof...no roof rack, or anything else appropriate for hauling ladders. I didn't stay behind him long enough to see what happened!

 

[flyerdan]

That helps to explain why so many of the traffic reports from the Sacramento area begin "Well, we have the first ladder of the day in the middle lane of..."

 

[edkemper]

I came from there before moving to Oregon. That is only the tip of the iceberg. One night, I almost hit a sailboat laying on it's side in the fast lane of Interstate 5. Ladders? No big deal. :thumbsup:

 

[TomSeller]

I came from there before moving to Oregon. That is only the tip of the iceberg. One night, I almost hit a sailboat laying on it's side in the fast lane of Interstate 5. Ladders? No big deal. :thumbsup:

Sailboats aren't known for speed, it should have been in the slow lane,

I know it rains a lot out there, must have been a dry spell for it to be on its side?

 

[edkemper]

Funny thing, when I called 911 I asked if it was supposed to be in the slow lane. They asked if I had been drinking. No sense of humor.

 

[California]

I came from there before moving to Oregon. That is only the tip of the iceberg. One night, I almost hit a sailboat laying on it's side in the fast lane of Interstate 5. Ladders? No big deal. :thumbsup:

Ah yes the daily ladder report. Well I can't top the sailboat story but I have my own similar story - Driving west on I-80 an hour before San Francisco, dark night and heavy rain, Dixon or Vacaville or someplace. I came upon a load of 4x4 fenceposts scattered across all the lanes and invisible in the downpour. Somehow I threaded through the mess at freeway speed without hitting one.

Then the strange part. The next offramp had a CHP Office sign so I went in to report it. The lady behind the counter, Hispanic, never let on that she understood English, just looked at me like I was nuts no matter how many different ways I explained it. I gave up and continued on. Hope nobody got hurt.

And similar recently, same region, 3 westbound lanes standing still. When I finally got to the front of the mess, a wrecker was pulling a late model VW out of a ditch over by the frontage road. With a Suburban nearby that had an empty dolly, the kind for towing a vehicle with two wheels on the dolly. Neither was close to the stalled traffic lanes. Just guessing but the blockade must have been because the VW came off the dolly at freeway speed and got bounced around by several cars in the heavy traffic before it got shunted off toward the ditch. Glad I missed that one.

 

[edkemper]

I can't believe there was traffic there. On 80 between Sac and SF? Now you're going to tell me there's traffic on 5 also? I am so glad I am out of that area. A friend calls me driving from Elk Grove to Sac on 5. That's when I share with him that I recently got into traffic where I live driving downtown. Then I share the traffic cost me an extra 30-45 seconds. Amazing how different things are in small town America.

Be safe my friend.

 

[Capricious]

"..Ah yes the daily ladder report..."


I have my own, although it has been about (2) years since.

Driving westbound on I44 just east of Lebanon, MO, was passed by a 80's Chevy long bed pickup with an extension ladder
in the bed, extending about (8) feet beyond the tailgate. Shortly after the pickup passed me, I went over into the left lane to
pass a semi when the ladder came out of the pickup just up ahead, landed in the middle of the highway, and was slowly rotating
as it slid down the center of the two lanes. At this point I am right alongside the semi with nowhere to go, and the semi has nowhere
to go either. The ladder stopped rotating and, luckily, was aligned with the center line and almost right on the center line, I went over
on the left shoulder and the semi went over on the right shoulder, and we got around the thing. But then the semi had to avoid the
pickup, which had pulled over onto the right shoulder to retrieve his ladder, so I stayed over on the left shoulder for a bit.

If that ladder had stopped rotating crosswise across both lanes things might not have worked out so well.

 

[dodge man]

I hate to admit but I lost a ladder out of my truck about a year ago. I was using the gravity tie down method and the wind caught it and it slide down the road at about 50 mph. I slowed down and it about passed me on the shoulder side of the road.

The biggest problem with hauling something like that isn't always just the fact it isn't tied down, you forget its back there, which is what happened to me. Still its no excuse for not putting a strap on it.

 

[dodge man]

I hate to admit but I lost a ladder out of my truck about a year ago. I was using the gravity tie down method and the wind caught it and it slide down the road at about 50 mph. I slowed down and it about passed me on the shoulder side of the road.

The biggest problem with hauling something like that isn't always just the fact it isn't tied down, you forget its back there, which is what happened to me. Still its no excuse for not putting a strap on it.

 

[fordmantpw]

And the double-post 'feature' made you admit it twice!

 

[Gem99ultra]

I hate to admit but I lost a ladder out of my truck about a year ago. I was using the gravity tie down method and the wind caught it and it slide down the road at about 50 mph. I slowed down and it about passed me on the shoulder side of the road.

The biggest problem with hauling something like that isn't always just the fact it isn't tied down, you forget its back there, which is what happened to me. Still its no excuse for not putting a strap on it.

I have good news for you dodge man! I FOUND your ladder. Unfortunately, I hit that sucker long ways, doing about 70 on my Harley, pulling a Bushtec trailer. Me, my Harley and trailer all went airborne for about 8' in the air for about 50'. No damage to the bike or trailer, but I figure that you owe me a pair of pants. Those brown stains never did come out.

 

[TomSeller]

I have good news for you dodge man! I FOUND your ladder. Unfortunately, I hit that sucker long ways, doing about 70 on my Harley, pulling a Bushtec trailer.

Careful driving on the shoulder of the road !

 

[ultrarunner]

Who needs a truck? Note the extra safety chain with S hooks on the tailgate.

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/30382.jpg

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Jackknifed Trailer


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[chopped]

Who needs a truck? Note the extra safety chain with S hooks on the tailgate.

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/30382.jpg

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/30383.jpg

Jackknifed Trailer


http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/30209.jpg

Ouch on the Jackknifed one..amased it ripped the wheels off

 

[TomSeller]

Ouch on the Jackknifed one..amased it ripped the wheels off

Yeah, he must have been driving that tractor real fast. Taller gears than I have for sure. Tractors aren't known for stability at high speeds so no surprise the trailer he was towing jackknifed on him