Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Eagle1]

Local plubers do that all the time while hauling their track hoes down the interstate.

 

[Dftodd]

No, but a sharp lawyer will proportion the damage due to the extra you contributed with your spike extending from beyond the bumper.

How can a sharp lawyer apply that one it's his clients fault for running into the back of the truck?????

I had some idiot hit me while idling in traffic. I was in my work truck.

All of a sudden the truck jumped up to 50 miles an hour started to come to a stop, then started rolling free again

I pulled out of the road and looked back.

Lady was putting her makeup on and not paying attention. Rear-ended me, hooked my trailer hitch. She locked her brakes up which ripped her bumper off.

She had to cover all damages to her vehicle, plus any and all damages to my truck. Plus got ticketed for distracted driving accident resulting.

How can your genius lawyer get the client reduced liability for that?????

 

[Dftodd]

Eddie was a salesman that worked for us in Orlando Florida. Eddie had really crappy luck. He was in a turn lane and had a fire engine come up behind him with lights flashing.

Before he had a chance to maneuver out of the way, the fire engine shoved him out into oncoming traffic on colonial drive. He got hit by a couple cars as well as the damage done by the fire truck.

City told him he should have gotten out of the way, and not even the ambulance chasers would take his case

 

[RobertN]

I understand your complaint but often the spots are so shallow if you pull in with your front bumper up to the edge of the sidewalk your bed is in the travel lane and if you have a hitch is even further out in the lane. While I understand it is not great for people walking it seems safer to overhang the sidewalk some and lessen the chance of someone looking for a parking spot while texting taking the back end off the truck off.

In a lot of cases that is true. They don't make parking spaces for full size long bed extra-cab trucks anymore.

Where I work though, there is room. Most people just back in till their tire hits the curb, not paying particular attention to hanging over most of the sidewalk.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

I understand your complaint but often the spots are so shallow if you pull in with your front bumper up to the edge of the sidewalk your bed is in the travel lane and if you have a hitch is even further out in the lane. While I understand it is not great for people walking it seems safer to overhang the sidewalk some and lessen the chance of someone looking for a parking spot while texting taking the back end off the truck off.

One of the nice things about a receiver hitch is it is easy to remove the hitch from the receiver when not in use. The only reasons for leaving it permanently in the receiver are stupidity and laziness. I keep mine under the back seat until I am in front of the trailer. Saves my shins, as well as others, from unnecessary pain.

 

[BigBlue1]

No, but a sharp lawyer will proportion the damage due to the extra you contributed with your spike extending from beyond the bumper.

That's ridiculous. The vehicle hitting another from behind is entirely at fault. Plus, the trailer hitch is a normal part of a vehicle so the whole concept you're implying is ridiculous.

 

[Code54]

Walking into it is a stupid act, not having it on the truck. Years ago I was rear-ended at a stop light by a Ford Taurus at an estimated 30-35mph, the hitch allowed my truck to ride up on impact and took most of the hit. The drop hitch took the top of the motor off the Ford. I had some minor damage but drove away and was able to make the journey back home (500+ miles), the Ford was towed away and later totaled. So I will continue to be "lazy" and leave my hitch on; if someone hits it, I guess that is how it goes. As for the insurance and having the hitch on - all the adjuster said to me was, "your lucky that tow hitch was on there, really saved your truck."

 

[Engineer42]

One of the nice things about a receiver hitch is it is easy to remove the hitch from the receiver when not in use. The only reasons for leaving it permanently in the receiver are stupidity and laziness. I keep mine under the back seat until I am in front of the trailer. Saves my shins, as well as others, from unnecessary pain.

I'd rather not have it become a missile in the cab with me if I am involved in an accident. They walk into it once on the back of the truck and learn to look where they are going.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

Walking into it is a stupid act, not having it on the truck. Years ago I was rear-ended at a stop light by a Ford Taurus at an estimated 30-35mph, the hitch allowed my truck to ride up on impact and took most of the hit. The drop hitch took the top of the motor off the Ford. I had some minor damage but drove away and was able to make the journey back home (500+ miles), the Ford was towed away and later totaled. So I will continue to be "lazy" and leave my hitch on; if someone hits it, I guess that is how it goes. As for the insurance and having the hitch on - all the adjuster said to me was, "your lucky that tow hitch was on there, really saved your truck."

LOL A hitch that hangs lower than the receiver acted in a way to cause the other vehicle to slide under. Yeah, that's a scenario that happens every day.

 

[/pine]

In many places it is illegal to leave them in if not towing something...