Lost my Load!

[yooperdave]

I was wondering after I lost a load of pressure treated wood while making a hasty turn onto the highway, who has also had the misfortune of this situation?

I had the load tied, but not good enough with respect to my haste. Nobody got hurt, no real damage, but I drive more conservative than ever - a good life lesson.

Any other embarrassing situations out there?

Yooper Dave

 

[Deerlope]

Yep, I once had a set of stairs in my pickup with the gate down.Probably had about 10 or 11 treads, took off too quick at the light and dropped the whole shooting match right in a busy intersection. Lucky for me that a young feller came running out from a gas station to help me load them again.

 

[Inspector507]

I had some 2" rigid pipe strapped to the top of my work truck one day. Was traveling through downtown. Looked up and ......[censored] the light is red. Hit the brakes, 2 pieces of steel pipe go across the hood and down the street.
I really don't think the little old lady that had to tap dance over 2 sticks of pipe thought it was funny though.

 

[jwstewar]

I remember right after I had started driving, Mom had gone to the store and bought a couply of lawn chairs with the big cushions on them. She couldn't haul them in her car. She called me to come pick them up. I sat them up in the bed of the truck and started home. Chairs blew out going through town. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Had to stop and pick them up. Scratched them up pretty good, but other then that no harm.

I also lost a camper one time too. I had had a 2" ball on the truck. Dad changed the ball and I didn't know it to an 1 7/8". We were pulling out of the campground in a hurry because the Corp. of Engineers had called and had released water from the dam and we had about an hour before the campground would be flood and I had 3 campers to get out. Hooked up and jerked my cousin's camper out. It required a 2" ball. Since I was in a hurry I didn't hook up safety chains. It bounced off the ball, slapped the truck, and started rolling back down the little hill I was going up /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. I hopped out of the truck (don't know why, but I did /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif). I grabbed ahold of the toungue and was actually able to guide the trailer to a ditch by hand instead of the way it was headed toward the river. Pretty funny now, but I was pretty scared at the time. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

Ive had a few things lost from a trailer or pick up at one time to another. When I was in college I worked for a Tool and die maker a few towns over. I hated the job but it was Christmas and needed the money. I was 18 and they put me to work taking the dies to the factory they supplied. They put me in an old 3/4 ton Ford truck that was ready for the heap. I wanted to be on the lathe as they hired me fore a lathe operator instead of errand boy. The owner's stepson went with me to help with unloading on the big dies. He hated the job to. I was about ready to quit after the low pay,dirty shop and all the yelling. I was also tired about them not listening to my input on the rules of commercial hauling. One morning me and the stepson went out got the truck that had a nice plastic bedliner in it. I told them I didnt want to go up the Natchez Trace to Tupelo as it was non comercial traffic only and 50 MPH. I also asked for a stap to bind the 800 pound die down. I got yelled at so i shut the tail gate and got in the truck. When I got to the Trace we pulled the magnetic company signs off the truck doors and started on the 62 mile trip. Every time we'd stop or start since the trip began the Die would slide around in the truck. To make matters worse the trace is loaded with protected suicidal deer. We get up to 50 miles and hour and got to talking about me quitting and about that time 2 deer pop out in front of the truck I slammed on the brakes and the die hits the back of the cab hard enough to break the sliding glass. Then i floor it to get past any other deer that might be comming and feel the truck really jerk. I look at my freind and his face is pale as can be. I look at what he sees and the tailgate is gone and theres an 800 pound die set in the road. and our good fortune a parkranger and a trooper were comming down the road. I think that short cut the boss wanted us to take was about 2500 dollars after a roll back came and got the die, tickets for driving on the trace with a commercial vehicle improper load securment, and having to repair the crater in the road. I didnt go back to work after that.
The county used to not bind the grader down on a tailer before transport juse let it ride and one day the flattened an 84 S10 almost killing the driver. Now they have about 6 heavy binders on it.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Probably the most embarrassing load drop was the bundle of square tubing that came off the ladder rack, in my neighborhood, eight thirty on a Saturday morning, while braking going into a turn. Made a heckuva racket! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif But I was young and bounced out of the truck laughing like I'd done it on purpose to wake everyone up.

The scariest one was about five years ago. I'd rented a Bobcat and had to get it back to the rental yard by five or pay for another day.

I had about three guys helping me get the tractor loaded and the trailer hooked up. Then I hit the highway in heavy traffic.

I hit a bumpy highway Inwood between Walnut Hill and Royal, heading north. In three lanes of traffic surrounded by commuters, I looked in the driver's mirror.

I saw a lot more trailer than I was supposed to. And instantly knew I had an uncoupled trailer with a 773 on it. I hit the brakes easy and kept the trailer against the truck. Then I undid the binders and moved the skid steer back enough where I could lift the tongue by myself. Recoupled the trailer, moved the tractor back into place, bound it down, hauled butt, made it to United Rentals in time.

It probably only took five minutes to figure out the problem and fix it. But I'm still thanking my lucky stars because if that puppy had hung a ninety either way I'd have hurt someone not to mention the property damage.

 

[RobS]

I had picked up some vinyl siding for a weekend's worth of work a couple years back. Loaded it in the truck and slid the various trim pieces into a partially full box of siding. Tied everything in well but got home to find an empty box neatly tied into all the other full ones. Of course, it's Friday and after closing of the supply house so the wife and I head out on a treasure hunt. I had an idea where it may have slid out but we never did find the stuff. Put a major cramp on my planned weekend but it got done eventually with a duplicate purchase the next week /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Ole_Hickory]

I know a guy who lost a brand new cooking stove on the interstate that his mother had bought,had his mother with him,just bought the thing and was heading home,darn thing flipped out of the truck and he never even slowed down after he seen what happened. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[jpr62902]

I probably shouldn't tell this one, because it's probably gonna win me a Darwin award, but here goes..

Many years ago when I still thought I was invincible, I had to get some 2x4's in my 2 door Chevy Citation. Naturally, they wouldn't go in all the way, so I just slid them through the front passenger window all the way to the back window on the driver's side. The lumber was probably sticking out the front window about 2 to 3 feet. All went well until that pesky mail box jumped right in front of the 2x4's sticking out of the car -- WHAM! The ends of the 2x4's in the back of the car swung forward and whacked me good right in the back of the head. I don't know who had the bigger dent -- me or the mail box. Good thing I was pretty thick-headed back then.

 

[gsganzer]

I had just bought a new mattress and box spring. I loaded them in the back of the truck with the heavier mattress on top of the box spring. They were below the bed rails, so I figured I didn't need to put a rope over them.

When I got going 60 - 65 mph, the wind coming over the cab created a vortex and sucked the mattress up and out onto I-35. The mattress skidded across two lanes and ended up on the median.

I figured I just gave a $700 mattress serious road rash, but fortunately the plastic wrapper saved it.