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Interestingly, where the green canopy is in the picture is now near the center of our facility. Our building was 6000 sq feet at that time, now it is 12,000 sq ft.
Good to hear your business is growing! That was already a large facility in 2009 when I took the photo.
 
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If you have been watching the news, we have a huge fire going north of us in Redding, CA. The Carr fire, so named as it started near the Carr Powerhouse next to Whiskeytown Lake. Apparently started by a tire that failed on a travel trailer, allowing the rim to contact the pavement and spark. Over 110,000 acres, 6 lives lost so far, over 1000 homes destroyed, 38,000 evacuated at it's peak. It is now 35% contained and it looks like they are getting a handle on it.

Most of us if we have hauled a trailer much have had a flat or a blowout. It happens. They showed a picture of the travel trailer and it was a modern trailer that looked just fine. Not an old beater with worn out tires. It happened during a week of 110* plus temps and things just blew up.

This thread is about towing or hauling something wrong, but I'm not sure if the guy pulling the trailer really did anything wrong. Tires fail, you pull over and change them. That is normal enough. I'm sure they will look at the age of the tires, last time pressures were checked and so forth. It is a good reminder, especially if you live in the fire prone west, to pay attention to tire pressures and conditions. Having said that, he might have ran over a nail left in the road a mile prior...through no fault of his own. Probably best not to try to slice and dice liabilities and "what ifs", but it is interesting how such a devastating fire could be started by just towing a trailer down the road.

If you believe in prayer, as I do, then please keep the folks devastated by this fire in your prayers.

A few years a go we had someone pulling a trailer that was dragging a chain and fire danger was EXTREME at the time and it sparked fires every mile or so, Check chains and make sure they are not dragging.

David
 
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@2:33 - It's amazing how quickly some of those European cab-over semis can stop. I've seen others brake that quickly too. When they hit the pedal they really throw the anchor out.

Also noticed how applying the tow vehicle brakes exaggerated the motion in several of them.

I like how at about 4:30 the trailer brakes were able to bring the sway back under control. Many of those trailers were obviously loaded tail heavy, but some didn't appear to have much in them...? Not sure if they were starting to sway from road conditions or what.
 
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If you were sitting right over the steer axle, you would want to be able to stop quickly as well...

Aaron Z

I'm sure. I'm just impressed because I don't think semis in the US could stop that quickly. I wonder if it is that they have the same number of axles/wheels as ours but they don't load them as heavily over there?

Rob
 
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I'm sure. I'm just impressed because I don't think semis in the US could stop that quickly. I wonder if it is that they have the same number of axles/wheels as ours but they don't load them as heavily over there?

Rob

Actually, Volvo trucks will spot even faster than in the video. They come up with a really good brake system a couple of years ago.

By the way, it will apply the brakes automatically if the truck detects a car or object in it's front. This will also be quite problematic when there are those idiots who like to brake check trucks as the truck will actually brake hard.

Here a video of a brake test.

 
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Maybe the truckers (and everyone else) should just maintain a safe following distance.

It would be nice to know if they used radar or sonar and send a signal from your vehicle to make the truck think something is in imminent collision. Press a little button and watch in the rear view, as the driver come out the windshield.

Such stupid technology will make drivers use what little brains they have even less.

Tailgaters, major irritation of mine.
 
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As a general rule WA state truckers are pretty decent. Wish that I could say the same for all the BC truckers running in my neck of the woods (holy cow do they tailgate!). When I was young I seem to recall it being the 3-second rule. Now it's a 2-second rule?

No substitute for keeping your eye on the road. In most all cases it takes TWO to cause an accident: only a few situations in which a second party could not avoid the accident).
 
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I learned the two second rule, but that was well over 40 years ago. Prior to that it was a car length for every mile per hour. I will say that even with ABS stopping distance has probably decreased over the last couple decades, but they still need somebody to work that brake pedal.
 
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Maybe the truckers (and everyone else) should just maintain a safe following distance.

It would be nice to know if they used radar or sonar and send a signal from your vehicle to make the truck think something is in imminent collision. Press a little button and watch in the rear view, as the driver come out the windshield.

Such stupid technology will make drivers use what little brains they have even less.

Tailgaters, major irritation of mine.

I sure don't see it as "Stupid technology" - first time a driver is tired, inattentive, or has a medical issue and it stops a truck from plowing in to and killing yours or someone else's family I would say it is pretty darn "smart". If everyone was perfect I guess we wouldn't need this but we all make mistakes and this may help save someone from a lot grief, sorry and financial burden.
 
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My rental had radar braking... it was a surprise to me as I have never driven a car with all the new safety stuff...

2018 Corolla rented at SeaTac airport.

Once I got use to the safety stuff... like lane change warning etc... I liked it but also thought what if a person only new how to drive cars with collision avoidance and then had to drive an older vehicle where it did not exist?
 

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