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[Jstpssng]

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That must be one of those side dumping trailers.

 

[goeduck]

That sounds like a better explanation. Down pressure on that loader is way more than that truck could handle.

Let me add that I have damaged a very HD trailer with only some of the down pressure on a Kubota M7040 loader. After doing it --duhh--I could easily see how anything more would have damaged the truck.

I agree, but that Ram should be able to pivot on its rear axle if need be without bending the frame.

 

[Jstpssng]

I agree, but that Ram should be able to pivot on its rear axle if need be without bending the frame.

It seems like he would REALLY have to screw up to do that much damage; compressing the springs to the frame, then applying even more pressure before it let go.
We probably will never know the real story behind the picture yet at least it gives us something to speculate about.

 

[Cat385B]

That must be one of those side dumping trailers.

Looks like the road gave up on him.

impatient driver, also. Should of waited and used the entire road to turn into that drive.

 

[goeduck]

That center divider did not help him or her but he or she should have been able to tell he or she was going to miss by that much.

 

[duramaxsky]

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There's a corner like that in my delivery area. Several trailers have done that and rolled. Usually JB Hunt or Swift trucks.

 

[duramaxsky]

That center divider did not help him or her but he or she should have been able to tell he or she was going to miss by that much.

Yeah if they went clear to the other side it would be easy. When I get to a bad right turn like that and traffic is heavy coming at me, I go past and turn around and come back and make it a left. Then it's easy.

 

[California]

I deliver to a lot of car dealers. All the dealers in my route area are owned by one group. So employees get the same deal on any brand. There are no Chrysler products or Fiats in the employee lot at that dealer.

Ow. That's the most damning non-endorsement I've ever seen about Chrysler.

 

[masscity]

Back in 1979 I needed some topsoil. I had a 1975 Datsun 2 wheel drive, 7.5 ft bed. I told the end loader operator to give me a yard of topsoil, he said I can't

put that in there. I said humor me and do it anyways. He got it and dumped it in my small pickup and got out of the end loader. He said I don't believe it, I

just put about 1 1/4 wet yard in there and it hardly went down at all. He said if he had put that in a Ford, Chev or Dodge 1/2 ton the bumper would have been

on the ground. I think the reason is that it was before the big three went to heavy halfs.

 

[flyerdan]

The '73 had an even heavier spring pack, I've had both a 73 and 75, can see the difference.
I still have a trailer made from a 73 Datsun, great little trailer that cost next to nothing to build.