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[redman135]

2 comments: p2293 ,log truck and steering semi trailer. These were common in New Zealand in the seventies. They were passive self steering tandem or tri axle set ups. The roads then were narrow and winding, so the regs had a strong emphasis on highly manuvourable semi trailers
Comment 2. wind turbine blade: When traveling under permit, it is a BIG and EXPENSIVE (fines) DEAL to make an unauthorised detour, and you may get barred from heavy haul permits or have expensive complience conditions added.

 

[WinterDeere]

I never thought I'd see the words "normal" and "rollover" in the same phrase.

You haven't driven with my wife! She managed to roll a jeep on the PA turnpike, doing about 70 mph. I don't think she even knows how many times it tumbled, before landing on the roof, wheels in the air.

Then she totaled the car that replaced it, six weeks later.

 

[Jstpssng]

You haven't driven with my wife! She managed to roll a jeep on the PA turnpike, doing about 70 mph. I don't think she even knows how many times it tumbled, before landing on the roof, wheels in the air.

Then she totaled the car that replaced it, six weeks later.

Thanks for the warning!
Reminds me of the time we were eating in a logging camp. One of the guys never stopped talking, and stated "Statistically speaking, people have an accident every 3 years." Then he said "I've been in 3 already this year"
I looked at the guy next to me and said "He's got us covered."

 

[QRTRHRS]

Getting back to the bridge collapsing with the dump truck on it. I was headed to a quarry with a Ford L model tandem dump when I saw a fellow driver with the same type of truck approaching. For whatever reason, he drifted off the road and laid the truck over on it's right side. Those trucks had big windshields so I could see him getting thrown around as he was not wearing the seat belt. The trucks had twin stick 5x4 transmissions and two flatstock steel handles to control the dump that were equally as long as the shift sticks. He was black and blue from one end to the other from bouncing around the cab and hitting those sticks.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[lilranch2001]

I just saw that on u tube…..
They never did say how it happened, weird that they would let loose in port

 

[Renze]

When traveling under permit, it is a BIG and EXPENSIVE (fines) DEAL to make an unauthorised detour, and you may get barred from heavy haul permits or have expensive complience conditions added.

We supplied wheel loaders to the military. They only had stepdecks, no lowboys because all their combat vehicles had a low silhouette for tactical reasons. The wheel loaders were transported with overheight permits. But once a year, a driver thought that the pencil pushers at the office sent them on a detour, took a shortcut, and rammed a cab against an overpass. So they brought it to us for repair and alignment.

Its just a drawback of a work culture where lower ranks are expected to just follow orders and not think for themselves. Because when they do start to think, they think wrong

 

[Rockbadchild]

Bruce

dominoes for grown ups

 

[California]

Bruce

WTH is going on there? The ship is moving past a mountain of cans than had just fallen from the tier a few rows forward. But the ship isn't rocking, and the water looks calm.

Has anyone found the explanation?

 

[Captain Dirty]

As was observed in comments about the Mexican tall ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge a few months ago, by the time the final report is published, likely in several months, the news of the incident will be so old that it will not be prominently reported.

Containers are lashed (secured) with cables, rods, or locking pins so that they will not fall when the ship rolls in the seaway. I suspect that the lashings on the containers in the 2 bays (transverse rows of containers) that fell had been unlashed in anticipation of discharging them from the vessel. The impetus that caused them to topple may have come from a sudden roll of the ship or from a collision with a gantry crane used to discharge them. As the toppling occurred at two separated bays, the sudden roll seems more likely.

The facts that the operator of the vessel, Zim, is an Israeli company and that the cargo was from China make the situation ripe for conspiracy theories.

Late entry: At least one of the videos reports (hearsay) that the ship was listing when the toppling began. (Roll is active movement around the longitudinal axis; listing is a more static leaning.)