Truck towing overloaded kills, driver gets felony charges.

[MossRoad]

After finally getting the picture to come up the trailer might be 44 ft but the boat may go 36 ft. as far back as the boat was on that trailer one would assume hardly any tongue weight, which could have been a factor in not stopping and for making for an uncontrollable situation, the truck looks to be SRW configuration which would be 14.000 max on trailer weight, 22,000 gooseneck which is not part of this equation.

It's been pretty well established that the boat is a 44' yacht made by Riva. The truck towing it is a 2017 Ford F-350 Super Duty with a 21,000# towing capacity.
Fifth wheel capacity of that truck is 32,000#.

 

[billypumper]

It's been pretty well established that the boat is a 44' yacht made by Riva. The truck towing it is a 2017 Ford F-350 Super Duty with a 21,000# towing capacity.
Fifth wheel capacity of that truck is 32,000#.

Sure doesn't look like a dually F-350, they have extended wheel well arches looks to be a SRW truck which put s the capacity much lower, the trailer looks like a boat dealer type that hauls all sizes of boats that's why so many axles, still looks like the boat sitting so far back makes for to little tongue weight.

 

[4570Man]

It's been pretty well established that the boat is a 44' yacht made by Riva. The truck towing it is a 2017 Ford F-350 Super Duty with a 21,000# towing capacity.
Fifth wheel capacity of that truck is 32,000#.

Bumper pull or GN doesn’t make any difference when it’s rolling down a hill with smoked brakes.

 

[billypumper]

A Riva 44 weighs 29,000 dry weight, not counting the trailer, if this was a SRW truck and had new brakes all the way around including trailer, it still wouldn't stop going down a hill because the truck was 8 tons over it's Max limit

 

[ning]

Sure doesn't look like a dually F-350, they have extended wheel well arches looks to be a SRW truck which put s the capacity much lower, the trailer looks like a boat dealer type that hauls all sizes of boats that's why so many axles, still looks like the boat sitting so far back makes for to little tongue weight.

It definitely was a dually. Emphasis on the past tense "was".

I wouldn't be too confident in thinking that there wasn't much tongue weight, though that's not the overload part as far as the F-350's suspension is concerned, though I have zero doubt that it exceeded the capacity of the trailer hitch - remember that boat weighs over 30,000 pounds, and the fact that throughout that crash it continued in roughly straight line indicates to me that the weight wasn't particularly evenly balanced over the trailer axles, or it would've been more likely to spin some.

I am considering however that that boat may've been too long for that trailer, though it's hard to tell from these pics just how far over the back of the trailer it was hanging?

 

[billypumper]

Ford specs for conventional towing for 2017 F-350 DRW is a max of 18.000, that's a crew cab with a 8 ft. Bed with a diesel, less for a shorter truck or a gas motor. Truck was way over it's limit.

 

[bnold]

Cottonwood pass was even more special before it was paved a couple years ago!

Drug a 3 axle 48’ toy hauler up and down that pass, definitely paying attention! Low gear and exhaust brake, very rarely touching the service brakes. Actually flipping exhaust brake on and off, low gear it is almost too much braking power!

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
And there was probably some guy in a sports car right on your taillights, all of the way down.

 

[billypumper]

From the specs of the 44 Riva with trailer the loaded weight is over 33,000 lbs.which requires a class 8 truck for that boat and was being pulled by a class 3 truck, oh the F-350 in question can only tow 18,000 lbs, 21.000 with a weight distribution hitch which one could guess wasn't on the back of said truck. State law says that width of boat would have needed an escort too.

 

[MossRoad]

Sure doesn't look like a dually F-350, they have extended wheel well arches looks to be a SRW truck which put s the capacity much lower, the trailer looks like a boat dealer type that hauls all sizes of boats that's why so many axles, still looks like the boat sitting so far back makes for to little tongue weight.

Go back and look at the pictures of the truck smoking it's brakes being pushed down the hill by the yacht. It's clear that the truck is a dually.