Overload of the Day

Good thing for those guys the bollard went or they could have all been wiped out from the whip.

Estimated weight of that bollard was 2000 lbs I read, don't know if that's correct.

Appeared as a Launch that tugs did not get control of soon enough. Land Lubbers tried tying it off, not a best choice.

The guys on that tug must have been wide-eyed when they saw that bollard coming in their general direction

Jumbo said:

Interesting that once things got tight, everybody stood around watching. In the woods, things get that tight and everybody is looking for a hole to duck into and cover up. Personally, I would have been headed to the other end of then pier. Quickly...

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B-7.

You sunk my battleship!!

This really isn’t a weight overload, more of an overload of stupidity.



This crew was heading down the road in front of me, not just a few hundred feet, for miles, in moderate traffic, over 45 most of the time before they turned into the site they were going to….can’t fix stupid I guess….

Tags said:

This really isn’t a weight overload, more of an overload of stupidity.

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This crew was heading down the road in front of me, not just a few hundred feet, for miles, in moderate traffic, over 45 most of the time before they turned into the site they were going to….can’t fix stupid I guess….

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WOW?????????

That is so fired for the whole crew if law enforcement spotted them. Better that than dead.
My brother's friend watched a buddy die right next to him. He was in the back of the truck and reached in the window to mess with the driver, then fell right out and splatted right next to the driver's door. There's no words to describe how that guy felt. Sure, he was young and it was an accident. A totally preventable accident.

Not an over load but a un-usual wrecker load. Last Wednesday just as it was getting sundown I drove past a accident site where a fancy Pete with a van trailer piled up into the mountainside about 90 miles west of Tok, Alaska. A completely rolled up pretzel of what appeared to be a larger four seater side by side ATV was hanging from a 2 ton wrecker boom in the pull off that was across the road. By the skid marks it was obvious that the truck driver had swerved to the left lane and the adjacent steep downslope trying to avoid the ATV and then skidded back to the mountain side crashing into the rocks and ending up with the tractor 40 ft up the slope. I tried to stop for a photo but the State Patrol yelled at me to keep going. As I neared Tok I met a rotator wrecker with a Fairbanks name. The next morning while having breakfast the rotator pulled in and two guys came in for breakfast. I got the wreck story from them. It appears that two moose hunters setting at the overlook thought they seen a moose down below. They jumped into the wheeler and tore uo the slope to try to get a better view from higher up. They jumped out of the wheeler without setting the brake and it rolled away, backwards, down the mountain rolling out right in front of the truck driver. The driver swerved, it still catching his front steering tire, and sliding under the truck helped him angle back towards the mountain. The ATV rolled up under the truck, tearing the passenger side trailer gear off and bending the other side. They torched the gear off to move the trailer. The poor driver had thought he had killed some people and was ready to when he found out what happened. The truck and trailer was hauled the other way to Anchorage and the rotator was returning to Fairbanks after a long night.

This was at the lumber yard near us..

But but but! It's a TRUCK!

Apparently nobody told them they could split the load and come back for the rest.

Or have it delivered!

A broken spring or maybe plowing straight ahead through a curve would be correct karma for this guy.

For a fact, he knows he won't be taping the sheetrock, or he doesn't know. The sheetrock in the middle of that load is mush. From this moment forward, everybody is going to be angry.
Any surface will look like sh!t.

What could go wrong? He put a ratchet strap on it.

How big of a load do you have to order so delivery will be included? Looks like he is pushing it right there.

not there any more but there used to be a weigh station on I66 just west of fairfax va . saw a 20 ft uhaul rental van there one sunday morning that was loaded top to bottom front to back with 8x8x 16 cinder block all 4 rear tires blown

If it fits it ships

Sad part in this day in age with how often people change vehicles like women change tampons, some poor soul will buy that truck and never know the damage done to it since no car history will ever show of it.

He probably would have loaded higher but run out of rachet strap length.