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Overload of the Day

skyking1

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I am paraphrasing a story from a friend on another forum.
He was hauling 3 vans on a long wedge trailer with a first Gen Dodge 1 ton 2wd. Classic hotshot setup of the day. Downhill on one of the I-5 grades, hit a some debris that stripped the brake wires off both backing plates. It quickly turned into that runaway we all worry about, and only a savvy truck driver who got in front of him and slowed him down saved the day. After he got off the road the local shop took the truck and did a complete brake job with drums rotors and bearings, master and slaves, everything was toasted.
 

Willie B

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A chain come along on the rear should hold it on, where's it going to go?

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I'm perversely pleased when an informed cop pulls this rig over.
I'm not sure he is overloaded, An early John Deer, like a 310, but not that modern. I'll guess 13000 LB tractor. 4 tires on the trailer, that's at least a full load. The truck is riding low in the water, about half the trailer/ tractor is on the truck.
Trailer might be overloaded, truck certainly is, but the securement ensures several counts of violation. I'm sure this fellow has his CDL also.
 

skyking1

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:facepalm:
I chain:
Front axles forward.
Front bucket to deck.
Left and right binders to rear hoe frame.
backhoe bucket to deck.
And ......they always loosen up. Backhoes are a PITA that way. Last one I picked up in Eastern Washington and brought over to Sumner, I stopped 3 times before I was satisfied it had settled down.
The excavators you stop once and then check it but it never needs any more actual tightening.
 

AzIron

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I was more curious about the boom left up in the air that would be real close to an over height and its definitely going to raise the center of gravity a lot
 

Nige

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I bet that 390 gets easier to load each time as the trailer frame bends more. Baffles me they wouldn't at least block to the frame to prevent it from twisting so bad.
Yes but if you load from opposite sides for each successive trip then the trailer chassis should twist back straight again on every 2nd load.....

Watching the way they walked it on and off over the side it obviously wasn’t their first rodeo.
 

skyking1

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Pfft. A rodeo is walking a 200 class on and then spinning it 90 with a hoe pack you can't lean on too hard. In Seattle on a busy street :D
The wet-behind-the-ears lowboy driver asked me pretty please would I do this for him ;)
 

Nige

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I was more curious about the boom left up in the air that would be real close to an over height and its definitely going to raise the center of gravity a lot
Did you miss that this move was done from one location on a mine site to another. Did you notice how many conveyors they had to go under.?

I would imagine that’s why they loaded over the side and also why there was not a chain or a binder in sight.
 
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