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Overload of the Day

DMiller

DMiller

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Of late and getting late in the Tourista Season here, have been literally Dozens of trailers(All types) and Self Propelled RVs alongside our major interstates with shelled out tires or cooked wheel bearings. Saw at least four over last few weeks with lug studs sheared away on either the truck or trailer as well. One dork had one of the Super Smoker Bed installed 6" Stack Dodge dually pulling a multiple Side by Side hauler trailer with the duals on LRr GONE, studs broken rotor ground to crap and road scarred, most likely from doing burnouts when empty to impress his dumb-ass buds. Not a mile behind that was a boat trailer with the axle fried to the point the stub was pointed UP, hub and tire gone. These people do NOT have a clue to keep anything maintained.
 
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Walker1

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suladas said:
I always wondered why the truck stops had the breakaway thing on all the hoses until I seen one broken off, I guess it's cheap insurance to protect them from dumba$$es.
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When I was a kid we were driving in a 74 Ford Torino station wagon. We stopped for gas, and when leaving the rear bumper hooked a gas hose. It twisted the pump around and tore it up! I think that is one of the reasons for the modern bumper design and the breakaway hoses.
 
Willie B

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DMiller said:
Of late and getting late in the Tourista Season here, have been literally Dozens of trailers(All types) and Self Propelled RVs alongside our major interstates with shelled out tires or cooked wheel bearings. Saw at least four over last few weeks with lug studs sheared away on either the truck or trailer as well. One dork had one of the Super Smoker Bed installed 6" Stack Dodge dually pulling a multiple Side by Side hauler trailer with the duals on LRr GONE, studs broken rotor ground to crap and road scarred, most likely from doing burnouts when empty to impress his dumb-ass buds. Not a mile behind that was a boat trailer with the axle fried to the point the stub was pointed UP, hub and tire gone. These people do NOT have a clue to keep anything maintained.
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Boat trailer every year gets repack wheel bearing grease. Other trailers, every few years regardless of mileage. I see boat trailers beside the highway with fried wheel bearings, but more often little Tractor Supply new trailers.
 
mekanik

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Here is another example of Stupidity. That is a 55 foot hydro pole. The spool it is sitting on
is rotten, The rack at the back of the cab is light wall tubing, It would hold a ladder or
something light. They were going to drive north over 500 miles on a rough stretch of the Alaska highway.
The rack would have collapsed from the weight as well as the spool.
And to top it off it was one of my co-workers that loaded it for them. He got a letter of warning on his personnel file.

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CM1995

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Wife and I were headed home from Auburn today and passed a mid 2000's Chevy 1500 with a 25-30' gooseneck RV trailer behind it. Rear tires were knuckle deep in the fender wells on the rear end.

Crossed over the hill and a state trooper had a 50' box trailer rig pulled over for some reason. Told the wife the trooper needs to be pulling that RV rig over as it's incredibly more unsafe than whatever that violation he was writing the truck driver up for.
 
Truck Shop

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The roads a crammed with vehicles towing trailers, so it's not surprising to hear about or see vehicles along side the road with issues.
In a five mile stretch of highway I-82 to be exact {I had a service call 65 miles one way today at 1:30} I saw roughly 16 different pickups
towing RV's or trailers loaded with toys. Speed limit is 70-I set cruise at 70. Every car, pickup truck, semi truck passed me including the ones
towing RV's-guessing average speed 75 to 78.---Towing a Montana rolling sh!t house at 75 plus---Nuts.
 
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Truck Shop said:
The roads a crammed with vehicles towing trailers, so it's not surprising to hear about or see vehicles along side the road with issues.
In a five mile stretch of highway I-82 to be exact {I had a service call 65 miles one way today at 1:30} I saw roughly 16 different pickups
towing RV's or trailers loaded with toys. Speed limit is 70-I set cruise at 70. Every car, pickup truck, semi truck passed me including the ones
towing RV's-guessing average speed 75 to 78.---Towing a Montana rolling sh!t house at 75 plus---Nuts.
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They pull them 80 plus out here since the speed limit is 80 mph. Seen one on way to Billings MT to go buy my truck it had a bubble going on about 8’ wide 4’ tall by about 6 or 8’ long on the rubber roof, and another one with with the roof flapping in the wind. Just think 70 to 80 plus, plus a calm 10 mph head wind and you got hurricane force winds ripping on it. Siding “might” stay on it or the roof but the stress on the frame itself is racking it and pulling on every screw on those
1 x 1’s wood framing or those 18 gauge or thinner aluminum square tubing if it has even that :eek:
 
skyking1

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My overload was the 3500 GMC /duramax/Allison combo over some really nasty hills this weekend. I overheated it after one of those plastic heater core adapters cracked. I did not scale it but suspect I was near 25,000 pounds. It was well within the tow and axle and tire and licensed tonnage, but simply not up to those hills. It was that catch-22 of not enough speed for cooling and the fan delays long enough to get fully engaged. This led to 30 degree temperature excursions. My Ram/Cummins setup will bounce up about 10 degrees and then the helicopter in front opens up and squashes the temperature gauge LOL!
I replaced the cracked part and all is well now, but it is a trip I will not repeat. My Ram truck hitch won't take the weight and setup, but is far better set up to do that type of pull.
I will pull the mini a short haul with my truck, but the tongue weight is too much for single rear wheel.
 
Truck Shop

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Not a overload, plus I forgot.

This happened last weekend-I-84 east bound semi near the Huntington scales La Grande Or
lost a set of duals off the trailer, hit the center divider bounced and into the windshield of
a west bound semi. Killing the driver-O-DOT caught the driver down the freeway.
 
skyking1

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ugh :(
I got passed by a can hauler making some rumbling at the trailer this weekend. probably was a tire but your don't know.
 
skyking1

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a friend was trapped in one of those pull out right turn only lanes out of a grocery store and a dump truck spit off a tire and he just had to take it in the door.
luckily there wasn't much energy left in it.
 
DMiller

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Are all manner of Gator Backs and full tread roll offs on the highways around here, have seen a few smaller tires COMPLETE with a rim in the ditches but luckily no larger units yet.
 
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