Overload of the Day

[Truck Shop]

As long as no one was injured--------.

 

[hosspuller]

Well secured to the trailer or extremely lucky. On second thought... not so lucky, the truck is trashed.

 

[Welder Dave]

What happened there, truck rolled and skid steer stayed upright,?

 

[skyking1]

LOL skidsteer won that battle of stupid.

 

[crane operator]

The news article doesn't make a lot of sense. Tire blows out, machinery leaves trailer. Another car runs over the tire on the road, and the tire also hits another car?

"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - An unusual crash slowed rush-traffic in east Springfield Thursday morning.

The crash happened around 7:30 a.m. on U.S. 65 and Sunshine Street.

Investigators say a truck hauling a piece of machinery had a tire blow out. The truck crashed into the median. The driver lost the piece of machinery from a trailer. A second vehicle rolled over a tire. The same tire then hit the windshield of a third driver’s car.

The driver of the truck and the driver of the third vehicle suffered minor injuries.

Crews closed two lanes of traffic for about an hour."
https://www.ky3.com/2021/06/10/unusual-crash-slows-traffic-during-rush-hour-east-springfield/

Machinery (skid loader) looks to me like it stayed right with the trailer, but that doesn't mean other items from the trailer weren't randomly scattering themselves all over the road. Which could be what other people hit- or the reporter has no idea what happened. Right during morning rush hour-it made a mess.

 

[Welder Dave]

Almost sounds like the trailer came unhitched and the truck crashed and another vehicle hit the tire remnants sending the tire into another windshield? Not uncommon for the news reporters to not have a clue what happened or jumble it up so much it doesn't sense.

 

[Truck Shop]

That's bad people got injured.

 

[Willie B]

Wednesday afternoon at 1:00? Route 7, a highway unimproved since 1955 through a tiny village had a disaster where nobody got hurt.
Driver of a single axle road tractor towing a 12 x 60 office trailer unescorted claims he fell asleep.
We Americans talk in euphemisms. A shelter calls it a "Lab Mix" it is a purebred Pit Bull. "Fell asleep" really means texting.
The driver hit a guard rail, overcorrected & jackknifed. He spread trailer over 300 yards of road, backed up traffic 6 hours. They brought in two excavators with thumbs to load the wreckage into roll off boxes.

Not really an overload, more a cautionary tale.

 

[Truck Shop]

And I'll add this to your point Willie B. This happened around this time last year. Driver who a$$holed our truck in a accident zone with red lights and blues flashing.
Four minutes before he hit our truck he was texting and then on the phone just before impact. Our driver didn't get hurt, driver who hit our truck injured, our trailer
total loss, his truck total loss. Now imagine had he not hit our rig and what would have happened as he flew through the accident scene at 60 plus. In the end it was good
I guess he hit our trailer in sacrifice to save others involved in the wreck scene that already took place. STAY OFF THE PHONE WHILE DRIVING-Please.

 

[Welder Dave]

I remember years ago on the news, there was a kid who crossed the centerline and hit an oncoming car killing 3 people if I recall. When questioned he responded, "I was texting" as if it was some kind of legitimate excuse. Official response should have been, "You can text all you want behind bars for the rest of your life"! Unfortunately see it all too often. Someone calling at a red light and then using blue tooth while driving is one thing but no blue tooth while driving they should take a lot of demerits away along with hefty fines so these idiots lose their license. Texting while driving should have twice the consequences!

On the other hand the laws are getting a little stupid. I was listening to the radio while a woman called in. She got a ticket for distracted driving (in a police check zone) because her phone was plugged in sitting on the center console of her car. Having a phone charging in the factory charging port should not automatically constitute distracted driving. If that were the case every car maker should be charged for putting the increasingly big display screens in cars. Another woman called in and said she got a distracted driving ticket for having a McDonalds coffee in her hand. Are they going to charge every drive through for giving people something to drink in their car? It's just insane! They need the photo camera's simultaneously taking pics. inside the car while another one gets the license plate. That would be better than the photo radar cash cow.

 

[Nige]

Anyone using a phone for any purpose while driving should be stood against a wall and shot IMHO.

Amazingly there are still apparently states where it is not even against the law to use a phone while driving. That was certainly the case the last time I was in FL but things may have changed since then. I’m afraid I can’t figure out the logic behind that one.

 

[Welder Dave]

Most new vehicles have built in bluetooth so you don't have to look at or hold your phone. There are still a lot of times when just talking can be a distraction. There has to be some common sense but it is severely lacking for some.

 

[Truck Shop]

Nige I agree-but the problem is you would end up wiping out 80 plus percent of the U.S. population. Just yesterday the guy who delivers oil to the shop sat in my office
complaining about people driving while using a cell. He left. Half an hour later I had to run to the parts store and guess who I see driving through a intersection yapping
on his cell phone. The law is for everyone else here in the states, hypocrites.

 

[mks]

Wonder if they checked to see if it's full of beer?

Was following a freight tractor trailer at about five miles an hour in rush hour traffic. Right lane of three interstate highway going up the earth embankment prior to the bridge deck. Truck starts veering right. Once all right tractor wheels roll off the shoulder and the tractor leans hard right the brake lights come on. The combo goes over in slow motion. I pull over in front of him. Find him laying on the passenger door windshield already partially out and coolant spewing in. Shut the engine down, pulled windshield the rest of the way out and helped him out. Got blankets and wrapped him up. Paramedics gave me my blanket back and mentioned the cleanup crew might have a grand party. There were a couple dozen or more beer kegs at the bottom of the embankment.

 

[AusDave]

In Australia it’s not hard to gain an endorsement on your license to drive a single axle truck up to 16 tonnes GVM to carry your skid steer, excavator etc plus a trailer. This gives you access to a solidly built truck with air brakes.
It seems bizarre and dangerous to use pickup trucks with relatively minimal load capacity towing ridiculously long gooseneck trailers relying on electric brakes in an emergency. This combined with stupid drivers will no doubt keep this thread going forever.
Australia seems to be fortunate to enable easier use of proper heavy duty trucks to contractors in the construction industry to the point many builders, plumbers, landscapers etc can and do use them.
Don’t know why in the US and Europe there is not more lobbying to make safer heavy duty trucks easier to use for smaller contractors.

 

[Pony]

Anyone using a phone for any purpose while driving should be stood against a wall and shot IMHO.

Amazingly there are still apparently states where it is not even against the law to use a phone while driving. That was certainly the case the last time I was in FL but things may have changed since then. I’m afraid I can’t figure out the logic behind that one.

I won't disagree with this even though I'm guilty on occasion myself, however my whinge is why is it illegal to talk on your phone will driving but perfectly OK to talk for as long as you like on a UHF radio while driving?
I really can't see any difference, apart from the fact that not many idiots have UHF's, therefore less accidents involving talking on them.
Wouldn't it be better not to give idiots a drivers licence in the first place and cut the rest of us a little slack?
Texting, a different story.

 

[Birken Vogt]

Many years ago we used to install Motorola analog bag phones under the seat, on the dashboard, permanent antenna through the roof of many trucks and cars. Mircophone on the A pillar and speaker under the dash so the driver could yak while driving. It was thought of as safety, since they did not have to hold the wired handset to their head while attempting to drive.

 

[Pops52]

Skid Loader on a trailer, pickup didn't fare too well

Not an "Overload of the day" more like an UNload of the day. Birken, you may remember this, SB 49 just south of Dorsey Dr. almost 4 years ago. I took the pic offen the local news site. I think the pintle hitch didnt get latched on the dump truck (out of view) and as he topped the hill and started down, it popped up and off. But who knows...

 

[Welder Dave]

Apparently my former neighbor who does demolition had a mishap with a bin. I didn't see it but it sounds plausible. He purchased the largest bin hauler in the city from a company that was going under or shutting down. It was a semi trailer and carried 60yd. bins. I helped change the controls over to a different truck. The bin itself loaded the same way as self contained trucks with bins. Used a big hyd. cylinder to pull a big steel loop that hooked on the bins. A spring underneath held the steel loop up. Stopped at a red light on the hwy. it turned green. He started off but the bin stayed behind blocking that lane. The spring broke and the loop fell down so there was nothing holding the bin. It was just sitting on the rails.
I think he thought he would have a big advantage because he could just keep a truck exchanging bins and the driver wouldn't have to wait to get loaded or even get out of the cab. He uses 80yd. demo bins now. I think the biggest problem is the roll off bins can't carry near the weight of a conventional end dump. Weight is limited to what the hyd's. can pull up and the tilting trailer itself is heavier. The bins aren't built nearly as heavy/strong either.

 

[Birken Vogt]

Not an "Overload of the day" more like an UNload of the day. Birken, you may remember this, SB 49 just south of Dorsey Dr. almost 4 years ago. I took the pic offen the local news site. I think the pintle hitch didnt get latched on the dump truck (out of view) and as he topped the hill and started down, it popped up and off. But who knows...
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I don't really remember it and I don't remember seeing that picture but what I thought I remembered was an excavator hitting the bridge? That unit does not look tall enough to hit it though. Although that is a pretty high deck trailer there.