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[Fallon]

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Got this one tonight about 30 miles from home. Pulled into a Casey's for gas and a coffee. The front of the truck looked like it rear-ended something and the car, too. The truck had one lug and lugnut missing on the rear driver's side wheel. The truck pulling the car didn't have license plates on it, but the car did.

These hitches just don't look right. I also own an Impala of the same generation and I doubt there is enough metal on the front to weld brackets that this hitch would attach to.

I occasionally see them going down the road with what I'm guessing is Mexicans hauling them back to Mexico. There was also an old used bread delivery truck in their caravan. Anyone else see this? Do you know what is happening with these cars and trucks?

They buy em cheap at auctions & are taking them home to fix & flip. Usually totals or what not that the insurance companies are trying to get the most salvage value for.

See those salvage convoys heading south on I25 from the big auction in Denver all the time.

 

[California]

Shhh they're sleeping ...

 

[4570Man]

One *big* mistake they made was not putting down the rear "landing gear" before rolling the bed back. That is critical. But I suspect that the grader was too heavy for that truck. I used to deliver small buildings on a roll-back truck like that, and the bed was pretty stout, but there's no way I would ever have put large construction equipment on it, especially one that wide.

That grader is probably around 30K. That was a tandem axel truck. It should be capable of hauling that no problem. I have hauled 12 K on a Ford F-super duty rollback. I can say from experience ever with lighter loads like 5k if you don't put the landing gear down first it will lift the front of the truck off the ground.

 

[tman1020]

Shhh they're sleeping ...

Very funny.

 

[dragoneggs]

Shhh they're sleeping ...

Amazing... four in order.

 

[PSEbowhunter]

That grader is probably around 30K. That was a tandem axel truck. It should be capable of hauling that no problem. I have hauled 12 K on a Ford F-super duty rollback. I can say from experience ever with lighter loads like 5k if you don't put the landing gear down first it will lift the front of the truck off the ground.

There is no landing gear on that truck by the looks of things. I don't see a stinger on the back to drop and anchor, or any support gear to drop from the sides. I really don't think that rig set up like that was designed for that much weight.

 

[4570Man]

There is no landing gear on that truck by the looks of things. I don't see a stinger on the back to drop and anchor, or any support gear to drop from the sides. I really don't think that rig set up like that was designed for that much weight.

I think that bumper on the back would hit the ground and serve as landing gear, but there is no wheel lift. That is a tandem axel truck. How much weight is it supposed to haul?

 

[Sodo]

I am also amazed at how many people tailgate me when towing. They must have even more faith in my equipment than I do.

I had "stuff" on a trailer yesterday. Definitely closer tailgaters, and more of them. People tailgate when you're hauling because:

1) they're allowed to tailgate because it's your fault for driving slow
2) they're getting ready to pass but a little afraid
3) other junkmen wanna see what you're hauling
4) TBN fellas fumbling with their camera on the phone

 

[IslandTractor]

I had "stuff" on a trailer yesterday. Definitely closer tailgaters, and more of them. People tailgate when you're hauling because:

1) they're allowed to tailgate because it's your fault for driving slow
2) they're getting ready to pass but a little afraid
3) other junkmen wanna see what you're hauling
4) TBN fellas fumbling with their camera on the phone

I'm sorry, that load is WAY too well secured to justify a photo posting in this thread. Probably isn't even a quarter ton over weight limit either.

 

[4570Man]

I'm sorry, that load is WAY too well secured to justify a photo posting in this thread. Probably isn't even a quarter ton over weight limit either.

That load looks properly secured. The trailer was his downfall.