No Picture as I was driving , But this past week , while driving south around Tacoma , on the 167 freeway . Caught and past a 3/4 pick-up pulling a 12' dump trailer that had one of those mini excavator's in it . Weight distribuation wise , load looked Good , No real sagging at back of pick up . BUT something did not look right to my eye's . I changed lanes after getting by him , But got stuck behind some slower traffic getting on , thus He changed lanes and came up my drivers side were I got a better look . What I had seen was Very clear then , that there were No , Repeat NO tie downs , chains , straps , nothing , Holding the mini in the trailer . Going straight from roughly the junction of the Hwy. 18 and 167 , South to almost Sumner, ( maybe 4 or 5 miles ) , load looked Good . But let Me tell You , When He hit that big sweeping corner at Sumner on the 167 that brings You around to face West , At likely around 60 mph , Things in that trailer looked to be leaning hard to the left . Then When he took the off ramp for the 512 , which then makes a harder turn to the left , thus now facing south again , Things in that trailer Dang near toppled out . While trailer kept all 4 wheels on the pavement but did lean to the right , the mini looked like it actually came up onto the left side track , ( mini was facing rearwards ) , Then slammed back down again , since the trailer did this weird rocking motion . Subsequently , Driver then took the next exit into Puyallup . Speed was obviously a issue , But if it had actually toppled out , Ugh , Washington DOT and WSP , would of had a field day .
It was almost as Good as seeing those big motor homes flying down the freeway dragging , literally dragging , one of those car hitches . Why ? Been several times over the last couple of years , that the car has actually broke loose from the tow bar , sailed off freeway , while motor home has continued on . :laughing:
Fred H.
