Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Fallon]

Id say the Pepsi truck cleaned everything off the green trailer.

Ya, I concur. 40k+ of semi trailer will handily take out properly strapped or chained 5k tractors.

 

[Jstpssng]

It's hard to tell that the pickup was the tow vehicle.

 

[duramaxsky]

The Pepsi truck is for the most part next to the flat bed. It looks like it's on it but that's just the camera angle. But the tires are not up on the trailer. It may have been over it enough to break the straps. But if you look at the straps they all broke. My guess is that happened when he hit the tanker and the Pepsi truck got there after that.

 

[aczlan]

The Pepsi truck is for the most part next to the flat bed. It looks like it's on it but that's just the camera angle. But the tires are not up on the trailer. It may have been over it enough to break the straps. But if you look at the straps they all broke. My guess is that happened when he hit the tanker and the Pepsi truck got there after that.

That would be my guess, looks like he hit (or was pushed into) the semi in front of him hard enough to send a pair of 2800# mowers flying (hopefully the one that flipped into the truck bed only broke out the back glass and didn't hit the driver).
I suspect that he was pushed as it looks almost like the front of the trailer is under the truck that had been towing it (like it got pushed hard from behind)

Aaron Z

 

[Diggin It]

To me it looks like the Pepsi truck was already involved and the pickup with the trailer hit the tanker, jacknifing into the side of the semi. Considering that it was on a freeway in dense fog, it's likely that it all happened within seconds and the pickup may have been beside, but slightly behind the semi.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Cab of the pickup is in pretty good shape. Can still see the steering wheel which has some space in front if it. It does look like the green trailor is jackknifed into the side of the pickup. At least it seems no fire from tanker and trucks or the pickup. There is liquid on the pavement from something.

 

[two_bit_score]

I'd say the Blinco tanker changed lanes into the pick up while trying to avoid the truck on the shoulder. The Pepsi truck hit the pick up/trailer with mowers after the mowers went flying from the initial impact.

 

[RandyT]

Those two JD mowers were worth a lot more money than the trailer and pickup truck that was hauling them.

 

[Jstpssng]

Am I the only one who has done this? I have never completely trusted those tiedown loops attached to the sheet metal in pickup beds, and for the second time tonight I pulled one out while cinching a ratchet tie down strap to hold my snowsled in. Just last week I was talking to a coworker, who doesn't understand why I don't trust those bed loops.

 

[two_bit_score]

Am I the only one who has done this? I have never completely trusted those tiedown loops attached to the sheet metal in pickup beds, and for the second time tonight I pulled one out while cinching a ratchet tie down strap to hold my snowsled in. Just last week I was talking to a coworker, who doesn't understand why I don't trust those bed loops.

They can be trusted - up to a point. You can't treat them like a chain pocket and expect them to hold anything more than fairly light, convenience type of loads.


I'm surprised a ratchet strap could pull a factory installed one loose.