Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[dodge man]

There is no limit how much beer you can drive with just how much you can drink and drive.

 

[BigBlue1]

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How do people get that unaware or uneducated that they don't think through something like this? This isn't rocket surgery.

 

[masseyrider]

This isn't rocket surgery.

 

[WinterDeere]

There is no limit how much beer you can drive with just how much you can drink and drive.

I'm not sure if it's changed in recent years, but my German coworkers used to find it funny that we could not have an open beer in the cupholder while driving in PA. They would say, "but if you're under the limit, who cares?"

Apparently, over there back then, it was legal to drive while sucking down a beer, as long as you kept under the limit. But their limit was lower than ours, and the cost of violation was higher.

My inbred American sensibility would never let me actually test this while working over there.

 

[LouNY]

Open Container laws here are actually a fairly new thing. I was working in Texas when they made it illegal for the driver to have an open container, the passengers still could back then. So mid 80's early 90's.

 

[Tinhack]

Back in the late 80s my friend and his wife drove his 1980 Corvette from Western Canada to here ( near Sault Ste Marie Ontario ) towing a tent trailer.

When I bought my 20' Four Winns I/O Cuddy Cabin boat, I had a new 1990 Toyota Celica. To pick up the boat about two weeks later (boat dealer was making a cover and installing accessories), I had the car dealer install a trailer hitch on the Toyota. I hauled that boat around with the Toyota for about three months of Ohio summer before finding a used Ford Bronco to do towing duties.

That Toyota looked like a marble pulling a log. But it did the job. In 1993, I traded the Celica and the Bronco in on a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. That's when my car troubles began.

 

[WinterDeere]

Open Container laws here are actually a fairly new thing. I was working in Texas when they made it illegal for the driver to have an open container, the passengers still could back then. So mid 80's early 90's.

PA went the other way... sorta. In 1990, we could not have any bottle in the passenger compartment, once the seal was broken. Old married couples could get in trouble for bringing the remnant of their dinner wine home from the restaurant, if they didn't remember to put the opened but re-corked bottle in the trunk, rather than the back seat.

But then with the popularity of SUV's in the 1990's, it was realized that the trunk now is the passenger compartment, and so the law had to change. I don't remember the exact wording of the re-write, but now we can have an opened and re-corked wine bottle in the car.

 

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PA went the other way... sorta. In 1990, we could not have any bottle in the passenger compartment, once the seal was broken. Old married couples could get in trouble for bringing the remnant of their dinner wine home from the restaurant, if they didn't remember to put the opened but re-corked bottle in the trunk, rather than the back seat.

But then with the popularity of SUV's in the 1990's, it was realized that the trunk now is the passenger compartment, and so the law had to change. I don't remember the exact wording of the re-write, but now we can have an opened and re-corked wine bottle in the car.

Something along the lines of unreachable by anyone in the car probably

 

[LouNY]

PA went the other way... sorta. In 1990, we could not have any bottle in the passenger compartment, once the seal was broken. Old married couples could get in trouble for bringing the remnant of their dinner wine home from the restaurant, if they didn't remember to put the opened but re-corked bottle in the trunk, rather than the back seat.

But then with the popularity of SUV's in the 1990's, it was realized that the trunk now is the passenger compartment, and so the law had to change. I don't remember the exact wording of the re-write, but now we can have an opened and re-corked wine bottle in the car.

Either way it is just governmental over reach and meddling. Ridiculous laws dreamt up by idiots determined to protect others from themselves and others with burdensome laws that are ineffective and just used for harassment and revenue enhancement. It has nothing to do with DUI's, which have been also over done to a ridiculous point.

 

[sixdogs]

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There has to be permanent damage to the tailgate, and possibly bed of truck, on this and I'll guess a factory tailgate painted that color is over $2,000. Anyone think this through?

 

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There has to be permanent damage to the tailgate, and possibly bed of truck, on this and I'll guess a factory tailgate painted that color is over $2,000. Anyone think this through?

Probably only those of us on this thread

 

[Fixastuff]

Probably only those of us on this thread

I’m torn as to whether the fork lift guy didn’t know any better or was so tired of trying to stop people he just says ok and does it to see what happens now.

 

[kenmbz]

at HD, I watched a guy forklift a load to a high shelf, which touched another pallet of goods and landed at an angle. So now 2 pallets of heavy stone with one resting partially on the other.
I got bored and left after a while of watching him smack into the one pallet to try and shift it.

After a few minutes of watching him try to untangle that mess, I decided having them load anything by forklift into my truck would be high risk.

I so wanted to take the controls and fix the problem.......ForkLIFT, not ForkRAM.

 

[BravoXray]

A few years ago, one of my trucks delivered a load of bagged salt to a HD. The forklift operator picked up a pallet almots as high as it would go, then turned quickly, tipping the forklift over onto the trailer and scattering salt all over. They got the forklift set back up, cleaned up the spilled salt, and a couple of skids later did the same damn thing again.

 

[goeduck]

This isn't rocket surgery.

Agree, nor is it Brain Scientist work.

 

[1Mech]

A little north of Dallas, don't know what he is hauling, but it looks a bit heavy for the truck. Bet he is wising that axle was a little more forward!

 

[RandyT]

A little north of Dallas, don't know what he is hauling, but it looks a bit heavy for the truck. Bet he is wising that axle was a little more forward!

Looks like about 4 foot diameter plastic culvert pipe. The wooden boxes it is setting on weighs about as much as the pipe does.

 

[gstrom99]

I’m torn as to whether the fork lift guy didn’t know any better or was so tired of trying to stop people he just says ok and does it to see what happens now.

I bet the truck never moved, with that load. Pic taken, wood taken back out, moving to "plan B"...

 

[goeduck]

A little north of Dallas, don't know what he is hauling, but it looks a bit heavy for the truck. Bet he is wising that axle was a little more forward!

Weight wise he could be fine, but in a big crosswind I wouldn't want to be him.

 

[Jstpssng]

Aren't these idiots paranoid about getting busted for unsecured load?
The local dumps fines you for that, doubt the scrap yards do, but I would be a nervous wreck that something fell off and went through a $2000 windshield, for a $20 set of straps.

When you have nothing you have nothing to lose. Half of the things in there are probably stolen anyways.