Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[sixdogs]

Looks like the bed is starting to break away from the cab?

 

[terryknight]

are those pallets just strapped to themselves? or am i seeing things?

 

[GManBart]

Looks like the bed is starting to break away from the cab?

It looks like it....or there is a bend in the frame rails (likely).

 

[GManBart]

are those pallets just strapped to themselves? or am i seeing things?

The rear strap might be hooked to the frame, but I'm not sure.

 

[paulharvey]

Here's the idiot I saw today....70, yes 70 pallets on a half-ton. Any wonder why it's riding so low, the frame/bed seems bent and the tailgate is all mangled?

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I've noticed that over time this thread has turned from mostly silly, too bashing people just doing what they need to do to get bye. I'm not meaning to single out his one, but many of them. Doesn't make sense to use a $50k truck to haul $350 worth of pallets. Or some trying to tow his truck home...

 

[GManBart]

I've noticed that over time this thread has turned from mostly silly, too bashing people just doing what they need to do to get bye. I'm not meaning to single out his one, but many of them. Doesn't make sense to use a $50k truck to haul $350 worth of pallets. Or some trying to tow his truck home...

A light pallet weighs 30lbs minimum....that puts this load at 2,100lbs at the absolute minimum, which is WAY over the safe capacity for that truck. There's a reason the fenders were almost touching the tires....overloaded. Looking at the rest of the vehicle, it's doubtful it has good brakes and tires, etc.

Trying to get by is one thing, being blatantly unsafe, risking other people's lives is another. Just because someone is broke doesn't mean they can do whatever they feel like.

I posted this on Facebook, and a local friend says he's seen this same truck, doing the same thing, multiple times in the past.

Edit to add: note the left taillight and brake light don't work, and the housing is broken....another sign this is an unsafe vehicle, with an unsafe driver.

 

[3930dave]

This happened to us one day at work long ago...

We used to take our own cars when we were working in small towns too far away to drive the company vehicles back and forth every day and we'd take turns driving our own cars and transporting everyone (small crew). One guy had just got a fresh (and very cheap) paint job on his 1974 Matador and we were heading home one fine summer, all relaxed and laid back, when all of a sudden the paint on the hood lifted up and peeled back in one solid sheet and covered the windshield totally! Happened so fast it was as if it were instantaneous and it made a surprising loud WHAP! when it happened . Between the "lights going out" and the loud noise of it slapping against the windshield ...well, to say we were startled would be more than a mild understatement.

Sounds like a skit in a movie :laughing:; I could see John Candy driving ! I trust that ended well....

Same era, a high school buddy of mine is driving late at night from Ottawa to Guelph. 401 West of Toronto was relatively quiet back in those days.... he's driving along alone in a 75 Caprice.

(Sidebar note, for any kids reading along.... back in the olden days, the dimmer switch for the headlights was on the floor, to left of the brake pedal. Up north here, a car didn't see too many winters, before that switch would corrode enough that it tended to stick - if you kicked on the highbeams, you'd have to reach down with your hand, and pull the switch up, to get back to low beams - a real PITA).

So, my buddy is cruising along about 70mph on a straight high speed highway late on a clear summer night, flat farm country west of Toronto, with his 1975 non-halogen headlights on Low (very weak headlights, compared to today's). All of a sudden, there appears to be what looks like a wall across his lane, JUST ahead of the car !

Cranks the wheel to the left (no traffic for miles), and has to wrestle with the car (big 'ol soft suspension on that boat), as he screeches and fishtails between the 2 lanes going his direction. Finally gets the car under control, and pulls off onto the gravel shoulder way up ahead. Puts on his 4ways, and walks back down the shoulder to see what the heck he almost hit.

It was a very large flattened box, one that would have held a large commercial freezer. Just before his low-output Low Beams lit it up, a gust of wind stood it up on edge, so that the first thing he saw was this 7' high vertical face !

Lost at least one hubcap with that maneuver, but otherwise the car was OK. Buddy was shook up, said he didn't have that far to go after that, but went through about 12 cigarettes getting there !

Fortunately, he was a good driver.... may folks would have lost that old Caprice that night..... they weren't designed for autocrossing !

Rgds, D.

 

[dstig1]

Saw a truck bedliner on the side of the road today. Was about 50 feet out in a muddy field and likely the owner never knew it blew out of the back of the truck.

I witnessed that once, about 20+ years ago. Driving on the 694 loop around St Paul on a very windy weekend day. We were probably getting gusts north of 40 mph. Traffic moving along at 60 or so I guess with those winds in the cross direction. A few hundred yards up ahead a pickup truck travelling the same direction had a drop in bedliner, that was clearly not secured. How do I know? Well it took off like a kite a few feet above the truck and floated/flopped down on to the middle of the road. I GUARANTEE you that the driver knew it came out. Along with everyone else around him. Lucky it wasn't too crowded as it did not seem to hit anyone and nobody hit it that I could tell. I was far enough back that it was not an issue for me. That was pretty wild. That was the 2nd craziest thing I ever witnessed on the road. The first was the Ford ranger in So Cal losing it's driveshaft and pole vaulting when the front hit a crack in the road, which I have mentioned here before. That was something else.

 

[sixdogs]

I haven't seen this in a long time but I remember a number of times over the years of seeing sheets of plywood "levitating" in the back of my pickup at high speeds. The air wasn't enough to lift it above the truck bed but sufficient to allow it to float back there. Scared the stuffin' of out of me when it used to happen.

 

[dstig1]

Ha! That reminds me further of my own little "adventure" a year ago. I bought a bunch of extruded PS foam for my new house build from Menards during one of their sales. I went out into the yard and saw how many 2" sheets were stacked in a full lift, then bought 5 full lifts. I think it was 24 sheets/lift. So they all came fully shrink wrapped together into one solid mass. I could fit one lift inthe bed of the PU and it was only 3-4 miles to the house, so my friend and I went up to grab the first one. It is the dense foam for underslab, so it is a bit heavier than regular foam. It really took 2 guys to lift it into place in the bed, and then close the gate (8' bed, baby!). We took off down the road and delivered the first one, then ran back for #2. Did I mention it was a breezy day? Have you heard me say anything about putting a strap on it? Ran #2 down, and went back for #3. Well #3 got a bit more interesting. We were cruising down the road at 55 and suddenly we hear this gawdawful vibration and a second later FOOP! the top 3-4 pieces peeled out of the wrapper and then the whole lift got sucked right out onto the road behind us. Fortunately the next car was back 1/4-1/2 mile, so they had no problems dealing with it, but it was quite the oh Sheet moment. I can only imagine the fun if that landed on someone's windshield... The next 2 loads got a strap over them. Even when you think you have a solid load that cannot get sucked out, you can be surprised. I guess the bed liner incident should have made me a bit wiser... NOPE! :ashamed: