Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[cqaigy2]

Should get good gas mileage, going down hill all the time.

 

[RandyT]

That trailer would be an atrocity towing it empty. Home made with a truck flat bed, the hitch off of a single wide trailer, and the 3K axles are way too far forward. Probably had negative tongue weight even empty.

 

[aczlan]

Guy’s rooftop cargo carrier popped open while driving……saw some clothing type items on the road then saw him pulled over about a tenth of a mile up.

Always double check a secure load - no matter how small.

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And never trust the "latches" on those to hold...

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9400# of skid steer on 7000# of axles attached to an old truck flatbed and a mobile home tongue, what could possibly go wrong...

Aaron Z

 

[duramaxsky]

That trailer would be an atrocity towing it empty. Home made with a truck flat bed, the hitch off of a single wide trailer, and the 3K axles are way too far forward. Probably had negative tongue weight even empty.

Yeah it's not very well thought out

 

[Agvg]

So, what is the reaction from the police if caught with this type of loads on public roads?

 

[Tinhack]

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Looks like a homemade trailer. That coupler frame is off a mobile home. I just bought one from the scrap yard to make into a ground plane.

 

[seville009]

Kind of an interesting “hauling” picture on the NYS Thruway today - based on his license plate, looks like a mobile ham radio set up.

Either that or an Internet Explorer Maps car……(ha ha)

 

[California]

So, what is the reaction from the police if caught with this type of loads on public roads?

Typically can't move it on the public roads, have to carry it away on a larger trailer. Which will be expensive.

 

[California]

what could possibly go wrong...

Well, everything.

 

[aczlan]

Kind of an interesting “hauling” picture on the NYS Thruway today - based on his license plate, looks like a mobile ham radio set up.

Either that or an Internet Explorer Maps car……(ha ha)


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Ham radio, has been doing it since at least 2005:

Welcome

Aaron Z

 

[seville009]

Ham radio, has been doing it since at least 2005:

Welcome

Aaron Z

Yes - I had googled his plate/call sign and saw that he was from Clarence (pic was taken heading West around Victor).

I thought it was interesting just because the antennas, I would think, would have been too fragile to drive around; obviously not though.

 

[YanmarFever]

Wow is that the google suv?

He's all wired up alright

 

[Fallon]

Kind of an interesting “hauling” picture on the NYS Thruway today - based on his license plate, looks like a mobile ham radio set up.

Either that or an Internet Explorer Maps car……(ha ha)


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My wife's old car from when we did a wardriving competition a few years back. Got 80,000 access points in under 2 hours with that setup.

 

[MoMower]

So, what is the reaction from the police if caught with this type of loads on public roads?

Out of service, trailer and machine towed. Large fines.

 

[dodge man]

We are on a trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway and somewhere in western Virginia before we got to the Parkway we saw what I think was a half ton truck and bumper pull travel trailer wrecked. I’ve seen similar pictures before, trailer on its side with the pickups rear wheels 18“ off the ground with the trailer still hooked up. A straight stretch of road, interstate, fairly flat. I‘m guess the trailer started wagging and he lost it. 3 lanes wide and he was blocking the entire highway except traffic could barely squeeze by on the inside shoulder. I think they were waiting for the big rig to clean up that mess.

 

[deezler]

Didn't get a pic last night, but some dumbass with what looked like an old chevy S-10 was pulling a real skid steer on an equipment trailer, easily 12k+ load. Took a turn onto MY ROAD and the truck turned, but the trailer and skid didn't - down into the ditch with a huge recovery effort ongoing. Guessing the hitch ripped clean off the pickup, didn't get a real clean look. At least the skid steer was still fastened to the trailer. Hopefully he got a citation for the grossly excessive load.

Had to take a 15 minute detour to get home (to avoid taking any dirt roads with my newly washed car LOL).

 

[deezler]

We are on a trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway and somewhere in western Virginia before we got to the Parkway we saw what I think was a half ton truck and bumper pull travel trailer wrecked. I’ve seen similar pictures before, trailer on its side with the pickups rear wheels 18“ off the ground with the trailer still hooked up. A straight stretch of road, interstate, fairly flat. I‘m guess the trailer started wagging and he lost it. 3 lanes wide and he was blocking the entire highway except traffic could barely squeeze by on the inside shoulder. I think they were waiting for the big rig to clean up that mess.

When I see that here in Michigan (a pretty flat place) it's usually a toy hauler type camper. Dad/family loads up the ATVs, dirt bikes and/or SxS into the very rear of the trailer, and you get zero or negative tongue weight on the 1500 pickup - recipe for disaster. You're lucky if the camper ends up only flipping onto its side, because when it goes all the way over, the truck does too and you're in real danger of injury or DEATH.

 

[dodge man]

My wife was driving when we went by the wreck and I grabbed for my phone to late. It was a fairly long trailer, may or may not have been a toy hauler. Not sure if he was using a WDH or not either. It hard to tell a lot when the rig is a jack knifed twisted mess.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

The tractor was aa bit too large for the trailer. Which resulted in the tongue weight being too low and the trailer whipping.

But, Hey, He did a damn fine job of binding it down.

 

[BravoXray]