Trailer mishap

[joshuabardwell]

This happened as a vendor was leaving an event that I attended.



In case it's not obvious from the photo, the trailer has gone off the side of a small bridge over a creek.

 

[powerstroke444e]

Easy to do with long trailer and narrow road. Hope all ended up ok.

 

[joshuabardwell]

Easy to do with long trailer and narrow road. Hope all ended up ok.

The guy phoned the site contact and abashedly begged for a tractor to come get him out. The site contact told him, "Tractor? You need a wrecker!" Once the wrecker got him out, he was on his way with no apparent harm done, except what his boss is going to do to him when he gets back to the office and has to explain the bill.

Good thing the carts were properly secured, or they'd have ended up in the creek, and the story wouldn't have ended so well.

 

[crazyal]

It's hard to tell but it looks like there's a curve in the road before that bridge. I bet the driver pays more attention from now on.

 

[joshuabardwell]

It's hard to tell but it looks like there's a curve in the road before that bridge. I bet the driver pays more attention from now on.

You're correct. Here's what it looked like. A relatively short right before crossing the bridge in the tree line.



Next time, maybe he'll just park on the other side and drive the golf carts out!

 

[yelbike]

You're correct. Here's what it looked like. A relatively short right before crossing the bridge in the tree line.

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Next time, maybe he'll just park on the other side and drive the golf carts out!

Or wait until his at the office before texting his girlfriend!!

 

[joshuabardwell]

Here's another pic somebody just posted. Looks like the tail of the trailer is what saved the whole thing from going in.

 

[Ken45101]

Gooseneck trailers do a terrible job of following behind on curves and narrow roads.

That picture looks too familiar to me except that ours was a horse trailer off the side of our driveway with a 50' drop and two horses in it. It wouldn't have taken much more for the trailer to have drug the truck down the hill! My first call was to the vet, then to a towing company.

 

[MoKelly]

That is too bad. Was this the only road out of the event? If so, you probably had lots of frustrated event goers for a while.

MoKelly

 

[deepNdirt]

Happy ending to what otherwise could have been a disaster and costly incident,

I've seen similar, A friend and his family invited my family out to a day on the lake in his new 21ft bayliner, we met at the boat launching ramps, which was down hill grade from the roadway,

We enjoyed the day and loaded the boat onto it's trailer, off he went with me fallowing, the road was curvy and with low shoulder on our side, This time he was pulling up hill when My friend found out the hard way,
( that not all trailers fallow the path of the towing vehicle) especially a wide trailer....

The trailer passenger side wheel dropped off the shoulder and the weight of the boat shift to that side, resulting in it sliding against a large pine tree that stood 4 ft off the roadway, it was the tree that kept the boat from sliding on down the hillside, My friend had a wrecker to pull it out, we notice many of the trees along the roadside had marks on them, so he didn't fill so bad,
A couple weeks later He had the boat on a tandem axle trailer, This particular boat ramp was the closest to his home and he planed to use it frequently and said he felt better knowing he has 4 wheels planted on the road rather than 2, I tend to agree

 

[CliffordK]

A tractor in front, and one behind likely could have gotten him out. But, it is a big trailer, apparently a deep ditch/bridge. It is just as well to let the "professionals" handle it.

Also, the local farmers probably don't want the liability of making the situation worse, or breaking something.

 

[joshuabardwell]

That is too bad. Was this the only road out of the event? If so, you probably had lots of frustrated event goers for a while.

There is another route out of the site, yes. Fortunately, the event had been over for a day, and the only people on site were staff who were cleaning up and tearing down.

 

[CobyRupert]

So the trailer wheels don't follow in the tracks of the truck tires? Huh!

 

[deepNdirt]

So the trailer wheels don't follow in the tracks of the truck tires? Huh!

not when cornering or turning into curves and when the trailer is 3 ft wider,:confused3:

 

[Ken45101]

With a bumper hitch trailer, the bumper moves toward the outside of the curve and helps keep the trailer on the road. With a gooseneck, that doesn't happen and they definitely want to "cut corners". It doesn't help that goosenecks are often longer trailers too.

 

[yelbike]

A tractor in front, and one behind likely could have gotten him out. But, it is a big trailer, apparently a deep ditch/bridge. It is just as well to let the "professionals" handle it.

Also, the local farmers probably don't want the liability of making the situation worse, or breaking something.

That's why I, personally, have refused to pull out some people out of the snowy ditch. If its not a straight forward pull. I a wrecker will only cost $60-100 around here, I could cause multiples of that amount in damages in a faction of a second. Some times I help by pulling them out, some times I help them by calling a wrecker. Just depends.

 

[Ken45101]

Yeah, the "professionals" should have insurance to cover their mistakes ;-) (Local towing company "lost" a fire department aerial truck while towing it for maintenance. A total loss and the FD was without an aerial for a year.)

 

[crazyal]

Looking at the map if he had taken it wide in the corner before the bridge he would have been fine but that would have required paying attention and thinking ahead. Sometimes companies don't think they have to pay extra for that.

 

[joshuabardwell]

Looking at the map if he had taken it wide in the corner before the bridge he would have been fine but that would have required paying attention and thinking ahead. Sometimes companies don't think they have to pay extra for that.

It can be done. After all, the same truck likely delivered the carts.

 

[Red Bull]

Did the drivers undies make it out ok?