Truck towing overloaded kills, driver gets felony charges.

[MikeWanless]

Damn. He surely was aware of the problem at that point. It's directly before the intersection, for good reason. Another view, for everyone else to see:

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no questtion now that i see where it is, he was a moron

 

[MikeWanless]

Yeah, driver doesn't matter. You can't take that much load down a 2300 ft vertical descent with no brakes. It's straight downhill from lake tahoe.

actually not straight, a number of curves, some slightly off camber. I drive it too fast. The other side towards Tahoe is much straighter down.

 

[bcp]

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1169452,-119.7795388,3a,75y,75.7h,102.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA1oOGjUnq07YZzGkw0ptcg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Bruce

 

[MikeWanless]

Kind of amazing that the boat stayed on the trailer, and didn't flip or tip over.

thought the same thing

 

[MikeWanless]

You are a key witness. Do your duty and volunteer to comment to the NHP.

good point, i'll touch base but i think they have plenty for prosecution. Turns out there are two runway ramps on the pass that he went by.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

as i pointed out earlier, he was not speeding when i passed him 2x, the last about 2 miles from the accident. I will say it was a "huge" effing boat, I smelled brakes and i got the hell out of the way fast!

I'm just curious, did he have any pilot cars, oversize load signage, or was it just a boat on a trailer?

 

[JWR]

Perhaps a very far second... the “Good Morning thread https://tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/good-morning.223701/page-2840 has nearly 10 times as many.

Looks like a TBN user's version of facebook. People on there with 17,000 postings(!?) Wild. Not enough hours in the day as it is without subscribing to that.

 

[JWR]

good point, i'll touch base but i think they have plenty for prosecution. Turns out there are two runway ramps on the pass that he went by.

I don't think having enough for prosecution is enough of a criteria. Not my business but I think you have key eyewitness evidence of the overall circumstance probably not available from any other source. Everyone in a large significant case like this is going to feel more like they have closure with your report added to the entirety. Not a matter of obtaining a conviction, making a case or defending anyone ... just a more complete picture. In your shoes I would feel responsible to come forward and I feel certain the police and legal people on all sides would appreciate it. Just my view. "Touching base" as you said is the right thing to do.

 

[ning]

Kind of amazing that the boat stayed on the trailer, and didn't flip or tip over.

Looks to me that the 5 axles strongly resist change in direction and the boat & trailer probably tore the pintle right off of the truck when it went sideways and the trailer just plowed mostly straight on through.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

Looks to me that the 5 axles strongly resist change in direction and the boat & trailer probably tore the pintle right off of the truck when it went sideways and the trailer just plowed mostly straight on through.

I pulled a four axle trailer for years and all of them had at least one axle that turned, some spring loaded on king pins, some some with a front turntable. When they didn't due to mechanical failure they resisted turning quite a bit. None of our 3 axle trailers had a turning axle but all of the four axle did.