YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

This guy has you beat. (At least I hope you had a better day than this.)

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The truck was carrying one role of steel weighing 30K pounds and one roll weighing 14K pounds. He swears he was doing 35 but I'm thinking 55ish.

His passenger was banged up a little, but no visible injury.

I am just glad that the rolls landed on the flat side and didn't roll off of the bridge onto rush hour I-40 below.

YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

This guy has you beat. (At least I hope you had a better day than this.)

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...101_0060-3.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...101_0059-3.jpg


The truck was carrying one role of steel weighing 30K pounds and one roll weighing 14K pounds. He swears he was doing 35 but I'm thinking 55ish.

His passenger was banged up a little, but no visible injury.

I am just glad that the rolls landed on the flat side and didn't roll off of the bridge onto rush hour I-40 below.

YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

This guy has you beat. (At least I hope you had a better day than this.)

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...101_0060-3.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...101_0059-3.jpg


The truck was carrying one role of steel weighing 30K pounds and one roll weighing 14K pounds. He swears he was doing 35 but I'm thinking 55ish.

His passenger was banged up a little, but no visible injury.

I am just glad that the rolls landed on the flat side and didn't roll off of the bridge onto rush hour I-40 below.

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Wow! Guess he's off to pee in a cup right now. ;D

I saw something similar in Indiana once. A roll of steel broke loose from a flat bed and hit the ground rolling and actually unwound. It went up an offramp before toppling over. It must have unwound 400', what a mess. Luckily, I didn't see any squished cars.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

Wow! Guess he's off to pee in a cup right now. ;D

I saw something similar in Indiana once. A roll of steel broke loose from a flat bed and hit the ground rolling and actually unwound. It went up an offramp before toppling over. It must have unwound 400', what a mess. Luckily, I didn't see any squished cars.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

Wow! Guess he's off to pee in a cup right now. ;D

I saw something similar in Indiana once. A roll of steel broke loose from a flat bed and hit the ground rolling and actually unwound. It went up an offramp before toppling over. It must have unwound 400', what a mess. Luckily, I didn't see any squished cars.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

Bet you got a few tickets out of him. You inspect his rig. I was trained in that years ago, weighing and inspecting, checking his log book and all.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

Bet you got a few tickets out of him. You inspect his rig. I was trained in that years ago, weighing and inspecting, checking his log book and all.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

Bet you got a few tickets out of him. You inspect his rig. I was trained in that years ago, weighing and inspecting, checking his log book and all.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

I am not CMV certified, but I called the weightwatchers, three of em came and went over the truck, then they worked over the driver with the cite book.

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The worst part was that it was 0730 and this is one of the busiest interchanges on I-40 (Gallimore Dairy Rd. for any locals) in GSO. We had to close the whole thing, which caused the next interchange to gridlock, which caused 40 to back up, which caused several more crashes.

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Randleman, you do your accidents on your computer. We just changed over to that. I hate it. Use to the Old Skool way of doing it on paper with a diagram.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

the way truckers get paid needs to change...they get paid by the load...more loads, more pay...faster you go, more loads, more pay...it's a mentality that HAUNTS the entire driving public...

Milliken pays by the hour and strictly forbids drivers to exceed speed limits at risk of losing job...don't know stats, but their safety record ...incident/mileage WAY outruns the national average...

If the truckin' industry ever comes to it's senses, our hiways will be MUCH safer...FAT CHANCE ::) ...

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

Yeah, we are paperless. The first 100 or so were a drag but now I can do em faster with the computer. Our system lets you just run the DL and Reg through DMV and it will put the info into the report for you.

As far as diagrams, all the wrecks I do occur on a short straight section of road.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

About five years ago I was in Toledo, Ohio.
there was a news report of a steel coil unraveling from the truck
and actually decapitated a guy.
It happened on a bridge and there was no place to go.

Re: YOU THOUGHT YOUR DAY STARTED BAD
 

I stayed way back from those rolls, just in case one cut loose.