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I call it as a failure of driving technique used for the equipment, loads, and road conditions. perhaps ten to fifteen mph less speed entering the sweeping decreasing radius turn would have prevented this.
That wasn't a dash cam, just someone following, recording, and waiting for it. And akshually, our boy was going way too fast to make that correction mid-curve. That load was gone way before anything on the trailer failed.
In a 12 season career of hauling logs and 14' high loads of lumber, all of which was mountain driving, I never turned a truck over. Every one of those loads paid by the load or a percentage of the gross.
They say you'll never be a truck driver until you turn a truck over. That's what the guys that have turned trucks over say, anyway.
The rear wheels stay planted, and the trailer frame lifts away from the axles. Something broke. Yeah, he was too fast, but I don't think it would crash for that reason only.
This ^^^ is correct. Watch it carefully. If it were speed alone, the left side of the rear axles would have lifted. They didn’t. The chassis separated from the axles.
Driver error. He was on the wrong side of the line and the correction was too much for the speed (and the vehicle's mechanical condition). I drove a million miles and never put one it's top, but I have done shit that made my pooper pucker.
Actually, he cut the inside of the corner, which made it a more gentle turn.
The front of the trailer doesn't want to fall over, but the rear breaking and tilting pretty far finally drags the front of the truck with it. Normally, when you see a big rig fall over in a turn, it's the front that initiates it, not the rear. Took a bit of replaying it, since it didn't look right, before I realized it was backwards.
Don't tell me, let me guess. The truck driver had an explanation as to why it wasn't his fault.
ReplyDeleteactually, if you look, it is a failure at the axle to trailer suspension connection that caused it.
DeleteI call it as a failure of driving technique used for the equipment, loads, and road conditions. perhaps ten to fifteen mph less speed entering the sweeping decreasing radius turn would have prevented this.
DeleteThat wasn't a dash cam, just someone following, recording, and waiting for it. And akshually, our boy was going way too fast to make that correction mid-curve. That load was gone way before anything on the trailer failed.
ReplyDeleteHe's paid by the trip.
ReplyDeleteIn a 12 season career of hauling logs and 14' high loads of lumber, all of which was mountain driving, I never turned a truck over. Every one of those loads paid by the load or a percentage of the gross.
DeleteThey say you'll never be a truck driver until you turn a truck over. That's what the guys that have turned trucks over say, anyway.
Still way to fast for the curve.
ReplyDelete"I never drive faster than I can see!" Pork Chop Express
ReplyDeleteFlash back to him at 14, stupidly asking his teacher "But when am I ever going to use physics in real life?"
ReplyDeleteThe rear wheels stay planted, and the trailer frame lifts away from the axles. Something broke. Yeah, he was too fast, but I don't think it would crash for that reason only.
ReplyDeleteThis ^^^ is correct. Watch it carefully. If it were speed alone, the left side of the rear axles would have lifted. They didn’t. The chassis separated from the axles.
DeleteIsn't that trailer a dolly setup, though? It's made to de-attach, so that the whole works can be loaded onto the tractor when empty?
ReplyDeleteDriver error.
ReplyDeleteHe was on the wrong side of the line and the correction was too much for the speed (and the vehicle's mechanical condition).
I drove a million miles and never put one it's top, but I have done shit that made my pooper pucker.
Actually, he cut the inside of the corner, which made it a more gentle turn.
DeleteThe front of the trailer doesn't want to fall over, but the rear breaking and tilting pretty far finally drags the front of the truck with it. Normally, when you see a big rig fall over in a turn, it's the front that initiates it, not the rear. Took a bit of replaying it, since it didn't look right, before I realized it was backwards.