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He stayed UPRITE!! so a tow bill is better than digging it out of the ditch, paying for cargo damage and fixing the truck when it flipped on its side. This is why I drove Flats & tankers they don't pick-up much wind.

I can bet that the driver had a hard time letting go of the seat and knows what cotton tastes like, A Definite advantage of showering & changing skivvies DAILY
 
BIGNASTY said:
He stayed UPRITE!! so a tow bill is better than digging it out of the ditch, paying for cargo damage and fixing the truck when it flipped on its side. This is why I drove Flats & tankers they don't pick-up much wind.

I can bet that the driver had a hard time letting go of the seat and knows what cotton tastes like, A Definite advantage of showering & changing skivvies DAILY
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That he did, but he lost my vote when he passed the other semi...

The smarter play would have slow down a bit more and wait for a loaded one to come along, get him over in the left lane and run in the right lane beside him to block the wind...
 
I25 can be a dangerous road to travel. North south road and the winds coming off the Rockies out of the west can be brutal.
I remember the HP shutting truck traffic down on I25 through Wheatland many times years ago. As I recall fines were pretty steep along with getting parked if you didn't adhere to the warnings.
 
mwilson said:
That he did, but he lost my vote when he passed the other semi...

The smarter play would have slow down a bit more and wait for a loaded one to come along, get him over in the left lane and run in the right lane beside him to block the wind...
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I wouldn't suggest this play the wind could & HAS BLOWN MANY TRUCKS TOGETHER or Flipped on a car thinking this a good idea also. The smart play would be to find a safe place and get some sleeper time there was NEVER anything that I was hauling that was worth my life
 
Not sure but the tracks leading off the hwy at the first part of the vid could have been a crossover to another road, on the left there's a T pole usually set out for the snow plows to mark a turn around, side road or shoulder

I COULD BE WRONG ITS HAPPENED BEFORE
 
Before saying that loose leaf logs would have been easier your assumption would be rite but its also a very good tip the the DOT officer that a driver was cheating and find more inventive ways of breaking it off in a drivers xxx.
 
Who knows how heavy the dimwit driver was. Not knowing the weight laws of anything East of the Mississippi ( I couldn't spell that without spellcheck) so I never wanted to go any further than that and stayed in the 11 Western States crossing state lines with 90K+ loads was an adventure (or game) that I thoroughly enjoyed as were log books. Commiefornia made it quite adventurous trying to move in and around the state without some Barney trying to make his quota of overweight violations, the rest were mainly after drive time driving for most of 3 or 4 days with a couple of hours of sleep looking VERY CLOSELY at the Peterbilt horn button waiting for my log books to catch up to me.
 
So this is the one my wife was telling me about today, at least he kept the shiny side up. That stretch of road is pretty gnarly with winds, been up and down with the semi's I drive for work (LTL) a lot, slow and steady and so far never had anything wild happen to me yet. This right at the Colorado-Wyoming border, nothing to break the wind right through there. Hopefully everyone using the roads around here tomorrow stay safe, forecast is 40-50 mph winds sustained and up to 75 mph gusts. With the snow piled up around the road sides I see a long narrow skating rink being formed in the near future.
 
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I25 can be a dangerous road to travel. North south road and the winds coming off the Rockies out of the west can be brutal.
I remember the HP shutting truck traffic down on I25 through Wheatland many times years ago. As I recall fines were pretty steep along with getting parked if you didn't adhere to the warnings.
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Nuther big truck bites the dust, Wyoming this time. Physics plays a part here I can't quite understand:D, not sure what all happened here....

 
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It's all too common as AHutson can attest to. There was a state trooper that got rear ended on the side of I25 near Wheatland not too long ago by a truck that got blown over sometime last month i think. Life flighted as I recall but I never heard how he/she faired.
 
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Thats an Amazon Trailer, so bets are its a Swift tractor, OR barely legal owner/operator. I recently was working for a contractor to maintain Base Building equipment, which included dock levelers. The rift raft I saw waiting for loads was astounding, tractors that were obviuosly in ill repair. Some of the trucks had head light assemblies bundgy corded holding them in place. The only thing Amazon cared about was that they had their high visabilty vests when entering the the truck yard. I always took a wide birth around any Swift truck.
 
That it is JR, seems like every time the wind kicks up not many remember how to drive in it. Sadly that's not the only state trooper that's had a close call like that. There was another one last winter, similar deal. Big rig lost traction going too fast for the icy road and slide over onto the shoulder and plowed into the back of the cruiser. The officer was out of it checking on the occupants of another vehicle that slid way off the road at the time.

NIsaacs: Looks like the driver found a slick spot with the tractor and put the brake pedal into the floorboards. From there it's just the loaded trailer keeping it's straight ahead momentum till the sleeper causes a course change, then the Wyoming wind shoves it all across the ice easily since traction has already been broken and into the ditch. Wind and ice makes for some unusual looking wrecks at times up here.

RVTRKN: I see a lot of the same at some places I go to as well, really scary to see them driving. It really makes me want out of the trucking industry with a lot of the articles I read on the CDL mills and some state DOT testers getting busted for passing people that shouldn't. The CDL "school" bribes the DOT official or officials, DOT passes them whether the person should or not. Usually not. Just off the top of my head without reviewing all my news e-mails there were at least 4 instances of that last year alone. At least they finally busted it up, but a lot of damage has been done.
 
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