Video worth watching of wreck recovery

[CUMMINZ]

This is a very long video and you may want to skip through most of it. It does not tell what happened. A brand new F-250 that is jacked up and big tires and air bags towing a big toy hauler. IMO just asking for a big happening.


https://youtu.be/DOnxT1S4Irw

 

[AEdelheit]

The story I read a few weeks ago was the guy was somewhere around Glamis Ca , that area has some long freeways with stoplights in pretty bad spots for the speed, light turned yellow and he could not stop in time so laid on the horn as he went through the intersection but cross traffic did not look when the light turn green to verify it was clear or why there was a horn blowing and a car hit that Ford right infront of the rear axle which is why the axle is broken.

 

[CUMMINZ]

Looked to me like he was way too close to the intersection to stop that quick. If he was going fast enough not to get stopped means he had pretty good speed which would carry him further thru the intersection. Just saying. Back of his RV is one car length from stop light.

 

[AEdelheit]

Looked to me like he was way too close to the intersection to stop that quick. If he was going fast enough not to get stopped means he had pretty good speed which would carry him further thru the intersection. Just saying. Back of his RV is one car length from stop light.

I have been on that freeway and even with a trailer 70mph is the common speed to go, not saying its right but very long straight sections then stoplight out of nowhere.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

We can speculate all we want, but the truth is we don't truly know what happened. Luckily it only seems that some pride was hurt.....besides the beer can aluminum tow vehicle and some damage to the TH.

 

[EDankievitch]

Not knowing much about the trailer set up just looking over the damage I'm a guessin the rig might have been ok until the truck was lifted. Once lifted the world changes and maybe a Dulley was really needed? I watched a Toyota Tundra towing a 28'-29' Airstream bumper hitch mount trailer get tossed by a passing rig on I95in Sc. I know the book says the truck can tow that much trailer however in the real world it couldn't. Once it got swaying it was all over the wind forces on the trailer overpowered the truck and off the road andf over it went. I was about half a mile behind it when it happened. Also the hitch looks to be an aftermarket unit you can see the bed plate broken from frame brackets. Ford has the same type of trailer hitch set up RAM does that does not appear to be it. Chalk this one up to another case of just because you can doesn't mean you should. Overkill on your rig is always the better way to go. That said here is a pic of my old 89 back in the 1990's doing what it did best.... Yea that was a crazy load

 

[NIsaacs]

The video will make you dizzy, clear case of driver error, not the Fords fault.

Nick

 

[AEdelheit]

We can speculate all we want, but the truth is we don't truly know what happened. Luckily it only seems that some pride was hurt.....besides the beer can aluminum tow vehicle and some damage to the TH.

The story I read was from someone directly involved.

 

[Cummins12V98]

Truck was clearly overloaded but this is the norm in the Coachella Valley. Lifted 3/4 tons with headlights in the sky bouncing to and from the Desert.

New truck and RV on their maiden voyage.

 

[TJJEEPER]

The trailer has hydraulic jacks, Just block them and use the trailer's jacs to get it high enough to pull the truck.
But what do I know?

 

[NIsaacs]

The trailer has hydraulic jacks, Just block them and use the trailer's jacs to get it high enough to pull the truck.
But what do I know?

But then they could not justify the 50 ton and 35 ton wreckers....1 rollback wrecker and a pickup equipped with a fifth wheel could clean that up for a whole lot less money

Nick

 

[Mark31]

But then they could not justify the 50 ton and 35 ton wreckers....1 rollback wrecker and a pickup equipped with a fifth wheel could clean that up for a whole lot less money

Nick

I wonder if Jamie Davis on Ice Road Truckers would hire those guys? How long would it take them to handle a REAL wreck? A local guy (google Kirby Grant Wrecker) who has been building wreckers since 10th grade would laugh them out of town!

 

[kthaxton]

I wonder if Jamie Davis on Ice Road Truckers would hire those guys? How long would it take them to handle a REAL wreck? A local guy (google Kirby Grant Wrecker) who has been building wreckers since 10th grade would laugh them out of town!

I bet my dad could beat up their dads.

 

[jhenderson]

I can just see all our insurance premiums going up while they mope around. What do you suppose the bill was?

 

[NIsaacs]

I can just see all our insurance premiums going up while they mope around. What do you suppose the bill was?

I found this, note the Rotator rates

http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrTHRlZBGtazUAAUE9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEybDlqc2RzBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDQjQ0ODBfMQRzZWMDc3I-/RV=2/RE=1516991706/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.psc.state.wv.us%2fInformation%2fMaximumStatewideWreckerRates.pdf/RK=2/RS=7Fe3fDAyZiwsok6iB72Nb3N1cnc-

The guy with the coffee cup in his hand wouldn't work very long for me, with an hourly rate like that.

Slightly used 60 ton for $600k

https://www.truckpaper.com/listings/trucks/for-sale/20023575/2017-kenworth-t880

Nick

 

[RVTRKN]

Common tale in SoCal, on the way to Glamis.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

The guy with the coffee cup in his hand wouldn't work very long for me, with an hourly rate like that.

I'm pretty sure that's the owner of the tow company as he's referred to as "dad" by the one wearing the camera.

As for using that big wrecker to lift the RV, you always try to stabilize things so they don't become problems when you're moving other things. Putting it on blocks and relying on its jacks while extricating the truck is not safe IMHO. That said, their recovery of that truck was a joke given the equipment they had. They made it look a lot harder than it needed to be.

 

[CUMMINZ]

About safety the thing I noticed was once they removed the hitch out of the pickup they laid it down within the busy walkway too and from the wrecker & wreck. What a tripping hazard.

 

[CUMMINZ]

I over designed my hitch.

 

[photowrite]

The video will make you dizzy, clear case of driver error, not the Fords fault.

Nick

Yup, I think so too (from what little is known)...truck didn't look 'that' tall by today's standards.

Most collisions are driver caused, far fewer are truly equipment or the setup.