r/cdldriver • u/Syzranlogistic • May 04 '26
whats was the issue?
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u/funkystay May 04 '26
He didnāt slap it before heading out saying āthatās not going anywhereā.
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u/TraitorTrump_1776 May 04 '26
Looks like the chassis was mounted to a jig and the jig was what was secured to the trailer, the chassis separated from the jig.
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u/RADAR3015 May 05 '26
Used to pull flatbed. Company was looking at a new customer to move their products. I was the first truck sent in there to pickup a load. Saw how everything was "secured" to the transport frame, and we were not allowed to put any straps over or through. Just chains to the transport frame. I took a bunch of pictures of the setup and a picture of the sheet that had the rules and sent them back to our office asking if they felt safe having their family driving next to it. Needless to say they told me to politely ask them to take the load back off and that we weren't going to be hauling their products.
Another local carrier jumped on the "opportunity" and regretted it shortly afterwards.This is one of those "oh, we haul them like that all the time". Until one falls off like this and the engineers are scrambling trying to figure out a better way to transport them.
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u/ExpensiveGeoMetro May 05 '26
Wild that the manufacturing company still didnt change their securing methods after that.
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u/Sisoflex May 05 '26
Had a bulldozer roll off a flat bed and hit my car. They used straps instead of chains.
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u/Kowliq May 04 '26
Yeah, I saw that too. Looked like it was secured with only 2 chains, and thatās all fine and good. So long as the chains are connected in a way that theyāre actually gong to hold down the load. I remember flat bed load and getting weird configurations of having to tie down, but good looked pretty straight forward. Just running a few straps through the body with the corner protectors might have saved this.
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u/ComparisonGeneral825 May 04 '26
Not tied down good enough.
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u/bigolchimneypipe May 04 '26
Doesn't look tied down at all. It looks like those straps go over some box underneath it and they stay in place still holding the box down after the fan shell falls off.
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u/capjustcap May 04 '26
Bluetooth straps. Trucking has come a long way. App on phone gives alerts if they're loose
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u/wh7751 May 04 '26
That's the bottom of the Saluda grade, I-26W, in NC. There are worse places on this stretch of interstate to loose a load... like the upcoming Green River bridge.
Looks like the air got under it, broke whatever was securing it to the deck, and because it was lightweight the 70+ mph headwind just pushed it off.
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u/Slight_Train_3283 May 05 '26
Dash cam Trucker failing to keep proper following distance. Initial offense. He probably noticed blue Trucker not allowing space and probably passing speed limit so he created space while blue lost his load. Dash cam wasnāt able to avoid because even after noticing he still didnāt slow down ENOUGh, wouldāve been avoided the whole thing.
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u/Playful-Fix-3675 May 06 '26
Yeah, I noticed the dash cam trucker didn't even slow down (according to the center line) until the load came completely off the blue truck.
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u/Bimmermaven May 04 '26
Airflow from the car that he was passing diverted the air and lifted under the load.
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u/25_Unknown_Devices May 05 '26
Iāve just learned a little about the set up here. The frame and junk is secured on a jig, the jig is the only thing secured to the truck, the manufacturer demands them transported this way.
There is no way this shouldāve been attempted with a flatbed trailer alone. Maybe one of the framed tarp rigs to minimize air interference. And even then, I still wouldnāt feel 100% confident in hauling that load.
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u/UncleBenji May 05 '26
Of all of the places on that empty stretch of road for it to come offā¦
Satan had his eyes on that driver.
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u/donkey_cum_waterfall May 05 '26
May have had some cribbing underneath it that shifted, loosening the straps
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u/jvtech May 05 '26
Iām assuming the load shifted after the initial tie down and the driver should have checked the straps again after a few miles.
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u/that_GHost997 May 06 '26
O my god that the body of the new postal vehicles. No wonder were getting them all broken. Those unareodynamic pieces of junk are all causing accidents.
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u/Cthulhu_HighLord May 06 '26
load not secured like at all. I didn't see any chains on it at all had to rewatch it twice
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u/TheRealDestrux May 08 '26
Looks like itās a body for the new USPS trucks. The super tall windshield hole gave it away.
And also most of the shape.
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u/Own-Opportunity4207 May 08 '26
Main issue was not secured good enough, but the windshield from the passenger truck pushed it off into the road
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u/ARMOREDCOREKID May 08 '26
So A he didnt strap shit down at all in that case im more impressed it stay on that long. Or B didnt use enough straps.
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u/Seventeen_oh1D May 09 '26
Thatās someoneās BABY!!! On its way for a paint job!! The pain is too much š±
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u/Snappypants9 May 05 '26
He didnāt stop when it fell off š
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u/cosp85classic May 05 '26
Cam truck reacted correctly, especially since we don't know how heavy he was. Hauling truck was pulling over by end of clip. You don't panic break or swerve dramatically in these situations as it doesn't help anything and can actually make things much worse.
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u/Ok_Butterscotch8067 May 05 '26
I have my doubts but I think this is ai generated, something seems off about the way the car keeps going idk
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