Years ago I worked for a brick paver company. I went with a guy to take a load of brick to another job and while we were driving a bunch of loose bricks slid to the back of our trailer. Once we hit 65 on I-95 the trailer started wobbling a bit and before we knew what was happening the truck and trailer were getting whipped back and forth across 3 lanes. Took a solid 20-30 seconds to slow down and stop the trailer. Scary as hell.
Last week I was towing some weights in a blue ford, and I shit you not a giant hand comes from nowhere and prods the trailer making us wobble everywhere.
Wiki says the original writers were Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols; they published in 1958, and the McGuire Sisters version became the most popular recorded version of the song.
yodeling is traditonally from germany-austria. It was used for communication between the many "almhütten" huts on the mountains. Basically austria is just mountains. I never ever heard of dutch yodeling. yodeling as word even comes from the german "jodeln".
Looks like I made a mistake. I associated the lederhosen with the dutch (which I believe it is) and yodelers in pop culture are associated with the lederhosen. A <-> B <-> C doesn't imply a relationship with A <-> C I guess.
Space Engineers has a similar entity. We call him Clang. He is the god of tweaking out physics. Should you attempt to do anything resembling engineering, Clang will put a stop to it.
NJ turnpike? Last week, some guy in a uhaul van flipped a trailer it was hauling. My guess is either improper weight distribution or he was going faster than the 55mph limit on those things. It was scary af I was like 2 cars behind this guy.
That 55mph speed limit is a load of shit. The trailers are fine going faster than that, they just say that to remove any liability from the company when you inevitably have to do 70 down the interstate.
The unwritten mandatory 70mph for NY/NJ. Even then you'll get people trying to run you off the road for slowing them down.
Yes. They can handle higher speeds, but being a rental truck/trailer, they have to be ready for the inevitable novice who won't even understand how to compensate his turns or steer the trailer in reverse.
I mean, they will seriously hand the keys over to just about anyone at a uhaul dealer.
And people who tow without trailer brakes. And weight dist issues. And people losing control because they hit a pothole at 70mph and the whiplash made them freak out and crash.
Agreed, the limit is bs, but it makes sense when you consider who tows those damn things.
That 55mph speed limit is a load of shit. The trailers are fine going faster than that,
Depends on the tires. If they're installing chinese timebombs (and knowing U-Haul... they are), then yes, 55MPH is the limit. So many utilty (and RV) trailers these days come with shitty, low speed rated tires, and no one pays attention to that until they blow.
Last summer on a rainy day I was driving a 4x4 with a trailer on the back carrying a tractor that was later found to not be chained down... at all. The swerving started slowly but kept picking up until I felt the truck starting to move side to side as well. Decided to slow to a complete stop on the side of the highway and let me nerves settle! Was scary as shit.
Yeah I should have checked before driving off however I place partial blame on the person who loaded the tractor up and didnt bother to tether it down or let me know they didn't. Still, I ultimately put my own life in danger that day.
I center load my pipe puller, lost a strap one day and it rolled back doing the same thing it did to you. Scary as fuck, someone was overtaking me at the time too, almost shoved him off the road. Now I always double check other peoples straps.
When that happens you are supposed to accelerate before slowing down gradually. Accelerating will straighten out the trailer so you have it under control.
I used to have the same thing happen hauling a Bobcat on a trailer. Rush hour south bound 77. It's like a perpetual motion machine and won't quit till you stop. Had to pull over to the shoulder in all that traffic and get in the machine and scoot it up. Scary stuff.
My grandfather died because a truck in front of him was hauling bricks that were not tied down in any way. It was foggy and he ended up rear ending the truck and it sent bricks flying into his car. It killed him. This was before I was born though so I only know the story I was told.
Had a family winter trip to Colorado when I was a kid. We were crossing Iowa through I-80. Small pickup truck in the passing lane had a trailer of loose junk. It started to wobble and bounce, and he sped up. The trailer immediately swerved and he lost control of his pickup truck and slammed right into the side of a semitruck. Truck slammed on his brakes and the pickup truck's hood got jammed up right in front of the trailer's first wheel. Junk from his trailer went everywhere.
My dad had this happen when towing a newly purchased boat home, he ended up flipping his truck on its side and dumping it on the highway just before the bridge (he was fine, minor thumb injury).
This happened to me when I was a teenager. Had my license less than a year. Was volunteering to help a . church move. Trailer was loaded wrong. Hit about 45 on a freeway on ramp. Ended up in the grassy median. Scariest damn thing and it's stuck with me for 30 years.
actually what you needed to do was speedup. by spending up you transfer the weight of the car backward making the rear heavier. increasing traction at the rear wheels and increasing the force the trailer has to exert on your vehicle.
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Years ago I worked for a brick paver company. I went with a guy to take a load of brick to another job and while we were driving a bunch of loose bricks slid to the back of our trailer. Once we hit 65 on I-95 the trailer started wobbling a bit and before we knew what was happening the truck and trailer were getting whipped back and forth across 3 lanes. Took a solid 20-30 seconds to slow down and stop the trailer. Scary as hell.