I picked up a trailer that had tipped and slid down an embankment. They simply righted it, took it to a recovery shop, removed and restacked the product, reloaded the SAME trailer, then I took it to a transhipment point. Depends on the product, I'm sure, but unless it's perishables, that's probably close to what they'll do with this shipment.
Truckdriver here. Big empty van (dry van or reefer) truck is 13.5' tall (USA), it's a heck of a sailboard. Trucks go over all the time in Wyoming. 60 to 70mph can send you over. Loaded trucks are better, but vans plus wind equals not fun time.
In the 25 years I commuted back and forth from the Safeway warehouse, I bet I've seen 2 dozen trucks laying on their side from high winds whistling through Del Puerto Canyon where it opens up on I-580. It's strong enough at times it'll blow a southbound pickup truck from the slow lane into the middle lane. The trees in that area all have a distinct bend to the east.
During the 2006 tornado cluster, I was behind a single-axle box truck on 386 in Hendersonville, & watched the wheels on one side go up in the air. We were maybe a quarter-mile south of one of the tornadoes, & hauling ass to the south. I made sure it got back down on all the wheels & raced around him, quickly! My half-hour commute home took 2.5 hours that day, due to downed trees & poles & general fucked-up stuff. --Tennessee Budd
drive something big and you get over confident. Should have parked it before that nose into the wind.
ReplyDeleteHey Kenny what do you think his load looks like now?
ReplyDeleteCavguy
I picked up a trailer that had tipped and slid down an embankment. They simply righted it, took it to a recovery shop, removed and restacked the product, reloaded the SAME trailer, then I took it to a transhipment point.
DeleteDepends on the product, I'm sure, but unless it's perishables, that's probably close to what they'll do with this shipment.
Have seen trucks out in high wind and the trailer tires lifting off the ground. never saw one go over like that.
ReplyDeleteTruckdriver here. Big empty van (dry van or reefer) truck is 13.5' tall (USA), it's a heck of a sailboard. Trucks go over all the time in Wyoming. 60 to 70mph can send you over. Loaded trucks are better, but vans plus wind equals not fun time.
ReplyDeleteIn the 25 years I commuted back and forth from the Safeway warehouse, I bet I've seen 2 dozen trucks laying on their side from high winds whistling through Del Puerto Canyon where it opens up on I-580. It's strong enough at times it'll blow a southbound pickup truck from the slow lane into the middle lane. The trees in that area all have a distinct bend to the east.
ReplyDeleteThose guys were out driving around in the hurricane. Not exactly a surprize event.
ReplyDeleteMightybison
During the 2006 tornado cluster, I was behind a single-axle box truck on 386 in Hendersonville, & watched the wheels on one side go up in the air. We were maybe a quarter-mile south of one of the tornadoes, & hauling ass to the south. I made sure it got back down on all the wheels & raced around him, quickly!
ReplyDeleteMy half-hour commute home took 2.5 hours that day, due to downed trees & poles & general fucked-up stuff.
--Tennessee Budd