My favorite "hauling" memory is of a guy I used to work with a Bell
Helicopter who used his car to move a house . Yes, the 3-bedroom 2-bath
type!! He jacked the house up and lined up some beams under it for support
and drove under it, lowered the jacks and drove about 3 miles to a lot he
had purchased across town. Got there safely!!
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> From: Kevin Lake[SMTP:lakek@oit.edu]
> Reply To: Kevin Lake
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 1:20 AM
> To: MarkNoakes@aol.com; oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Trailer safety
>
> My favorite trailer stories are the ones that involve people towing
> trailers that are WAY to BIG for the tow vehicle.
>
> I ended up towing a 12,000# (rated load) triple-axle low-boy with a F*&d
> Bronco that my boss owned. I did try to tell him that I thought it was
> too
> much trailer, but he said "just take it slow". I luckily never ended up
> in
> the ditch, but it was by pure luck that I didn't. The trailer was way too
> heavy and way too long to be pulling with that Bronco. There was more
> than
> one or two very tense moments on that trip.
>
> I was headed up through Northern Arizona about three years ago where we
> spent three hours in a traffic jam. A guy in a Geo Tracker (or whatever
> they call the 4-door version) had been attempting to tow a 20+ foot long
> camper trailer. The trailer easily outweighed the tow vehicle (probably
> by
> at least a ton). To make a long story short, on the way down a mildly
> steep canyon road, the trailer decided not to follow the tow vehicle and
> proceeded to push the tow vehicle into the oncoming lane of traffic where
> it met an oncoming semi-truck which drove it back into the trailer it was
> towing and pushed the whole mess over a 90 foot embankment into the stream
> below. Not much left. You could only tell it was a Tracker because the
> trailer had partially disintegrated on the trip down the hill.
>
> Kevin Lake
> 56 GMC Suburban/napco
>
> ----------
> > From: MarkNoakes@aol.com
> > To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
> > Subject: [oletrucks] Trailer safety
> > Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 6:25 PM
> >
> > I was talking to someone from the list about hauling trucks on trailers
> and
> > thought that this story from years ago might help calibrate you guys to
> be as
> > careful as possilbe.
> >
> > Brian and my youngest brother Scott were moving a trailer load of junk
> for
> > their employer, who I consider to be a real nut, as well as rather
> careless.
> > Brian and Scott were young and wouldn't oppose their boss even though
> they
> > knew they were overloaded. The trailer was loaded with a big old car
> stuffed
> > with a bunch of other junk and being pulled behind a van that was also
> loaded
> > down. They were driving through the hills in Alabama on their way from
> GA to
> > MS. To make a long story shorter, on the way down the road the trailer
> axle
> > broke, the wheel flew off, the stub dug in, and the van and loaded
> trailer
> > got jerked off the road and did a barrel roll off of a cliff (if a 45
> degree
> > bank counts as a cliff). It was about 60-ft down to water, but after
> the
>
> > first complete roll and about 30-ft down, they hung on the only tree on
> the
> > whole bank just between the van and the loaded trailer (the car stayed
> on
> the
> > trailer for the whole ride; it was strapped down tight); the trailer
> hitch
> > snapped but the chains held and they came to a stop with minor injuries
> from
> > junk flying around inside. It took them quite a while to climb out to
> the
> > top. Brian got to a phone and called my parents and in a typical
> > understatement said something about running off the road and having a
> little
> > accident and would they please come get them. My mom literally got sick
> when
> > she saw the "little accident" and what would have happened if the tree
> hadn't
> > been there and if it hadn't caught on the trailer chains.
> >
> > Definitely don't overload your car trailer! Our old trucks are heavy
> and
> car
> > trailers these days are pretty light duty; please be careful out there.
> >
> > Mark Noakes
> > 58/56 Suburban
> > Knoxville, TN
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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