My trailer is there.... It has a freight liner parked on it...

 

Glad your ok.

What exactly were you haulin? Some sort of a tank?

 

Dang, that looks expensive.
Glad yer OK. It's only money, and probably not yours at that.

 

OK it didn't register looking at the first picture.

Thought you ran a Western Star.

 

What happened to your new western Star?

 

Dude, you are one lucky guy, again. Glad you're safe and no one got seriously hurt. Any idea how bad your truck and trailer are hurt?

 

Looks like he was in 2007-2009 vintage Kenworth(I assume by the cooled tips on the stacks). Looks like that guy a load of excel beef going to be made into hamburger.

 

Glad you're ok! At least you have your wallet... you can buy new underwear!

That whole thing could have turned out a lot worse. Thank God one of you can think!

This is yet another reason I will NOT drive in that kind of weather. There isn't one thing in the world that is worth all that aggravation, not to mention someone's life. And all because some moron who's supposed to be a 'professional driver' couldn't figure out that snowy/rainy, below freezing weather combined with a shiny pavement that most likely wasn't producing any tire spray, means the road is ICE! As a cop, these instances were the only time I can honestly say I enjoyed writing citations and pressing charges.

 

There was an electrical transformer on the trailer, it weighs 45000 lbs, and buddy hit it so hard that it landed 75' from my trailer, and it never touched the ground once in between, I'm no engineer but I'm sure it takes a lot of force to move something that heavy that far...

The western star is at home in the shop, it was too heavy to scale the load so I agreed to take one of our tandem kw's for the trip, we were heading for Tacoma Washington.

As near as I could tell there was no damage to the trailer, the truck I am not sure, the driver side mirror is half inside the cab, and the whole cab is leaning to the passenger side some. Waiting to find out where it is right now so I can go get my stuff.

When I left north bay yesterday morning roads were clear and wet, about 30-40 mins into the drive I told my lead escort I needed to find a place to park as I could feel the road getting slippery, and 45 minutes into the drive I started into a corner and my escort told me there was a truck out of control. It all went down hill from tgere

 

I will post up some pics of the set of 48' doubles we had wreck out last week.

 

The transformer should have been shipped with an accelerometer. See if you can find out how many G's it registered.

 

Not many, til it hit the ground.

The truck and driver, on the other hand......

 

No accelerometer on these ones, the big ones we haul always have 3 on them.

The truck that hit me has satellite tracking, I'll be interested to hear how fast he was travelling,

 

Glad you're all still on the green side of the lawn, and it was a loaner rig.
That was a serious mess.
Has the doctor found the seat cover from your truck yet?

 

Wow JKM! Glad you're safe & ok. That really sucks. Stay safe man.