JK, don't know if it was posted before, but that could have happened to any of us...

http://break.com/index/truck-nearly-...n-highway.html

 

I think it has been posted before but the guys taping it don't show any more intelligence than the guy towing it.

I see something dangerous I back off from it.

 

thats pretty wild, I bet the driver slammed on his brakes too and made things worse. I find the best way to get out of sway is to accelerate.

 

What does the Ford have to do with it? Stupid people drive Dodge trucks too.

 

You do have to give the guy credit for tying the load down pretty well.

I bet the gross weight of the truck was a bit less after they changed their pants. haha

 

Kinda what I was wondering. The title should have been "why I don't tow with a bumper pull" However I agree who ever secured that unimog truck down did a nice job. I always love it when I see someone with 2 chains on a truck on a trailer (one to the front axle and one to the hitch) and somehow they think that's gonna hold the truck from coming off.

 

I just saw that video over on MSN. Crazy stuff. I had a girlfriend a few years back that almost lost an old bumper pull camper on the highway in front of me. I was pullin the horses and she had the camper. The thing was balanced poorly and going downhill it just started whippin. That was the last time she pulled it and we sold it shortly afterword. I don't know how she kept it on the road.

Also, about two weeks ago, a 67 yr old guy in near Grand Junction CO lost control of a trailer and bobcat killing a lady. The article said it was an F350 so I wondered if the hitch came apart on him? She stopped at the bottom of the hill as he was coming down out of control, had no where to go. But the trailer took out her car and killed her. The news article made it sound like charges could be filed. Something to consider next time you attach a load behind your truck.

 

true, but everyone knows that a dodge can tow any and everything because it has a cummins under the hood.

 

I don't think so!......Tie to the frame not the axles...the suspension on the unimog went to town!

 

um....no! You secure to the axles so then suspension doesn't move and let the chains have slack. Car haulers chain to the frame so the cars don't move and hit the cars above them, or the supports beside them. But on an open trailer with a large heavy truck you chain to the axles. You can do both but if you only chain to the frame you have to pull it all the way down to the bumpstops or it's gonna move, or worse.

 

Hm, I don't know.... I alway though you should take the slack out of the suspension, especially on the off road vehicle, to make sure it does not "jump" on the trailer.

 

well i believe he was just joking around...

 

Well I understand that line of thinking but unless your off road vehicle only has 4" of suspension travel your never going to be able to drag it down to the bumpstops with a chain binder. And if you don't have it on the stops it will sink with every bump and loosen the chains. Worst case sinerio they come un-hooked from the trailer. The only time I chained to both the frame and the axles was with a 1940's era ladder firetruck. The only reason I had to do that was because it wouldn't fit in the trailer because of the windshield on the rear "tiller". (just over 10' tall) and I had to pull it down to shut the tarp system on the trailer. Even with that everytime we stopped they needed tightened (wisconson to ohio) You can throw a chain through each window, I don't care but I'm not hauling it that way. (I've reloaded enough stuff off the road due to bad decisions.)

 

that looks purty rough, i bet he never pulls anything that way again

 

Sad to say, but I have had that happen to me several years back. I was towing a mud truck for a friend and they loaded the truck to far back on the trailer. Well needless to say the trailer started swaying and I tried to power out of it and it made it worse and wound up breaking the four straps and throwing the truck into the median. Luckily nobody was hurt and the other friends that were following me stopped the traffic on the interstate when they saw what was happening. We was able to turn the truck over and start it up and drove it to the next exit.