Secure your load!

[noJeepshere]

Doing my daily bus route this afternoon, I witnessed a terrible thing happen. A flatbed truck operated by the local boneyard was carrying a wrecked van back to the yard on the highway doing 60 mph, I was following about a 1/4 mile back, behind a line of cars. A semi-truck was coming in the opposite direction. As the semi passed, I guess its wake was enough to push the van off the flatbed and into a car!! I kid you not. I about crapped my pants at the sight. Traffic was stopped for a very long time while emergency response worked at the scene. I had students on my bus so I couldn't leave the bus to provide help.

Scary ****. The car that was hit had an elderly couple and their grandson, and a third car following the elderly couple couldn't stop in time and rear ended them. As far as I know, the old man is in critical condition, the woman is not much better and the boy is shaken, but not seriously injured. It was a painful scene to behold.

It could have been prevented if the guys towing the car had put even one chain to an axle on the van. But nothing? I don't ever want to see something like that again. Secure whatever you're carrying, no matter how small or big it is.

 

[British Slave]

What you wanna be the boneyard declaired bankruptcy before the dust settled?

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

What you wanna be the boneyard declaired bankruptcy before the dust settled?

Is this english?

 

[NorCal_Chris]

What you wanna bet the boneyard declaired bankruptcy before the dust settled?

Is this english?

lol

fixed it for you... just missing one letter

 

[BGKYK5]

I saw a small farm tractor come off a trailer just yesterday. Fortunately it was as they pulled away from a stoplight and nobody was hurt. It was the same thing, they just pulled the tractor up on the flatbed and drove off, no straps, chains, anything. It could have been much worse had it come off at even 35 mph on that busy street.

 

[British Slave]

Is this english?

It would be English, but
no, it's finger, keyboard, and eye coordination. Sorry for the mistake. I will try hard not to let it happen again.

 

[noJeepshere]

We don't care so much on this board, but your original statement could be hard to understand to some folks, I saw what you meant to say and realized you left the "t" out.

 

[British Slave]

I'm far from perfect, and I make mistakes, but if folks want to play the spelling game, I'm up for it.

 

[GsxrMike]

I lose because I can't speel.

My brother in law has had a trailer come off before. Someone pulled out in front of him on a two lane highway and the next thing you know the trailer was passing him going into a field.

My dad told me a company he used to work for started a subsidary (I can't speel) company selling ice and the box truck they used for delivery was a piece of chit. They came around a corner and had to hit the brakes hard (which didn't work so well on one side) and the ice was all on one side of the truck, the load shifted and flipped the box truck over on a car. If I remeber the story correctly, it killed the occupants of the car.

On a side note, would it be that hard to get a freaking spell check on this forum? LOL

 

[British Slave]

Only the Post Proof Reader Police might be interested in a spell check.

 

[noJeepshere]

On a side note, would it be that hard to get a freaking spell check on this forum? LOL

Yeah, it's called Mozilla Firefox

 

[GsxrMike]

Yeah, it's called Mozilla Firefox

If I really have to spell it correctly I just open word, type what I want to say, spell check it, then copy and paste. I am pathetic! (I checked the spelling of that on word).