i live on a back road, that runs the new main highway, and there is a runaway truck ramp that stops behind my back yard, but 300 ft up the steep mountain..................
well, needless to say, the truck ramp did not do its job and the truck and trailer went over it at over 30 mph. that may not sound like alot, but for a 80,000 lb rig, it is flying..... and failed brakes to boot. truck was hauling boneless meat scraps. 40k lbs of it. once he hit and stopped, all the weight in the trailer ripped through the front of the trailer, and crushed the cab. i got hired by the wrecker company to help pull 700 boxes of meat out of it. no way to get down there other than lowering a ford f150 down, loading thestuff into the bed, and then pulling the truck back up.
if you look in pic 3 4 and 5, you will see my house at the bottom!.
this is the second wreck in less than a year down this same spot.
we have lost half of the trees that blocked us from one comming to our back door. they keep hitting them before the ones we planted can grow!
oh, good news. driver walked away with not a scratch, but got a ticket for comming down the 12 percent grade mountain with a over length rig.
it takes 1 hr to get each load. we did the math and figure 23 more loads to go. it is not easy standing in the back of the trailer, and throwing a rope around a box of frozen meat. someone at the bottom locks box in the rope, then we have to manually pull each box up almost 60ft!. first 10 boxes are not that bad, but it hits you hard, and mucles ache!
ill get more pics tommorw before and after we drag it up
well, needless to say, the truck ramp did not do its job and the truck and trailer went over it at over 30 mph. that may not sound like alot, but for a 80,000 lb rig, it is flying..... and failed brakes to boot. truck was hauling boneless meat scraps. 40k lbs of it. once he hit and stopped, all the weight in the trailer ripped through the front of the trailer, and crushed the cab. i got hired by the wrecker company to help pull 700 boxes of meat out of it. no way to get down there other than lowering a ford f150 down, loading thestuff into the bed, and then pulling the truck back up.
if you look in pic 3 4 and 5, you will see my house at the bottom!.
this is the second wreck in less than a year down this same spot.
we have lost half of the trees that blocked us from one comming to our back door. they keep hitting them before the ones we planted can grow!
oh, good news. driver walked away with not a scratch, but got a ticket for comming down the 12 percent grade mountain with a over length rig.
it takes 1 hr to get each load. we did the math and figure 23 more loads to go. it is not easy standing in the back of the trailer, and throwing a rope around a box of frozen meat. someone at the bottom locks box in the rope, then we have to manually pull each box up almost 60ft!. first 10 boxes are not that bad, but it hits you hard, and mucles ache!
ill get more pics tommorw before and after we drag it up
