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10 years ago @ Defense Tech - USS Gerald R. Ford Car... · 0 replies · -6 points
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Person shooting at fir... · 0 replies · +1 points
Lucky they weren't firing from inside the container.
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Protesters climb up fl... · 1 reply · +1 points
Anything else you commies don't want that can put food on the table without requiring government help?
Wait, don't answer that!
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - WSP: Man throws wife f... · 0 replies · +19 points
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Rogue brewing up a hai... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - ODOT forced to apologi... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Occupy protester, form... · 0 replies · -1 points
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Photos: Truck rolls, p... · 0 replies · +5 points
My biggest fear was to have a load shift my when I was hauling OD loads. I'd chain them up hardcore, way more than was needed, but I don't like to take chances. I drove OD up in Alaska and the concern there is that the ground was so soft in the spring. On gravel or slightly improved roads, the farther away from the middle of road you got, the softer it got. Thankfully I never had any issues other than getting stuck in deep mud when crawling up a 15% grade using chains on the tires on a dirt road with a 90,000 pound load (Excavator) plus truck/trailer weight. Still kinda scary.
I have about 600,000 accident, citation and CSA free miles. Hopefully that doesn't change.
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Photos: Truck rolls, p... · 2 replies · +5 points
My guess is "speed to fast for conditions" with contributing factors. Driver going too fast for the corner and since that is a container, it's 4,000-5,000 pounds heavier than a normal trailer. Add to that the possibility that the trailer was loaded (that's the same exit I take all the time to go to Union Pacific's Intermodal Rail yard in Brooklyn) and possibly was high loaded or that the load did shift, although it's generally pretty hard to shift a load. In 6 years of driving, I've never had a load shift that I've known about.
Either way, if the driver was going slower, than with near certainty this would not have happened.
What a mess!
12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - 2 deputies wounded in ... · 0 replies · +1 points