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Mar 5, 2013 7:31:42 GMT -6
Post by Gittyup on Mar 5, 2013 7:31:42 GMT -6
Our MTCC Sgt At Arms, Mark Miller, trucking in Kansas City kinda lost sight of the road in the snow but had no trouble finding the ditch. Keep on trucking, Mark!
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Mar 5, 2013 9:40:37 GMT -6
Post by ozo on Mar 5, 2013 9:40:37 GMT -6
That photo sends chills up my spine !!! Although I never ended up in that situation, I have come sooooo close many times, and moments afterwards always found me praying serious thanks to GOD that I could carry on. I surely hope the pic is of the early morning light and not the evening, because I have a clear idea what is in store to get the trailer tandems out of that ditch.
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Mar 5, 2013 18:42:46 GMT -6
Post by robthatsme on Mar 5, 2013 18:42:46 GMT -6
Yes sir, them big rigs don't do too well in snow when the trailer is stuck in a ditch.
Looks like he could just get a tow and pull him on out, hopefully with no damage to his rig.
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Mar 5, 2013 20:40:25 GMT -6
Post by ozo on Mar 5, 2013 20:40:25 GMT -6
Yes sir, them big rigs don't do too well in snow when the trailer is stuck in a ditch. Looks like he could just get a tow and pull him on out, hopefully with no damage to his rig. The tow has to have traction also I don't know what the load is.....styrofoam or sheetrock, but if he was empty, he still weighs 32-35,000lbs. I have never been there personally, as I said, but I have been on the scene where more than one of my trucks have been in a similar situation. It is embarrassing first, but the job of getting the truck free trumps everything. Looks like the ICC bar has bottomed out, which creates more drag. Being a spread axle trailer, once the front trailer tandems get back on hard surface, it should 'lift' the rear tandems and support the weight to ease on out, and lift the DOT bumper from dragging. It will take cables from a semi-truck recovery wrecker to pull the weight.......and the damage will not be known until after the fact, but should be very minimal. It's a shitty situation at best. Good tidings and speed, Mark. I seriously have had nightmares of this same thing, altho not for sometime. Knowing the weather conditions, I have asked my drivers if they even wanted to leave....and when they cowboyed-up and said yes, boss, I worried til the end !!!!!! I had a contract to haul pit liner from Grand Prairie TX to Prudhoe Bay AK.....a 10,000 mile round trip, thru some of the most adverse conditions imaginable........I always worried LESS if I drove one too......as opposed to staying at the shop and worried. I do have pics.......if you have doubts..... 11mi....13mi....Beaver slide, Ice cut..... Mark's situation is serious enough.....thank GOD it's not life threatening, and I mean to not make light of it. The pic just brings back so many memories.......
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