Overload of the Day

[Truck Shop]

Can you tube tell me how?

Yes--It's a throw away society, if youtube can't fix it in the scrap it goes.

 

[cfherrman]

Just might

 

[MG84]

Speaking of youtube:

Way over width, way over weight, home brew modified trailer with poorly working electric brakes, and he seems to have no clue about any DOT laws. To add insult to injury he’s posting this stuff on youtube, where based on the comments everyone thinks it’s cool to pull a 20k+ dozer behind a pickup. I mean seriously WTF?

 

[MG84]

Oh and even better, at the end of the video he talks about how he used to pull a Cat 309 excavator with a 3/4 ton pickup....

 

[OzDozer]

Wow, a homebuilt gooseneck addition to the trailer, with dubious electric brakes - and he doesn't even understand the difference between GVW and GCW??
He's checking trailer bearings, but I'd like to see the carrying capacity of those tyres at 60mph??

 

[Truck Shop]

What's new? Nothing, nothing new.

 

[cfherrman]

That would get pulled over from dot in Kansas instantly

 

[Jumbo]

It is interesting to read the comments here, then read the comments attached to the video. Here you see pretty realistic comments. According to the comments with the video, he is a shining example of what to do.
All in the perspective.....

 

[skyking1]

you get away with it once, and now it is the new standard. if you don't and crap breaks, most times you never see the video about that. They keep the failures to themselves unless it makes the news.

 

[MG84]

It is interesting to read the comments here, then read the comments attached to the video. Here you see pretty realistic comments. According to the comments with the video, he is a shining example of what to do.
All in the perspective.....

Or he’s going through and deleting the “negative” comments.

I’m currious why law enforcement isn’t using videos like this for evidence and issuing tickets more often? They certainly can, several years back some of the younger members of our 4wd club got off the side of the trail and in some mud holes. This trail is in the nat’l forest and the mud holes were right on the edge of the trail and nothing to mark that they were off limits. They posted pictures on the public side of our club forum. Next club meeting a USFS park ranger shows up and starts calling out names of people he needed to see. About half a dozen got tickets and had to go to federal court. The locals go up there all the time and tear stuff up, leave beer cans etc, but our club members were targeted and made an example of.

In that video you can clearly see its over width, improperly chained down, and with some quick googling calculate it is over weight, and video proof of him driving down the road with it. I think it would be very easy for DOT to show up at his doorstep with their ticket book in hand.

 

[Truck Shop]

you get away with it once, and now it is the new standard. if you don't and crap breaks, most times you never see the video about that. They keep the failures to themselves unless it makes the news.

All people are gamblers one moment to the next in one form or another. Right as I type there are
hundreds of people/drivers gambling on something at 60 plus. If nothing happens they call it a
success and label themselves a hero because time and money saved-the end justified the means
game.

 

[56wrench]

In my opinion, its a poor trailer. Where do i start? Pretty much everything except the deck boards

 

[DMiller]

Single Wheel Goose, MAX GVWR is 13500, always Been 13500 as the Tires cannot take more. He loaded FAR and Beyond rating.

 

[redneckracin]

Looks like a tandem to me?

 

[Truck Shop]

Looks like a tandem to me?

Correct-it has eight-it still may be a lousy trailer-but it does have eight.

 

[BC Placer gold]

I would invite him to descend Hwy24 (Little Fort hill) to see how effective his braking is! Especially when coming up on a super B on the two lane travelling at 30km/h.

 

[MG84]

Its one of those Econoline trailers with 4 individual short axles, so 8 tires total. They are a pi$$ poor design IMO, twice the number of hubs and lug nuts to deal with and changing an inside flat is an awful job.

 

[OzDozer]

What is worse is the cheap-a** solid link "suspension" system installed. It has no "give" when you hit a pothole, sunken culvert, or other road surface irregularity.

This type of "suspension" increases the load on all the axle components because it increases shock loading on them.

In my neck of the woods, even spring suspensions are now rated below airbags, as airbags "give" more under road impacts, and the engineers tell us this is easier on road pavements, bridges and culverts, so they give us higher axle load ratings for airbags.

 

[bccat]

I would invite him to descend Hwy24 (Little Fort hill) to see how effective his braking is! Especially when coming up on a super B on the two lane travelling at 30km/h.

And coming off the Duffy into Pemberton

 

[DMiller]

Did not see the inside tires, have dealt with heavier trailers similar axle arrangement just as ignorant as noted above on repairing anything. A better trailer is a Tandem axle 12k axles and true duals not dual hubs per wheel end. Maintenance mess, terrible for flats, a great deal more stress points.

Even at that the Goose theory behind a crappy Ton truck hauling that 3 is beyond stupid.