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That’s reminiscent of when a Mobil and Chevron merger was rumored. They were going to call it Moron.
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The good side of what he is doing is the tail lights are in the proper place relative to the load. The idea is to arrange the tie downs so they can swivel. I have seen a bundle of trusses moved that way. One end strapped to a trailer, the other on the back of a pickup. The trailer was NOT coupled to the truck, the trusses acting as the frame and the trailer as a set of wheels. Corners would be a problem, needing to swing wide, but definately a way to move something very long. . .
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There was an advert way, way back, I think from the '60s, for a bug eliminator. The promoter guaranteed double the money back if it did not work when used as directed. For a very low price, only a couple of dollars. A couple of blocks of 2X4, about a foot long. The directions said to "place the bug on top of one block, then smash the second block down". At the time, a couple of dollars was a significant amount of money. I don't know anyone who actually ordered one, it was used as an example of the danger of carefully worded adverts.
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I have seen way to many people load their vehicles that resulted in some major damage either to their vehicle or to their fellow drivers on the road.
It is scary out there, always has been, but it seems to be getting worse, scary worse.
It is scary out there, always has been, but it seems to be getting worse, scary worse.
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Seems like we're better at stupid than your generation...ha! Maybe better isn't the right word.
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Less mechanical or engineering sense. Less people capable of common sense.
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Xerox, Hammond and Microsoft almost merged. The company was going to be called "Reproductive Organ Limited".
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Some years ago, I found 20 or 25 sheets of GalvaLume siding. Very heavy stuff, commercial grade. I had a Ford 350 with a dump bed, I could handle the weight, well the truck could. . . I loaded the siding and tied it down. The siding was 8 feet long, the truck bed was 10 feet long. I misjudged a traffic light and had to come to a full stop. So when I got a green, I used granny low and drove out from under my load. It wan't tied down as well as I thought. . . No damage to anything but my pride as I drove into a gas station lot and recovered my load a sheet at a time. Even properly(?) secured loads can sometimes come loose.
The fellow I saw moving trusses was using proper loading straps, and the end on the back of his truck could swivel. I was behind him for a couple of miles and he never had anything "out of line". Another time I got on the interstate behind a Buick pulling a garden trailer. With a garden trailer axle, I'm not sure how it was hitched. Probably removed the ball and used a pin. I dropped back and let someone else follow him.
Stupid is as stupid does, some outlandish stunts are well engineered and safe, some everyday "git bys" can fail when the wind changes. re. The photo a few pages back of the fellow who had plywood over the cab of his pickup. That one was just looking for trouble. In the photo above, the load may have been properly secured, the photo was before his driving off. If properly secured, I wouldn't have been skeptical of following him, even on the highway. If he tied two(2) points on the roof rack so it couldn't swivle, I would have waited for a few in the parking lot.
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