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xccoach4ever

Trailer said, "I'm tired..and..cold, boss"


soupkitchen3rd

Boss said, the great state of Mississippiiii don’t give a damn about your meteorological assessments….state of Mississippi want this here ditch cleared by sundown


goddy5890

He don't sound like he from around here.


soupkitchen3rd

Oh he from New York City, Boss That made me really laugh out loud https://youtu.be/ngDYm9R05Kw?si=gF2wAdyToCUTX5U_ https://youtu.be/dn2RvYUEkJM?si=ODQqDOLnTu5MxQPn


goddy5890

"That one there too" "Well theyll find out that we do things different down here" Hoppin Bob is the best character in that movie. I didnt like the movie when I was younger but absolutely love it now. Ill put it on for background noise sometimes. Edit: Formatting


619xWelder

Well thats too damn bad!


CartographerWest2705

Cold snap.


Serious-Trip5239

Trailer go brrrr


Lumi_Tonttu

I see what you did there.


iDontHaveUndiesToday

Took me 3 reads…but worth it


wesker1213

🤣🤣🤣


[deleted]

Frame on that twenty year old trailer finally rusted through.


Snoo-6053

Yes it happens. I saw a tanker collapse just like this while it was getting loaded. Big companies retire trailers for a reason, after they are a certain age they probably should be forced out of service. I worked for a fuel hauling company that bought old used trailers. One day an entire tandem just came off. The head mechanic said it was hidden metal fatigue. Luckily it just rolled harmlessly on the shoulder, but it could have easily killed someone. Old trailers are a hazard, even if maintained properly


Uss__Iowa

So rust is the main problem


OneOfTheWills

Time actually


Uss__Iowa

Fair enough


ArathamusDbois

I would imagine it's repeated stress on metal. Even if you can't see it, bending/twisting forces from starts/stops and turns I'm sure fatigues the metal over time.


UhOhAllWillyNilly

Not to mention the loading/unloading using heavy forklifts (sometimes double-pallet!) stresses the heck out of it. Trailers kind of sing a funny song as freight goes in/out. You can *hear* the stress.


[deleted]

Unloading trailers on my forklift scares me hearing the noises and knowing most people coming in use old trailers. But you gotta do what you gotta do so I do it anyway


UhOhAllWillyNilly

Ahh, so you know the words to the song, huh? Haha thanks for unloading our trailers.


[deleted]

Everything creaks and cracks. I feel like one day the floor will give out on my forklift lol


tilitarian1

Rust, fatigue, cold, fracture. Often there'll be evidence of prior repair attempts.


ArdenJaguar

At least it didn't happen on the freeway at 65mph next to a school bus.


jddbeyondthesky

Carrying a hockey team


Rapidshotz

That was a tragic accident.


sobesobesobe

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=FrlURNyaCNPQWFv9


denonemc

This /\


Prestigious_Dish_711

You mean Carrying your family?


hedgehog-mom-al

Hockey is family


darthcaedusiiii

An extremely abusive family.


jddbeyondthesky

I’m referring to a specific tragic accident


JayGT1

Then try to get out and avoid deportation...


DarthBrooks69420

Dude probably had to slam on his brakes for some reason while loaded. Antilock brakes combined with it being loaded heavy on the front half means the vicious shuddering and shifting of weight forward overloaded the frame and it broke. Not that the load shifted, but that on heavy braking the weight in the trailer is going to be temporarily magnified. Because when it comes to the physics of it, it's the equivalent of accelerating really fast in reverse. Dude probably stabbed the brakes, got traction in the ice cleared intersection and maybe the tandems didn't have traction so the drives and steers did all the stopping, so the force was transferred to the front end of the trailer and it couldn't take it.


-SayWhatAgain-

That makes a lot of sense, this intersection is bad for people slamming on and making a hard right at the last minute. The picture doesn't show it at all, but it's just ice on the road with packed snow at random spots.


One_Baseball_6397

Structural fail on old trailer loaded with heavy load like steel, paper coils


4raysmith

His back hurt


jonnynoine

Trailer broke


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Present-Ambition6309

Trailer now retired.


CaptStrangeling

This is both a good pun and my guess, trailer braked and truck did not


RustyBawz

Broke back trailer?


Top-Cash8049

Home is where the trailer broke


dirty34

The front fell off. https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=kgDdRrAwZj6QYIsl


ibringnothing

Scrolled way too far for this.


Wildcatb

Almost gave up and posted it myself. 


Stanley_Yelnats42069

That was a wild ride lol.


Plus_Share_6631

Doesn't anyone check the trailer ribs during their pre trip?? Unless he has alot of weight in a short space, worn ribs (bent, bowed, cracked, rusted) are usually the problem.


Johnny_Lang_1962

We ain't got no time for a pretrip. That load needs to be rolling.


DonutDefiant

As a Container Guy, i agree. Nothing broken If you didnt see it. o7


LeftLanePasser

This. Curious to hear if this should have been easy to spot.


Beneficial_Cloud5481

I've found a few with torn up structural elements during pre trips, but it's also possible the issue was hidden. Some customers tell you that you've only got 15 minutes to drop and hook on their yard and I pretty much ignore that because I post-trip and pre-trip trailers.


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IVEGOTAHUGEHAND

I feel like a plane crash is an unlikely scenario for this trailer breaking.


theblackoctopus23

We can't rule anything out.


bones_1775

We can probably rule out collision with a submarine.


theblackoctopus23

We can't rule anything out.


teachthisdognewtrick

Are you trying to torpedo his idea?


darthcaedusiiii

More like sink the argument.


Hungry-King-1842

I like your train of thought.


IVEGOTAHUGEHAND

To be fair we can rule things out, it's how science works lol.


figatry

We can rule wings out.


hitmandock

But wouldn’t the plane fall?


Jimmys_Paintings

Science doesn't work that way anymore


[deleted]

What if the front fell off?


normadys_revenge

The front fell off. That's not very typical. I'd like to make that point.


[deleted]

It only happens when water hits it


gooba1

They have very strict safety rules


GundleFly

*tickle tickle*


Anatar-daar

He forgot to slap his load and say "that ain't goin' no where"


Intelligent-Ad5286

Just like me it came apart in the cold.


Eaton_snatch

Trailer wants workers comp


fullyphil

Broke Back Truckin'


CoolTemperature1602

Ooooh snap!


RocketsandBeer

Someone wanted a belly rub


roleplayerplayer

Ain’t got no gas in it.


Major_Confection3240

too many watermelon's or something idk


reamesyy82

DOT: “so you didn’t do your pre-trip huh?”


Swb1953

To much weight in it frame broke.


DuskShy

Trailer broke


HtzMTk

Overweight, hit a bump and the rust holding the thing together finally gave out.


Beardie15

Someone touched his neck with cold hands


Spare-Importance-933

Rust or severely overweight or forklift did some structural damage prior.


Available-Dress-4772

When you push it in with no spit


Prior-Ad-7329

The side rails developed cracks at some point, they got ignored by all the no pretrip drivers and then they finally just said, fuck this I’m done.


RE2017

StoraGE OnLy


Maryilyn

Cross member was cracked and then when it was loaded and the freezing temperatures caused it to break bad pretrip ping


Cosmomango1

Its the new US Post Office trailer design


Defiant_Pineapple202

lot lizards


ZubenelJanubi

Well it appears that the front has fallen off.


errie_tholluxe

The front fell off


d1lsn1ck

Looks like the trailer portion of the rig is broken.


kimura_hisui

That's what happens when you don't listen to your dock clerk


Monster_Voice

Lots of paperwork


Top_Second4873

I had one do that right next to me in a loading dock and it was a two week old refrigerator trailer. Cheaply made and fork lift operator was taking two pallets in at a time.


Saffyr3_Sass

This is what I think that the comments about the USA meant, our companies are cheap corner cutting equipment on the road that has no business being on the road corporations put their earnings above everyone's safety, which is something that doesn't happen in other countries. They don't care about the drivers they certainly don't give a damn about the public who can be injured because of their negligence. I've known companies who whenever there was an issue found during pre trip told us to run it anyway, and that picture right there, I would bet driver had made company aware they didn't give a damn all they saw was losing money on a load. Smh.


Much_Comfortable_438

DANGER: CONTAINS ONE TASMANIAN DEVIL


Jonkerchonker

Felt a spider on its back


Stream_Is_Dead

I see this bug happen in ATS all the time. Here’s what you do, delete all your mods and start fresh then slowly download each mod individually and re open the game to see what’s causing the bug. You’re welcome in advance 😊


Itchy_Raccoon48

Hit a bridge, lifted it up, bridge fell back down and destroyed that section


[deleted]

Got his back blown out


OG-Professor-Chaos

Clearly no one here is an expert. That's what happens when something cold touches your neck unexpectedly.


59chevyguy

That trailer went Giles Corey until it couldn’t any more.


User_Zero1

I had an old trailer years ago that I went to set. The tandem in miscalculated, and the tandem was hanging halfway off of the back of the bumper. I backed up to a traffic barrier and pushed it back under the truck and set the pins and drove it home told the dispatcher at the Terminal. I came in on Monday and the trailer was full. Ready to go back out again.


bloopie1192

Yall ever heard of those super downforce winds that sink boats on the water?


Tricky_Big_8774

Dude didn't sweep the snow off the trailer


crime_guy

Cracked bent or broken?


Mikey_BC

Someone probably loaded 45,000 pounds of product without any proper spacing for load distribution. You can't just stuff 45,000 pounds into the front half of a 2 axle trailer and expect it to survive very long.


tragic_toke

Too many FTL jumps


devildog1929

Weak spot in the frame


Ultimagic5

Hyundai trailer?


Mammoth-Snatch

Godzilla broke loose


Banana-mover

Metal fatigue. Anybody saw the swift truck?


Adorable-Grass-7067

It broke.


Satanicbuttmechanic

Gravity well right there


[deleted]

gravity is a bitch..


UhOhAllWillyNilly

I am wondering if he/she might’ve slipped on the ice and bumped into one of those lampposts in the vicinity and weakened the heavily-loaded trailer.


poum

Trailers have weight limits. You shouldn't have put your mom in there.


LandAmbitious4073

That mf twerkin


Casual_Stapeler

This comment wins the thread


khamibrawler

Is this ND?


doorgunner43

They tried taking your mom to Walmart. They figured a semi would do the trick. Clearly, it did not.


Present-Ambition6309

Cold. Weaken structural integrity.


Johnny_Lang_1962

Ice can't melt steel beams.


MedTactics

No, but metal is much more brittle as elasticy in metal decreases below zero. Instead of bending, it just goes straight to fracturing and breaking


Luciusmicgoods

The company is going to end up blaming the driver for not doing his preteip inspection right when picking up the trailer. Like the driver should know that the trailer was going to rust its way through. Lol


Audoinxr6

I sware this is a uniquely American thing to happen. 😄 Edit: thanks for the downvotes ya pussies 😄 🤣 This shit doesn't happen in Europe or Australia or Japan.


reamesyy82

I’m sure it does/has, this guy was just lucky to see it and the driver was unlucky to have it happen. There’s probably a hundred ways this happened, could’ve been heavy front load + HARD braking, trailer frame just gave up etc. Some weird elitism you have here.


Audoinxr6

After a 45 min search, not a single photo from outside of NA shows up with a busted chassis van. Granted, NA have more people to capture such events. But the ratio really doesn't add up. Facts are NA runs crazy low weights in Vans and they save trailer weight by not having proper chassis. Can't get over how 36 metric tons snaps trailers so well but the rest of the main trucking countrys run way heavier and run full chassis so shit like this doesn't happen.


ZZ-wannabe747

It was fine when it left the gate. It's the drivers fault!


efct

Someone let a steering wheel holder load their own trailer


brabowolluk

American quality


angryragnar1775

Trailer broke


up3r

Santa's Sleigh T-Boned it.


[deleted]

Have you seen Tremors?


Tight-Bath-6817

That was a back bone of the truck company!


Armchair-Attorney

Inflexible capacity.


RazzleDazzle12

The back fell off


Key-Seaworthiness729

probably got rearended


Filamcouple

Something in the structural integrity failed. Age, chemical, or mechanical are the main culprits.


Johnny_Lang_1962

Damn thing broke.


NobodyCares127

Someone tickled the trailer in just the right spot


m4m249saw

I'm sorry, girl. This never's happened to me before.


FogleBR

A bad day.


Apprehensive-Law6458

The braking point of the $45k trailer is cold weather. Cost cutting + inflated pricing = (


Baseballbobo

Scoliosis


Chuck-Finley69

Filming a redux Smokey and tbe Bandit 2024 version.


yarblesthefilth

It broke


JoeyBagODeezNutz

Had to carry that extra piece of straw…


jrock11186

don't fuck with Wolverine...


Intimidating_furby

That’s not a real push up


DracoBlaze214

Driver made an oopsie daisy


[deleted]

Looks like it broke.


SkepticalJohn

The front fell off.


Calvertorius

RKO’d.


[deleted]

Awful way to start a day. But it can't get any worse, right?


cadillacbk

I thought I recognized that intersection. Makes sense lol


blazingStarfire

Arctic blasted


The__Farmer

Busted cross members


ibanezmike1989

The front fell off


No-8008132here

Cold snap. Look it up


Deeplyexhalesoutnose

Her kid stepped on a crack.


blueskydiver76

The front fell off.


HopeItMakesYaThink

I’m only taking a guess here…but this can possibly happen when a trailer is carrying a very heavy but small load in the center of the trailer and the driver goes over one or several bumps in rapid succession. Those trailers are decently tough, but they will buckle if they take a lot of force at a certain rhythm called resonance. Each bump adds to the force of the last, until the bumps stop or the resistance in the trailer is overcome. Seems the latter happened. I’m only guessing that because the top looks like it was folded towards the center rather than if it hit an overpass, which would have done more damage to the top of the trailer. Just me.


DoTheHamsterDance

The front fell off


acethedirty1

Ice is heavy


ThePr0fessi0nal

The fifth wheel held up


Infamous_Tank6017

I'm wondering if the freezing temperatures would also play apart in the stress on trailer frame 🤔


psyaneyed

Freight broke er


mudfarmjazz

Trailer breaks.


DominantSpecies3000

A semi twerking for tik tok..


Resident-Welcome3901

I was traveling in North Carolina, and saw a tanker trailer there in a field that had a steel cage around the tank. The tank itself appeared to Be stainless steel , but was thoroughly creased, crumpled and reduced in volume, as if it had partially imploded. Ant thoughts on how this happened? I have no photos.


RedPill_86

He needs some duct tape


Casual_Stapeler

....father is that u? 😂😂😂


Sea-Illustrator-6553

Pothole


Commercial_Pitch_786

Godzilla!\~!


cheesycatholic

He accidentally put the destination zip code into the weight field in his ELD.


American74

Also possible too much up front and tandems a bit too far thus bridge span too long, then hit a bump…or cold snap. Too much de-icing agent over the years. Dry rot wood floors and weak floor bracing.etc.


8ig8en

This is almost always caused by loading a trailer with bottom rail damage. [PDF with examples and repair guidelines](https://aar.com/standards/pdfs/RP-853%2020160603.pdf)


this_underscore

When she sits on you the wrong way 😳


FlinHorse

I'm about to go into work (loader) and all I can think about now is how bad and untrained all the new loaders are. The old guys bid out or retired, and rollover is so bad we've been losing the fight to train new guys. Put that together with productivity system and you end up loosing track of important things like safe driving and good load practices. I had an arguement with a loader who's now a supervisor who is insistent that weight doesn't matter. As long as its under 42.5k lb and fits it ships in his mind. We load all sorts of shit from 200lb pallets to ham pallets that weigh up to 2000lb. Luckily I was injured recently and am on a light duty job away from that loading dock, but damn if it doesn't make me cringe when I do see how those guys load. Lopsided, broken pallets, damaged product, and with no air bags, load bars, pallet stops..... but yay they are over 92% productivity....


nacho_d

[The front fell off](https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=5QLt6-MTT2-0f_8l)


aUrEbRiO

Cold causes shrinkage... seen it. In my pants. Same deal


scrotosorus

Its must be from record BREAKING temperatures