Holds up Wil E. Coyoty sign, "Yipe!"

Bunners

Funny that's kind of what Kenny the drivers said what I saw him he was shaking like a leaf

I think I would have been too... lucky he didn't have a roll-over...

V.

Very much so.

Oh my GOSH!

At least the guy who fastened the binders kept that excavator attached to the trailer! Kudos to him! Amazed it didn't tip all the way over!

Most of the chains held but it did manage to break a couple of chains when she went over

WOW! :O

This is why we chain our heavy equipment! XD

I once heard of a guy who had a D5 or D6 on the back of his flatbed, he didn't feel the need to chain it down, well he stopped a little too fast and it rolled right over his cab, killing him. Not sure if it's true but wow.

http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/20.....st-on-the-cab/

So Sad!

I have chained down loads and still had them shift on me in a panic stop...

I am sure something like that has happened... I have seen the aftermath of loads shifting on log trucks and freight vans... both took the cab off the truck.

Don't tell me, let me guess. One of the cowboy kids was going a little too fast while texting?

No not really what it was was the truck had nothing in the box so it had no wait on the drivers and the drivers really careful coming out of the pit because of the down slope to the road it was the 30 tons on the trailer that push the truck over the side basically the trailer was driving the truck most older trucks have a separate trailer brake the new Kenworth doesn't have that so he couldn't lock up the trailer to straighten things out. The crushed gravel didn't help matters any for sure

You scared me a little.
I already thought that you decided to "park" a little at work, after repairing the truck.

No not my doing... just me having something to fix...

They sure like to keep you busy. Oh well, job security, as they say.
Glad everything turned out as well as it did!

Myron my boss was saying the same thing that it could have been a lot worse

Oh my yes!! All things considered, I'd say there was a lot of good luck involved even though it was a nasty situation.

That's exactly it the driver had a lot of luck. Kenny said nothing he tried slowed the slide down the road.

I have slid the empty Army dump truck down the road with wheels locked up I was only doing 8 to 10 miles an hour so I know how Kenny felt when he was sliding down the road out of control

Kinda like how you feel when on ice and in an uncontrolled slide downhill you just can't do anything about?

That's what it's like. At least on ice and a sled you can drag a feet to kinda steer yourself...

I've never sledded on ice, but I've been driving a heavily loaded flatbed over a humpbacked bridge that I didn't realize was iced over on the downhill side till I crested the top. Seeing traffic stopped at the bottom had me swallowing my heart even though I was only going 10 or 15 MPH. All 4 tires slid every which way till I finally managed to bail off towards the bottom into a big snowbank and felt lucky to be able to steer it that much. I got out of that snowbank and back on the road by myself though. Like I said. Lucky!

Yep...

This is going to be a difficult day for the wrecker/recovery crew.

It took some doing but we got the truck cut-loose from the trailer and managed to get the truck out without much more than a dented muffler.

Ouch!

Yep... you have that right

Yikes! It's at times like this when you can only look on and think "Right, how do you start fixing this?". :P

That's exactly what I was thinking what I saw. First thought was how are we going to get it out of there then the next thought was what needs to be fixed on the truck and trailer and excavator

Did the driver hit the brakes too hard? That's my guess anyway.

what happened was the weight on the trailer just drove the truck down the hill and over the edge of the bank. It's a newer Kenworth so he doesn't have independent trailer brakes or a could have a applied trailer brakes to help straighten himself out.

Also as you can tell it's a crushed rock Road so you're kind of riding on a skateboard there when things are really dry

Wouldn't have gearing right down (not sure how many gears on the truck) beforehand helped? I sure wouldn't rely on brakes alone if it was me driving.

The excavator Waze in about 30 ton and basically the excavator on the trailer was driving the truck so poor Kenny didn't have a chance. The other problem is the road is crushed rock and it's kind of sort of like writing on ball bearings under certain conditions the truck was like as in nothing in it and 30 tons pushing a 10 ton truck that's what you get