Look a little deeper , Its a bottleneck road , meaning its a road in construction zone merging 2 to 1 . Id bet my life on it a 4 wheeler illegally overtook the trucker just to cut in , Reacting the trucker to last se ond slam on his Airbrakes causing them tp lockup ! Police should be looking for that driver and charge him wirh Murder and leaving the scene of a crime he caused.
@@trucker4life463 It's unfortunate these days that the first reaction is to blame the trucker and we also have ourselves to blame. I have witnessed experienced truck drivers mocking the backing efforts of newbies, conveniently forgetting their own initial efforts. This is the behavior that pushes us out of professional status.
@@KOIamericasSpoof I am reflecting on my younger years where there was always a huge push from management and dispatch, which they do not dare try now with me. But--I have seen and heard from newbies the same bullying tactics much as before. You are correct that it will always come back on the driver, but, if you have been paying attention, you know that actual and ideal circumstances are different. I do wish it were not so.
And this why I don’t do flatbed no more you can be a (securing load guru) one wrong brake and your done , loads have a mind of its own if it wants to shift it will ! My condolences to his family ♥️
Meanwhile back at the ranch (any ranch), a dispatcher is hurrying another driver out of the yard to get there on time. If the public was even remotely aware of just how much we must fight each day to do our job professionally, they would stay away from trucks. Trucking, how difficult can it be? A professional driver is dispatch enemy number UNO.
yeah and dont forget the tarping you tarp a load then when you get to destination they unloaded it and put it out on the yard in the mud and water makes you wonder why the hell it had to be tarped
@@MRTLEW01 Follow the money, it always reveals in the end. They charge extra time for tarping and binding, whether it is needed (sometimes it is) or not. But shh, don't tell the drivers, as they will start to ask for more money, and that is something up with which they will not put :-)
@@MRTLEW01 i totally agree I use to hate that just for them to sit it in the rain 🤦🏾♂️ I’m back pulling reefer and I absolute love my detention pay when I have to wait 🤗
@@paulmunro3175 the only flatbed company I was with was summer ford out of ashford AL and their tarp pay was 25 foonkie dollars for all that hell to go thru to tarp 🤦🏾♂️
*If you ever drive a flatbed truck ALWAYS make sure you Over secure the load. It's better to have too many straps and or chains than not enough. Also also make sure there is a headache rack on the back of the truck cab or on the nose of the trailer. Your life depends on it.*
I agree, I'm a long time Heavy Hauler so I'm pretty versed in securing any and all types of loads that go on a flatbed, lowboy, Landoll, etc, and if you're doing that type of work you better know the Load Securement book by heart. I've always preferred chains for loads like that, 1/2" transport chain can be harder to handle than straps, but it makes things more secure. The only thing that has ever scared me doing heavy haul was something coming off my trailer and hurting or killing someone, so my thought was to over-secure any loads, take the extra time. RIP driver.
@@thomaskirk9341 *Yessir. I drove for Arrow trucking out of tulsa,ok for 10 years, quit and moved to frac sand hauling a year before they went out of business. I hauled some pretty scary loads with them including oversize, I always over secured all loads and never had a problem. I retired from trucking in 2015 and still today I see flatbed trucks all the time going down the road with only one strap on the front of a load and/or no headache rack on the truck or trailer.*
@@bigtexas7580 Yes, you can't be lazy or complacent hauling difficult loads. Any day I left the yard grossing under 100,000 it was a light day, everything from heavy equipment, cell tower sections, big cable reels, 80ft utility poles, I always over-secure, then check, re-check, and check again. Maybe it's a combination of good and lucky, but I've never had a load loosen up on me, and I hope I never do. A lot of the newer drivers are either too fat, too lazy or too stupid to do the job right, and that's a dangerous thing.
I did flat bed , 10 years, in ca, you use straps every 5 ft. Mandatory, and You use común sense to hit the brakes especially in, or before the light. RIP that fellow 🙏🏾
No headache rack, that would of slowed the beams from going all the way through the cab. This guy was playing a dangerous game for a long time without one!
@@Saskfarmer651 ok!! and that’s why most flatbed carriers have them on their trucks, because they like to spend money on something that doesn’t work and won’t save a life🤔
Plus the fact that he had straps on a steel beam load our company tells us that’s a no no always use Chains if those beams start sliding they cut the straps such in a case like this I’ve seen it more than once and he should of known better anyway RIP driver 🙏 Prayers
Don't you know that proper equipment costs money, not to mention training? What were you thinking? Anyone can drive a transport. Nuttin to it. Dispatch response, " We have an opening that just opened up :-() "
@@joedirt9600 I actually overheard a dispatcher a few decades ago on the phone telling an agency "..just send a licensed piece of meat for the seat, the load has to be there." You just caused a flashback, and it was not because of drugs, it was anger.
Steel on steel is like grease you can use straps to choke it but chains and binders are used to secure it he also never had head ach rack.these are dangerous loads then all the crap people pull in commercial truck is a great way to end a life or more.
Um, this was at an intersection, so maybe the car was legally stopping for a red light, and possibly the truck driver was following too closely, "happens all the time" see neither one of us really knows what happened!
@@anthonyklein2944 More likely car ducked in front of the truck and slammed on the breaks because it couldn't turn, truck driver gave his life to save a four wheeler. 99.98% of accidents involving a semi are caused by a car.
@@uncledeadlythefirst More than likely you as well as I have no freaking clue, so stop blaming 4-wheelers. There are proportionally just as many ass hat stupid "professional drivers" on the road as there are stupid ass hat 4-wheelers! Since you posted a statistic, lets see the raw data, I am certain you are wrong!
@@uncledeadlythefirst Typical of an uneducated thug, make a claim won't back it up when called out.....According to FMCSA studies in 2009 the last year I could quickly find, the fatality wrecks involving a semi truck, and an automobile including pickup trucks were caused by the automobile 80% of the time, so yes you are WRONG. Furthermore according to a Washington State study performed in 1997, which is also the latest I could quickly find, combination semi trucks account for ONLY 19% of the traffic on Rural Interstate highways, and only 5.2% of vehicles on urban interstate systems. This means that there are more than 5 times the number of non combination vehicles on the road, and funny that they are 5 times more likely to be the cause of the crash, meaning for those who actually believe in facts and statistics rather than emotions, trucks are JUST as likely to cause a crash as a 4-wheeler. Now the data is old, but I am willing to bet the growth on both sides in vehicle count is approximately the same.
guessing by the attitude of the cop he'd rather be undercover investigating a strip club.. that driver's family had hear the "officer's" opinion.. wish I hadn't heard it. damn.
I'm not really understanding your issue. The cop had a news camera asking him questions so he answered them. It's called a press conference or press release.
@@thedub9031 he was pretty damn insensitive about it too. unprofessional lazy insensitive, way too concerned of having to actually work for a change.. I've witnessed it in person these "lawmen" losing their shit because of how stressful their job can be if something actually happens on there watch.
Sad, but you never haul steel using straps, should have never been loaded. And a headache rack should be mandatory, not sure about the State's but in Canada it law.
Ha. Ha. It may be mandatory here, but I see breaches of the law every day, and I saw it at many companies I worked for-big companies. It's all optics my friend. It is a jungle out here.
Always put an X chains in the front of a load or dunnage in the front of all steel loads. I have been flatbed driver for 10 years. But Rip to the driver
Whats terrible is he was 76 and still had to drive . I think drivers need a raise . We all risk our lives with the untrained people driving cars . Cell phones stuck to their faces.
Red flag no head board. Funny u know, u would think a hard stop at 60 / 70 mph would wreck havoc but it is exactly the opposite. A hard stop from 15 / 20 mph will get max slip/movement of a poorly secured loas. It takes just a few extra minutes to throw extra restraints over your load as well as using a good progressive positioning strategy of those restraints to minimise risk. Heavy duty headboards to protect the cab and operator should be mandatory on flat deck loads. Cost, laziness, poor training, corporate apathy, bad loading practice, or j*d*g*a*f * are the difference between arriving at 2 locations, safely at the drop point or the morgue... Could have saved our poor brother.
@@paulmunro3175 or he was following too closely, and the car in front stopped like normal, so quick to blame the 4-wheelers. There are stupid, and terrible drivers in both types of vehicles, and there are amazing and courteous drivers in both types of vehicles, loose the jumping to conclusions based on a clear bias.
Trailers are built with a bulkhead to stop things like this from happening. Why was he not using the right trailer? OH, and a headache rack is like a dump truck. Protects the top of the cab from falling rock.
While the term "headache rack" may have originally been for an overhead cab protection of some kind, the steel or typically aluminum barrier required behind the cab for flatbed work, has been called a headache rack, and that is what manufactures call them for a great many years.
No change no binders just straps recipe for disaster a lot of drivers don't like to handle the chain so that short cut with straps change will bite into the steel.🤔⚒
And far too many drivers have not been educated in the proper techniques of hauling certain types of freight or even how to load a trailer with regard to weight. The industry is far too lax and lazy. Many shippers are astonished that drivers don't know how to work a ratchet-strap, let alone what one is. The whole industry is to blame, because there is just too much money to be made, the penalties are too forgiving and the roll-the-dice attitude vis-à-vis fines makes it profitable.
As one who's been a skateboarder hauling beams for 20 years, i noticed the 1st mistake with that rig, which is why he died.! NO HEADACHE RACK.!!! What gets in the minds of drivers who want to haul flatbed, but arent properly trained or equipped to do so.!
All the more reason to have a header board on the tractor or a bulkhead on the trailer and yes that was an unsecured load. That’s why you stop within the first 50 miles to check your load and every 150 miles or 3 hours whichever comes first
The company I worked for had engineered, welded, and bolted bulkheads on the front of the trailer. This should be mandatory to haul these materials. We did not use straps as primary securement, they were always used with chains. Two chains in the front and two in the back
I haul steel and its a lot of hard work to secure very tedious especially in hot or cold extremes but you have to imagine what would happen if that extreme heavy load will do if you have to brake hard. You should be able to play it out in your head and it should terrify you.
Chains chains, chains, I put 2 chains and X them at very front of load to prevent this from happening, plus he was 78 years old he should have been pulling a dry van.
R.I.P. driver...Hope this gets the Dot and FMCSA and be more strict on this particular LOADS... Like COILS aka SUICIDE COILS get the name for a reason. My opinion is that steal beams and pipe are way more dangerous than coils... We don't hear much about coils accidents because safety on securement is implemented more serious. I hope DOT starts cracking down on all drivers hauling steal beams and pipe that don't secure them properly..
That’s why I always strap the crap out of loads like this. As well, I tighten as much as I possibly can. I would rather over strap the load, then have it come through the truck, if I have to hit the brakes!
Same here, I hauled a load of round HC steel stock out of Alabama down to Florida once. Put 18 straps on it and used a 4x4 header board. Car cut out in front of me down in Florida and I had to slam on my breaks. The load shifted but only by 8 inches or so. It's why I always over secure loads like these, I'd rather be safe than sorry or dead.
Strapping sharp steel is dangerous and stupid. If the company does not have chains, refuse the load. The companies do not care about your life, just profits. Period.
@@MrJohnthefarmer You were taught well. I did the same, but before leaving the yard I hammered the brakes HARD and wiggled the rig from side to side. Always loosened things up a bit. That kind of professional approach will bring negative comments from mismanagement these days though.
Aww...I bet some idiot pulled in front of him...I hate to say this but truckers sometimes you have to pray and hit ...trying to stop this MASSIVE WEIGHT QUICK is IMPOSSIBLE...people please please give these 18 wheelers distance and respect.Prayers for his family.....
Yeah the protective measures was having a headache rack on his truck every truck driver should have known that I don't see how he wasn't enough to enough to have a headache rack on his truck
@@ralphflores8661 thanks for that response in 2011 I was a truck driver I was riding my Harley back to work to the morrow yard just south of Atlanta for kllm on March 17th about 11:45 right before midnight I got ran over on my Harley from behind at 55 miles an hour when a hundred fifteen feet down the highway in about 15 ft above the highway smack back in the back of the ICC bumper on the 285 Loop in Atlanta the four-wheeler did a hit and run and left me there I suffer from traumatic brain injury and the hypocracy is I was handicapped before I was a truck driver apparently. Got documentation of that but my life has been a very expressive ha.
Alot of flatbed drivers don't tighten their loads down enough because they be rushing because we are on time crunches ....Not me I tighten my load down really tight...heck with that, because this type mess could happen to a driver.....ain't no load worth your life.....tighten your load down really tight.....except for plastic loads....
If that's how you've been driving and you haven't killed anyone, then you've been lucky, bud'. I'm not wishing bad, but one day, that left turning car, whose driver is anxious to turn cuz he's been standing in the middle of the intersectionfor a while, won't notice that you can't stop and will turn in front of you; then It'll be mayhem. I see that collision on a weekly basis. I actually watched a video recently, in which a truck t-boned a cop, in this very situation. I'm pretty sure that cop got hurt, at the least. The trucker ran the light, and the cop certainly wasn't paying attention, didn't notice the truck not slowing down. The cop made a right turn in front of the truck and it was a direct hit. So, be careful out there; time the light, if it's been green too long, be prepared to stop by slowing down, and use your jakes if needed.
@@thahomiegreg9847 your first statement, added to your follow up question, tell me that you have limited experience. Because if you had as much experience as I do, you would've understood what I explained; unless you graduated from a SWIFT academy. You said: "NEVER SLAM ON YOUR BRAKES", and I'm saying that I fundamentally disagree with you. I also said that if that's what you've been doing out there, then you've been lucky. For, there's no reason as to why you should run a light when empty of lightly loaded. If you're heavily loaded, even so, you still have to time the lights, and operate your vehicle in a safely manner. And since you've been lucky, I also gave you the scenario of that day when you'll be running out of luck. So, bud, you'd better take a chill pill before you question my knowledge; you're talking to a 22yrs vet, with more than 2 million miles and ZERO COLLISION WRECK, in ALL TERRAIN and all WEATHER.
Dude I’ve been driving 17 years of all safe miles. At some point that light just changes while you’re in an awkward position. This driver is no longer here because he tried to stop rather than go through the yellow light. Thanks for your irrelevant advice but I continue to be “LUCKY”!
@@thahomiegreg9847 I know this man's missed by not only his family, but by his friends and mostly his colleagues. One DOT cop pulled me over at the MN scale right outside of Fargo, ND. He gave me a level 3 inspection. Afterwards, he told me something that hit home. He said: "it's guys like you, with a lot of experience, who get killed in these roads". That's how I quit interstate driving, I'm now a local o/o. My guess is that this driver's been running this loads for years, and that day, he probably got lazy for some awkward reasons, then this happened. The lesson I got from all this, is to not go to sleep on these basics.
My personal opinion, I always used chain up over the top, then chain a X in front of a steel load, so hopefully this wouldn't happen. I've had hot shots give me a hard time for doing this, saying" your wasting your time."
Can someone Anyone any trucker tell me how you can know what your hauling but then magically become so distant so complacent that you allow this to take your life...how many of us are well informed about Murphy's Law how many of us know the importance of preventive maintenance.so how does something like this get overlooked was this trailer a flat car with head board or one without ..just one look at this load and I'm already nervous these never haul right they always shift always come loose.thry are by far the hardest to keep stationary even more so after being manufactured and welded into different sizes shapes because they no.longer interlock ..this drivers complacantcy killed him ....
You don't know ANYTHING about how the trucking companies skirt the law these days. The pressure for time on the drivers could well be avoided by having intelligent dispatchers (ha. ha.) or dispatchers who actually drove a transport. The latter is rare, because that would not fly with management. The industry is largely out of control, with a few notable exceptions. The good companies do NOT perform like that, and that's from an insider.
I haul steel and its a pain in the azz to secure these loads but my imagination of what could go wrong terrifies me into cranking the hell out of my binders and bump stops would have helped as well as a headache rack. Come this ain’t the job to be lazy!!!
Nonsense, you're not a trucker period. Loads can shift even if you secure them with glue, and flatbed loads are more dangerous. Probably a stupid small car driver cut him and he abruptly stepped on the brakes, maybe that's why
I've seen loads go through the headache rack like it was not even there. As far as I am concerned the headache rack is no more than just a place to put your chains and binders.
@@zaneturner4478 something is alway better than nothing!!!!!! That’s like saying if u were gonna be attacked by an animal and u had a gun, u have seen guns misfire so u wouldn’t want any bullets!!!!! Don’t make any sense.....
@@robertchristensen2633 Over length and width require a permit and signage. The bottom line is safety; if you do not feel safe with the load, you are within your rights to refuse the load and inquire as to whether the equipment is proper for the haul. A simple test is to ask a rational question; if you get brushed off, sneered at or ignored, leave the load. These reactions are all you need to confirm your intuitions: TRUST THOSE FEELINGS. Contact any reputable school for information; there are courses for improvement at the better ones. And the Transport Ministries all have a help line.
@@paulmunro3175 oh i agree its the driver rear end at the end of the day. with that too sir nothing is gonna stop a load from shifting if a 4 wheeler cuts you off or decides to stop dead in front of you
Ya thats not true the load was secured come on people ya now damn well a car or another vehicle stopped short and he tryed not t o hit someone and thats what happened so start looking for a murderer! I drove trucks for years and thats the only way a load can come threw a cab is some fool stopped short in front of him he been driving that long he nows how to strap a load don blame him for someone causeing his death dont do it !!!!!!!!!!!
@@getsmarter5412 no what i said its up to the driver to secure his load they made it sound like he didnt my dad had same thing happen to him he had 6 straps and 5 chains on his load and a fool stop in front of him and his load still came threw the cab and a joint of pipe him him in his head and was in a comma for 2 months that all i am saying ! That drive well be missed by his family but there is someone else out there that cuased his death !!!
@@davidbailey9796 I'm very sorry to hear that happened, but my point being worse case scenarios should be taken into account. Short of hitting a wall, a load should not be able to break loose under any braking situation, ever! That's what math is for.
Sir sir, i don't ubderstand. What am i blaming anyone for exactly? Yo firstly my life is pretty chill, the few things which are drama in my life (being an orphan, being disabled due to a disease i got in my early 20s, thus losing my favourite job) are all things which weren't anybody's fault. I just roll with it cos i got a lot of things that i am happy for, so a few 'problems' are just minor setbacks, i can work around most it so for the most part its good yo. Theres not much point me blaming my parents for anything because i hardly knew them, like i got tattoos that i have known longer than i knew my parents for, anything they did is not relevant to my adult life today at all. It'd be like blaming Tupac that its raining today. Just why? 😂😂 And yo furthermore, don't be calling me a goth, that shits just childish fam, you're better than that Try and think about it for a second: i'm half Greek, i live in England and its winter; of course i am going to be pale with dark hair, like see me in the summer though and i don't look as ghostly. Trust 😂😂 Is goth even still a thing? Always makes think of the girl in Beetlejuice. That was like 80s right?
@@louisp.3332 Help with what exactly? I'm in a supermarket only buying 3 items, they will fit in my pockets. I don't need assistance i got this. And i'm not a puppy i'm a lioness
Absolutely horrendous. RIP sir.
R.I P..... prayers to family..blessings.
Rip 🪦 driver your journey has ended condolence and prayers to families and friends 🙏 💐
Rest in everlasting peace Mr. Trucker.
Fuck he was 76, no great loss at 76 he had a full life
@@richarda1568 Really!?
@@richarda1568wow, he may be old, but he deserved to live longer, this comment is how society is today
Load secured with straps, no chains or binders, no headache rack.
Mystery solved.
Not in entirety. Where the f*&k was management or dispatch oversight????
Look a little deeper ,
Its a bottleneck road , meaning its a road in construction zone merging 2 to 1 .
Id bet my life on it a 4 wheeler illegally overtook the trucker just to cut in ,
Reacting the trucker to last se ond slam on his Airbrakes causing them tp lockup !
Police should be looking for that driver and charge him wirh Murder and leaving the scene of a crime he caused.
@@trucker4life463 It's unfortunate these days that the first reaction is to blame the trucker and we also have ourselves to blame. I have witnessed experienced truck drivers mocking the backing efforts of newbies, conveniently forgetting their own initial efforts. This is the behavior that pushes us out of professional status.
@@paulmunro3175 Load securement. Who's responsibility is it?
@@KOIamericasSpoof I am reflecting on my younger years where there was always a huge push from management and dispatch, which they do not dare try now with me. But--I have seen and heard from newbies the same bullying tactics much as before. You are correct that it will always come back on the driver, but, if you have been paying attention, you know that actual and ideal circumstances are different. I do wish it were not so.
And this why I don’t do flatbed no more you can be a (securing load guru) one wrong brake and your done , loads have a mind of its own if it wants to shift it will ! My condolences to his family ♥️
Meanwhile back at the ranch (any ranch), a dispatcher is hurrying another driver out of the yard to get there on time. If the public was even remotely aware of just how much we must fight each day to do our job professionally, they would stay away from trucks. Trucking, how difficult can it be? A professional driver is dispatch enemy number UNO.
yeah and dont forget the tarping you tarp a load then when you get to destination they unloaded it and put it out on the yard in the mud and water makes you wonder why the hell it had to be tarped
@@MRTLEW01 Follow the money, it always reveals in the end. They charge extra time for tarping and binding, whether it is needed (sometimes it is) or not. But shh, don't tell the drivers, as they will start to ask for more money, and that is something up with which they will not put :-)
@@MRTLEW01 i totally agree I use to hate that just for them to sit it in the rain 🤦🏾♂️ I’m back pulling reefer and I absolute love my detention pay when I have to wait 🤗
@@paulmunro3175 the only flatbed company I was with was summer ford out of ashford AL and their tarp pay was 25 foonkie dollars for all that hell to go thru to tarp 🤦🏾♂️
*If you ever drive a flatbed truck ALWAYS make sure you Over secure the load. It's better to have too many straps and or chains than not enough. Also also make sure there is a headache rack on the back of the truck cab or on the nose of the trailer. Your life depends on it.*
I totally agree
I agree, I'm a long time Heavy Hauler so I'm pretty versed in securing any and all types of loads that go on a flatbed, lowboy, Landoll, etc, and if you're doing that type of work you better know the Load Securement book by heart. I've always preferred chains for loads like that, 1/2" transport chain can be harder to handle than straps, but it makes things more secure. The only thing that has ever scared me doing heavy haul was something coming off my trailer and hurting or killing someone, so my thought was to over-secure any loads, take the extra time. RIP driver.
@@thomaskirk9341 *Yessir. I drove for Arrow trucking out of tulsa,ok for 10 years, quit and moved to frac sand hauling a year before they went out of business. I hauled some pretty scary loads with them including oversize, I always over secured all loads and never had a problem. I retired from trucking in 2015 and still today I see flatbed trucks all the time going down the road with only one strap on the front of a load and/or no headache rack on the truck or trailer.*
@@bigtexas7580 Yes, you can't be lazy or complacent hauling difficult loads. Any day I left the yard grossing under 100,000 it was a light day, everything from heavy equipment, cell tower sections, big cable reels, 80ft utility poles, I always over-secure, then check, re-check, and check again. Maybe it's a combination of good and lucky, but I've never had a load loosen up on me, and I hope I never do. A lot of the newer drivers are either too fat, too lazy or too stupid to do the job right, and that's a dangerous thing.
I did flat bed , 10 years, in ca, you use straps every 5 ft. Mandatory, and You use común sense to hit the brakes especially in, or before the light.
RIP that fellow 🙏🏾
No headache rack, that would of slowed the beams from going all the way through the cab. This guy was playing a dangerous game for a long time without one!
You think 1/4 aluminum is gonna stop steel beams???? 😆😆😆 keep chirping about stuff you have no clue about!!
@@Saskfarmer651 ok!! and that’s why most flatbed carriers have them on their trucks, because they like to spend money on something that doesn’t work and won’t save a life🤔
@@just-incase3483 I agree it helps but sure isn’t gonna stop it!! Nothings gonna stop that
Yeah, wouldn't stop that one
@@Saskfarmer651 he didn't say it was gonna completely stop it
Looked like there was no headache rack to protect the cab
Plus the fact that he had straps on a steel beam load our company tells us that’s a no no always use Chains if those beams start sliding they cut the straps such in a case like this I’ve seen it more than once and he should of known better anyway RIP driver 🙏 Prayers
Don't you know that proper equipment costs money, not to mention training? What were you thinking? Anyone can drive a transport. Nuttin to it. Dispatch response, " We have an opening that just opened up :-() "
We are just meat in the seat, will never change.
@@joedirt9600 I actually overheard a dispatcher a few decades ago on the phone telling an agency "..just send a licensed piece of meat for the seat, the load has to be there." You just caused a flashback, and it was not because of drugs, it was anger.
Headache racks aren't designed to stop a load, I'm a flatbedder and have driven trucks with no headache racks hauling steel.
Steel on steel is like grease you can use straps to choke it but chains and binders are used to secure it he also never had head ach rack.these are dangerous loads then all the crap people pull in commercial truck is a great way to end a life or more.
A lot of metal bars are actually oiled/ greased up to keep from rusting.
It's just not important to dispatchers. We are on our own.
Car brake checked him happens all the time
Um, this was at an intersection, so maybe the car was legally stopping for a red light, and possibly the truck driver was following too closely, "happens all the time" see neither one of us really knows what happened!
@@anthonyklein2944 More likely car ducked in front of the truck and slammed on the breaks because it couldn't turn, truck driver gave his life to save a four wheeler. 99.98% of accidents involving a semi are caused by a car.
@@uncledeadlythefirst More than likely you as well as I have no freaking clue, so stop blaming 4-wheelers. There are proportionally just as many ass hat stupid "professional drivers" on the road as there are stupid ass hat 4-wheelers! Since you posted a statistic, lets see the raw data, I am certain you are wrong!
@@anthonyklein2944 Look it up your self, you'll see I'm right :)
@@uncledeadlythefirst Typical of an uneducated thug, make a claim won't back it up when called out.....According to FMCSA studies in 2009 the last year I could quickly find, the fatality wrecks involving a semi truck, and an automobile including pickup trucks were caused by the automobile 80% of the time, so yes you are WRONG. Furthermore according to a Washington State study performed in 1997, which is also the latest I could quickly find, combination semi trucks account for ONLY 19% of the traffic on Rural Interstate highways, and only 5.2% of vehicles on urban interstate systems. This means that there are more than 5 times the number of non combination vehicles on the road, and funny that they are 5 times more likely to be the cause of the crash, meaning for those who actually believe in facts and statistics rather than emotions, trucks are JUST as likely to cause a crash as a 4-wheeler. Now the data is old, but I am willing to bet the growth on both sides in vehicle count is approximately the same.
My deepest condolences to the family.
guessing by the attitude of the cop he'd rather be undercover investigating a strip club.. that driver's family had hear the "officer's" opinion.. wish I hadn't heard it. damn.
I'm not really understanding your issue. The cop had a news camera asking him questions so he answered them. It's called a press conference or press release.
@@thedub9031 he was pretty damn insensitive about it too. unprofessional lazy insensitive, way too concerned of having to actually work for a change.. I've witnessed it in person these "lawmen" losing their shit because of how stressful their job can be if something actually happens on there watch.
@@medium_dog7211 i think he was just put on the spot and didnt know what to say or hes not good at talking on camera
The family knows exactly what happened!! The cop didn’t say anything wrong.... Geez!
@@elainevankat5353 that's your opinion, but I will take another look at this lazy ass non producer's insensitive statements.
Sad, but you never haul steel using straps, should have never been loaded. And a headache rack should be mandatory, not sure about the State's but in Canada it law.
Ha. Ha. It may be mandatory here, but I see breaches of the law every day, and I saw it at many companies I worked for-big companies. It's all optics my friend. It is a jungle out here.
They did away with it here. Now in place of you have to have 2 load securement in front, I don't know distance, I mostly run dumps and low boy.
Always put an X chains in the front of a load or dunnage in the front of all steel loads. I have been flatbed driver for 10 years. But Rip to the driver
Whats terrible is he was 76 and still had to drive . I think drivers need a raise . We all risk our lives with the untrained people driving cars . Cell phones stuck to their faces.
Red flag no head board. Funny u know, u would think a hard stop at 60 / 70 mph would wreck havoc but it is exactly the opposite. A hard stop from 15 / 20 mph will get max slip/movement of a poorly secured loas. It takes just a few extra minutes to throw extra restraints over your load as well as using a good progressive positioning strategy of those restraints to minimise risk. Heavy duty headboards to protect the cab and operator should be mandatory on flat deck loads. Cost, laziness, poor training, corporate apathy, bad loading practice, or j*d*g*a*f * are the difference between arriving at 2 locations, safely at the drop point or the morgue... Could have saved our poor brother.
RIP....sincere condolences to this trucker and his family.
Don't know why he started braking? Maybe because the light turned red....duh
If he had to brake that suddenly, it was more than likely because he was cut off.
@@paulmunro3175 or he was following too closely, and the car in front stopped like normal, so quick to blame the 4-wheelers. There are stupid, and terrible drivers in both types of vehicles, and there are amazing and courteous drivers in both types of vehicles, loose the jumping to conclusions based on a clear bias.
@@anthonyklein2944 or sun glare made him see the red light to late and cuased him to stop really hard
Trailers should have a front load gaurd metal stand, carrying a load on flat bed is death trap
no back plate on cab ,,, rack my have save his life ,,, prayers to his families
Truck company should be held fully Responsible
Headache rack used to be required if the trailer had no bulkhead! Feds dropped that requirement a few years ago!
Wow im so sorry for this man thats crazy beyond belief ..life is precious every moment counts so let's make the world a better place
Trailers are built with a bulkhead to stop things like this from happening. Why was he not using the right trailer? OH, and a headache rack is like a dump truck. Protects the top of the cab from falling rock.
Cheap companies. But I repeat myself.
@@paulmunro3175 Yes and drivers are a dime a dozen. No, spend the money to keep your drivers safe. Or find a company that will.
While the term "headache rack" may have originally been for an overhead cab protection of some kind, the steel or typically aluminum barrier required behind the cab for flatbed work, has been called a headache rack, and that is what manufactures call them for a great many years.
@@anthonyklein2944 Yeah well things are not perfect, are they? If it keeps the brain housing group intact from a back to front assault then O.K.
Not all flatbed trailers have a bulkhead, (or headboard in the UK), most seen to have no protection at the front at all.
No change no binders just straps recipe for disaster a lot of drivers don't like to handle the chain so that short cut with straps change will bite into the steel.🤔⚒
And far too many drivers have not been educated in the proper techniques of hauling certain types of freight or even how to load a trailer with regard to weight. The industry is far too lax and lazy. Many shippers are astonished that drivers don't know how to work a ratchet-strap, let alone what one is. The whole industry is to blame, because there is just too much money to be made, the penalties are too forgiving and the roll-the-dice attitude vis-à-vis fines makes it profitable.
Driver is responsible for load security.
Yeah, and the companies are always innocent the way they push the trucks out of the door by subtly or not-so-subtly bullying the drivers on time.
Driver is dead dipshit!
R.I.P to the truck driver
Lady in the red dress she loo k s fine
Hey hey now Mr. Erazo you must keep it together now 😅
Mmmhmm..Yes sir
Thick as oatmeal
Besides she is fat as hell
@@richarda1568 you must never get any from the fat ladies or skinny ones
As one who's been a skateboarder hauling beams for 20 years, i noticed the 1st mistake with that rig, which is why he died.! NO HEADACHE RACK.!!! What gets in the minds of drivers who want to haul flatbed, but arent properly trained or equipped to do so.!
All the more reason to have a header board on the tractor or a bulkhead on the trailer and yes that was an unsecured load. That’s why you stop within the first 50 miles to check your load and every 150 miles or 3 hours whichever comes first
76yo? Too old to be shipping steel...almost looks like a suicide.
The company I worked for had engineered, welded, and bolted bulkheads on the front of the trailer. This should be mandatory to haul these materials. We did not use straps as primary securement, they were always used with chains. Two chains in the front and two in the back
How long has this drive been driving a simi trucks and how long has he been hauling steel
When you think you've got enough put on a couple more. In old days we drove for the load.
I haul steel and its a lot of hard work to secure very tedious especially in hot or cold extremes but you have to imagine what would happen if that extreme heavy load will do if you have to brake hard. You should be able to play it out in your head and it should terrify you.
I feel for this family and wish them well
God this happens way to much. I hate to hear these things happening.
This happens more than people think most are cause by bad load securtying
Way more than the public ever wants to know.
I will not do flatbed unless trk has a headache rack
Chains chains, chains, I put 2 chains and X them at very front of load to prevent this from happening, plus he was 78 years old he should have been pulling a dry van.
R.I.P. driver...Hope this gets the Dot and FMCSA and be more strict on this particular LOADS... Like COILS aka SUICIDE COILS get the name for a reason. My opinion is that steal beams and pipe are way more dangerous than coils... We don't hear much about coils accidents because safety on securement is implemented more serious. I hope DOT starts cracking down on all drivers hauling steal beams and pipe that don't secure them properly..
That’s why I always strap the crap out of loads like this. As well, I tighten as much as I possibly can. I would rather over strap the load, then have it come through the truck, if I have to hit the brakes!
Same here, I hauled a load of round HC steel stock out of Alabama down to Florida once. Put 18 straps on it and used a 4x4 header board. Car cut out in front of me down in Florida and I had to slam on my breaks. The load shifted but only by 8 inches or so. It's why I always over secure loads like these, I'd rather be safe than sorry or dead.
I was taught to check the straps/chains first after about 30 minutes of driving and then every 2 hours after that.
Strapping sharp steel is dangerous and stupid. If the company does not have chains, refuse the load. The companies do not care about your life, just profits. Period.
@@MrJohnthefarmer You were taught well. I did the same, but before leaving the yard I hammered the brakes HARD and wiggled the rig from side to side. Always loosened things up a bit. That kind of professional approach will bring negative comments from mismanagement these days though.
In stopping to save someones life, he had to sacrifice his own. Please 4 wheelers thank a Trucker do not upset them on the road.
Top ten most dangerous jobs in the US.
76...it was time to retire a long time ago. 65 he should have been done. Now he is done
*Ban Assault Red Lights!*
Ban Assault trucks also
Aww...I bet some idiot pulled in front of him...I hate to say this but truckers sometimes you have to pray and hit ...trying to stop this MASSIVE WEIGHT QUICK is IMPOSSIBLE...people please please give these 18 wheelers distance and respect.Prayers for his family.....
Yeah the protective measures was having a headache rack on his truck every truck driver should have known that I don't see how he wasn't enough to enough to have a headache rack on his truck
Its illegal to load steel beams or pipe on truck w/o headach rack.
@@ralphflores8661 thanks for that response in 2011 I was a truck driver I was riding my Harley back to work to the morrow yard just south of Atlanta for kllm on March 17th about 11:45 right before midnight I got ran over on my Harley from behind at 55 miles an hour when a hundred fifteen feet down the highway in about 15 ft above the highway smack back in the back of the ICC bumper on the 285 Loop in Atlanta the four-wheeler did a hit and run and left me there I suffer from traumatic brain injury and the hypocracy is I was handicapped before I was a truck driver apparently. Got documentation of that but my life has been a very expressive ha.
@@ralphflores8661 It's not illegal anymore, DOT made the rack optional if you use more straps...or something like that.
This has been happening my whole life. Talk about school boy error .
again. with the mot securing the load properly.
This is well known so why not investigate the person who secured the load, this may be a murder.
Two things ; load was not secured as per requirement and truck was going above 45m/h
Alot of flatbed drivers don't tighten their loads down enough because they be rushing because we are on time crunches ....Not me I tighten my load down really tight...heck with that, because this type mess could happen to a driver.....ain't no load worth your life.....tighten your load down really tight.....except for plastic loads....
Never slam on your brakes to try to stop at a changing light. It’s safer to gone on through it.
If that's how you've been driving and you haven't killed anyone, then you've been lucky, bud'. I'm not wishing bad, but one day, that left turning car, whose driver is anxious to turn cuz he's been standing in the middle of the intersectionfor a while, won't notice that you can't stop and will turn in front of you; then It'll be mayhem. I see that collision on a weekly basis.
I actually watched a video recently, in which a truck t-boned a cop, in this very situation. I'm pretty sure that cop got hurt, at the least. The trucker ran the light, and the cop certainly wasn't paying attention, didn't notice the truck not slowing down. The cop made a right turn in front of the truck and it was a direct hit.
So, be careful out there; time the light, if it's been green too long, be prepared to stop by slowing down, and use your jakes if needed.
Have you ever driven a big truck?
@@thahomiegreg9847 your first statement, added to your follow up question, tell me that you have limited experience. Because if you had as much experience as I do, you would've understood what I explained; unless you graduated from a SWIFT academy.
You said: "NEVER SLAM ON YOUR BRAKES", and I'm saying that I fundamentally disagree with you. I also said that if that's what you've been doing out there, then you've been lucky. For, there's no reason as to why you should run a light when empty of lightly loaded.
If you're heavily loaded, even so, you still have to time the lights, and operate your vehicle in a safely manner. And since you've been lucky, I also gave you the scenario of that day when you'll be running out of luck.
So, bud, you'd better take a chill pill before you question my knowledge; you're talking to a 22yrs vet, with more than 2 million miles and ZERO COLLISION WRECK, in ALL TERRAIN and all WEATHER.
Dude I’ve been driving 17 years of all safe miles. At some point that light just changes while you’re in an awkward position. This driver is no longer here because he tried to stop rather than go through the yellow light. Thanks for your irrelevant advice but I continue to be “LUCKY”!
@@thahomiegreg9847 I know this man's missed by not only his family, but by his friends and mostly his colleagues.
One DOT cop pulled me over at the MN scale right outside of Fargo, ND. He gave me a level 3 inspection. Afterwards, he told me something that hit home. He said: "it's guys like you, with a lot of experience, who get killed in these roads". That's how I quit interstate driving, I'm now a local o/o.
My guess is that this driver's been running this loads for years, and that day, he probably got lazy for some awkward reasons, then this happened.
The lesson I got from all this, is to not go to sleep on these basics.
My personal opinion, I always used chain up over the top, then chain a X in front of a steel load, so hopefully this wouldn't happen. I've had hot shots give me a hard time for doing this, saying" your wasting your time."
Latasha "Da Stallion"
NO headache rack on this truck!
He probably got cut off by a 4 wheeler, who took off. Happens to me all the time. Too bad it was a load of steel. Rip driver.
Redesign the trucks that haul these loads
Someone didn't tie the load down properly.
Company pays only for tarping not for securing the load.
it was a flatbed. the load was on it not in it
Can someone Anyone any trucker tell me how you can know what your hauling but then magically become so distant so complacent that you allow this to take your life...how many of us are well informed about Murphy's Law how many of us know the importance of preventive maintenance.so how does something like this get overlooked was this trailer a flat car with head board or one without ..just one look at this load and I'm already nervous these never haul right they always shift always come loose.thry are by far the hardest to keep stationary even more so after being manufactured and welded into different sizes shapes because they no.longer interlock ..this drivers complacantcy killed him ....
You don't know ANYTHING about how the trucking companies skirt the law these days. The pressure for time on the drivers could well be avoided by having intelligent dispatchers (ha. ha.) or dispatchers who actually drove a transport. The latter is rare, because that would not fly with management. The industry is largely out of control, with a few notable exceptions. The good companies do NOT perform like that, and that's from an insider.
It was suicide?
I haul steel and its a pain in the azz to secure these loads but my imagination of what could go wrong terrifies me into cranking the hell out of my binders and bump stops would have helped as well as a headache rack. Come this ain’t the job to be lazy!!!
Yeah very sad, sleepers are aluminum and fiberglass no protection at all. Headache rack would have took the majority of the blow.
Nonsense, you're not a trucker period. Loads can shift even if you secure them with glue, and flatbed loads are more dangerous. Probably a stupid small car driver cut him and he abruptly stepped on the brakes, maybe that's why
Needed to be chained down ! Straps are easier to put on but just get cut when hard braking chains grips the steel send a gallon of paint for marks.
This is what would have happened if Stokes had stopped his truck at the railroad crossing
The guy in Chicago? Yup
No headache rack 🤔
I would not ever pull a flatbed with out a headache rack!!!!!!!
I've seen loads go through the headache rack like it was not even there. As far as I am concerned the headache rack is no more than just a place to put your chains and binders.
@@zaneturner4478 something is alway better than nothing!!!!!! That’s like saying if u were gonna be attacked by an animal and u had a gun, u have seen guns misfire so u wouldn’t want any bullets!!!!! Don’t make any sense.....
That's y I can't do flat bed,..period..lol
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did anyone notice the CC at the beginning of this video not matching at all??!!!??
Blaming on driver fail to secure load , probably a dumb four wheeler break checking a semi again
Cheryls looking hot
Belly wrapping front and rear . SEMPER FIDELIS
Some tell me what a headache rack would done. That load would just pushed it thru the cab
If you don't know, you should NOT be driving transports with a flatbed.
@@paulmunro3175 so how else do drivers haul over length loads,
And I am a cdl holder that has ran flatbed
@@robertchristensen2633 Over length and width require a permit and signage. The bottom line is safety; if you do not feel safe with the load, you are within your rights to refuse the load and inquire as to whether the equipment is proper for the haul. A simple test is to ask a rational question; if you get brushed off, sneered at or ignored, leave the load. These reactions are all you need to confirm your intuitions: TRUST THOSE FEELINGS. Contact any reputable school for information; there are courses for improvement at the better ones. And the Transport Ministries all have a help line.
@@paulmunro3175 oh i agree its the driver rear end at the end of the day. with that too sir nothing is gonna stop a load from shifting if a 4 wheeler cuts you off or decides to stop dead in front of you
@@robertchristensen2633 He stops dead in front of me, he's dead in front of me. Don't drive without a dash cam.
It's 2021 and this is still happening Way too often what are we doing wrong there's gotta be a better way
fair enough
Where was Latasha when I was single, and not looking. Latasha is, mesmerizing.
Gotta have a headache rack!!!
0:38 I want to know more about that fire apparatus that looks like a roll-off.
And back to weather
If it has auto breaking radar systems it could have just locked up because a random act... I've had a truck that did that before.
That was a kw before they even thought about that stupid shit!
Physics caused this accident!
how bout that tie newsman sporting
Need headache racks
It wasn't tieddowned the right way I guess the headache rack didn't help
That's because there was NO headache rack.
Dam...
Ya thats not true the load was secured come on people ya now damn well a car or another vehicle stopped short and he tryed not t o hit someone and thats what happened so start looking for a murderer! I drove trucks for years and thats the only way a load can come threw a cab is some fool stopped short in front of him he been driving that long he nows how to strap a load don blame him for someone causeing his death dont do it !!!!!!!!!!!
So are you saying it's not up to the driver to secure the load from killing him in an emergency situation?
@@getsmarter5412 no what i said its up to the driver to secure his load they made it sound like he didnt my dad had same thing happen to him he had 6 straps and 5 chains on his load and a fool stop in front of him and his load still came threw the cab and a joint of pipe him him in his head and was in a comma for 2 months that all i am saying ! That drive well be missed by his family but there is someone else out there that cuased his death !!!
@@davidbailey9796 I'm very sorry to hear that happened, but my point being worse case scenarios should be taken into account. Short of hitting a wall, a load should not be able to break loose under any braking situation, ever! That's what math is for.
@@getsmarter5412 ya i get what ya saying i understand !!!
Wow, RIP DRIVER. Must not of pretrip nor posttrip that load correctly. Your professional? must got sloppy
I don’t think you ever hauled steel beams.
@@anthonymartinez8488 Obviously. Fools should keep their mouths shut.
Damn!! Natasha is Hottttt!!!!! wish i knew her lol
Rip driver
Hahahahahaha i love it when people die 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sir sir, i don't ubderstand. What am i blaming anyone for exactly?
Yo firstly my life is pretty chill, the few things which are drama in my life (being an orphan, being disabled due to a disease i got in my early 20s, thus losing my favourite job) are all things which weren't anybody's fault.
I just roll with it cos i got a lot of things that i am happy for, so a few 'problems' are just minor setbacks, i can work around most it so for the most part its good yo.
Theres not much point me blaming my parents for anything because i hardly knew them, like i got tattoos that i have known longer than i knew my parents for, anything they did is not relevant to my adult life today at all. It'd be like blaming Tupac that its raining today. Just why? 😂😂
And yo furthermore, don't be calling me a goth, that shits just childish fam, you're better than that
Try and think about it for a second: i'm half Greek, i live in England and its winter; of course i am going to be pale with dark hair, like see me in the summer though and i don't look as ghostly. Trust 😂😂
Is goth even still a thing? Always makes think of the girl in Beetlejuice. That was like 80s right?
You’re one sick puppy! Get help FREAK
@@louisp.3332 Help with what exactly? I'm in a supermarket only buying 3 items, they will fit in my pockets. I don't need assistance i got this.
And i'm not a puppy i'm a lioness
@@violenceisfun991 help with being a sick sick person
@@louisp.3332 But you haven't met me, why are you making this assumption?
No Flatbed for me.