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- Now you're the DOT! I'll bet none of you know Ford is actually spelled FeORD either. Look at the Ford Oval and see. It has a Cursa e in the F.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ford+logo&id=BDD5D41562B3551D35C29016D0F23A3ABB3B415A&FORM=IQFRBA
It can't eat the pickup back window. The whole front of the trailer hangs down below the frame of the truck. The trailer rams into the back of the truck. Better to come loose. - Question for you 5er guys.
Being a truck driver, I have seen a fair amount of truck roll-overs in my day. The 5th wheel is normally still attached to the frame rail. What is left of the truck and trailer are still attached to one another.
So why did his 5th wheel come unattached from the frame?
I know you guys remove them (not fixed like on a semi) but I would think it should be affixed in a manner that could take a bit of twisting and shaking.
Is this a normal weak point in the removable system? If it can't take a bit of left/right twisting...is it also suspect to be weak with forward/backward motion?
Meaning, you could eat the trailer via the back window if you jarred it with a hard stop.
Seems to me that there would be a lot less damage if the 5th wheel kept them attached to each other...as the trailer would have helped to keep the truck upright.
Doesn't sound as if the impact would have flipped both (conjecture on my part)
Came back on the edit to add a second question.
I hear you guys talking about sideways articulating hitches. I guess this is a more comfortable ride Factor?
Having only pulled the big boys, I have only experienced with forward/ backward moving hitches, not side to side.
Is it possible that the sideways tilting motion of the fifth wheel allowed to truck to get tilted far enough under the trailer that the entire assembly snapped off? guidry wrote:
Pulled the pucks right out!
NO, it was a rail mounted hitch, rear rail came out with hitch and front one was bowed up in the truck bed.- Looks like he was t-boned when he ran through the red light. Only thing I see that would possibly be an issue with the setup is the aftermarket wheels. They hopefully have the same weight rating of the stock Ford rims. Many aftermarket wheels do not have the same capacity, an important thing to look for when purchasing them.
- That was a new F250, 3/4 ton truck and more trailer than it should be towing. I hope no one was hurt,
Ken F-TROUP wrote:
I commend you Travelingman for posting the explanation of what happened and very glad you and all your family came out ok. It happens now and then when a light hits you just at the point of go-don't go.
I don't thing Travelingman was the driver. They just posted from the youtube comments or other source. At least that is the way I read it.2oldman wrote:
Travlingman wrote:
"Driver comments:
"Update to incident: I was traveling 40 mph and the light went to yellow switched in less than 2 seconds. I did run the light, it was my fault 100% however after talking to CHP he says these lights are not timed correctly. I could not stop in time,"
I drove by this on Thursday morning.
Perhaps this particular light was faulty. However, 40mph is well below the speed limit on that road. I've driven this route many times and cringed every time I approached on of these signals, praying it didn't turn yellow at the worst moment. This is essentially a freeway with stoplights, and the CA highway dept is TOO **** CHEAP to install impending signal change lights several hundred feet before the stoplight. This is common practice in many areas of WA where speeds are 50mph or greater. Very nice to KNOW that light is about to change.
I wrote the state of CA about this earlier this year, and there response was essentially "it's not in our code book."
What they should of said "IT'S NOT IN OUR HIGH SPEED RAIL BUDGET"SidecarFlip wrote:
Watched the entire video.. Was an F250 short bed diesel 4x4 and it looked like the hitch let go to me. Truck is junk trailer, not so much. Truck looked new or pretty close to new, 5er as well. Nice wreck.
NICE WRECK, that's debatable.......Travlingman wrote:
"Driver comments:
"Update to incident: I was traveling 40 mph and the light went to yellow switched in less than 2 seconds. I did run the light, it was my fault 100% however after talking to CHP he says these lights are not timed correctly. I could not stop in time,"
I drove by this on Thursday morning.
Perhaps this particular light was faulty. However, 40mph is well below the speed limit on that road. I've driven this route many times and cringed every time I approached one of these signals, praying it didn't turn yellow at the worst moment. This is essentially a freeway with stoplights, and the CA highway dept won't install impending signal change warning lights several hundred feet before the stoplight. This is common practice in many areas of WA where speeds are 50mph or greater. It's very nice to KNOW that the light is about to change.
I wrote the state of CA about this earlier this year, and their response was essentially "it's not in our code book."
- I commend you Travelingman for posting the explanation of what happened and very glad you and all your family came out ok. It happens now and then when a light hits you just at the point of go-don't go.
