OK, Kayteg. You’re a skeptic. :B
I honestly don’t see what’s so hard to believe, though. Some people are just slow learners. (The truck bender, not you).
Get on YouTube and search on “Overloaded Truck Wheelie” and you’ll get dozens of videos of trucks lifting their front wheels off the ground because of the crazy loads they’re hauling. Most of them are way beyond what this guy was doing, but the physics are the same, and there’s a huge middle ground where the front wheels are still on the ground, but the truck is definitely a$$ heavy and you can feel it in the steering and front suspension.
Remember your concrete statue hoist on the back of your truck, Kayteg? I bet you couldn’t have driven that around very long without breaking something on the truck, even if you could have secured the statue so it wouldn’t swing around. I personally don’t think some of you guys are appreciating where the COG on the camper is likely to be. That is no lightweight TC there, even dry with no gear. And the owner isn’t a light packer, I can promise you that. I’d bet it weighs every bit of 6000 lbs wet with gear, and if the COG is any less than 12” BEHIND the rear axle, I’ll eat my IPad. :W (provided there are no carcinogenic compounds known to the state of California).
It wouldn’t have to actually lift the front wheels off the ground to damage the truck. It could have just caused the frame to flex enough under acceleration or rough road conditions that it eventually failed at the frames weakened point.
To the owner, it may have been a case of “Everything was just fine, until it wasn’t “.
:):)
