Too much tail for the dog?

It is a 1500. The tailgate edge is slightly scalloped on the bottom where the screw indents are as they are only on the 1500's. 2500's have a straight edge & are glued on.

He had about 100' of rubber on the road starting near the monkey turds then went over near the median then across all the lanes into the ditch.

blt2ski wrote:
I would agree, that too little hitch wt was probably the cause. Been there done that pulling my bobcat with my MDT dump truck. Has ZERO hitch wt, and trailer was moving back and forth. Moved the bobcat forward so I had the typical 800-1000 lbs HW for the total usually in the 7500-8500 lbs tween axel and HW depending upon tools, extra bucket and fork attachment I sometimes carried at the front.....Pulled straight as an arrow.

BUT with that in mind, the truck does look 1500'ish IMHO. So probably a bit over tailed for my sence of well being.

Here is my combo with the 2800 lbs mini trackhoe, bobcat....usually about 10500-11K on the axels, 1400-1600 hitch weight! assuming the link works......

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STOP the assumptions it had something to do with the truck, trailer, or set up.

These types of treads just encourage fear mongering.

WE DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPEND.

I would agree, that too little hitch wt was probably the cause. Been there done that pulling my bobcat with my MDT dump truck. Has ZERO hitch wt, and trailer was moving back and forth. Moved the bobcat forward so I had the typical 800-1000 lbs HW for the total usually in the 7500-8500 lbs tween axel and HW depending upon tools, extra bucket and fork attachment I sometimes carried at the front.....Pulled straight as an arrow.

BUT with that in mind, the truck does look 1500'ish IMHO. So probably a bit over tailed for my sence of well being.

Here is my combo with the 2800 lbs mini trackhoe, bobcat....usually about 10500-11K on the axels, 1400-1600 hitch weight! assuming the link works......

I investigated a similar wreck a couple years ago. F350 dually pulling a tracked loader on a heavy duty trailer. Plenty of truck and plenty of trailer for that loader. The guy has owned that combo for years and towed it thousands of times. This time he was in a hurry and placed the loader a little further back on the trailer than he normally does. That caused too little tongue weight and driving up the road the back end got loose. The F350 dually went from the right lane to the left, back to the right shoulder before the truck flipped over and was pushed back to the left median.

Just goes to show that even with the right tow rig and trailer, mistakes can still be made. If he was pulling that trailer with a F150 and sufficient tongue weight, it wouldn't have wrecked and flipped. It woulda driven like hell and likely caused some long term damage though.

I believe that mini ex to be a PC45. If so it is about 9K.

Whatever happened, it looks like the trailer tried to get in front of the truck. Look at that mound of dirt kicked up over the asphalt. There's nothing that treacherous around Mt. Vernon. You don't get the curves until well past there. I've made that drive many times and know the area fairly well.

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Small child ran out into road....driver slammed on brakes and swerved

I assume you are kidding?

It was a Interstate highway with no access.

Who knows, it could be anything. Earlier this week, my dad came across a 1-ton dually diesel in the ditch w/ an upside down trailer behind it. I'd say that usually when there is a problem, it is operator error and not equipment!