was this one of you guys??

Safety chains should be short enough and crossed over to cradle the tongue and prevent it from dragging on the ground.
In the accident shown I don't believe the safety chains were an issue and the tongue dragging the ground didn't happen.

Muddydogs wrote:

Slowmover wrote:
And, no, the safety chains should not break. I think the hitch receiver came off before that happened. Cretin

. I for one don't want to be attached to the trailer after the tongue hits the pavement and starts to turn over. .

Me either.

Slowmover wrote:
And, no, the safety chains should not break. I think the hitch receiver came off before that happened. Cretin

Don't think the hitch or the stinger gave out, if anything the ball broke off and while safety chains shouldn't break they sure do. The chain size isn't enough to keep them from breaking.

I have been involved in 3 trailer loses, 2 similar to this and 1 on icy roads. All 3 came off the ball and broke there safety chains. Others like to spout off about a rogue trailer rolling down the road and how dangerous it is but as soon as the tongue hits the ground the trailer isn't going much further. I for one don't want to be attached to the trailer after the tongue hits the pavement and starts to turn over. In these three trailer losses the hitch checked out fine as well as the stinger and ball. Stinger and ball got replaced never less.

FWIW, in the rollover I participated in (passenger), the trailer coupler snapped the ball off the hitch. The video is quite reminiscent of the actions and the result that we had. The trailer swayed violently, the driver couldn't/didn't control the motion,and the trailer rolled on it's side. The initial cause in our situation was ice on the pavement.

if you look at that bck rack, assume 2 full propane tanks, heavy stuff in that bin and whatever that is on th eleft (generator?) he was probably too lighton the tongue. BTW the trailer is a Nash,looks like it held up well.

The big truck is definitely above sixty. And notice how the pickup went towards outer lane as he hit the bow wave. As a big truck driver, bow wave alone shouldn't have been enough to set it off. I'd imagine there was a crosswind. Closer observers may disagree, but I wonder if he sped up (not just camera truck slowdown).

FWIW, I wouldn't have stopped either.

As noted elsewhere, he may also have had full waste tanks. And who know how much weight loaded behind trailer axles inside and out. Bet his trailer brakes were great. And let's guess about trailer tire pressure.

And, no, the safety chains should not break. I think the hitch receiver came off before that happened.

With no WD he was over the limit on the hitch receiver.

Cretin

CavemanCharlie wrote:

Tequila wrote:
Well I had something similar happen to me, with a better result. I fell asleep and the rumble strips woke me. As you can see from the video below the truck swayed quite a bit. I did have both Torklift stable loads and a superhitch & supertruss. I figure both probably helped. I did not have time to think about manually applying the trailer brakes as I had only just woken up.

This highway was in Nevada, BTW.

Asleep

Bet you were awake after that. And, needed a change of underwear.

Woke me up as soon as I hit the rumble strips, my wife had here face buried in a book. The whole inside of the rv was littered with dishes & groceries as the doors flew open..

Doug33 wrote:
The AASHTO (American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials) striping standard for interstates is 10' stripe and 30' gap. However, some toll roads and other agencies use different standards. But I would think what you see in the video is the AASHTO standard.

As I indicated in a previous post I measured the line spacing on I86 here in Idaho.

Here is a link to the standard that Idaho uses which will verify the 50 foot spacing.

Idaho striping

The AASHTO (American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials) striping standard for interstates is 10' stripe and 30' gap. However, some toll roads and other agencies use different standards. But I would think what you see in the video is the AASHTO standard.

Tequila wrote:
Well I had something similar happen to me, with a better result. I fell asleep and the rumble strips woke me. As you can see from the video below the truck swayed quite a bit. I did have both Torklift stable loads and a superhitch & supertruss. I figure both probably helped. I did not have time to think about manually applying the trailer brakes as I had only just woken up.

This highway was in Nevada, BTW.

Asleep

Bet you were awake after that. And, needed a change of underwear.