Seriously overloaded

[SidecarFlip]

No pictures but our friends were in Alaska for a couple months and heading back to their home in Maine, they stopped by for a few days.

We were talking about TC's in Alaska and they mentioned right off, how many appeared grossly overloaded.

They said that there were a few big dual rear tired pickup trucks that were literally dragging their rear bumpers, loaded up with the kitchen sink...canoe's on the roof, storage containers on the roofs, just loaded for 'bear'.

I'd hate to have them approaching me at night, with their headlights pointing skyward.

I'm amazed (on Alaskan twisty, curvy roads, that there aren't more accidents and equipment failures from overloading.

Amazing to me that people, in general, have no conception of what overloading does to drivetrain components, let alone handling.

Glad I'm not piloting those 'magic busses'.....lol

[joerg68]

I believe you. Still I can't understand the downslope of the cabover vs. all other lines. But I guess there is an explanation for everything. A lot of other details in that picture are strange, too, as many here have said. Actually I am just curious to know what this is...

[JTLance]

OMG---I swear on my mother, wife and daughter, this is a 100% real pic from Winchester bay.

I can barely hook up a wifi cam, let alone use photoshop. Ha

Guys, there really are stupid people that overload their trucks.

When I took the photo, I was laughing and was surprised that the guy driving the rig had not suffered any failures just getting here. The freeway from I5 to the coast is windy (as in winding road) as heck.

[JimK-NY]

Towards the bottom of the truck doors there is a designed flare. The line across those panels is relatively flat compared with the line formed by the top or bottom of the slide.

[d3500ram]

Hmmm... was looking closer st his and decided to run some parallel lines to visualize some of the comment observations. The cabover portion does not appear to be at the same level plane irrespective of whether or not it is overloaded. All the red lines are parallel:

[joerg68]

On that TC picture, the roofline and the horizontal edges of the slide run parallell as they should. The floorline of the cabover runs at an angle (I have actually copied the pic to a powerpoint slide and drew some lines to check). Since the sidewalls of the camper appear "normal" where the cabover protrudes, there is no reasonable explanation how a camper could actually exist like that...

Automatic Photo Stitch as part of a panoramic photo?

I have seen overloaded rigs like that in the wild, though... Small euro pickups with short pickup beds and long rear overhangs make this easy.

[Reddog1]

I do not see the underside of the cabover being parallel or perpendicular to any other edge of the TC. The bottom of the slide out does not appear parallel to the bottom of the TC overhang. I would have to see more photos before I would believe this photo was not modified.

Wayne

[Reddog1]

JTLance wrote:
I took that photo! Its not doctored, its in Winchester Bay Oregon! 2 years ago.

Do you have any other photos?

[SidecarFlip]

Maybe they have a compressor fridge.....

[JimK-NY]

towpro wrote:
why does the parallel line of the over hang over cab not on the same plain as the parallel line of the camper edge on bed of truck?

I see this. Something is wrong beside just weight. The front of the camper sits on the truck much higher than the back of the camper. Relative to the truck, the camper is pointing up in the front and down in the rear. It seems that there was insufficient clearance between the camper and the roof of the truck so the front was propped up. I wonder how they can ever level the refrigerator or floor of the camper.

[Reddog1]

towpro wrote:
why does the parallel line of the over hang over cab not on the same plain as the parallel line of the camper edge on bed of truck?

Look at the body line right above the running board. It is about 6 inches higher than the same line on the bed.

[towpro]

why does the parallel line of the over hang over cab not on the same plain as the parallel line of the camper edge on bed of truck?

[Grit_dog]

JTLance wrote:
I took that photo! Its not doctored, its in Winchester Bay Oregon! 2 years ago.

Pure awesomeness!

[JTLance]

I took that photo! Its not doctored, its in Winchester Bay Oregon! 2 years ago.

[Kayteg1]

Camper winterized scaled 4200 lb.
400 lb of water
60 lb of propane
40 lb of dog food
50 lb of tools and parts
30 lb of hoses
60 lb of camping chairs & BBQ
-cloths for fulltiming
-pans and dishes
-cleaning supplies
-food
-computers and chargers
-beer and booze
We are just in process of switching campers, so DW took all the stuff inside the house. Stuff makes several piles on sofas, dining table and on the floor.
Have no idea where all that stuff come from.
New camper has no basement, so we have to cut down on stuff.