Broken Windshield

[Dave68]

Commuting on Houston freeways makes Mad Max seem like an easy day.

 

[gdr_11]

You ain’t seen nothing until you drive the California freeways near L.A. or the SF Bay area. The crazy asians will load up at Home Depot and tie nothing down or, at best, they will use that free twine off the spool at the loading door. You will see patio doors, windows, lumber and all manner of crap flying out the back of their Toyota trucks and they just keep going. Probably scratch their heads when they get home wondering where their stuff went

 

[SQLGeek]

The crazy asians will load up at Home Depot and tie nothing down or, at best, they will use that free twine off the spool at the loading door.

Have you seen how many people are riding around Houston with unsecured loads? It's insane.

 

[gdr_11]

I was driving down the freeway one day and came up behind this guy who had a set of double French doors leaned up over his cab and tied in with twine. We were going about 70 mph when the twine broke and the doors went airborne; they flew right over the top of me and then smashed into a million pieces about 20 ft behind me on the center lane. Idiot pulled over and as I went by I could see him looking at the speeding cars to see if he could run out and retrieve it. Takes a special kind.

 

[oldag]

I was driving down the freeway one day and came up behind this guy who had a set of double French doors leaned up over his cab and tied in with twine. We were going about 70 mph when the twine broke and the doors went airborne; they flew right over the top of me and then smashed into a million pieces about 20 ft behind me on the center lane. Idiot pulled over and as I went by I could see him looking at the speeding cars to see if he could run out and retrieve it. Takes a special kind.

So many folks really underestimate the power of wind. Or don't understand that driving at 70 is the same as sitting in 70 mph winds (worse if there is a headwind).

 

[rotor]

114 East from Bridgeport to Dallas used to be a big problem with rock haulers from Bridgeport. They seem to be covered pretty good now. Not always so.

 

[Texasjack]

FUNNIEST thing I've seen falling off a truck: My Dad and I were driving through Mississippi and we kept seeing dead chickens on the road - one maybe every mile or so. My Dad says, "They must raise a lot of chickens around these parts." A few minutes later, we caught up to a semi truck hauling chickens. They had one of those small doors in the back door that sometimes get left open for ventilation. Every so often, a chicken in the truck would get too close to that door and get sucked out the back of the truck. They tried to fly, but could not get much going before they smacked the ground at 70 mph. I suspect that driver was fired after delivering an empty truck.

 

[Axxe55]

I was behind a truck pulling a boat.
Truck made a left turn, boat kept going straight.

One of the equipment rental places I managed and did field service for, the idiot yard hands that did the loading and unloading of equipment. hooked up one of our trailers with a Ditch Witch ride-on trencher loaded on it, to a customer's truck. Truck had a 2" ball, the trailer had a 2-5/16" hitch! About five miles from the shop, on the loop, the customer swerved into the other lane and the trailer came loose from his truck. Did about $4000 worth of damage to the trencher, and totalled a $12000 trailer.

When I got back from a service call and found out what happened, I was beyond mad! I reamed every one of them for that BS. My manager ended up firing the head yard hand. It wasn't the first "mistake" he had made that cost the company money.

 

[Dave68]

One of my favorites is the mattress on the car roof, especially when the driver has his arm out the window trying to hold on to it.

 

[SA_Steve]

Several times I've seen a car on fire, once it happened to my boss. Hit a mattress which winds up on the hot exhaust pipes. Car burns down quick.

 

[SA_Steve]

When I lived in Atlanta, GA the number of ladders falling off trucks and killing people resulted in public service announcements on TV. Reminding folks of criminal liability.

 

[TheDan]

So many folks really underestimate the power of wind. Or don't understand that driving at 70 is the same as sitting in 70 mph winds (worse if there is a headwind).

One time I saw the wind pick up a lawn mower from the bed of a pickup and toss it into the middle of the highway. I'm pretty surprised that happened. I've carried lawn mowers like that, too.