Draggin Rock

[Eric Fouquette]

This guy drove about 1 mile with this under his trailer I'm so glad it didn't come out and someone hit it . The rock weighed 4 thousand pounds crazy glad nobody go hurt.

 

 

 

 

[GRUMPS The Towman]

Great job. 

Now I gotta say, I have been in, around, upside down and sideways of the trucking / towing industry my entire life. I was born into it, raised on it And have done everything from over the road, local trucking to heavy recovery and technical work in the shop. I have hit a thing or two in my day. Nobody is perfect including me. NEVER EVER have I not realized something was a miss to the point that I dragged something over a MILE down the highway... I hear about these types of things happening quite often these days... Are the people driving today really that ignorant? 

Now, My educated guess is that he knew it was there, and instead of stopping and calling for help,( Cause you know, he would have to admit he made a mistake ) he CHOSE to keep driving with the hopes it would just walk out from under his wagon and at that point it would no longer be his problem. Then, it becomes the problem of the texting teeny bopper blasting down the highway at 70+ mph.... 

[EdsTowing]

Reminds me of that Western Express truck that time...LoL

 

On a side note, it looks like a really nice landscape rock...

[Chuckud]

Years ago, a former employee hit a small deer which went under the truck & he thought "out the back". He stopped, checked out our truck, saw minimal damage so he continued the last 25 miles to deliver the 2 cars he had loaded to the auction. What he failed to realize was that the deer carcass was wedged under the wheelift  & needless to say, sprayed the car on the wheelift with lots of blood & gore. This occured on a Friday night & the car sat until Monday without being cleaned off...

One guess who had to pay for a paint job for that car....ME!

[GRUMPS The Towman]

6 hours ago, Chuckud said:

Years ago, a former employee hit a small deer which went under the truck & he thought "out the back". He stopped, checked out our truck, saw minimal damage so he continued the last 25 miles to deliver the 2 cars he had loaded to the auction. What he failed to realize was that the deer carcass was wedged under the wheelift  & needless to say, sprayed the car on the wheelift with lots of blood & gore. This occured on a Friday night & the car sat until Monday without being cleaned off...

One guess who had to pay for a paint job for that car....ME!

That had to have been one hell of a mess. 

The last one I hit, got mangled by both the front and rear axles then ended up wadded into the space between the wheel lift boom and the inside of the tail light boxes/ d.o.t. bars of my roll back.. I pulled it out in 6 pieces... Lil bastard took out a fog light, front grille, a front hub cap, front and rear mud flaps, the rear bracket and 2 hydraulic lines on the wheel lift boom and bent the front bumper. This happened during the biggest snow storm of that year, we were busy as all hell, and my partners truck had gone down earlier in the evening with a blown tranny line.. That was a rough night for me... Oh and did I mention my truck was only 3 months old?? I was not impressed by any means.. lol

[Stubborn66]

I cant imagine the driver didn't know it was there.  Then again, they now issue Automatic Only CDL's.  

[Kjband13oc]

We have a rock a little smaller than that one here that I call my money rock.People smash into it,end up on top of it or drag it down the road.It is somehow a magic rock.No matter where I relocate it to it always ends up right back in the same spot.

[mooresbp]

We did this one the other day SUV ran over and broke oil pan

[Stubborn66]

Damn,   I dont have any money rocks around here.  Need to get a few LOL