Once in a while it’s easy.
Somehow this truck got turned over in the process of dumping its load of sand. One of the few times where all that was required was to right it and tow it back to the yard.
Just goes to show you though, if you’re not confident in how your truck is positioned or how your load is positioned, then you should always drive away and reset. Better to take a little more time to unload than a lot of time explaining how your truck turned over.
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How many trucks get stuck in the ditch every year because they failed to negotiate a corner correctly or under estimate the steepness of the curb?
That would be an interesting statistic. I would think that cornering and knowing your environment would be the most important part of a big rig driving test. Surely you need to be able to know these things to get hired to drive one of these big trucks.
This flat bed was transporting a farm sprayer when it pulled over to let a car pass. A couple more inches and this would have been a roll over
Big Rig Towing pulls its fair share of hapless rigs and their helpless cargo from many a ditch in southern Alberta.
The only good thing about so much practice is you got to get good at something you do so often.
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