https://youtu.be/wwYnYKacRrw

For some reason this car thought it was a good idea to stop in the middle of a busy road and talk with a car on the shoulder. I was pulling a heavy load, and even with the distance I had been following, I couldn't stop it in time.

The ONLY damage was my front driver tire rubbed the Rear lower bumper.... the plastic part. Something that will buff out.

BTW, pulling a 24' double axle trailer with skid steer. Blew both rear shocks, warped a leaf spring.. thats just what I've found today in the daylight washing it off.

After I dropped the trailer off, the rest of the ride was, well, definitely a ride. The body would start bouncing side to side going down the road, and if I didn't physically correct it by either speed up or slowing down just right, I would have definitely rolled.

So, it's going to get upgraded asap. Modded b codes, new rear shocks, new bumpstops, 4.11 gears, electric brake controller, and at least a 2000w inverter.

Pulling a trailer for the last 2 weeks in an area with no electricity or water, ive learned a few things to say the least

 

No brake controller? Also where is the dashcam, i went and made popcorn and then clicked and no video. jk

 

Thanks for letting me know the video wasnt on there. Fixed it. And no brake controller, I don't have or normally use a trailer that has electric brakes. But I will within the next few days

 

You are a lucky sob, that could have been a lot worse, and whoever strapped down the skid steer obviously did a good job.

Not sure why you bent a leaf spring and blew out shocks tho... I have had to lock mine up before hard such as when i had someone oncoming turn left right in front of me, never bent a spring or blown a shock.

 

Rear springs were sagging before I went down, and with the loads I was hauling, and no bumpstops. The shocks that were blown were rancho 9000s I got from the junkyard to hold me over until I saved up enough for fixing the whole rear at one time. I'm not sure how it did it, but when I got done pressure washing all the salt and sand, that's what I've found.

 

Wow. Good job on handling the situation well. Almost lived up to your username .

 

I'm glad you're okay
I'd sue the **** outta that car tho

 

Sigh, I earned the nickname Crash when we were deployed to Iraq in 04. It would be the first one in the excursion tho. Im positive I gave my passenger ptsd, he was all pissed and angry, and all I could try to tell him is that what happened is the BEST case scenario.

 

I had a incident nearly identical to yours now that i think back, though thankfully it was minus a trailer, and actually in my 96 GT that i no longer have.

I was cruising about 80 on the divided highway about 15-20 miles outside of town and there were some wild mustangs running in the riverbed we were passing, the cars ahead of me stabbed the brakes and locked up in front of me without warning just after we exited the bridge, and my choice was recessed median, or impact the car in front of me at speed. Out of reflex i momentarily locked up the brakes, realized i was not going to stop in time, let off and threw it into the median and mowed down several hundred feet of wild flowers and weeds as i came to a stop.

Then to add insult to injury, a Highway Patrol unit who apparently saw me go off the road watched me pull back into traffic, and then pulled me over once i passed them, and asked me why i went off the road for no reason, i explained that the cars ahead of me stopped suddenly and i was avoiding hitting them, but the one at my window gave me the "yea right" attitude and did they had me out and did a walk around my car, and looked through my car which i allowed them to, then finally took my ID and insurance back to run it, guessing thats when the saw my connection, and brought me back my info and told me to be more careful. I never tell them who i work for, because i have heard of situations where local cops think that you are rubbing it in their face if the first thing you tell them is your affiliation. I just play it like im john doe citizen, actually i have a routine that kind of messes with them just a little and has proven to have good luck so far. I am exuberantly happy with them, thinking to myself that eventually they will figure out who I am, but when i say exhuberant, i mean im smiling at them full face big smile like the scene of Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon. And i hold that smile the entire time, and just keep it up looking them in the eye, no shying off, not giving an attitude, basically acting like they just told me i won a prize, and i told just slightly louder than my normal level.

I also never show them any nervousness, or any submissiveness, i pile on the enthusiasm and the self confidence no matter how serious they are acting, and it just totally throws their game for a monkey wrench. If they start getting stern, i just keep up with the happy energetic and most importantly continuous direct eye contact and it really does just keep their game and their "be intimidating" and "control the situation" strategy out the window.

Dude they are so used to scared, pissed off, or other negative meetings, doing that really screws with them, like they will ask, can i look in your car, instead of just saying yea, and stepping out, Im like, OH yes sir, anything you like, im happy to help, and with that obscene smile because like i said, i know they are going to find nothing wrong, and that when they lookup my identity they will get a suprise anyway.

i love doing it!!!!!!! Maybe i need to get a body cam too, so i can catch some of this hillariousness.

 

You are very fortunate to have taken action and not allowing for a bad situation to be "so much worse" in your own words.

Too bad you rubbed the other vehicle, but everyone stayed calm and slept on their own bed that night.

 

Don’t EVER pull Anything only using the brakes of only the X. Once I towed a bobcat across town on a trailer without brakes. Of course someone pulled out in front of me. Thankfully they hauled a$$ because I pushed the brakes as hard as possible and it barely made a difference. Learned my lesson that time and never will I repeat that stupidity

 

The brakes on mine are surprisingly small, my 3600lbs car has bigger pad and rotors then my rig. Mine is a 2002 so maybe they got upgraded on a later model.

The video does show how bad these rigs brakes are. Its hard to tell but did the anti lock brakes even kick in? Also how fast was you going, looks like stopping distance was about 90 feet?

 

Yes, never pull a trailer that has brakes and not have them hooked up, its illegal and can get someone killed, they have brakes for a reason

 

I can understand someone stopping to check on what could be a disabled vehicle or person in distress, but it's just so dangerous that drivers should automatically get a 1-month suspension for doing it.

I was a few miles from home and passed under the interstate. The 2 lanes merge about 1/4 mile up and traffic is often nutso as folks in the merge lane have to "pass just 1 more" vehicle before cutting over. Luckily, traffic was light that morning and when the 1 lane ran out there was a man's body in the shoulder. I u-turned at the end of the median and dialed 911. I gave the location, explained that there was someone lying on the shoulder of the road, and that I was making another u-turn to investigate. I stopped on the shoulder about 2 pickup lengths short of the man and, with EMS still on the phone, approached him. It turned out to be an immigrant that spoke absolutely no English who was waiting on a ride from his friends. With nothing else to do he apparently decided to grab some shut-eye. As I'm trying to see if the guy's OK and relay it over the phone, a 4-passenger miniature sedan with a little old man at the wheel stopped in traffic to let his passenger talk (in English, of course) to the guy that I'm trying to talk to. Thankfully, only hilarity ensued as traffic managed to miss him, me, my truck, and the guy napping on the shoulder. The car left and moments later a beat up older Suburban arrived with his friends, he got in, and that was the end of it.

I appreciate that those older folks were trying to help. But between the sleeping immigrant and me, two of us were already exposed to heightened risk. Even running into the back of my pickup risked killing both of us.

And what's worse, is that I'm sure that the old man thought he was helping and had done his good deed for the day.

 

Its the responsibility of a driver to provide adequate room to stop from the person in front of them. So lets not place undue blame. There could be many reasonable reasons to stop in the road. Looks like a school bus drop off location by the cars sitting there which could be alot worst if there was children walking around. Pay attention and give yourself room, these things are not sports cars.