I seen a dumb*** in a 4 door Honda that had 2x4's through the back doors side to side hanging out, on top of that he was on the Highway at about 65.
This gets around to a lot of air shows in Australia. It was built in 47 (Could have been 46??) from a surplus C-47 fuselage. Painted in Royal Australian Air Force heavy lift livery and built on a Bedford truck ch***is. It really turns heads on the road. Doc.
This is a GREAT post!How did I miss it the first time! Worst one I've ever encountered was with my Safari on a trip to M***achusetts.We were on Route 17 between Jamestown NY and Elmira. For those not familiar with the road,it is two lanes(and a breakdown area) in both directions and not too well traveled. We are driving along about 60 or so and I glance in my rear view and see a truck bumper!I'm in the right lane so I'm not about to move over.Then I see it moving to p*** and I realize this guy is hauling a BUILDING on the back of the truck!Not a half-modular home but a whole building. This guy breezes by us(had to be doing about 70 by now)and heads on down the road.OK. I look up in the distance and about a half mile ahead are two more trucks;one of which is carrying what appears to be another building. This guy is getting closer to them and I realize he is going to try to p*** them as well!I wake my wife up and tell her what's going on just in case I have to pull over quickly. Damned if this fool doesn't go right by BOTH trucks! I doubt there was more than a foot separating them and he had his left wheels almost off the road onto the dirt still doing about 70 mph! Craziest sonofa***** I've ever seen in my life!
Got a call out to a car accident once while I was a Paramedic (Army) we covered the local area as we had a better turn out time. Some idiot had put an 18ft boat on a tandem trailer, tied it down with two thin lengths of rope. Hey what'ya know?? He hit the breaks hard and launched the boat through his car (You through) and into the car in front of him! Another one was returning from an exercise when I was in an artillery regiment. We had M198's, 155mm Howitzers. They traveled all the way back from Darwin to Sydney with no problems. About 10km from base while turning off the highway one of the guns sheered off all the lug nuts and the gun rolled over a few times ending up on the bonnet of a car sitting at traffic lights. Not something you see every day. Doc.
i hauled an antique gynecologist's exam chair home in the trunk of my '84 delta88 once...only had to go a mile though
was a guy out on the north coast of washington state that built an old truck ch***is into a "locomotive"-ish looking thing. I think he used an old boiler from a building for the main body and just built a shack on the back with a smoke stak up front. Ever been to Ocean City or Copalis beach ,tingler?
One time this broad in a Dodge pickup p***es us doing like 75. Hanging by a rope out the open back of the bed is a dolly, wheels up, the top of it bouncing off the road making sparks. Since we didn't want to do 80 in a 65 to stay ahead of her, we slowed down some more. I thought maybe we'd get a free furniture dolly, but it must have stayed on past where we got off the highway. I had some guy p*** me on the thruway one day, too.. or did I p*** him, I forget now, but he had a huge pile of stuff just stacked in the bed. One of the things was a box full of papers or books or something maybe a foot and a half wide. I think I was ahead of him when I noticed something that looked like snow in the mirror - this was in the summer - and the box of papers had fallen out and basically exploded all over everything. He never even slowed down. I hope that wasnt 10 years of old tax returns... Wasn't that long ago I saw a ladder in the road. I'd have picked that up but someone had run over one side of it. I have this big-*** heavy orange tarp, too - it fell off of a Schnieder National truck in front of me as I waited at a light. It had been set behind the tractor someplace and stayed on until he made a left to go to the truckstop. I picked it up and drove down there figuring I'd return it, and I get in there and there's 4 of those trucks and I have no idea which one it fell off from. I figured no matter which one I asked first, he'd say "sure, that's mine" and that would be that... so I kept it. I actually have hauled a couple loads of **** without tying it down, but I usually find some big stuff to pin things under the lip of the bed or some bungee cords to hold it - or cover it with a tarp. The only thing I've lost was something I wanted to lose -
I love stupid people! I have seen so much stuff that would be worth picking up, unfortunately I5 in seatle is not scavenger friendly But there was one time when i didnt fully think through a load myself. I was transporting 2 10' 4x4s scavenged from the sheetmetal shop i work at (was used for shipping aluminum). So anyway i drop em in my pickup with the ends on top of the cab of my pickup. I throw a ratchet strap over top and torque it down. Well i hit the bumpy part of I5 outside of Fife (if youve been there you know it gets downright violent). So anyway the posts decide the have had enough and slide off the side of my cab. Well it was interesting getting to the shoulder with about 3'of wood hanging off the side of my pickup. From there i w****d the strap around the posts. They were fine then...
People have been doing that forever, too, but 10 years ago a guy in Geneva had a '73 or so Impala that had a wooden box in the trunk. Car was pretty clean otherwise, but just an old 4dr, nothing special.
I love seeing those dumb***es with the new matress on top,and a piece of twine holding it on. Tip:stay off the Long Beach frwy on Saturdays. A hispanic fellow(being as polite as possible)had a bull in the back of his pick-up,with a rope tied around its neck. As I go down the frwy about a mile,there goes the bull,running right towards me,and went right by!Holy ****! I always wondered if it got hit or something.
Can't tell you how many times i've seen boats in the middle of the 605 frwy. People have NO clue,how to tie things down. A guy who had been building this boat for about 15 years,had a company haul it and lost it on the 405 frwy and it just blew apart. Saw it on the news.
I saw a mattress on the roof of a minivan once, already about half way slid off, held on with a bungee cord. Was actually 3 or so bungees hooked together in a string, stetching from rocker to rocker. I guarantee it fell off on the highway but I got ahead of him before it did. I also have a big box of LP's and 45's that I found on the road one day. I always wondered how they ended up in the middle of the road, and how they didn't get smashed. Must have been good timing.
Saw a muncie 4-speed in the road once but after going around the block the guy in front of me picked it up. Today a 4' step ladder in the slow? lane on the interstate but didn't have the nerve to try for it at rush hour traffic.
Pretty funny. That reminds me of a time when I was driving across the Dumbarton Bridge which goes over the southern part of the San Francisco Bay. A guy in front of me was going about 60 in an old van with a pile of those extra long 4x12 sheets of Sheetrock tied to the roof with one rope across the middle. The front of all of the sheet rock was curving upwards in the wind and I knew it was a disaster waiting to happen so I drifted back and kept watching him from a distance. As he hit the peak of the bridge where the gusts of winds are the highest, the pieces of Sheetrock started snapping in half and the front halves of them caught the wind and shot way up into the sky like giant paper airplanes and went hurdling off to the side into the bay, which was about 100 feet below I guess. The rest of the Sheetrock all blew onto the bridge in big white puffs. The guy looked a little confused when I pulled past him and laughed at him. I think he was just wondering why his rope was fluttering and didn't even know he'd lost his entire load. He kept going like nothing happened.
Was driving near San LouisObispo when this guy drives by with two mattresses tied to the top of his car with a single piece of thin rope. He p***es my brother and I doing about 70, he gets about 50 yds. in front of us when the mattress's let go. Those things flew straight up in the air over our car and one hit the car behind us straight in the windshield. No one was hurt thankfully. BR
...I know the guy who owns/drives this, his name is Charlie, and lives in Princeton, Illinois. It was built in the early 50's by the SanteFe railroad as a promotional vehicle to be used in parades and such. It was built on an early 50's Dodge 1to 2 ton truck ch***is and was orig. powered by a Dodge flathead six; now it's been upgraded with late model V8, auto (big Ford V8 I think), and Charlie takes it to parades, car shows and did indeed drive it on one of the Power Tours. He says the kids especially love it. I've seen it at a couple of truck shows. This thing looks kinda scary comin up behind you on the interstate.
Lookin' at old pictures, eh Bob? I remember that guy. Didn't we p*** him a couple times out in Nebraska? That was a good trip. Charlie
Coming home late one night when I was a kid, I hear my dad say "****!" and hear a loud bang and the Dodge conversion van stutters. We pull over, as does the dumb *** that was hauling his Sauder book case in the back of his pick-up truck. The book case hit the ground in front of dad, and he hit it square. Bent our license plate a little bit, and completely destroyed the book case. Nothing bigger than 6x6 inches. Here in Atlanta, there are ladders on the Interstate all the time. I'm constantly amazed no one is ever har****ed with one. A year or two ago, some idiot bounced an unsecured clothes washer out of his pick-up, and some other poor dumb ******* hit it and died. They tracked the washer's owner through Home Depot, where it was just purchased, and got the guy. Last year I was driving and saw an old dump truck with low bed sides, stacked full of 3-foot lengths of 1/2-inch wall x 8-inch pipe. When we came back that way, a car and the truck were pulled over, with the car in front of the truck. The car's windshield was smashed at the top, and a foot-wide section of the roof was peeled back like a sardine can. One of those pipe sections fell off the truck and hit the car (with a family of four in it). The driver of the car must have sped past the truck and pulled in front of him--that's the only reason I can see for the car being in front of the truck when they were parked. I'd have liked to hear that conversation. -Brad
HotRodDrummer's Uncle got killed by something coming off a trailer and ending up in his windshield with his young daughter in the backseat watching the whole thing. Sad, very sad. Lots of stupid people in this world
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I could make a good living just driving around picking up bedliners and camper shells off the freeway and selling them on craigslist. I'd consider it if not for the risk involved in picking them up.
When I was in high school I hauled home a Motoski snowmobile in the back of my 72 Pinto hatchback. It was scary how well it fit. I slid it in the hatch backwards - track first and left the front end hang out the back with the skis danglin in the air. I tied it down with a couple of tie downs and away I went. I only had to go a couple of miles, but don't think that I didn't get a few strange looks -- especially from my dad when I pulled in the driveway!!
About four years ago, when Michelle and I were first dating, she moved to a new apartment. Her 16-or-so year old brother volunteered to help, and so we loaded his truck with some boxes, and a cheap walmart/target computer desk and whatnot. We got her moved in, and everything was good. About two weeks later, we finally got around to setting up the computer, and realized we didn't have the desk... must be in the ditch somewhere... oops! Ben
In the '50s my Dad worked at a dairy farm in Lyme CT. The old farmer would haul his bull around in the back seat of an old station wagon. He would open up both back doors and lead the bull through, shut the one door with the bulls head sticking out the window, and shut the other with the tail hanging out, and off he'd go...
One time I p***ed a guy with a big dog in the back of his pickup, untied. A few miles down the road he p***ed me and the dog was standing like a statue on top of the cab. I don't know how he stayed up there, but he looked like he did it all the time.
I saw a guy loose a brand new SBC race engine off of the car trailer he was pulling. I don't think he tied it down, and he p***ed me doing about 80 onthe 401 here just outside of toronto with this chromed out tunnel rammed engine sitting in a little wooden dolley in the middle of the trailer. When he cut back in front of me the engine was rocking and I though he was going to loose it. About 5 miles up the road, I see cars up ahead of me all swearving to avoid something in the middle of the road - and ther was the engine - all smashed to hell and the pickup truck and trailer on the side of the road a bit up ahead. Why didn't he just drop it into the back of the pickup?
I once saw a big old Impala going down the interstate with six foreign looking guys inside and a humungous king sized mattress on the roof...each of the four guys with a window seat had an arm out holding on to the mattress. They all looked cheerful and determined. From time to time I imagine them all at their destination, laid out like six sardines on their mattress, happily asleep, dreaming of their next transportation challenge...
The Jalopy Journal
