Saturday, August 08, 2020

20 minutes away from the drop-off destination in Georgia, the transporter with the '71 Mach 1 was involved in a highway accident, after about 860 incident free miles from New York

6 comments:

  1. That's an effing heart breaker!

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  2. ouch, that hurts.
    the story is slightly wrong, though. it appears to say "college park police" on the cop car and college park is a urban ghetto suburb of atlanta,south of atlanta. no where near Dawsonville,
    and its clearly not on an interstate, thats a two lane backroad, of which I didnt know existed in college park,

    when you load the cars on the very front , high up on the trailer, its to heavy and easy to flop over.

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  3. Seems to me like there's a lot more incidents and accidents with these 5th wheel transporters lately. Not uncommon to see one upside down in the I-26 median. One fellow ran into a wrecker and a police car on the Ravenel bridge and knocked the wrecker driver off 200' to his death. Makes me wonder if there's some instability/braking handling issue that needs to be corrected.

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  4. I dont know why so many people use the 6 wheel pickup trucks to haul cargo, the same rules apply to them as to regular 18 wheelers, and a good used 18 wheeler is about the same price as a similar condition 6 wheel pickup, gets about the same MPG and is many times safer since they are designed to tow and haul heavy loads.
    if you see the 6 wheeler pickups with a trailer, be extra cautions around them, alot of them are newbie drivers that cant get a job driving a real 18 wheeler . and alot of them cant read or speak english either.

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  5. Just looks like an accident waiting to happen.

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