Very very close call!

[Neal]

Stardate: July 31, 2024, Noon eastern
I-70 East bound somewhere between Indianapolis and Columbus, OH
Captured on must have Blackvue 4K dashcam by ME!

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

Well, you could have stopped and helped clean his mess up or stopped and put a knot on his head. You were one lucky man, Neil.

 

[ARD]

Whew. That was close. Glad you made it unscathed!

 

[sheridany]

I had a driver pull a nice maneuver in the Oregon mountains yesterday. Very nice.

 

[DennisT]

When we headed to the service center a month ago, had someone pull out to the area between east and west bound on route 30 in Indiana.

Unfortunately they didn’t stop in that area and just kept coming out. I was in the left lane passing someone turning right.

Luckily they heard the air horns and when we went by them, looking down out the driver side window, there was about a foot between their car and our rig. Could have been very bad.

I’ll have to pull the card from the dashcam and see if it is still on there.

 

[Neal]

LOL @sheridany - that's why I have my mic muted. My OTR commentary is not for public (or police) consumption. It's a good thing my coach has neither a GAU-8 or sidewinders!

 

[sheridany]

Did I say something? I deny it completely. That was an invisible passenger.

 

[Neal]

Did I say something? I deny it completely. That was an invisible passenger.

 

[AbdRahim]

Stardate: July 31, 2024, Noon eastern
I-70 East bound somewhere between Indianapolis and Columbus, OH
Captured on must have Blackvue 4K dashcam by ME!

That is why professionals have to stop regularly to check the load straps. Should be required education for anyone pulling a flat bed on public roads.

 

[John&Andrea]

Wow you got lucky.

 

[Webz]

LOL @sheridany - that's why I have my mic muted. My OTR commentary is not for public (or police) consumption. It's a good thing my coach has neither a GAU-8 or sidewinders!

They were too close for missiles
The GAU-8 would have been perfect except for all the debris that you would have to dodge.

 

[team bradfield]

crazy, lucky day @Neal

 

[Chargerman]

Thankfully he didn’t pull into your lane before unloading

 

[BGMAC]

We had an issue on the way back from Alaska. Our last day on the road it was raining and a truck with a load of watermelons hydroplaned, spun and hit the rope guard rail detaching his trailer and it began spinning throwing watermelons everywhere. No one was hurt.

 

[Jim]

This is actually a fairly dangerous past time we've gotten ourselves involved in.

 

[bpaikman]

Whoooooaaaaaa! that could have been so so much worse! By the way, we bought an excellent $$) dashcam this week and we have it rigged up and running.
I had a very close call in downtown Baton Rouge in September 2001 (around ‘that’ date yes) - that bad S curve on 110 - I was behind a truck that had a huge ladder scrapped on its roof and for some inexplicable reason, I moved to pass him, and just as I did, his ladder came off and started bouncing all over the freeway. If I had still been in the lane behind him, it would’ve been horrible - but I was able to dodge it (I was in a car, not the RV). I always tried to keep away from anything that has something strapped on it.

 

[hlh1]

Seems every trip we take there is at least one close call with some crazy driver doing something stupid.

 

[bpaikman]

We lived in Saint Francisville, north of Baton Rouge, for several years, and we didn’t like that highway between Baton Rouge and Saint Francisville - lots of logging trucks. More than once, we saw them lose a load of logs. Do not trust logging trucks!