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There is nothing significant about this. This is all standard YTDOT approved procedure. Whenever someone posts here about having to move something big or long or high or heavy they are advised by many here to just go at a time when the actual DOT are not likely to be out there. Such as early AM or any weekend hours. They are advised that all they need to do is be careful. If anyone should question what they are doing all they need to do is to tell the person that they are being careful and that the YTDOT said that there will be no problem. I nearly always respond to these posts that all I do in these situations is call my state DOT and get a permit and legally take the interstate and avoid all the drama.
 
I think the commentator of the video is just as much a idiot as the truck driver.

"Moving a mobile home requires weeks of planning with the state where they may go out and remove signs and or wires"
BS!!!!!!

I can call and weekday morning and have a permit ready to go in just a few minutes on the phone.
 
I have no love loss for a GM vehicle but why is it a dumb chevy driver. I've seen plenty of dumb stunts by all kinds of drivers. Permits would look cheap compared to the cost of this disater though if this really happened.
 

Not necessarily very far. Sarcoxie is about 30 miles east of Joplin which is a couple of miles from the state line. They did not say exactly where they started in KS, but not necessarily very far from the line. A lot of back and forth between the states in that area.
 
Yep, I remember when Desi discovered all the rocks Lucy had picked up along the way.
And the screaching sound the rig made on hard pulls.
 
(quoted from post at 14:11:39 10/04/20) Do any of you remember an old movie starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz entitled, "The Long, Long Trailer"? It was made in 1953. They had trouble with the trailer, but not anything nearly as bad as the guy in this post.
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Tom in TN

If you watch the movie you will see that when pulling the long steep hills, they replaced the yellow Merc convertible with a yellow Lincoln Capri convertible. Can hardly tell the difference from a distance.
 

I brought a tractor from a local guy and got to know him good he became a customer. He got killed pulling a mobile home with a pickup he was going down a hill that had a stop sign at the bottom of the hill the trailer won the battle...

You don't see this anymore around here tho its been done, once you move a trailer from a lot you cannot put another back in its place. Someone is gonna test this and move them at night to sneak it in...

I did move several with my tow truck about 100 ft to the road so the new owner could pic it up..
 
Mobile homes have a lot of tongue Weight. I have set a couple with a tractor after the delivery truck left them parked in the middle of the road. Almost to much for a 3020 JD. They are tough to stop too stop even with a truck designed to haul them. I took a scary ride when I rode with a driver when he moved a friends mobile home to a lot in the country. It was fully furnished and we couldn’t get the brakes to work. We used the entire road an someone’s yard to make the last turn on to the road my friend lived on. I had ridden in enough log trucks to know things are out of hand when the driver starts jamming gears. We slid through the intersection up into the guys yard he managed to drive back on to the road. We broke a few dishes.
 
Like a rock. Them Chevy's are tough. Those mobile homes have a lot of tongue weight.
We once bought a stripped down mobile home down to the frame and had to move a mobile home to get to it. The mobile home set our Ford 3/4 ton down to the snubbers on the axle and made it grunt to move it.
 
Reminds me of when I had a full time shop in town. People always stopped in wanting to borrow my car trailer.

The trailer itself weighs 2,000 pounds, empty, and takes a 3/4 ton pickup at minimum to tow safely. I normally pulled it with a 1 ton crew cab dually. When guys would want to borrow it, I'd ask them what they had to tow it with. They'd usually have an old van with a fishing boat hitch on it, and I'd tell them to forget it.

I finally made a policy that if anyone needed anything hauled, I'd haul it myself for a price, but I would NOT loan or rent out the trailer.
 
Not as common as it used to be(the 80X16 are just too heavy)I have moved 6 with a tractor. A friend put wood blocks between the rear axle and the frame on a F-350 and moved one 30 miles, it was a 14X70.
 
Probably thought he could go 60 mph when he should’ve been doing 25 max
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After reading the story that sounds like a driver that works for ytdot transport if couldn’t make the corner it has nothing to do with what he waa pulling it with
 
What do you bet the tow will cost several thousand dollars, not sure the mobile home is worth that.
 
Hold my beer, I need both hands on the wheel to make this corner. If I power through I can make it. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 16:10:52 10/04/20) After reading the story that sounds like a driver that works for ytdot transport if couldn t make the corner it has nothing to do with what he was pulling it with
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ep, wheels off culvert & into ditch!
 
(quoted from post at 08:36:52 10/04/20) Is this one for YT DOT or one about dumb Chevy drivers?
I'll let the board decide.
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It's not just Chevy drivers. One Sunday morning, when NYSP DOT guys like me weren't supposed to be working, I ran onto a modular home dealer towing a house down a county road with a New Holland tractor. I'd heard about this guy but it was sheer luck I happened on him. 30 some violations and 21 tickets IIRC. The printer was getting low on ink.......
 
My late FIL pulled a 40 footer with the Ford tractor that I now own. I thought he was nuts every inch of the 10 miles he pulled it. I think he was steering with the brakes.
 
Well it was always what about the little old ladies or car full of
kids then last week the guy who lost the pulling teactor got
reamed for swerving to miss that same van seems barney
now favors just running over the car ?
 
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