Potato haulers do that too. Summer of 1982 I helped my High school Buddy and his dad harvest potatoes, drove truck to load along side harvester in the field, unload at the cleaning, sorting, bagging shed. One aftwrnoon after we stopped harvesting, a nice looking about 10 year old F-350 dually with a combination box, grain tight sides 4 ft high and livestock or stake side extentions another 2-3 ft on top of that. Three guys in the cab. They loaded up plumb full, 100# sacks to the very top of the extentions, them a couple more sacks heaped on top, 10,000 pounds, about double what it should have carried. I was fueling trucks, cleaning up the unloading conveyor, worked about an hour, jumped in my pickup and took off the 20 miles home, I get to a rough railroad crossing, 2-3 sets of tracks. Just beyond the crossing, along the side of the road beyond the stopsign sits that F-350 listing to Port, the left rear duals are GONE, truck resting on the brake backing plate, axle stub where the wheel bearings mounted was Gone, axle shaft and whole hub Gone. I turn the corner, about 500 feet down the road one of the three guys was rolling the duals still bolted together, hub still there, even the axle shaft sticking out a couple feet.
I imagine the truck was junked. I've put some tremendous over-loads on trucks, but never That much. Truck was probably rated 10,000# gross and weighed 5000# empty, maybe a bit more. 5000# would have been enough of a load, 10,000# was just stupid.
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