Around here darned near every farm straight truck used to be overloaded and there never were any overload-related accidents that I can remember.Then the Iowa DOT started coming around regularly and ended it. Now we have mandatory annual inspections on ALL trucks.
A few years ago I was hauling a combine on a two lane road in western Kansas. I was meeting an older straight truck loaded with wheat. The straight truck slowed way down and got over a bit and when he did another old tandem axle straight truck, also loaded with wheat, rear ended him so hard the wheat in the back truck came up over the cab and onto the hood. The driver of the back truck was leaning out the window waving to the front truck to get out of the way. It happened in a second and the next second I was past it. Seemed like I was watching a movie until the reality hit. I've heard about someone getting the cr**p scared out of him but I didn't know the phrase was real until this happened. Nuff said!
I didn't stop because my wide load would have caused a bottleneck, but it made me a believer in good brakes. Jim
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