Me n Earl were hauling chickens on a flatbed outa Wiggens. I gotta add So Earl put down his bottle, mashed his foot down on the throttle, a couple booms n a thousand cubes and that 1948 Peterbilt screemed to life. I used to own a 1947 Peterbilt.
I hauled propane tanker through the West Virginia mountains for ten years. I've been working on them in the shop for about ten years now off and on. I've been in some aspect or another of trucking since 1997. If they'd make your videos mandatory driver training and really teach the importance of a good pre trip inspection and good mountain driving skills, you guys would be cleaning up a lot less wrecks.
he tried to pull in on a scenic view area and that's when his trailer tipped and took him and his truck over with it too. Otherwise all down hill in that spot for miles..He gave up his life and God only knows how many may have perished from his run away truck..
You sir are correct. My first pass on Donners January 1978 taught me a lot. RESPECT every mountain. The pictures on the wall at Sierra’s Sids said it ALL.
Dirt cheap drivers have these problems. I ran a heavy wrecker in Colorado and I could not believe who was driving some of these totalled trucks..Holy Crap.
Back in th 80's I worked for trucking company out of Texas. I would hook to a drop deck and when I did, I knew I was going to Wolf Creek to haul back a salvage. It wasn't a pleasent scene!
Reminds me of big top adventure. "It was a night just like this. The worst accident I ever seen. The sound of a dump truck off the side of the Empire state building....
Waiting for a up elevator in the round motel in Covington, Ky off I-75, in appx. 1979. The elevator door opened and there stood CW McCall, brown suede, frig jacket and cowboy hat. Will never forget that, Earl was not with him, did not see his truck in the parking lot. CW was in Cincinnati for a appearance at the car show.
Not a very safe place to put a scenic view for 4-wheelers, all things considered. That is where most all truck wrecks take place on that Pass. It’s a true hairpin- it even looks like the proverbial bobby pin. TAKE THE RUNAWAY RAMP! It’s right before that curve. Some drivers speculate that those drivers that aren’t familiar with the Pass try to take that hole out of desperation… Parking or exiting/re-entering in any vehicle at that spot is like hanging out on a runaway ramp, as far as I’m concerned. Runaways don’t happen everyday but when they do STAY OUT OF THE WAY!
How many trucks have launched off there now? They need to build some type of super strong steel barrier that will direct the trucks back into the mountain side or gravel pit, just something.
Nothing is going to prevent truckers from going to fast off Wolf Creek. Not all the signs. Not all the super duper strong barriers. Lower the speed limit. Enforce and impose fines for exceeding the speed limits. Enforce DOT inspection on trucks. I've driven Wolf Creek pass a few times. It's unnerving that people still go fast descending. I've seen truckers exceed the speed limits.
These drivers are supposed to be Professional, you know, School and Drivers Training, must of had a Class 5 licence before thinking about operating something larger, heavier, longer,etc. You would think these so called Professionals know how to read signs. Hey, here’s an idea, DRIVE TO ROAD CONDITIONS, SPEED, PARAMETERS OF WEIGHT OF LOAD, EQUIPMENT CAPABILITIES, otherwise do something more to your ability, like Walmart Greeter. Just saying...
These gypsy truck drivers are dangerous to everyone. most can barely speak english and the only driver training they've had is at the school of hard knocks. the companies that hire them should be driven out of business and the owners jailed.
I worked for an industrial service company when I was young on a hazwhoper team and we cleaned up big accidents like this in Colorado often. One load was a truck load of truck and car batteries illegally traveling on a road.
@@terryjohnson3479thankfully I ran over a car full people later that year and got demoted. So I found a new job. I went to school to be a teacher. Lucky for me everyone on the car was okay, not a scratch on them. My vacuum truck lost brakes and I ran over a 1976 Monte Carlo in Gallup, New Mexico. Everyone got out of the car and we’re like 4’5” and shorter. I drove right over the top like a monster truck and it smooshed the roof in. No whiplash or anything. I was so thankful no one was hurt.
Why didn't he take the runoff ramp less than a half mile before the turn? Of course, that can't be answered by us - surely there was something that prevented him from doing it.
He had brakes at that point. Video I have seen from a driver coming the other direction shows he didn’t even really attempt to use them. First time I went through there I didn’t know about that hairpin and almost met the same fate and I wasn’t even going fast down the hill. Every time since then I’m doing like 10mph there and you can still feel the G forces you’re pulling in the curve. Scary as hell, at any speed. Not to mention the vertigo from the elevation change in your periphery
We were coming in from the lower access… the part of the clip you are referring to is from when we hiked up thru the lower access to the highest point we could reach.
I think there was a video shot from a drivers cab camera of the accident. Looks like a 53 foot box semi came into the curve hot and merely launched off the curve. Never seen anything like it.
@devmeistersuperprecision4155 I think that video was of an earlier wreck. Blue tractor, dry van. This guy was a flatbedder, construction materials, ProPanel, irrigation pipe. Not a run for rookies or leadfoot.
The forest service will fine the owners/insurance company if they don’t clean it up. I guarantee they will have a hazardous waste company for the diesel and oils
@@lostinthedesert6149 So they could have been sued for $ 30,000,000.00 ! This wreck turns into a DISASTER for all Americans, then. Gotta keep the dirty rocks 'clean'...
The state if colorado could fix this but they would rather spend all the money on 70 so policker and all his alphabet mafia can get to the ski slopes faster.
