Well, this story is more of a humorous situation than an actual wheeling story and goes back quite a few years to 1995. I was living in Pullman, WA going to college and was on my way back to school from thanksgiving break. My girlfriend and I were in my little Toyota P/U and we stopped about 11 PM at the only rest area for about 100 miles in any direction to take a last piss break before the final haul to Pullman (it's literally surrounded by wheat and bean fields for as far as the eye can see...)

Anyway, I'm hanging around waiting for my girlfriend when I see this guy I know from class asking people for a ride into town. Turns out that he and his buddies were also on their way back to school when they decided to take a little "detour" on one to the farm roads. So, they're blasting on this dirt road about 45 MPH in the dark in a full size Chevy P/U when the rear tire blows and they swerve into the freshing tilled wheat field flipping them completely over in the air and landing sideways (buried about 12 inches deep in the dry dirt). He and his friend climb in the back and we tear down the dirt road. About 15 miles down the road we find the owner of the truck sitting on the front quarter panel up in the air smoking a cig and drinking a beer. He had a full load of crushed aluminum cans tarped in the bed, but the flip tore his tarp and cans were flung up to 20 yards from the truck!Unfortunately, my little truck can't pull the 3/4 ton back on it's feet so we decide to get to town and get a full size in the morning. The guys in my bed live in Albion (a "suburb" 10 miles outside of Pullman of about 200 people) so we go to their place. Turns out his roomates were some buddies of mine so we decided to hang out for a while. The bottles of whiskey started flowing and i think my girlfriend drove me home around 4AM. :drinkbud

When we got back to the truck that afternoon we found a really pissed off farmer with a big-ass tractor and he flipped the truck for us. He watched and made sure there wasn't a single can left in his field. I ended up getting some pretty funny (but dark) pictures of a chevy sitting sideways in a big flat field.... :slap

this thread is worthless without pics

this thread is worthless without pics

Ask and ye shall receive. Took me a while to find these. I had forgotten that due to the way the truck was buried that we had to flip in back on the roof and then try to pull it all the way over. It was the flipping it back on its side that my little truck couldn't handle...

Sorry, I forgot my camera when we went back and met the farmer.

http://www.superford.org/getfile.php?id=109143&toggle=fullsize&f=Scan429, February 29, 2004.JPG
http://www.superford.org/getfile.php?id=109144&toggle=fullsize&f=Scan430, February 29, 2004.JPG

The four guys in the pictures are the ones that were in the truck when it flipped. I dunno - 4 hours in a cab with four guys is a little snug for my taste.

http://www.carbuyingtips.com/pics/crash25.jpg

Ok, now share your story....

that one isn't mine, I just thought about that pic when I saw yours.
scroll about half way down, http://www.carbuyingtips.com/disaster.htm?x=0tekxgl_eoyyqkz_ttky3&y=0x34x39x28x40

My buddy did roll his 79 F250 about two weeks after he put a $2000 paint job on it. he was going down the road and the rearend locked up on him and he went through a ditch almost did a complete barrel roll. It almost went on its wheels but it stoped and pluked back down on the drivers side. just a few dents and tore off the side veiw mirror. it's now sporting another new paint job.

Looks like a rough ride, I know a guy that was on a dirt road bout 40 mph in a tiny 'yota trying to get the back end to spin around for fun. He rolled it.

crazy.

http://www.carbuyingtips.com/pics/crash25.jpg

AHEM...... did anyone note that the cab did not crush down on either one.....

CHEVY TRUCKS LIKE A ROCK...... :usa :thumbup :histerica

sorry guys but I coulndn't resist..... :toothless

CHEVY TRUCKS LIKE A ROCK...... :usa :thumbup :histerica

sorry guys but I coulndn't resist..... :toothless
http://www.carbuyingtips.com/pics/crash8.jpg
this is insane, rearended by a semi, the guy survived, though

Yup....those semi drivers are the safest on the road....HONEST! They suck balls and then some....and yes i know a lot of drivers and they are the ones that tell me "just watch out when a rig goes by...the drivers probably too tired, hopped up, or drunk and ready to kill someones family in a crash." Shame about that business.

AHEM...... did anyone note that the cab did not crush down on either one.....

CHEVY TRUCKS LIKE A ROCK...... :usa :thumbup :histerica

sorry guys but I coulndn't resist..... :toothless

alot of times they don't, depends how they land.
my buddy did about the some thing to his 79 F250 4X4 with a two week old paint job, but it stoped on it's side. tore up the drivers mirror and a few dents. it went ditch, pass side, roof, drivers side. didn't crush the cab just put a nice dent in the roof that he pushed out with his feet.

Getting rear-ended by a semi looks like it could hurt.

http://www.carbuyingtips.com/pics/crash8.jpg
this is insane, rearended by a semi, the guy survived, though



Wow that is some insane flex. :histerica

:histerica :histerica :histerica

Hey zeronine, Do the letters F.O.A.D. mean anything to you.......Yep, its not a good idea to take your 2000 - 6000 lb vehicle and cut off a 80,000 -105,000 lb semi and jam on the brakes because you stayed in in the fast lane until you were almost past your exit. Then you go sit at the stop light at the end of the ramp as I drive on by! What did you save not one damn second. What did you DO? At best you caused me to put serious flat spots on about seven thousand dollars worth of tires. At worst you gave up your life and my life and who knows how many others, to try to save a couple of seconds. It's kinda like hitting a ping pong ball with a sledge hammer!
:wacko :banghead
The truck and set of trailers I drive are almost 100 feet long, lit up like a Christmas tree, eight axles, 32 tires, and weighs 105.500 lbs when it's loaded. It happens to me numerous times every day, along with a ton of other stupid $h!t that people do in their cars and pick-up's.
:twak
Fact is, over 80% of wrecks involving cars and semi's are the cars fault. Gee over 80%, imagine that!
:shrug
There is no doubt like anything else, there is good and bad, but the extreme majority when it come to truck drivers, are good. In almost 30 years of driving truck I have yet to have ANY accidents that were my fault and have been involed in NO serious accidents at all. To put that in perspective that is well over three million miles of dodging stupid ass people in cars and pick-up's!
:goodfinge

Yup....those semi drivers are the safest on the road....HONEST! They suck balls and then some....and yes i know a lot of drivers and they are the ones that tell me "just watch out when a rig goes by...the drivers probably too tired, hopped up, or drunk and ready to kill someones family in a crash." Shame about that business.

Dude, I used to drive a big rig. I have hundreds of thousands of safe, accident, ticket free miles. A lot of those guys are, without a doubt, the most skilled drivers you'll ever see. Yeah, it is a shame those guys are overworked by their companies, then busted by DOT, the gov't is too fooked to do anything about it. Oh, did I mention underpaid, go for weeks without seeing the wife and kids. But yeah, they get your damn toiletpaper to the store so you can wipe your ass whenever you want.
Millpond is absolutely right with those statistics. Man I could spend hours with all the dumbshit driver stories I could tell. OH sure, some are dumbshit truckdrivers, but most arent.
Next time you cut off an 80000 pound truck and shit your pants and then get pissed at the truckdriver, do the math involved on what it takes to stop a rig that size.
ok /rant off.

Preach it Millpond, and keep her safe. I never drove anything THAT big, that has to be a kick.

Dude, I used to drive a big rig. I have hundreds of thousands of safe, accident, ticket free miles. A lot of those guys are, without a doubt, the most skilled drivers you'll ever see. Yeah, it is a shame those guys are overworked by their companies, then busted by DOT, the gov't is too fooked to do anything about it. Oh, did I mention underpaid, go for weeks without seeing the wife and kids. But yeah, they get your damn toiletpaper to the store so you can wipe your ass whenever you want.
Millpond is absolutely right with those statistics. Man I could spend hours with all the dumbshit driver stories I could tell. OH sure, some are dumbshit truckdrivers, but most arent.
Next time you cut off an 80000 pound truck and shit your pants and then get pissed at the truckdriver, do the math involved on what it takes to stop a rig that size.
ok /rant off.

Preach it Millpond, and keep her safe. I never drove anything THAT big, that has to be a kick.

All I can say is thank you , and I'm glad I didn't piss everyone off with my little off topic rant session....... :beer

Hey Arkansawer!!!

I haven't stopped laughing for the past hour after reading your take on the photo.

TOO DAMNED FUNNY BROTHER!!!!!!