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UPS Feeder accident in Orlando 8/27
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<blockquote data-quote="UPSBluRdg03" data-source="post: 764423" data-attributes="member: 27927"><p>I can remember earlier this year getting off after dark and following a feeder pulling doubles out to the interstate from the hub. As im following him out the single lane road toward the insterstate I keep hearing a screeching nose. I turn down the radio thinking its coming from my truck. I then see sparks flying off the 2nd trailer in front of me. There is a gravel pull off out at the stoplight before you get on interstate. I figure the driver must hear it and will pull over. Nope he pulls on up to the light. I think about running up and telling him about it but the light turns green and he pulls on out and merges onto interstate. I follow as im going the same way and all the while a steady stream of sparks is flying back between the axles on the trailer as he picks up speed getting on interstate. He merges off the ramp and puts the hammer down. I fall out and get beside him and see one of the legs on the landing gear is stuck down and is dragging the pavement and by this time the is quite a glow of dragging steel from under the truck. He procedes to the split heads South and I head North wondering how in the hell he didnt see the leg still down when hooking up and especially how he didnt see the glow in his mirrors. Or maybe he knew and was told to roll on. Never heard anything about it afterwards thankfully but thought it might have been one of those "these loads gotta go" situations too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPSBluRdg03, post: 764423, member: 27927"] I can remember earlier this year getting off after dark and following a feeder pulling doubles out to the interstate from the hub. As im following him out the single lane road toward the insterstate I keep hearing a screeching nose. I turn down the radio thinking its coming from my truck. I then see sparks flying off the 2nd trailer in front of me. There is a gravel pull off out at the stoplight before you get on interstate. I figure the driver must hear it and will pull over. Nope he pulls on up to the light. I think about running up and telling him about it but the light turns green and he pulls on out and merges onto interstate. I follow as im going the same way and all the while a steady stream of sparks is flying back between the axles on the trailer as he picks up speed getting on interstate. He merges off the ramp and puts the hammer down. I fall out and get beside him and see one of the legs on the landing gear is stuck down and is dragging the pavement and by this time the is quite a glow of dragging steel from under the truck. He procedes to the split heads South and I head North wondering how in the hell he didnt see the leg still down when hooking up and especially how he didnt see the glow in his mirrors. Or maybe he knew and was told to roll on. Never heard anything about it afterwards thankfully but thought it might have been one of those "these loads gotta go" situations too. [/QUOTE]
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