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Trailer comes off at 75mph
I know of three trailers I have owned that have came off. #1 was a evenrude boat& trailer came off in Ky. The hitch had a spring loaded knob to lock it down and the spring broke allowing the knob to unscrew. The trailer was attached to a friends jacked up truck without the safty chains. (Ky does not require them) Trailer came off at 45mph and I tried to stop it by braking, it ran under the truck lifted it off ground and then set it back down veared rt and ramed a chev vega setting in a station drive waiting to pullout and the boat broke loose and slid up on top to the car. We all lucked out, The guy in the vega was not hurt and wanted a new car anyway, the boat and trailer had minor damage and after the scare was over all concerned had a great laugh. The #2 was my sons turn, 1500 gal water trailer broke pin in reese hitch and ball, hitch, trailer loaded with water went into trees along side rural road in Mississippi where it wiped out 20 trees and totaled out the water trailer at 55mph. #3 dimwit hired man jackknifed 1200gal water trailer backing it up and broke the weld on the tong lost trailer on the way to a job. I found him with the trailer hitch still attached to the truck. What was so bad he only had 500 gal of water, drove 4 miles, went through two stop signs, made two turns, met two school busses before he realised the trailer was not behind him!! Duh? what are mirrors for? not counting the jirking of sloshing water!! The trailer had crossed a bridge left the road on the wrong side and overturned in a field. that could have been a major disaster had it hit a school bus.
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AMEN! KT. I though I was in deep hocky when the KY HP showed up, He just shook his head and laughed when he found out no one was hurt and said I was lucky not to have hooked the chains as he had a heavy boat jack knife with him and drag his new pickup into the woods and reveine backwards. He also made the statement that he cut all chains now(if they are required) to make them break so if it ever happens again he can get away from the mess.
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That's the trouble with this world now. Too damed many lawers and sue happy people who want to chase ambulance's. That is good enough excuse to be a LLC and be sue proof by keeping the company nearly broke then have a very good insurance pol that will cover a reasonable claim and let the rest go to H---!!
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[PAD]. Things like I described did happen and I have photo proof of it BUT that was in the 70:s when the world was going nuts before everyone went sue happy. [PAD]
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I forgot, I am an old man now and I have never, never hurt or injured any one by some stupid move but I almost died preventing one stupid accident and I didn;t sue anyone even tho I ended up in surgery with abroken back and disabled for 18 months. [PAD]
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KT, you are right but the LLC does protect the owner from stupid mistakes and accidents caused by a hired employee. If you, the owner are the operator you are out on a limb with no protection because you can be sued by anyone for anything.
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