We’ve all had issues loading a car onto the trailer at one time or another, right? I once drove a car onto and nearly straight off the front of an open trailer after the owner told me that the car had OK brakes. He meant that it had no fluid in the master cylinder or anywhere else and the only thing that kept the car out of the back of my dad’s truck was the little knee high rail at the front of the thing. The second one I will publicly reveal happened in college. Our little VW road racing car had been wadded up yet again and we were all kind of pissed off about that. Rather than do the professional thing and stay at the track to get drunk and loud, we decided to load up and head for home. The only issue was that when we pulled the car onto the trailer, the trailer was not locked on the ball and as soon as the weight of the car got on the end of the trailer the tongue shot up into the sky like someone had ignited dynamite under it. The whole works came smashing down much to the delight of all the racers around. It sucked, but not nearly as bad as the predicament that these guys are in below. They botched the loading of a cab over big rig they were using at the drag races.

The truck is a 1971 White/Freightliner cabover and this two minute clip is a small piece (the pay off if you will) of a longer 12-minute video that the same poster has up. The 12-minute video shows the struggles the guys were having getting this truck onto the trailer before failing and ending up as you see here. The basic problem amounted to the length of the wheelbase and the steepness of the ramps they were trying to drive up. The truck is a twin-screw style with both rear axles being driven, but they’re apparently not lockable because the forward axle would come off the ground and the rear would do nothing to help push the truck up the incline. They tried all kinds of stuff and none of it worked. The last option was to take a running start at it and that is where this video picks up. The truck hits the ramps with a good head of steam and then shifts to the right, ripping the fuel tank loose and running aground. It is one thing for it to end with the truck hung up half way on and half way off the trailer, but if this thing had gone over and that diesel had caught fire, it would have been a legit disaster. Thankfully that did not happen.

The day was saved by a large forklift and a chain hooked to another rig. The forklift shoved things over where they needed to be and the second rig provided the necessary umph to get the truck on the trailer. Outside of a fuel tank repair and a wound to their pride, these fellows got off lucky.

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