Major Injuries after Semi Hauling Woodchips Crashed on 101 South of Cummings
At about 5:19 p.m., a semi flopped on its side south of Cummings and north of Laytonville on Hwy 101. According to the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page, a heavy tractor truck and trailer combo (76,000 lbs) hauling woodchips landed on its right side.
The CHP page reports that at least least one of the two occupants has major injuries.
Northbound traffic is still moving slowly through the area as of 8:30 p.m.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
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Why are wood chips being hauled? From where to where?
asking the important ?’s
Havenrich the saw mills in Ukiah have been sending wood chips up to eureka and Samoa for export for over 50 years, Go to Schneider dock look across the Bay BAM mountains of wood chips for export. Lots of wood chips come from the Valley, from up north out Oregon, and from down south. Shuster,Bettendorf,Costa, and many Jipo truckers have hauled hundreds of loads a month into Eureka hope that answers your question.
To make the OSB plywood people use. It’s sent to eureka then put on ships taken to a barge somewhere way out there and made into building materials. It used to be done down in ukiah but that was shut down.
Waferwood or OSB usually takes a different kind of chips than the ones being exported here… (thinner and longer). Most of the OSB plants have a custom designed chipper at the plant.
Here’s a video. (https://youtu.be/8nWCLVkbSno)
There never was an OSB or Waferwood plant in Ukiah. You may be confusing it with the old ‘Masonite’ products. That was a very different process.
Masonite went out of business years ago due to ‘problems’ as the product aged.
Are you keeping count?
This happened around spyrock road.
It happened just south of Rattlesnake Summit. I drove past the scene & saw a semi rig on it’s side, on the right shoulder of the northbound lane.
That is a dangerous curve & going downhill southbound there are truck speed restrictions… but none going uphill northbound, but likely speed was a factor.
those s/b curves below rattlesnake can catch up with you if your driving truck
Curve at the bottom of Rattlesnake provokes under-steer… which scares the crap out of the driver. Turn the steering wheel, front wheels slide… and nothing happens. (Been there, done that… once… got my attention instantly.)
Originally after ‘re-doing’ the curves (must have been about 40 years ago), Cal Trans had put in a passing lane that went right to the bottom of the draw.
Pretty turned into carnage. They blotted the lane out quickly and put in a zone between the two lanes. Helped somewhat… but not enough.
They should re-engineer that section of road. Dangerous.