Semi Truck Crash Slowed Traffic on Highway 299 Earlier
[Image from the CHP Trinity River unit]
CHP and Caltrans crews were dispatched for traffic control, with Buddy’s Auto called in to clear the crash. By 8:25 a.m., one-way traffic control was established to manage congestion.
Fortunately, no one was injured, according to the CHP.
The roadway was fully reopened by 11:03 a.m.
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That is not a semi-truck. That is a flat bed truck, probably with a pintle hitch on the rear end… towing a trailer. (Hmm… anybody need a cheap… er… ‘new’ telehandler ?)
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Here is a semi-truck. (photo) That truck has a ‘sleeper’ cab to house the driver on multi-day trips.
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‘Semi truck’ pretty much has a ‘bare back end’. Above the rear axles it has a fifth wheel hitch on the back… designed well… to pull a ‘semi-trailer’.
I’ve always felt that “semi” in trucking nomenclature was vague and imprecise, but that is just me. “Semi” what? Amazing, but I don’t know everything! Help me out.
A ‘semi-trailer’ is pulled behind a ‘5th wheel hitch’. That hitch can carry/tow a lot of weight… and enables the truck to make some short turns. Most always greased on the top… and has a locking pin to secure the trailer.
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Semi-trailers come in different configurations. Regular long box, flat bed, drop bed, ‘low-boy’, cattle trailer… etc. Big thing is that they all connect to the truck in the same way… 5th Wheel hitch.
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Google on ‘Semi Trailers’ and click on images.
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Meanwhile here’s a typical hitch on a ‘semi truck’.
Thanks.
Overloaded equipment trailer
Still a bit confusing as the picture is of a class 8 road tractor. The distinction between a truck and a tractor is that a truck carries freight on its own chassis while a tractor pulls its freight loaded on a full or semi-trailer. We are sometimes lazy with our ability to think & speak precisely, sad, as this causes a lot of confusion.
Whereas semi usually means half (think semi circle), then a normal truck (not pictured) must be enormous.
Does not really matter what type of truck it is at all. I am just glad there were no injuries, except to the forklift crane on the towed trailer. Why the trailer tipped on its side is a mystery to me.
speed
On what looks like a straight section of highway?
Doesn’t take much drift up the hillside of that stretch and roll it over. Kind of a top heavy load there.
because it’s only a semi accident, not a whole one.
Good one!
It may have hit an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). Without a secure border, vehicles in Humboldt have been flipping over all over the damn county. just look at this news site, they hit IED’s in eureka almost every week!!
One never knows what is lurking just below the pavement!
Highway 299 near Trinity River. Well, that really pins down the location doesn’t it?
Well, that was an embarrassing brain glitch. West of Junction City. Fixed now.
What a mess! Move it to the side of the road and call it a modern art exhibit!
Its a SEMI TRAILER!! There is no such thing as a “semi truck”. Its called a SEMI TRAILER. because it has wheels only on one end and the other end is carried by a truck that is properly known as a TRACTOR. The beautiful photo posted by Bozo is of a 3 axle tractor and if you look closely youll see the 5th wheel above the tandem drive wheels.
The truck involved in the wreck is clearly a 3 axle flatbed truck. The trailer most likely is a 2 axle equipment trailer. If it had an axle and wheels at the front that swiveled and a fixed axle(s) at the rear it would be a FULL TRAILER.