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Couch! That's right...70mph highway. Headingh yesterday in rush hour traffic and some guy didn't tie down his couch properly (or at all)

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Had a buddy in college put his couch on the pickup and take off up 85N from Charlotte. Somewhere around Greensboro this asian lady pulls up next to him shouting COW! COW!
He pulls over to find his cargo had slid off and dragged on the highway long enough to grind off the legs on one end.
 
Well, that saves a trip to the dump. Now you know how all those mattresses end up on the side of the road. The trash royalty fees and rules have gotten to be a bit much
 
Load securement doesn't matter as long as you turn your hazard lights on.

Same as driving on flat tires, wheels falling off, broken trailers scrapping the roadway, and all other conditions totally appropriate for highway travel.
 
He was driving a Honda what else would you expect. That pic looks like hwy 1 between raleigh and Sanford. I was driving for this company in Sanford, ew wiley which happens to be the truck in the first pic, and ran over a mattress some idiot put on top of a van on us 1.
 
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A friend I know was helping another fellow relocate about a mile up the road. They were using a long bed pickup and had it loaded to the top of the cab and thought to finish off the load by laying the mattress set on top. With no more rope left for a tiedown my friend volunteered to hop on top and use his weight to keep the load stable. Little did he know that the driver knew nothing about flight and proceeded to go a a rate of around 55 mph which in turn caused a episode similar to the Wright's first success. Skinned from head to toe with asphalt rash my friend was a sight to see after the landing from a new mattress flight record, a record he chooses to not boast about, lol.
 
Saw a couch on 485 one night...or better yet, the silhouette of one. It was big and brown/black and it was around 9 or 10pm. Barely saw it in time to swerve. Called CMPD to report it...the operator sounded less than give-a-craptastic about it. End of my story.
 
I have been driving pickup trucks exclusively since I was 16 (21 years). I have never lost anything out the back and I never tied anything down... But, I also never had a bed liner before. Those things are slick (slippery).

A few months ago, I got a brand new truck and it came with a plastic drop in bed liner installed.

A few days later, I went to Lowes and bought a load of 2x6 boards and 4x4 posts and stacked them in the bed. I wrapped a tie down strap around the stack of boards, but didn't hook it into the bed. I thought, this heavy stack of boards isn't going anywhere.

I got about 500 yards before I turned onto the interstate on ramp and I heard a strange thump... Luckily for me (and other cars around me), the stack stayed together and landed on the shoulder of the road. I was only going about 10 mph.

I stopped and loaded them back in the truck, but not before snapping a picture to show my wife. The boards were fine, and I was sure to secure them in the bed before driving off again...

I've been strapping everything down ever since...

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I was driving to work on I-540 in Raleigh, noticed a black rear urethane bumper in the road, I slowed a bit but
traffic was heavy, I'm in left lane and 18 wheeler in middle lane, tractor hits bumper and it goes airborne,
I moved as much as I could to the left and not go on the grass, bumper hit my right headlight.
I was lucky, thought it was going to end up hitting the windshield. Got new headlight at LKQ.
 
Couple years ago in rocky mount on 301 I passed a chevy avalanche going about 30mph with flashers in the opposite direction and they had decided to haul 3 or 4 ft wide x 20ft long sheets of aluminum or roofing tin on the roof of it with minium support. They only ran a single strap across the back part over the bed but they failed to think about the wind getting in it and the top two -three sheets had buckled and were standing straight up about 16ft high. I bet it got real intresting when they found the first powerline or bridge over the road.
 
Wow that's odd. I was talking to my buddy on his way to work the other day and he said holy crap there is a couch in the interstate. Must be a thing right now.
 
Easy to unload... Back up, slam on the brakes, then pull forward. All done.

And if you forget to untie it first, you can pop a cool wheelie!
 
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When I was a young buck I worked remodelling an 8 story hotel in downtown Bloomington IL. I dropped a sheet of 1/2 plywood out a window on the seventh floor into a dumpster in the blocked off alley. A bum was sleeping in our dumpster & it almost killed him. I'm sure his settlement assured he could afford a place to sleep.
 
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