Most of us probably already have had experiences with this but I thought I'd share.
Today, as I was unlocking my business and I heard what sounded like wood bouncing off of the highway in front of my store. I turned and saw two 2 x 6's dancing off the pavement that had worked they're way loose from a passing 18 wheeler. I ran out there as fast as I could and got them off the road before anyone hit them. First thought was I would hate to have been following behind this guy and tried to avoid the lumber.

People always ask me why I bolt around flatbeds, pickups, ladder trucks and any other loosely tied loads. I guess they've never seen things like the 2x6's coming at them at 55 mph.

 

Yep.

I got stuck a few cars behind a sand truck on the freeway this morning. My skin is now all smooth and glowing from the fresh exfoliation.

 

I got stuck behind s trash truck today.. man that think stunk, especially in this heat.

 

About 10 years ago I saw a 3series BMW come off a transporter. It looked like a private move.. This was in the WDW area I believe on the FLA TP...

 

Yep, I avoid anything with a bunch of crap in back especially landscaper trucks/trailers. Also avoid anything with big cleated tires that tend to throw up rocks or guys running no fenders/mud flaps like big rig tractors without trailer.

 

-Happened to me in Kansas City, MO many years ago on a long off ramp from the highway.


I was behind a large gate truck full of old tires. He hit a large bump, the gate opened in the back of the truck bed, and all the tires rolled out, rolled uphill a short distance, stopped, then most of them began rolling downhill towards me in a large loose group at different speeds.


It was like a James Bond on a motorcycle, I was zipping left and right in between different sized tires for about 75 feet.


Probably would look kind of cool on video, but my sphincter was tight for awhile after that!

 

Bahahahaha.... thanks for the visual

 

I was heading to work down I85 and this car about 6 car lengths ahead of me in the right lane had either a folding crib or card table fly off the top just like a frisbee and missed me by about 3 feet. I was watching it before it flew off, so I could avoid it. What peed me off was that all the occupants were laughing about it. Well, I gave them the dirty look and went on.

 

I cut a 4X8 sheet of plywood in half with my Shovelhead as it fluttered off the back of a flatbed (it doesn't do as good as a saw). Just glad it was flat up and down when it impacted.

We regularly get pickups with pallets stacked really high on them...and scrap trucks with all kinds of metal crap hanging all over. The pickups themselves look like they are part of the scrap. At least they're easy to spot and avoid.

 

Yep! That will make your butt pucker.

The worst one for me was following a pickup full of junk when a piece of glass from a window fell out and shattered on the road. I piece of it caught me in the calf leaving a nice little cut. It could have been much worse.

Once while riding with a friend she got hit in the left shoulder by a box that fell off a truck. Boy was she pissed! She went from a cute blonde to pissed off biker. That was the first and only time I've seen her lose it and give someone the finger. Come to think of it, I think her finger was suddenly twice it's normal size as she thrust it at the driver of the pickup.