So here is a hideous but true story that happened to an ABF driver many years ago out of 490 Ontario Oregon. I have told this before, but it bears repeating as a lesson. Just consider this as well, and factor it into your thinking.... The mental anguish and litigation surrounding this event was mind-numbing and ruinous for Larry. He is a Christian man and still a friend, thankfully.
Larry was on his bid to Portland one morning around midnight with a set of triples. He got out to the Weatherby rest area interchange on I-84 when a wheel bearing on a left trailer axle on his 3rd trailer seized up and came off the axle spindle at freeway speed. He could not see the smoke of the impending failure in the dark, of course, so had no advance warning. The duals came off and ran alongside his set as he slowed the triples down and pulled to the right shoulder. It is a minor miracle he did not upset the rear box. In hind sight, it probably would have been better if it had. At least it would have been easier to see it in the dark, especially if the marker lights remained on. The duals finally bounced off the center divider and fell over in the inside lane of the westbound freeway.
A Yellow sleeper team was following him and pulled over with him, and the Yellow driver got out to help Larry walk back to try to get the duals off the freeway in the dark. They were both carrying flashlights as they walked back along the rt shoulder. A FedEx set of triples was approaching them down the freeway at 65 mph, so they b
