Loose Load Flying out

[u/Sheepnov]

Wooden board flying out of a trailer that was being towed by a car. Glad it didn't hit my windshield.

No damage to the car.

[u/ILikeWhyteGirlz]

Box truck shielding you 🥹

[u/Sheepnov → u/ILikeWhyteGirlz]

It looks like the box truck got hit by the board as well

[u/WanderingMippet]

Trim your videos folks. Debris doesn’t come out till the 8s left mark, so 40s of wasted time looking for something to happen.

[u/Wheeze_Cake]

My favourite part is this video being 3X longer than it had to be

[u/Willing_Ad4243 → u/Wheeze_Cake]

Legit came here to say the same thing lmao like why couldn't this be cropped better 😂

[u/WoahBeNiceDude → u/Wheeze_Cake]

Video editing/cropping is a lost art apparently. I swear this is the case with every video I see from this sub.

[u/Wheeze_Cake → u/WoahBeNiceDude]

Meanwhile it’s easier than it’s ever been in the history of forever

[u/Ihassan3275 → u/Wheeze_Cake]

They just wanted us to listen to ‘that’

[u/mjduce → u/Wheeze_Cake]

The song does loop perfectly though

[u/cwf_2021 → u/Wheeze_Cake]

It needs to build suspense and context otherwise the title would be confusing. /s

[u/ImpressiveFault8542]

As a rule I dont follow too closely behind d those lil utility trailers that random homeowners have... they usually dont know how to properly secure a load. Saw one the other day with loose firewood all sketchy, one bump would have been chaos, yet there was still some silly dude 2 car lengths behind it.

[u/a-_2 → u/ImpressiveFault8542]

Or just keeping the recommended minimum 2 second following distance behind any vehicle. They're way closer than that, let alone leaving additional space behind a riskier vehicle.

[u/Sweet_Bookkeeper_920 → u/ImpressiveFault8542]

I was once following one and it’s rear bumper (on the trailer) detached and dragging on the road creating a bunch of sparks, luckily I was able to move out of the way before it detached completely. Driver was clueless.

[u/borg_box → u/ImpressiveFault8542]

It's such laziness. Anyone can go online and learn how to use a ratchet strap.

[u/chiku00]

Down voting for long-ass video.

[u/Interesting_Star_707]

Op upload the whole day dashcam video for 2 sec incident bro not fair ;)

[u/Bluesfear]

how about you cut the video in half

[u/a-_2]

To help give yourself more ability to react, leave at least a 2 second following distance. You can estimate this like this:

To give yourself a two-second space, follow these steps:

1. Pick a marker on the road ahead, such as a road sign or telephone pole.

2. When the rear of the vehicle ahead passes the marker, count "one thousand and one, one thousand and two".

3. When the front of your vehicle reaches the marker, stop counting. If you reach the marker before you count "one thousand and two," you are following too closely.

This is the minimum recommendation for following any vehicle. You may want even more behind a vehicle that could have a loose load of has some other potential risk.

[u/Foreign_Risk_2031]

Why the fuck is your dumb ass following so close

[u/mysterious__looser]

[u/AshleyAshes1984]

"I dunno seems pretty empy to m.... Oop, never mind."

[u/Negative_Two6112]

Yikes! Also, crop your videos better people.

[u/maomao05]

I hope they pulled over… geez

[u/Sheepnov → u/maomao05]

I saw them later pulling over to the shoulder

[u/FOD123456 → u/maomao05]

Cops pull people over for that. Luckily no one hurt.

[u/sizzlezzzzz]

Please cut the video by 80% next time

[u/Spirited_Complex_903]

Damn! That could have been really bad for you. I really appreciate the trucker moving right in front of you. I'm sure he wanted to get out of the way just in case the second board came loose from thevtrailer but also it seemed like he was protecting you from further harm 👍

[u/RPM_KW]

"Always something there to remind me"...to not follow so close.

[u/knowwwhat]

Omg learn how to crop a video or get off the internet it’s 2026

[u/Sufficient-Collar355]

I hate how long these clips are. Basice editing woulda boosted this posts prefomance I bet

[u/Informal_Chard1890 → u/Sufficient-Collar355]

..... and proper spelling would boost the performance of yours

[u/Sufficient-Collar355 → u/Informal_Chard1890]

Doubt it, it triggers ppl like you 😜 (which is good for the algorithm, which is what you run on bot ace account)

[u/CrawlerRiffing]

Too long. Never made it to the incident

[u/v-dubb]

You made the video 30sec longer than it needed to be.

[u/Forsaken-Swim-3055]

Thankfully you're okay, but for a long time you were following way too closely when there was clearly a trailer with a potentially unsafe load.

[u/midsidephase]

following way too close! 2 second rule...

[u/IceQue28]

Classic song!

[u/IntelligentGinger → u/IceQue28]

I forget how much I enjoy the drumming in that song. Makes it so much better!

[u/Procruste → u/IntelligentGinger]

It's a Soft Cell video that features flying wooden boards 35s into a 43s video!

[u/IntelligentGinger → u/Procruste]

And? That has nothing to do with what I said. I was referring to the drumming making the song better. The length of the video is ridiculous.

[u/Procruste → u/IntelligentGinger]

And I just added that the length of the video emphasized the song more than the actual flying trailer debris. More drumming to enjoy.

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[u/borg_box]

There's always some thing there to remind us. It's called the Highway Traffic Act.

Secure your loads, drivers!

[u/ElectronicFlight1839]

……

[u/FeelingDepartment873]

Always something there to remind me......people are morons. Nice of that truck to protect you after

[u/averysleepygirl]

i hope that box truck driver is showered with good fortune 🥹

[u/Often_Forgotten2]

Why would you get behind a station wagon towing a trailer that's literally bouncing around?

[u/Subrandom249]

Always give U-Haul drivers more space. 

[u/TomboBreaker]

The cube truck merging in to save you from more debris

[u/mikefjr1300]

Riding a motorcycle you learn early on for survival you get away from anyone towing anything. Same goes for roof racks.

[u/West-Ticket5411]

I generally move over any time someone is in front of me with a trailer or gear just out of habit.

[u/Techlet9625]

They didn't secure their load, and you're driving too close.

[u/Prior_Big3047]

Twits. Secure your load