@thanatokephaloides

          While driving down a long winding mountain road my dad laughed as he saw a wheel roll by exclaiming, "Some poor bastard lost a wheel!" Moments later as he turned a corner his car tilted and the back bumper hit the pavement with many sparks and much excitement ensued.

          While traveling along I-80N (now known as I-84) my friend's station wagon lost both rear wheels in quick succession. As the car scrapped along the pavement Gordon managed to steer it off the roadway after it had spun around and was traveling backward for a time.

          This trip was so very smooth, particularly when you factor in that we passed very close to the tornado activity in Wyoming and Nebraska a few days ago.

.... come off the car I was driving once, at freeway speed.

Needless to say, non commendo!

Glad you're now home and OK!

@fight2bfree

          From time to time someone will say, "It's all in your head." as though it's not really real. I have been fortunate that my driving experiences are mostly very relaxing. Even the near death experiences have turned out to be mostly simply exhilarating. I should have been a long haul driver. Easy peasy, no big deal. Just cruising down the highway ... sometimes slip-sliding away ...

          For me it's the death stress by a thousand cuts decisions as we are getting everything ready. This last packing up routine was particularly difficult in ways that are hard to fathom or even describe.

          Being settled and no longer dealing with "that beast" sounds sweet. All the best,

RIP

Get there tired, and soon the cold (cough and sinus) for a couple of weeks. Some just travel well Lucky you! Had to leave a fully loaded trailer behind to get to the destination on time to start a job and sign the lease, then had to travel 1/2 way across the US to get the trailer later The tires on one side decided to leap off the trailer axle on a narrow highway at altitude. Thankfully, I no longer own that beast and am settled

@Unabashed Liberal @Unabashed Liberal

          Oh Yeah, I tend to "over-share" at times. The people here are quite different here in the Bear Creek Valley at least in one respect. Driving in rush hour traffic is so much better (as in nicer) here than in central Nebraska.

          I think I am going to really like living in this valley.

no one was injured. Should be quite a change; hope you share some of your impressions as you adjust to another region of the country.

Good luck!

Mollie

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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."--Lao Tzu

@snoopydawg

          A "pay it forward" kind of moment. There is some good in the world.

          That and the other drivers letting you know something was wrong. We wouldn't have known anything was wrong until someone took a moment to tell us as we rolled to a stop at a light. As many here have said before, the only way we will survive is if we look out for each other.

I was driving on a very busy freeway and I had no idea that had happened, but drivers that saw it noticed it and I pulled over. After I looked at the tire, I went inside the trailer and saw that it was a good thing that I stopped when I did because it almost started a fire. Inside the trailer it was full of smoke.
This was before I had a cell phone so I walked down the freeway to use a call box. A tow truck took the dawgs and me to get the tire repaired. After he was done fixing it and I went to pay for it, he told me no charge. This happened on Memorial Day so you can imagine the traffic.

I'm glad that you got home in one piece. It's always something, isn't it?

@Lenzabi

          I really dislike the telephone decision tree nonsense, but once I was able to get through to a real live person all went relatively smoothly. You cannot see it for all the trees, buildings, and interstate bridge structures, but the U-Haul center is a line of sight location just to the right of the scene shown. Yep, so close yet so far.

          So, I was able to drop off the (now empty) trailer and drive the fully loaded truck to my home. By the way, if you ever move to Medford, Sallie & Mike Fraioli run the awesome "Sam's Moving" company out of Central Point. Both times we used their service the guys that unloaded our stuff were really into making it a very pleasant process.

Glad this came to be a tale of humorous proportions and not an accident of the usual kind. At least U-Haul could collect the truck. They are usually good about issues when the trucks fail. But what are the odds it gave out so close to your home? and oh, to be forced to look at that beautiful scenery(sans highway).