1) I thought maybe that was one of those trucks that got tossed by a tornado. Scary something that big and heavy can topple!

2) How did he do that???

3) My office facd a railraod crossing and I watched trucks do this on a regular basis. They finally fixed it but as you say there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason here.

4) Looks like someone sneaked up and gave the truck a tickle.

5) Is this the same road that's in Jim's "weird things I see" photos? The one that you shouldn't let your GPS take you on. :)

6) Oops...somebody is getting their pay docked.

7) Hmmm...we had something similar to this happen to one of the delivery trucks when I used to work for Dixon Fisheries. From the looks of things on the left side of the photo, I'm thinking he ran off the road while concentrating on said toothpick, and then, overcorrected coming back up, thus shifting the load and toppling over.

8) PS. My three-year-old son, Galvin, said "Oh no, that truck fell down. They need to get it up before it falls down again."

9) The official verdict is that the hoist ram broke where it attaches to the truck, and gravity reasserted itself. I also think the way the hoist was built was totally ignorant, but that's besides the point. The fact that some of the rock was sticking in the right side of the bed when it was raised all the way didn't help matters either.


And yes, we have lots of roads around here that you don't have to be crazy to drive on... but it helps.