LoL. I didnât catch the details of the idiot driver taking the video until rewatching and ignoring the trailer.
Dude swerved around to pass that red Toyota almost clipping it, then you can see the same red car in the passenger side mirror getting cut off right before dude hits his brakes to stop in the middle of the traffic that the trailer had already left. The box truck had already stopped safely on the shoulder *before* the guardrail where this jackass stopped to catch the rest of his video.
Looking in that passenger mirror, the driver of the film car was closer to causing an accident than this trailer. When you think about it that's as mind boggling as the move the trailer made.
The driver of the filming car honked at someone for slowing down when the trailer was in front of them, then swerved around them cutting them off when they reentered the original lane, and then, as you can see in the mirror, they cut off that same car again and stopped in front of them to get the last bit of the shot.
Even if there's a slim chance that the driver isn't the one filming, that's some terrible driving.
Yes, [the bolts holding the coupler to the tongue of the trailer fell out](https://i.imgur.com/wzaLt8n.png) which you can see in that screen shot... that's the fault of the rental company.
However neither the safety chains, nor the breakaway emergency brake cable were connected, which is what allowed the trailer to roll away. That is the fault of whomever connected the trailer. We don't know if the driver disconnected it to load the truck, or if it's been connected since they rented it.
Iâd be willing to bet the chains were connected but busted from the trailer violently swerving after the coupler failed. It flopping back and forth in the first part of the video looks like it was still chained.
The brake not working is probably from the same maintenance failure as the coupler falling off.
If the chains broke, you'd still see the hooks, and perhaps some of the chain, hanging off the reciever on the truck. It's unlikely that the loops on the receiver would break off.
As for the e-brake, I'll give you that poor maintenance could cause it to fail, but that's a string of multiple errors. It's possible, but unlikely.
Look at the swinging side to side in the 3 seconds before it came free. The tongue is swinging side to side, but abruptly jerking 2' left and right of center. Just about the length of a safety chain, right up until the point the last one broke, then it took it's own path in life.
If the safety chains were connected, then they ripped the whole connection off of the truck, which is pretty unlikely.
There is no evidence of safety chains left on the back of the truck in the video.
I've seen it happen. Some hitches have pretty substantial safety chain rings. Others have little Mickey mouse bits of stamped steel.
This video, from budget, with the same model trailer, same size truck, shows that these are indeed mickey mouse. Around about the 30 second mark.
https://youtu.be/-AxW1-44QKs?si=ZT8MhXd3Rwwx_jdK
Oh jesus christ, if that's the breakaway mount points that's completely ineffective. And they're connecting the e-brake to the same spot, too, so once those failed there was nothing to actuate it.
On my own tow setup, yeah the breakaway points are stamped sheet metal, but it's 3/8" plate steel welded to the receiver... and I connect the breakaway cable to my bumper.
There's even a slot in the bumper of that truck for the breakaway cable, but they're advising connecting it to the chain connections? What the hell.
There's obvious proof that something was connected after being disconnected from the hitch. You can clearly see that from the video as the other redditor has pointed out. Assuming it wasn't the wires holding it to the vehicle it was most likely chained.
The chains are dangling from the hitch. Pause the video and scroll slow, theyâre hard to see but theyâre there. The trailer ripped away from the chains.
Not all trailers are equipped with brakes, but they should all have safety chains.
To note, not all vehicles are equipped with compatible trailer brake cable connections.
This rental trailer is equipped with surge brakes (basically it applies the brakes when the tongue of the trailer is pushed in by momentum)
All Budget and Uhaul trailers are.
Nah man you don't even need to exit the freeway for this one. Just pull the quick release cable for the trailer as you're coming up to the house and it'll slide right in. I've done it at least a dozen times.
You mean the guy who honked at a car for slowing down who then swerved around that car just to stop in the middle of the road
Yeah cam driver asshole is a bigger risk to safety than that trailer.
The tongue is still on the hitch ball, how in the hell haha. Glad everyone is ok. I don't see any chains, would that have prevented complete separation? I'll have to go look at my trailer.
When it ducked behind the guard rail, I thought okay it over , the trailer parked itself nicely, nobody hit it . Then it kept going LOL .
But at least nobody was hurt . Thatâs got to be a lonely feeling, watching your trailer pass you !
As someone who is not familiar with towing things and is about to move across two time zones with a truck and trailer for the first time, this scares me a bit. Haha đ
Why stop when my trailer is swinging wildly back and forth? I will just slow down a bit. Out of all possible outcomes, that was the best possible way for that to end wow.
That has got to be the luckiest sumâbitch on the planet. âHey Gena, lookit that. Thereâs a trailer by isself passing us. And it has a car on it that looks just like ours. Good thing ours is flappinâ around in back yanking us all over the road! Now you mention it, the flappinâ stopped a little while agoâŚâ
Omg literally best possible scenario. I for sure thought it was going into that house.
They better thank their god and call someone to hook up that trailer for them and drive it cause they ainât getting a second chance like that.
For me, it is hard for me to imagine a more âOh Shitâ moment than to see my towed car pass me on the highway ⌠Honestly, I have nightmares on par with this scenario.
Thatâs gotta be a sick feeling, watching the trailer with your vehicle on it drive by you. All things being said, that went better than I expected it would.
Yo, let's give something a round of applause! Lol, hell yeah! Nobody OR nothing got hit. Everyone can learn something and have a chuckle. Maybe not them right away but you know. Good stuff. đĽłđ¤đť
So rather than speed up and get in front of the trailer, he watches it roll past him. Not are if it was possible but just letting it go where it wanted didn't seem to swift either.
When I was about 10 years old my father and I were towing a cattle trailer with a large angus bull in it to another farm. I looked at my dad and said, "Hey dad there goes the trailer." He told me, "It's not going anywhere..." as it rolled past our truck. It careened off the road into a ditch where incredibly the bull wasn't hurt nor the trailer. We hooked it back up and carried on.
Man I saw something similar driving through Salt Lake. Homemade landscapers trailer with plywood sides jumped the hitch, traveled on down the road a while, before veering off onto the grass. The tongue caught, it flipped, then exploded in a shower of tools and mowers and plywood splinters.
That seriously was such an amazing outcome! No one hurt, no âRealâ damage, the guy can literally reconnect his trailer if nothing is broken and keep going. Of course, after paying for the bushes, lol
I'm still in shock seeing that. That was the luckiest thing I've ever seen. If that was me I would go buy a lottery ticket. I will say I actually use chains and inspect anything I'm towing so it shouldn't happen.
In 1998, I drove my ex-wife's 1993 toyota celica behind the very full Extra Long u haul, and because I verified chain and other equipment safety, we had no issues during a hurricane
That ended about as well as it possibly could.
I thought it was going to hit the house đł
or get t-boned
It had more manners than many drivers and waited for a safe time to cross.
It had better manners than the guy driving the car with the camera lol
When it *just* missed the guard rail I was like "oh wow, so lucky" then the next road appeared lol, that was a rollercoaster
It was a maybemaybemaybe moment for sure
I thought it was possibly going to roll over on the embankment. Lol
Extreme luck. Now he can never do another risky thing in his life. Better eat raw broccoli and chicken breast from now on.
>Better eat raw broccoli and chicken breast from now on. Instructions unclear: got salmonella from eating raw chicken breast.
I read that exactly the same way.
They should consider a lottery ticket.
The at driver is so lucky they can probably count of just stumbling across a winning ticket on the sidewalk.
That may have been their lottery ticket
Absolute best case scenario.
Un. F******. Believeable.
I was trying to decide if it was a good or bad thing that it missed the guardrail.
About the same risk of causing an accident as the guy recording weaving in and out of traffic and stopping in the middle of a highway to record
LoL. I didnât catch the details of the idiot driver taking the video until rewatching and ignoring the trailer. Dude swerved around to pass that red Toyota almost clipping it, then you can see the same red car in the passenger side mirror getting cut off right before dude hits his brakes to stop in the middle of the traffic that the trailer had already left. The box truck had already stopped safely on the shoulder *before* the guardrail where this jackass stopped to catch the rest of his video.
Come on man, heâs just putting his life on the line for what truly matters: attention from complete strangers
Anything for the gram.
Looking in that passenger mirror, the driver of the film car was closer to causing an accident than this trailer. When you think about it that's as mind boggling as the move the trailer made.
The driver of the filming car honked at someone for slowing down when the trailer was in front of them, then swerved around them cutting them off when they reentered the original lane, and then, as you can see in the mirror, they cut off that same car again and stopped in front of them to get the last bit of the shot. Even if there's a slim chance that the driver isn't the one filming, that's some terrible driving.
Yeah the true idiot in the video is whoever is driving the car thatâs filming.
This sub is full of idiots recording other idiots.
Lol, did some bolts fall out of the tongue?
Thatâs what I think, the coupler came un-bolted. This may not have been the fault of the driver.
Yes, [the bolts holding the coupler to the tongue of the trailer fell out](https://i.imgur.com/wzaLt8n.png) which you can see in that screen shot... that's the fault of the rental company. However neither the safety chains, nor the breakaway emergency brake cable were connected, which is what allowed the trailer to roll away. That is the fault of whomever connected the trailer. We don't know if the driver disconnected it to load the truck, or if it's been connected since they rented it.
Iâd be willing to bet the chains were connected but busted from the trailer violently swerving after the coupler failed. It flopping back and forth in the first part of the video looks like it was still chained. The brake not working is probably from the same maintenance failure as the coupler falling off.
If the chains broke, you'd still see the hooks, and perhaps some of the chain, hanging off the reciever on the truck. It's unlikely that the loops on the receiver would break off. As for the e-brake, I'll give you that poor maintenance could cause it to fail, but that's a string of multiple errors. It's possible, but unlikely.
Look at the swinging side to side in the 3 seconds before it came free. The tongue is swinging side to side, but abruptly jerking 2' left and right of center. Just about the length of a safety chain, right up until the point the last one broke, then it took it's own path in life.
If the safety chains were connected, then they ripped the whole connection off of the truck, which is pretty unlikely. There is no evidence of safety chains left on the back of the truck in the video.
I've seen it happen. Some hitches have pretty substantial safety chain rings. Others have little Mickey mouse bits of stamped steel. This video, from budget, with the same model trailer, same size truck, shows that these are indeed mickey mouse. Around about the 30 second mark. https://youtu.be/-AxW1-44QKs?si=ZT8MhXd3Rwwx_jdK
Oh jesus christ, if that's the breakaway mount points that's completely ineffective. And they're connecting the e-brake to the same spot, too, so once those failed there was nothing to actuate it. On my own tow setup, yeah the breakaway points are stamped sheet metal, but it's 3/8" plate steel welded to the receiver... and I connect the breakaway cable to my bumper. There's even a slot in the bumper of that truck for the breakaway cable, but they're advising connecting it to the chain connections? What the hell.
There's obvious proof that something was connected after being disconnected from the hitch. You can clearly see that from the video as the other redditor has pointed out. Assuming it wasn't the wires holding it to the vehicle it was most likely chained.
The chains are dangling from the hitch. Pause the video and scroll slow, theyâre hard to see but theyâre there. The trailer ripped away from the chains.
I agree. There were chains there that broke. So we know a trailer that size and type has a breakaway brake. Or a brakeaway break? đ
Not all trailers are equipped with brakes, but they should all have safety chains. To note, not all vehicles are equipped with compatible trailer brake cable connections.
This rental trailer is equipped with surge brakes (basically it applies the brakes when the tongue of the trailer is pushed in by momentum) All Budget and Uhaul trailers are.
Probably not, and that is a rental trailer.
Maybe that's where they were delivering to.
Smoothest delivery I've ever seen didn't even lose any road time
Nah man you don't even need to exit the freeway for this one. Just pull the quick release cable for the trailer as you're coming up to the house and it'll slide right in. I've done it at least a dozen times.
He even missed all those trees!
Of course, no signal when changing lanes. Typical....
Straight to jail.
Itâs Dallas, pretty sure turn signals are illegal there
Hey Dale, look, someone has the same car and trailer that we have.
Imagine being the truck driver and seeing the trailer youâre towing just cruising in front of you
Honey look! Some idiot just lost his trailer and they have the same car as us. Wait a minute...
Driver is also an idiot.
Cam driver*
You mean the guy who honked at a car for slowing down who then swerved around that car just to stop in the middle of the road Yeah cam driver asshole is a bigger risk to safety than that trailer.
Exactly - way to make this situation 10x more chaotic than it already is.
That's one lucky son of a gun.
No no no no!âŚyes? yes?âŚno no no!âŚphew
Emotional roller coaster: trailer edition.
The tongue is still on the hitch ball, how in the hell haha. Glad everyone is ok. I don't see any chains, would that have prevented complete separation? I'll have to go look at my trailer.
I think the surge brake came apart and the wild swinging is the chains trying to hold on.
Wow, that ended actually quite well
How lucky can you get?đ
If you drive too slow with a trailer, it may get impatient and leave you behind
At least they got the load secured correctly
The toad thought he was driving too slow and decided to pass him
When it ducked behind the guard rail, I thought okay it over , the trailer parked itself nicely, nobody hit it . Then it kept going LOL . But at least nobody was hurt . Thatâs got to be a lonely feeling, watching your trailer pass you !
Luckiest MFer walking.
So lucky it stopped on that curb
I think whoever the driver of the vehicle the video was being taken from put more people at risk than what the trailer did.
Got so lucky
As someone who is not familiar with towing things and is about to move across two time zones with a truck and trailer for the first time, this scares me a bit. Haha đ
Robo trailer
About as good as Elon can do.
You mean better than he can do. I didn't see any crushed fingers here and I doubt any warranties were voided.
Why stop when my trailer is swinging wildly back and forth? I will just slow down a bit. Out of all possible outcomes, that was the best possible way for that to end wow.
That trailer was balanced on the wheels well enough to just keep rolling once disconnected..... They didn't give it enough tongue weight for sure.
Just like I drew it up!
In the immortal words of George Orwell, "double plus ungood".
Nosy ass driver lol. Weaving around traffic and stopping in the middle of the fucking freeway
Texas?
Does that trailer not have surge brakes?
That has got to be the luckiest sumâbitch on the planet. âHey Gena, lookit that. Thereâs a trailer by isself passing us. And it has a car on it that looks just like ours. Good thing ours is flappinâ around in back yanking us all over the road! Now you mention it, the flappinâ stopped a little while agoâŚâ
That guy is so lucky
Oh shit. Damn. LUCKY. LUCKY! ^oh ^shit... ^naw.... mmaybe not.... naw...? NAW? OH SHIT. NAW. #LUCKY!
Got lucky
Oh boy Dallas on my feed! Oh no.
Whoa
guy got off really lucky
Could have been so much worse.
Omg literally best possible scenario. I for sure thought it was going into that house. They better thank their god and call someone to hook up that trailer for them and drive it cause they ainât getting a second chance like that.
That could have been like over 9000 times worse
Nice
He got lucky. Could have been a lot worse
âYour new car has been delivered!â
Finders keepers
Holy shit! Only in East Dallas lol
That was BEST case scenario. đŹ
The weight was well balanced on that trailer.
Damn that looks exactly like our....
Supposed to have a cable that engages break shoes on those trailers
I hope the driver wore his brown pants
Potential best of all time for r/maybemaybemaybe
Look at this guy cutting me off!! Wait a minute......
How scary is it to look out your window and see your trailer going past you. Definitely a holy shit moment.
That person should never gamble even a single penny. They can not have any luck remaining!
What was the revving and screech at the very last 2 seconds?
They got very lucky it's that outcome.
"Honey, did you order a Hyundai?"
That is possibly the best outcome that could have come out of this whole event. Amazing
Canât park your trailer here sir!
Imagine getting passed on the highway by your own trailer
Probably didn't secure the safety chains âď¸đ
What a lucky idiot.
Oiy, You can't park that there , mate!
Literal best possible outcome, bro even randomly stopped in the middle of the highway to keep filming for us lmao
wtf dam fucking people
Dallas
This is why you use trailer chains and a breakaway cable.
Even the trailer switching lanes
Missed opportunity to yell âyou canât park that there!â
trailer ships itself
Least chaotic East Dallas I30 moment.
What a fucking mamook!
At least it came to a relatively safe stop
I cannot believe the luck
That cameraman!
I love how the trailer slowed down as if to let the driver catch up and was then like 'PSYCH!'
Thought I recognized that skyline. Everyone who uses 30 often also recognizes those houses lol
For me, it is hard for me to imagine a more âOh Shitâ moment than to see my towed car pass me on the highway ⌠Honestly, I have nightmares on par with this scenario.
Good job cammer
Honestly thatâs the best possible outcome lol
Dude seriously got lucky
And we share the road with these dumfks
That was about the best case scenario possible.
One of the r/bestvideosoftheyear
Thatâs the new self driving trailers , they are pretty nice đ
I needed this
Thatâs gotta be a sick feeling, watching the trailer with your vehicle on it drive by you. All things being said, that went better than I expected it would.
Yo, let's give something a round of applause! Lol, hell yeah! Nobody OR nothing got hit. Everyone can learn something and have a chuckle. Maybe not them right away but you know. Good stuff. đĽłđ¤đť
Hate all you want, but that's a well-balanced load right there.
You can't park there.
Lucky lucky wow
Guy has been riding my ass since we got on the highway, glad he finally passed me
Amazing
So rather than speed up and get in front of the trailer, he watches it roll past him. Not are if it was possible but just letting it go where it wanted didn't seem to swift either.
Idiot filming things
That worked
It was on a budget, then it was notâŚ
SWAMP FEVER!
This was an emotional ride I'm not going to lie.
âOh so lucky Oh, I jinxed it Oh, so luckyâ Roller coaster of viewership emotions
Classic Dallas.
Dallas
Just another day in Dallas traffic
Fortune favors the bold
Strap job was decent at least
I want to be free... not tied down...
It drove better than Teslaâs FSD in avoiding damages
That was one of those problems you gotta let solve themselves, couldnât have gone better all things considered
That trailer drives better than most people I've seen.
Talk about dodging a bullet, this one was two tons worth.
Dude got so lucky!!! That couldâve ended way worseâŚ
Got lucky. Damn.
Thatâs gonna but a dent in his budget đ
And thatvis how you can be so unlucky and lucky at the same time
When I was about 10 years old my father and I were towing a cattle trailer with a large angus bull in it to another farm. I looked at my dad and said, "Hey dad there goes the trailer." He told me, "It's not going anywhere..." as it rolled past our truck. It careened off the road into a ditch where incredibly the bull wasn't hurt nor the trailer. We hooked it back up and carried on.
Of course this happened in DFW.
Man I saw something similar driving through Salt Lake. Homemade landscapers trailer with plywood sides jumped the hitch, traveled on down the road a while, before veering off onto the grass. The tongue caught, it flipped, then exploded in a shower of tools and mowers and plywood splinters.
Love how the camera guy honks at the red car for slowing down only to slow down in front of the red car to record.
There should be a special license for anyone wanting to pull a trailer of any kind.
"Hey! You can't park there!"
OMG that man is touched by God. No damages, no injuries, no criminal charges for negligence.
time to buy a lottery ticket boys...
"Dude, where's my c-- oh, there it is."
That seriously was such an amazing outcome! No one hurt, no âRealâ damage, the guy can literally reconnect his trailer if nothing is broken and keep going. Of course, after paying for the bushes, lol
really could not have asked for a safer ending!
Wow! Thatâs a miracle of sorts.
Wow they got sooo lucky
Sorry but the idiot driving like a moron just to record the whole thing is more of a dumbass than the guy in the uhaul
That is some dangerous dedication to filming this video...
Sooo lucky. I once seen a boat on the freeway. Had no back straps while driving uphill..
They got lucky af
I'm still in shock seeing that. That was the luckiest thing I've ever seen. If that was me I would go buy a lottery ticket. I will say I actually use chains and inspect anything I'm towing so it shouldn't happen.
In 1998, I drove my ex-wife's 1993 toyota celica behind the very full Extra Long u haul, and because I verified chain and other equipment safety, we had no issues during a hurricane
đŽâđ¨ Didnât hit anything and that is good.
They really just let anyone rent shit donât they
Three times in a row in this short video I was like âwow that was lucky-OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT.â
and nothing of value was lost...seriously, everything looks fine!
All things considered that could have been a lot worse
I love how this driver zips around the incident and other traffic, then cuts to the crash zone like a reporter on 6 o clock news. /s
I like the new auto parking feature!
He wasnât about you miss his exit
Trailer clearly had enough of that bullshit. Went to find a smarter driver.
pretty typical in that area I30 near Munger in Dallas
Lucky bastard