Drowning in Budweiser!

Last week after getting my truck fixed after the break in while I was home I was called into dispatch with another driver and they told us we needed to take our trucks down to Cleveland, TX to recover a tractor and trailer that had been involved in a rollover accident and bring them back to Denver.
We would do this by hooking my truck to the back of his truck and driving team down to TX and he would bring the tractor back and I would bring the trailer back. So we hooked up and headed for TX. He drove the first 8 hours, and I drove the last 8 hours.


When we arrived at the towing company yard we found the truck and trailer locked behind the gate so we called and they said they would send someone down.


He arrived but only in a small truck, so we waited for the big KW rig to show up to help us unhook the truck from the trailer, but shortly after he arrived he had to go out on a call because a trash truck was about to flip over somewhere. So we waited a few hours, in the meantime we had to climb in the trailer and even out the load because all the beer was shifted to one side and it would have just rolled over again if we tried to pull the trailer out of there.



We finally got the truck unhooked and hooked up to Scott's truck and I hooked up to the trailer and we went to the Love's truck stop to park his truck, from there we headed for the local landfill because by federal law when a beer load is wrecked the product must be destroyed since it hasn't been taxed yet. We got to the landfill about 4 pm and they closed at 5, so we went back to the truck stop and called the company to have them send us 2 helpers from labor ready the next day. We were at the gate at 6am when they opened and our helpers were right behind us, it took us 8.5 hours to unload all the beer by hand into the landfill.






We finally got it all done and back to the Love's then the company decided they wanted to load the trailer back to Denver, so I had to go to a truck wash in Houston to have all the broken glass cleaned out, which costs 250.00 , Scott already took off and headed back to Denver pulling the twisted remains of the T600 and I loaded up the next morning down in Pasadena. Luckily the trailer is still in pretty good shape besides most of the passenger side panels will have to be replaced, I only had to replace one busted marker light on the back corner.

Apparently the driver was going north on hwy 59 when he got off the wrong exit and decided instead of going down the ramp and back onto the highway he would jerk the wheel and try to get back on, and the load shifted and down it went! That driver was terminated at the scene and sent to the bus station.

By the time we got done with this adventure we all smelled like a brewery! There was broken bottles and beer flowing everywhere. I left a 10 mile trail of Beer from the tow yard to the landfill, it was pouring out the back like a 53' keg! LOL