Major trailer crash leaves thousands of Coke bottles on freeway - crazy recovery

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  • čas přidán 6. 06. 2021
  • Watch this crazy recovery where thousands of coke bottles spilled onto the freeway after a major trailer crash. The entire wall of the first trailer came off. It might not look like it, but these small bottles are used to make the larger coke bottles after they go through a heat treating process.
    I arrived in Hulk, my 2020 Peterbilt 50ton Century rotator, with assistance from Dave in our Landoll and Enrique in our heavy wrecker. We used two forklifts to help off load the pallets from the broken trailer and load them into the customer's new trailer. Despite the insane mess, we made short work of this freeway accident as everyone hammered down quick to clear the freeway crash and open the lanes.
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  • @TomCat13461
    @TomCat13461 Před 3 lety +90

    Those bottles are called "preforms". Here's how they're made: czcams.com/video/8QkxpQT967w/video.html

    • @PepesTowingService
      @PepesTowingService  Před 3 lety +21

      Excellent information, I was wondering how these turned into full size coke bottles!

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 Před 3 lety +7

      @@PepesTowingService Need you a telescopic boom forklift. Genie makes a small 5000# that could work in a tight space like that. I could have picked up every one of those pallets off of that trailer. Much more tilt on forks, plus you can get them with sideways tilt also.

    • @OTE_TheMissile
      @OTE_TheMissile Před 3 lety +1

      @@easymoney8535 one of my regular pickups has a forklift that has some kinda scissor mechanism behind the forks. I always though it was just an old funny-looking forklift until I went there to get 4 skids of product and instead of putting the first skid on the back of my truck and pushing it in with the second, he lifts the first one up and reeeeeaches another 5ft into my box to set it down. Surprised me a little, I'd never seen a machine like that before lol

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 Před 3 lety +1

      @@PepesTowingService Take a look czcams.com/video/l2FqaBFWVio/video.html

    • @msnpassjan2004
      @msnpassjan2004 Před 3 lety +1

      @@easymoney8535 I think that's what Andrew Camarata uses. One of his favorite pieces of equipment.

  • @RuizR.87
    @RuizR.87 Před 3 lety +16

    I was caught up in this traffic jam. Was awesome seeing Hulk in person.

  • @andrewdavidson7656
    @andrewdavidson7656 Před 3 lety +20

    Those are plastic bottles in their initial form. Soft drink companies will heat the plastic before putting them in a mold and blow in air to get the final shape. Shipping them like this take up a lot less space.

    • @mikeznel6048
      @mikeznel6048 Před 3 lety +2

      Almost. It's called a reheat, stretch blow mold machine. After the preforms are heated soft by powerful lights, they are put into a clamshell mold and a rod goes through the center and pushes it as air is forced into the preform which makes the soft PET take shape of the mold.

  • @marciam6224
    @marciam6224 Před 2 lety +1

    I started watching these kinds of videos years ago with O'Hare Towing in Chicago. When they quit putting their videos on You Tube, I found Ron Pratt of Midwest Truck in Scot City, MO. He hasn't been posting much lately as he deals with the death of his dad. I found your channel & subscribed almost a year ago and have watched occasional videos. I've now made a private playlist of your videos so I can watch more of them. Good job by you and your crew!

  • @bobfallis
    @bobfallis Před 3 lety +2

    You have one helluva hard working crew! Was nice to see all the teamwork resolving what was a very labor intensive, messy job.

  • @JasonEsquivel
    @JasonEsquivel Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks again for the Monday entertainment for the kids. When I picked them up from the ex, the oldest (4) asked about SpaceX, Big Flipper and Hulk. 👌

  • @kevinkenyon7045
    @kevinkenyon7045 Před 3 lety +4

    Josh what a mess, you’ve got one hell of a crew! Thanks for sharing. Kevin

  • @brendawalker5644
    @brendawalker5644 Před 2 lety +3

    Great job and prayers for you and your crews safety!👍🙏🇺🇸👍🙏🇺🇸

  • @mylvan
    @mylvan Před 3 lety +2

    Boy, what a mess that was but what a great recovery. Really impressed that you made that trailer towable!!

  • @joha7484
    @joha7484 Před 3 lety

    Another successful job, Josh, congratulations !!!

  • @melin1969
    @melin1969 Před 3 lety +12

    this crash was so funny that the trailer split its sides

  • @gregsimon9061
    @gregsimon9061 Před 3 lety

    Hulk to the rescue. You guys do a great job.

  • @obfuscatethecode5696
    @obfuscatethecode5696 Před 3 lety +2

    Man I would love to see dash cam of how all this happened. You guys get some of the most interesting and crazy towing/ recovery stuff I have ever seen! Great job.

    • @masterbond9
      @masterbond9 Před 3 lety +1

      this recovery poses so many questions than answers

  • @kurtclark6894
    @kurtclark6894 Před 3 lety

    Great job! Lots of work!

  • @aj-kwt909truckin31
    @aj-kwt909truckin31 Před 3 lety +1

    Good on you team !!!
    Pepe's making short work of that for sure 👍😎👍🇺🇸
    Greetings from Downunder Guy's 🇦🇺

  • @ianinnes8063
    @ianinnes8063 Před 3 lety +1

    At least it wasnt a heavy load like say steel reels etc . Plastic bottle pre forms are a gd light load . Ive loaded new plastic milk cartons that they use in uk . Full load in the trailer right to the roof of 9 tonnes . I didnt think it would even be that . But yea 9 tonnes . Keep safe bud . Geat vid .

  • @leegoldeneagle9003
    @leegoldeneagle9003 Před rokem

    Good work u all thanks 👍😊

  • @oddtechman
    @oddtechman Před 3 lety +2

    Dang you got yourself a fun one there Josh... Few saving graces though in that (a) bottles were plastic and not glass.. (b) there was no liquid spill to go with it. What a crazy recovery for sure. thanks for sharing!

  • @donpruett9194
    @donpruett9194 Před 2 lety +2

    How in the world did that happen?. I'm so impressed with how professional you gentlemen are and how knowledgeable you are. Great 👍job and I really enjoy your videos because it's great to see professionals at work

  • @schnutchie
    @schnutchie Před 2 lety

    Lot of labor on this job. That green tractor has the brightest paint job I have ever seen !

  • @bgmckddy
    @bgmckddy Před 3 lety +4

    You needed snow shovels for that one!! Oh, wait, no snow in So-Cal. GREAT team effort for sure!!

  • @TheVitorgoncalves
    @TheVitorgoncalves Před 3 lety +3

    Old school cleaning 🧹 -.shovels and brooms Good job guys .

  • @barbannco
    @barbannco Před 3 lety +1

    another great job.....love to watch your videos..:-)

  • @johnwilliams5316
    @johnwilliams5316 Před 3 lety +2

    Crazy! I wonder how it got ripped open like that. Thanks for sharing josh 👊

    • @shawn1571
      @shawn1571 Před 3 lety +2

      Watch the end of the video where he shows the other trailer and how it happened.

  • @mattc.310
    @mattc.310 Před 3 lety +2

    That's one economy-sized can opener. Peeled that trailer like a grape. Nice work getting it all taken care of.

  • @KB-gs8zi
    @KB-gs8zi Před 3 lety +1

    WELL JOSH ,,, They say there is always the 1st time to see this !!!! When the 1st trailer hit the corner of your customers trailer ,, it was like opening it up with a ""CAN OPENER"" as it tore the whole drivers side out of it with taking the roof with it as that piece you guys loaded last was the roof !!! Once it was all gone there was nothing to hold the floor & down it went just like the ""SHOE BOX "" effect again !!!! GREAT job by your ""TEAM "" of Professionals !!! Have a great week & ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!

    • @PepesTowingService
      @PepesTowingService  Před 3 lety +1

      Good eye, it seems so many people in the comments didn't get how it happened. I thought it was pretty obvious!

    • @KB-gs8zi
      @KB-gs8zi Před 3 lety

      @@PepesTowingService Right On !!!!

  • @rjkee5157
    @rjkee5157 Před 3 lety

    Well done to the entire crew.

  • @leegoldeneagle9003
    @leegoldeneagle9003 Před rokem

    Nice work 👍😊

  • @leeshaver7825
    @leeshaver7825 Před 3 lety +11

    I worked in Towing for 20 years retired now I commented on one of your videos from the past about trailers being overweight and was chastised for saying such but I have watched two of your videos recently both which had to do with overloaded trailers
    Just because it's against the law don't mean trailer's aren't overloaded there's not many CHP scale's in SoCal for them to get caught

    • @jerrycann6374
      @jerrycann6374 Před 3 lety

      Was it overloaded or did the age of the trailer through it use case the metal to fold due to fatigue. Unless I missed something they loaded the full load into another trailer.

    • @smoki2515
      @smoki2515 Před 3 lety

      Yes, CHP would have to be on the freeway stopping them and weighing them on the spot and thats possible to do, but there is too much traffic to be doing that on a freeway. It's also not that hard to detect and catch them overloaded. The fines must match them getting caught too to make the crime fit the cost of doing the enforcement.

    • @TheByard
      @TheByard Před 3 lety

      @@smoki2515 I worked in construction using the companies own trucks and the order was NO OVERLOADING. So cranes were equipped with Weighloaders which were just a huge clock on the hook. We weighed each lift and tallied up the figures, nothing rocket science. The same could have been done with those pallets, though the plant should have a weighbridge properly calibrated and checked.
      Drivers can use weigh scales at the service areas, police can set up mobile weight stations at industrial areas and catch overloads before they his the highways. So much can be done it just aint.

    • @MikeBrown-ii3pt
      @MikeBrown-ii3pt Před 3 lety

      California also has the shortest "bridge law" in the country. Even if you're not over gross, it's easy to be over axle there if a trailer isn't loaded properly and you're bridge legal.

    • @bradklingensmith
      @bradklingensmith Před 3 lety

      That was actually a really light load. Had to be another issue.

  • @45KevinR
    @45KevinR Před 16 dny

    Old video, but I'll still say thanks for showing us the other trailer. I'd been wondering where the rest of the side/roof/door was! *Self Loading*

  • @johnfj80
    @johnfj80 Před 3 lety

    Top job Guys

  • @alejandromotaguevara5655
    @alejandromotaguevara5655 Před 3 lety +3

    Excelente trabajo

  • @danielwoods6559
    @danielwoods6559 Před 2 lety +2

    Very flimsy trailers over there. I’ve never seen anything like it happen here in Australia. That was a big clean up job. Well done.

    • @colinl9018
      @colinl9018 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Our trucks And trailers are built much stronger than the US. We have more stringent engineering specs for all our gear. Got me stuffed how some of this crap even gets rego'ed.

  • @chrisgeezvlog7349
    @chrisgeezvlog7349 Před 3 lety +2

    The driver whose trailer was peeled open and said that the other truck ahead of him slowed suddenly was probably following way too close at speed to be able to safely react.

    • @PepesTowingService
      @PepesTowingService  Před 3 lety +2

      Oh ya, that's almost always the case. Not what they tell insurance though haha

  • @thomasconetsco361
    @thomasconetsco361 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent job working so close to traffic👍!

    • @colinl9018
      @colinl9018 Před 6 měsíci

      Maniacs don't slow down near workers and tow trucks!

  • @aaronj.brooks1977
    @aaronj.brooks1977 Před 3 lety +1

    Nice job everyone 👍🏾

  • @johnromero5487
    @johnromero5487 Před 3 lety +1

    That was awesome to watch.

  • @francisremillard2010
    @francisremillard2010 Před 3 lety

    Good Job.

  • @felipecelestinobustokees5357

    Yo no sé inglés pero que Chingona maniobra eres Excelente en tu trabajo te Felicito y a tu equipo también Saludos desde la Ciudad de México Ánimo sigue adelante

  • @mediocrates5233
    @mediocrates5233 Před 3 lety +2

    You got to play with the high-low, great fun! (black on white t-shirts in merch please 🙂)

  • @Bogieking78
    @Bogieking78 Před 3 lety +4

    LOL, man the opening scene had me laughing my butt off! What a mess!

  • @davidoneal5399
    @davidoneal5399 Před 3 lety

    Hell'a of a mess I know you have the guys on the job

  • @MikeBrown-ii3pt
    @MikeBrown-ii3pt Před 3 lety +1

    I don't remember what those are actually called but, that's what ALL blow molded plastic bottles start out looking like.
    Someone else commented that they're not heavy. Well, I sometimes haul them to a place that makes ketchup bottles. When you have several million of them in the box, they also aren't light!

  • @mikeclarke6561
    @mikeclarke6561 Před 3 lety

    hi you guys did very good job clean up

  • @lockshabaz1876
    @lockshabaz1876 Před 5 měsíci

    yo!! the PEPE forklift???? lets go

  • @cjphillips6648
    @cjphillips6648 Před rokem

    At least you where able to save most of the load!

  • @donnienicholson6062
    @donnienicholson6062 Před 3 měsíci

    Great machine operators but a special notice of the man with the manual pallet jack who did two days work unloading the bad trailer.

  • @angeltow42
    @angeltow42 Před 3 lety

    Do you have any photos of the chain up underneath. I see you are low on the landing gear. Never saw it done that way. I’ve only seen it chained by the ribs with wheels or wood blocks for support

  • @jerryhernandez7077
    @jerryhernandez7077 Před 3 lety +2

    #1 fan here 🍿

  • @dans_Learning_Curve
    @dans_Learning_Curve Před 3 lety +7

    What caused the trailer to be ripped apart? Did I miss it where you told us?
    Edit: the story of what happened is at the end.

    • @shawn1571
      @shawn1571 Před 3 lety +5

      If you watch the end of the video, he shows the other trailer involved and how the accident happened.

  • @majua49
    @majua49 Před 5 měsíci

    Muchas gracias por el subtítulos en español,feliz año 2024🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @MegaEaglelover
    @MegaEaglelover Před 3 lety +1

    Out standing job by the whole crew… as usual…. But one question, why didn’t y’all get a long reach fork lift to reach into the trailer?

  • @slimwantedman6694
    @slimwantedman6694 Před 3 lety

    Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

  • @loubowen8082
    @loubowen8082 Před 3 lety +2

    I am with the guy about overloads and He is so RIGHT . Good job

    • @rustyiron
      @rustyiron Před 3 lety

      The reason is explained at the end of the video. I'd surmise that one truck side swiped the other

    • @mikeznel6048
      @mikeznel6048 Před 3 lety +1

      Not overloaded. The structure of the trailer was compromised when the roof and wall was ripped off causing it to bow in the middle.

  • @user-bw1ef6st7f
    @user-bw1ef6st7f Před 2 lety

    Hard work.

  • @Procrastinator1948
    @Procrastinator1948 Před 3 lety +2

    Really should have a battery powered jack if you have to do many loads like this. Sure would save a lot of backaches and time. Something else that would work and be cheaper would be a pallet gator to drag the pallets to the tail with a chain and forklift.

  • @awong160
    @awong160 Před 3 lety +1

    Damn what a crazy job! How long did it take from start to finish?

  • @rshutterbug47
    @rshutterbug47 Před 3 lety

    Just WOW

  • @michaelrobbins6694
    @michaelrobbins6694 Před 3 lety +1

    A load of sail boat fuel samples on the way to the California testing center..

  • @DrewMarold
    @DrewMarold Před 2 lety

    What happens to stuff like these trailers, or all the cars you fish out of the canyon, after they get towed to the yard?

  • @carlosLopez-nl1zt
    @carlosLopez-nl1zt Před 3 lety +1

    He’ll yeah nice work bro

  • @rayleyva1830
    @rayleyva1830 Před 3 lety

    Joshua what happened with the side of the trailer how was it ripped off just asking

  • @ianinnes8063
    @ianinnes8063 Před 3 lety

    Did the trailer chassis break how did he loose the side of the trailer . I thought for a min it had bn a box trailer cut down to a flat . Till i saw the back doors mangled . A very costly recovery .

  • @stevescott6503
    @stevescott6503 Před 3 lety +1

    I had to pick up new empty pop cans years ago, there were 5,000 cans to a skid. was not fun

  • @randomsanwhich2
    @randomsanwhich2 Před 3 lety

    I would like to know the bill for this recovery and cleanup.

  • @Jammer.1
    @Jammer.1 Před 3 lety

    Those are used for float gauges used on many types they screw on with the threaded part down and are liquid filled with a float inside to see how much is in the tank or how much pressure is in them !

    • @PepesTowingService
      @PepesTowingService  Před 3 lety +1

      Wrong, these are heated and treated into drinking bottles like coke or Pepsi 2 liters

  • @davitofarito
    @davitofarito Před 4 měsíci

    Just found this channel. These guys do a great job, and it's interesting and entertaining to watch the problem solving in action. My one comment would be that you really need to tighten up the video editing. The length of all these videos could be shortened by at least half and still tell the whole story.

  • @user-ds7dr5yh5h
    @user-ds7dr5yh5h Před 3 lety

    Упорная работа всегда приносит хороший результат.

  • @sfop1
    @sfop1 Před 3 lety +2

    It would be great to know, at the end of your videos, how much time the actual job took.

    • @howardagnew8471
      @howardagnew8471 Před 2 lety +1

      Not having done recovery like this, I don't know, but as a truck driver I can tell you it can take 30+ minutes for a receiver at a warehouse to unload a trailer like this with everything running smooth, able to drive a forklift on, grab a pallet and put it in their warehouse, often just pre-staging just inside the dock area. The cleanup the crew is doing here is much slower given they have to involve pallet jacks both on the ruined trailer to get them in range of the forklift, and on the receiving trailer they are re-loading onto, and the forklift has to maneuver around the trucks and cleanup crews.
      I am guessing this is probably easily 3+ hours.

  • @badgertow1375
    @badgertow1375 Před 3 lety +1

    Complete scene management , Kudos to the crew . Stay Safe & All The Be$t ☆☆☆¿

  • @bradklingensmith
    @bradklingensmith Před 3 lety +1

    Impression 💪

  • @Losttoanyreason
    @Losttoanyreason Před 2 lety

    When I first read the title, I was thinking oh crap at all the glass on the road and in tires or thousands of exploded bottles everywhere. Then I saw they were plastic blanks probably for 2 liter bottles. LOL. You could have used a skid steer to pick up all the bottle blanks off the road.

  • @daviemccallum7759
    @daviemccallum7759 Před 3 lety

    Is it a fault with the trailer or just to much weight on the trailer?

  • @mikeznel6048
    @mikeznel6048 Před 3 lety +1

    Those are actually called preforms. They go into a reheat, stretch blow mold machine where they are heated soft, clamped in a mold and stretched with a rod up the center and air blown in to make the preform take the shape of inside the mold.

    • @davidb3172
      @davidb3172 Před 2 lety

      A French company called Sidel builds bottle blowers. The factory I work in has an SBO16, an SBO24 and a SBO14.

  • @Hurricaneintheroom
    @Hurricaneintheroom Před 2 lety

    Those little bottle things are called preforms. They use those to make the plastic bottles for drinks, etc.

  • @majua49
    @majua49 Před 5 měsíci

    Les deseo muchos éxitos para este año nuevo 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😅😅😅😅😅

  • @kurt7581
    @kurt7581 Před 3 lety

    Can't believe those types of trailer are legal on road, where are the beams from the King pin to axles?

  • @mirage4014
    @mirage4014 Před 3 lety +1

    surprised you used a grinder disk, you have ruined the trailer now! ;-)

  • @steveavila6520
    @steveavila6520 Před 3 lety

    That was an old Interstate Dist trailer!!

  • @MikeBrown-ii3pt
    @MikeBrown-ii3pt Před 3 lety

    I wondered why I kept seeing that other torn up trailer in the video. I don't know if I missed something in the audio early on or if it just wasn't mentioned until the end.

    • @PepesTowingService
      @PepesTowingService  Před 3 lety +1

      I don't think I knew the details until later, but yes, this trailer hit that other trailer and tore off the wall/roof in the process

  • @exrobowidow1617
    @exrobowidow1617 Před 3 lety

    A small skip loader would have scooped up those bottles more quickly. I thought of a snow shovel at first, but that would have been only a slight improvement over what you were using.

    • @PepesTowingService
      @PepesTowingService  Před 3 lety

      That would have been horrible. We have a skip loader. We did this for a reason: the customer wanted the load still. A skip loader is much too big and bulky to carefully load each pallet back up with the product. The pallets are less in diameter than the bucket on a skip loader, it would just dump everything over the floor again. Then what?

  • @1topfueldrag
    @1topfueldrag Před 3 lety

    fork extenders would’ve come in handy huh

  • @frankrizzo7179
    @frankrizzo7179 Před 3 lety

    I’m glad that those aren’t chep pallets.

  • @reganmahoney8264
    @reganmahoney8264 Před 3 lety

    Thank goodness that this didn’t happen under an overpass...

  • @SandraCrockett
    @SandraCrockett Před 3 lety +1

    Wow

  • @edwinschlee8374
    @edwinschlee8374 Před 3 lety

    Those were a mess to clean up! Good team work gcleaning them up!

  • @Ricochet845
    @Ricochet845 Před 3 lety +1

    $5 bet that Josh said he was going to have an easy day when he clocked in that morning.... ever notice when ever he says "this will be easy" or something to that effect, things go sideways(sometimes literally lol).
    Seriously though great job guys, definitely earned your pay check on that one. lol.

  • @raymondpetrovits2336
    @raymondpetrovits2336 Před 2 lety

    High stress recovery, high dollar day.

  • @patmccrady6063
    @patmccrady6063 Před 3 lety

    How many calls a day do you get for the taters?

  • @marenjensine2468
    @marenjensine2468 Před 2 lety

    I use them for Geocaching

  • @tnine3
    @tnine3 Před 3 lety +1

    Gotta love the 210 through the SGV lol smh

  • @kameronlb
    @kameronlb Před 2 lety

    Blowers on trailers called "Buffalo blowers" used on golf courses would of helped consolidated the random bottles more quickly

  • @supremeginger9698
    @supremeginger9698 Před 3 lety

    Those things are called preforms, and dump 1 and the clean up can suck majorly.

  • @dannytorres5017
    @dannytorres5017 Před 2 lety

    U guys are better then plaza

  • @ve2cii
    @ve2cii Před 3 lety

    Those bottles look like the Filter air line bottle on an air hose. They usually go right near the air compressor.

  • @geekazoid47
    @geekazoid47 Před 2 měsíci

    He winched off a forklift!? Dude

  • @R32R38
    @R32R38 Před 3 lety +2

    Philosophical questions:
    When a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
    5:23 When there is nothing on either side of a door, is it really a door?

    • @frankmartin8471
      @frankmartin8471 Před 3 lety +2

      Something spooked the deer when the tree fell. Those ears, you know. A door is a door, but not all doors are doorways.

  • @meadowviewlawncarellc8079

    Nice job josh! Recoveries are always awesome and so is the filming, you gotta teach some other CZcams tow guys how to film, I just stopped watching one because it’s so shaky.

  • @dans_Learning_Curve
    @dans_Learning_Curve Před 3 lety

    Like #799
    Thanks for the video!
    Life is a learning curve!
    Hindsight is 20-15!

  • @JackMacLupus
    @JackMacLupus Před 2 lety

    First i was like: "Coke bottles? This small?" Until i noticed that those are the RAW material for coke bottles before they get their shape. XD
    2:43 In such a situation a JCB Teleskidd whould come handy because it has a telescopic arm that has a longer reach than a forklift or skidd steer.
    Well that's a classic "Broom please." job.
    And as i was making my truck driving license some people in driving school asked: "Why should i have a shovel and a broom on my truck?" Well, exactly for THIS kind of situation.