Once again the dreaded happens. As my luck would have it I received a call on my cell phone just after 5:00 am Friday morning, May 1, 2009. If you're in your own business this will usually cause your heart to skip a beat or two. This call was one of my Coal Truck drivers calling to tell me that another one of my drivers just turned his truck over while dumping a load of coal. This type of incident is not all that uncommon especially with the type of product I get when I re-mine old gob piles. Fortunately the driver wasn't injured put several thousand dollars of damage was done and I lose the income that truck would bring in for several weeks or months. I wasn't able to get a photo of this particular incident except on a text sent to me so I'm attaching a picture of a different turn over I had with another truck identical to this one. The only difference is where the incident occured and the one yesterday took the tractor completely over on its side. The incident in part yesterday was due to an unlevel dumping site on which 3 trucks counting mine have turned over in the past 2 months.
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