[Rebelbase]

Lucky you. I never got to drive the big stuff until I was in my 20's.

Saw a guy flip a dump truck on its side once. He was dumping a load of tailings and backed his right rear wheel over a small hump, maybe 18" higher than where the other wheel was setting. When the bed lifted that 18" was magnified at the top of the load and the center of gravity pulled the truck right over onto its side.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ouch... I backed a truck loaded with a cord of wood into a ditch on the side of the road once, and would up looking straight up at the sky...

[spacewarp]

We were in Belle Glades once at a fast-food joint and we saw a dump truck bump a lowhanging power line and it was enough to tip it over. When they got the tow truck there, apparently, the driver, Bubba, decided to go ahead and dump the load. They hooked the chain to the bottom of the truck. From the top side. On the bottom part that was on the road. And got on the other side and started to pull. The truck lifted up and dumped about 1/2 of the load before they realized they were screwing up. So, the brain surgeon in the tower moved the truck to the other side and hooked it to the bottom side of the truck, from the side facing the sky. Pull. Skid... Hmmmm. So, they FINALLY braced the truck, pulled from the road side of the top of the truck on the correct side and lifted it up and back to being right. There was a skid mark about 30 feet where the dump truck had been dragged along the road and a huge pile of manure (the load the truck was carrying) at the start of the skid.

Bubba got it right finally.