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

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]

Those bottles are called "preforms". Here's how they're made: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boLOqaOHiZ5pbdk

[@PepesTowingService]

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

[@easymoney8535]

@@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]

@@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]

@@PepesTowingService Take a look kzbin.info/www/bejne/omOpopR4e7yJn9E

[@msnpassjan2004]

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

[@RuizR.87]

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

[@motherrussia4242]

Yeah me too, I’m trying too look for my car

[@marciam6224]

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!

[@andrewdavidson7656]

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]

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.

[@JasonEsquivel]

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. 👌

[@bobfallis]

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

[@PepesTowingService]

Thank you! My crew really got down on this one, proud of them.

[@kevinkenyon7045]

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

[@brendawalker5644]

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

[@mylvan]

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

[@joha7484]

Another successful job, Josh, congratulations !!!

[@bgmckddy]

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

[@PepesTowingService]

Snow shovels and an industrial vacuum haha

[@barbannco]

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

[@obfuscatethecode5696]

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]

this recovery poses so many questions than answers

[@donpruett9194]

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

[@kurtclark6894]

Great job! Lots of work!

[@ianinnes8063]

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 .

[@schnutchie]

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

[@aj-kwt909truckin31]

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

[@oddtechman]

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!

[@melin1969]

this crash was so funny that the trailer split its sides

[@PepesTowingService]

Lmao right 😂

[@franklinechitwa9084]

Get out!

[@lydiaanderson4247]

lol hello joe how are you doing

[@KB-gs8zi]

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]

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

[@KB-gs8zi]

@@PepesTowingService Right On !!!!

[@gregsimon9061]

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

[@mattc.310]

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

[@PepesTowingService]

From a dry van to a flatbed trailer lol

[@lydiaanderson4247]

an amazing work hello how are you doing

[@TheVitorgoncalves]

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

[@leeshaver7825]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@Bogieking78]

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

[@lydiaanderson4247]

lmao how are you doing

[@45KevinR]

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*

[@rjkee5157]

Well done to the entire crew.

[@leegoldeneagle9003]

Good work u all thanks 👍😊

[@leegoldeneagle9003]

Nice work 👍😊

[@thomasconetsco361]

Excellent job working so close to traffic👍!

[@colinl9018]

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

[@chrisgeezvlog7349]

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]

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

[@johnromero5487]

That was awesome to watch.

[@mediocrates5233]

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

[@aaronj.brooks1977]

Nice job everyone 👍🏾

[@alejandromotaguevara5655]

Excelente trabajo

[@PepesTowingService]

Gracias!

[@johnfj80]

Top job Guys

[@danielwoods6559]

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]

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.

[@ronblack7870]

the other trailer was much stronger. but the ripped trailer was strong enough for it's use. stronger means heavier which is less fuel efficient. the roads in the us must be better than australia . when travelling in those road trains are the roads paved

[@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

[@francisremillard2010]

Good Job.

[@davidoneal5399]

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

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

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!

[@PepesTowingService]

They're called preforms

[@Procrastinator1948]

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.

[@mikeznel6048]

Nha.

[@johnwilliams5316]

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

[@shawn1571]

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

[@ronblack7870]

the ripped trailer hit the back of a stronger trailer. the impact started at the front of the ripped trailer behind the tractor . the side of the trailer ended up inside the other stronger trailer . the metal on the road was the roof.

[@loubowen8082]

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

[@rustyiron]

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

[@mikeznel6048]

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

[@mikeclarke6561]

hi you guys did very good job clean up

[@jerryhernandez7077]

#1 fan here 🍿

[@PepesTowingService]

👊👊👊

[@majua49]

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

[@cjphillips6648]

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

[@donnienicholson6062]

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

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

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]

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

[@badgertow1375]

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

[@carlosLopez-nl1zt]

He’ll yeah nice work bro

[@lydiaanderson4247]

an amazing work done hello how are you doing

[@lockshabaz1876]

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

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@Losttoanyreason]

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.

[@mikeznel6048]

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]

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

[@michaelrobbins6694]

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

[@davitofarito]

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.

[@MegaEaglelover]

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?

[@rshutterbug47]

Just WOW

[@bradklingensmith]

Impression 💪

[@user-ds7dr5yh5h]

Упорная работа всегда приносит хороший результат.

[@user-bw1ef6st7f]

Hard work.

[@mirage4014]

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

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

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

[@edwinschlee8374]

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

[@majua49]

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

[@Ricochet845]

$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.

[@Jammer.1]

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]

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

[@awong160]

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

[@PepesTowingService]

A few hours I would say

[@stevescott6503]

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

[@angeltow42]

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

[@kameronlb]

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

[@exrobowidow1617]

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]

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?

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

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

[@steveavila6520]

That was an old Interstate Dist trailer!!

[@supremeginger9698]

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

[@R32R38]

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]

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

[@steve5772]

12:55 some people would have just thrown a chain to the forklift, those people don't make the most of everything they have

[@lydiaanderson4247]

thats very true hun how are you doing

[@meadowviewlawncarellc8079]

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

[@frankrizzo7179]

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

[@JackMacLupus]

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.

[@raymondpetrovits2336]

High stress recovery, high dollar day.

[@chrisgeezvlog7349]

How convenient that open-sided dry trailer was parked right there for the trailer debris from the crashed trainer to be loaded onto and hauled away, no?! 😉

[@SandraCrockett]

Wow

[@reganmahoney8264]

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

[@kurt7581]

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

[@1topfueldrag]

fork extenders would’ve come in handy huh

[@ianinnes8063]

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 .

[@tnine3]

Gotta love the 210 through the SGV lol smh

[@ronblack7870]

cleanup on aisle 3 , cleanup on aisle 3

[@rayleyva1830]

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

[@randomsanwhich2]

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

[@geekazoid47]

He winched off a forklift!? Dude

[@mfc4591]

If you drive over those containers with a bike or a small Chinese Town car, it's like riding on ball bearings I imagine. What a mess

[@sfop1]

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

[@howardagnew8471]

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.

[@curtusw]

The reason the side came off is the trailer lost the roof and after that the trailer went to shit. Drivers don't really realize that the roof on the van trailers mean a very alot to the trailer.

[@GoCoyote]

They needed a leaf blower for clean up.

[@DrewMarold]

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