You Stop the Truck. The Load Does Not Stop.

You stop the truck, but the load keeps moving. That is the moment when physics decides whether you walk away or become part of the wreckage. A 40,000-pound steel coil shifting through a trailer wall. An unsecured excavator bucket punching through a sleeper cab. A load of concrete pipe rolling forward on a 6 percent grade. In 2016, a garbage truck driver in New Hampshire was killed when an unsecured dumpster slid forward and crushed the cab. Here are the four ways an unsecured load actually kills a stopped driver.