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Favorite Comment: Fixer Muff Master says, “Wow…..it’s like they put the truck in reverse, crashed the trailer through the front wall, and just strapped whatever got sandwiched between the trailer and the back wall to the back of the trailer! Kind of like the opposite of backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes to unload.”
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Reduces aerodynamic drag
I bet the trailer itself is empty.
I’m glad I didn’t trust THEM to move my stuff.
More cushion for the pushing…
Some people are just too lazy to make two trips.
In fairness, moving does suck.
Just couldn’t live without it!
My husband is military and we have used contracted movers like that company four times now. I am not in the least surprised.
They once took a shirt of mine and wrapped it around a candle. The candle wax stained the shirt.
Another packed the coffee pot we had out for them to get coffee, and it still had used coffee grounds.
My mattress rode in the “belly” and had stains all over it from road grime. (claimed that one)
I have heard stories of them packing trash cans and dirty cups.
Another reason I have ALWAYS done it myself.
I don’t blame you.
Our old military movers would label a huge box “shoes” when it had books, other stuff from the shelves, and ONE shoe in it… or “bathroom things” when it had mostly stuff from a bedroom with a bathroom scale in it. We never knew what we were opening….
like Christmas all over again.
Yes, indeed. The guys that packed us up in Germany were wrapping individual Solo (red plastic) cups in butcher paper. I’m like, “Um…we bought those to use AFTER the glasses were packed…”
This isn’t actually “rigged” at all. There’s a reason there’s the extension gate on moving trucks. It’s not like that truck has one person’s stuff on it. Cross country haulers will load up two, three, even four households along their way and drop them off en route to their final destination. Then they turn around and do it going the other way. MOST of the time things are wrapped and packed properly. MOST. But when they aren’t, there’s a simple claims process, and if the shipper is smart, they’ve properly insured their shipment.
I sense a moving company affiliation here…
Yeah, I worked for one of the largest moving companies in the country.
I worked in the moving industry once upon a time, and I can confirm that this isn’t rigged. The trailers are all designed with a slide-out deck in the back and places to latch straps to so that anything that doesn’t fit in the truck can be placed there. If the right items are chosen and they are wrapped properly, then they’ll be fine. If…
It really shouldn’t happen, but like the last guy said, most of these trucks are usually hauling 3-4 households of stuff, often with semi-random pickups and dropoffs (pick up load A, pick up load B, drop off load A, pick up load C, drop off load C, pick up load D, pick up load E, drop off load B, drop off load D, etc), and mistakes can happen. Sometimes the idiot estimator gets the amount of stuff wrong, sometimes the idiot driver can’t pack a truck right, and sometimes the idiot customer forgot to mention that extra room of stuff that has to go.
Wow…..it’s like they put the truck in reverse, crashed the trailer through the front wall, and just strapped whatever got sandwiched between the trailer and the back wall to the back of the trailer! Kind of like the opposite of backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes to unload.
When you absolutely, positively have to keep all that crap that’s been filling up your garage so you can’t park your car in there.
you read my mind.
This is a trailer house which reproduces by buddind. As the driver’s kids reach their maturity, the fully grown new truck separates from its mother and gets inherited.
You can bet that stuff gets stolen at the first truck stop!!
Maybe they were just trying to hide the sign that says, “How’s My Driving? Call…”.
Dial 1-800-EAT-SH*T? LOL
Looks like it won a fight with a garbage truck.
Sure gives a new meaning to the term drafting
You seen cameras on the back of trucks and RV’s for backing up? Well, this one also projects a holographic image of stuff strapped back there to discourage tailgaters.
AKA Trailer Trash.
That made my day.
The experiment looks to be a success. Looking for ways to make it rain other than the obvious like washing your car, Floyd stuck his belongings to the back of a moving van. That’s thinking outside the box, figuratively and literally.
If only we didn’t lose the key of the trailer, gonna be a lot more trips this way…
LOL. My thoughts precisely.
another great move by dodgy brothers incorperated
This is called a tailgate load, the moving trucks like the one in the picture have a slide out floor that can be loaded if the people that are being moved have to much junk. I worked for the company shown in the picture and we used to have to do that very often. A 53′ trailer can hold up to 25 000lbs of furniture when packed properly… this guy obviously had a little bit more than that.
Still sucks for the people that have the furniture being soaked in the rain lol
Taking everything that IS nailed down?
“Forclose ME? Well, screw YOU!”
(Yes, this really happens.)
Also: Those packers are completely insane, but it’s easier to be OCD-crazy about what you pack than it is to have a claim filed because “what do you MEAN you thought my collage-materials storage was a bag full of trash, YOUR ALL RACIST HOMOPHOBES IMA SOOOOOOO!!!!”
looks like the truck has hemorrhoids
I have done this many times in the moving business. gotta make sure that everything makes it, and not you can’t make two trips when you are moving from New York to California.
That’s a Graebel truck. After our horrible experience moving cross country with them, this doesn’t surprise me in the least. We had almost four thousand dollars worth of damage to our stuff and they didn’t care in the least. I caught the movers, shoving their weight against the doors, trying to force things in as they had over packed the truck. Of course, all the loose items like wooden and even metal furniture were broken when they unpacked everything on the other end of our trip.
no, that’s an atlas truck
I think he could have got more back there, I can still see the top of the truck.
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