truck fell in a manhole

cchase · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 06:15 PM

well we had our first snow, and I sent all our trucks out for plowing. I took the easy ones seeing as I can do that. I pulled into a carwash that we push and was driving around looking for my best point of attack, when SLAM my front driveside wheel fell comepletly into a man hole!!!!!! the cover was slid to the side and covered with snow!!!!! turns out all of them have been removed, im thinking someone was trying to destroy some trucks. Well once I got out it seems my wheel is out of allignment, What I am trying to figure out is what could I have broke, nothing is making noise or looks bent? I guess im also just sharing my horror story and telling all the other plowers to be ware!

99 7.3 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 07:06 PM

that sucks man! i would be really PO'ed!! i'll keep an eye out while i'm pushing snow, thanks

**DKR** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 07:25 PM

Damn..that's effed up...anyways...you could of bent, not broken a lot of stuff or just knock the steering outta whack, or is just that tire tweaked?

cchase · #4 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 08:11 PM

i havent really noticed anything. Which is weird but its been cold and the shops been full so I havent really had much time to monkey around, plus Im leavin for sunny Florida in a few days. So i might just drop her off at the shop.. thanks for your inputs, Yeah I was black out mad! someone had to have taken them off!

**PSDfan99** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 08:14 PM

wow man thats crappy, I bet you wish you could find the person that took the cover out and beat the bag outa him. I'd want to bury that guy.

**rankroddin250** · #6 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 08:17 PM

that sucks man! were they taken off all over town or just in that one parking lot?

**Dave** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 04:15 AM

I would be talking to the city maintence guy to find out what happened. A couple years ago that happened where i live. My mom hit one with her car damaged the front end pretty bad, and the city paid for all of the repairs, because they did not mark the manhole

Blue01F250 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 04:31 AM

Wow dude -- that'd piss me straight off!

There are all sorts of things that can be bent that you wouldn't know - tie rods/knuckle/wheel/linkages

Get it on an alignment machine and the tech should be able to tell you what needs to be addressed...

mdiesel · #9 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 05:07 AM

cleveland is a crazy place with the lake affect snow i was working there 1 winter and it snowed a foot where i was in notime and 5 miles away they had an inch oh and for the work i do i hated that city
a pro we stayed in a motel beside a Hooters

Matt

**bigwhite79** · #10 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 05:54 AM

Damn that sucks I would have to find somebody so I could kick there azz

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