Blow-overs - Event Date: 29 Apr 2014 - 01 Jun 2014

Just had a friend pulling a 34 ft 5th wheel with a Ford F350 get blown over on I70 just outside of Limon,CO. Which got me to wondering if anyone has had such a catastrophic event happen to an RPod? One doesn't worry about those things until it happens to someone you know!

Be fore warned. This is not a pretty picture. No people, but lots of podestruction. I know nothing of the circumstances, although I could guess it may have fell off a delivery truck or a tornado or such. Sorta looks like tornado geography. Nevertheless...it can happen.

Yeah P&M, that was my guess too. I am shopping for a nice portable weather radio though. Just this past camping weekend we had no cell/internet service and was caught off guard a bit with some very cold and windy weather.

Thanks for the personal thoughts! Yes, they and their dogs are o.k. The truck is driveable and they returned home to the mtns of CO minus the brand new 5th wheel. Brand new truck bed now is rather "v" shaped on the side where the 5th wheel rolled over.

The Pod was obviously being towed when wrecked.As others have stated. It was licensed, & ibyers on 6/25/12 shows the tongue of the Pod with WDH drop down brackets installed on the tongue and bent WDH bars leaning up against the wreck. The straps are used by the tow truck to help keep the wreck together on the back of the flat bed wrecker. Personal effects were probably scavenged by the owner/driver before the wreck was towed.

This is exactly how things went down for me on the summer of 1997 in the Columbia River gorge--1997 Ford f150, 1994 20' Layton TT, WDH, sway control, hungus wind gusts as we crested the rise before the river and headed down into the gorge. The trailer initially swerved towards the 200' or so drop into the gorge and then slammed into the rock wall on the other side. No major injuries, but totaled truck and trailer.

I thought that I had detailed this on this site before, but if not, then somewhere else online. Don't kid yourself, under the right (wrong) conditions no WDH and sway control is gonna save your bacon. As a matter of fact, in the last 17 or so years since my accident. I've used a WDH, but no sway control. But I have paid close attention to making sure that my tow rig and trailers were a good match, my hitch weight and height were where they should be, and I never load heavy behind the trailer's axles. Keep in mind that it's a sway control, not a sway cure. If you had any sway problems before you installed your sway control, then it's still there, just pushed back in the corner waiting to bite you on the butt under those right (wrong) conditions. I don't want anyone to have to go through what we did.

By the way, the new Pod replacement tows nicely, and gets about 2 mpg less than the pod did. The wife is happy, so I'm happy, even though podless. I'll probably drift away from this site, as most have done when they sell their pods, so good luck to all and tow carefully.