I'll not fib ... I've had stuff fall off my truck, and I've driven off with an open tool bin. TG my losses have been minor, and that no one has been harmed.
And that's the point ... something I've appreciated since that day, in 1993, when a man was killed on the freeway, as the result of a lost ladder. Ironically, this good Samaritan was attempting to remove the fallen ladder from the traffic lane when he was struck by a passing car.
In my place, I've had a truckload of cabinets, and a full-size door, both fall from vehicles directly in front of me.
I really can't stress this enough ... dropped loads can be deadly.
That's one problem I have with our world these days; in far too many instances, stuff is transported in unsafe ways, on trucks that really aren't set up to carry them. How many times do you see ladders being hauled by trucks without ladder racks?
