The Chevrolet Silverado is a very common fleet vehicle that can be seen towing wrecked vehicles away from crash sites as well as to and from junkyards all over the country each and every day. However, most of these trucks will be converted Silverado HD tow trucks or flatbed chassis cab trucks, not the every day man’s light-duty Silverado 1500.
A Hawaii resident recently attempted to haul a wrecked car with their regular old Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and it’s safe to say that safety wasn’t a priority here. A Silverado 1500 could technically be used to carry a small vehicle on a trailer, but this person, who was caught on video as they drove down the street with the truck sitting in the pickup’s bed, doesn’t seem too concerned about acting responsibly.
That’s right – rather than hitch a trailer up to their pickup, this genius decided to just toss the wrecked vehicle in the bed. The car wouldn’t fit in the bed lengthwise, either, so our intrepid driver decided to just lay it across the bed transversely. As such, the wrecked vehicle is hanging off both sides of the pickup by about three or four feet, likely obstructing the oncoming lane on narrower roads.
To be honest, we’re rather proud of the performance the Chevrolet Silverado is putting on here. This old Chevy hauls the wrecked car down the road with ease and the suspension isn’t completely collapsing under the weight of the car, either. It does look a bit lopsided on the left, however.
At one point in the video, the filmer asks if this is a legal way to haul a car. We imagine this would be enough for a police officer to pull them over and give them a ticket for some type of infraction related to improper cargo securement and if it fell off, well, then they’d be in even bigger trouble. According to a 2017 report published by the Hawaii Department of Transportation, HDOT crews respond to an average of 5,000 callouts a year for potentially hazardous debris on state roads on the island of Oahu alone.
Check out the video embedded below. It goes without saying that one should probably not try this at home.
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What would we ever do for entertainment if there were no rednecks.
Ok du
Absolutely sickening. As an ex-police officer, I find things like this to be so dangerous and lacking in even an ounce of common sense. Not just this example, but any where drivers do not have their load properly secured. Living in southern California, I see really dangerous debris on the freeways all the time. Just the other day I was driving up the 405 freeway at the Sepulveda Pass when I had to swerve slightly to miss a silver ladder (the color made it blend into the road well). Luckily it was mostly in the lane to my right and I only had to swerve a little to go around it. However, the other cars were not so lucky.
I say people like this moron need to be stopped, arrested and their driving privileges totally taken away.
Okay Boomer
That pickup truck is not a Silverado. It is a 400 series truck, in which series Silverado was a trim level, not the model name as it became in the 800 series and beyond. And by the tailgate lettering, we can see it had the Cheyenne trim (unless it is a 1999 ‘LS’ trim version of the 400 series). Also, this article says the truck is a 1500 model. How has that been determined? I don’t see anything in the picture to indicate it is a 1500 vs 2500. If the person who made that conclusion is the same one who thinks it is a Silverado, clearly we can’t trust his expertise much. Definitely not a Silverado.
There was a lady carrying a kiddy pool on top of her suv ! She put the kids in it to wiegh it down while she drove down the road ! She was also drunk !
Obviously y’all haven’t been to Hawaii! This would not surprise me. When there, no kids buckled up as a general rule. Get on the H2, go straight to fast lane do 45. The racing on the H2 and H3. I love the people of Hawaii but it amazed me some lived so long.
I liked the video but language is terrible. Why don’t you delete audio or at least put warning to language on screen first?
Talk about a wide load.
That’s just whistlin diesel out for a Cruze! Lol
He’s helping the ford owner get his vehicle home.
Man got to make a living