Trailer Wall Starts to Give Under Heavy Pull | Highway Thru Hell

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:01]These are the kind of things that makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck. This trailer is just about ready to break apart.

[00:00:11]Take this third bag down and move it over.

[00:00:14]All right there. Colin helps reposition an airbag to try and seal up the wall.

[00:00:20]If you're lifting up both sides of the tear, you're doing this.

[00:00:24]If you put the bag on the tear, you do this.

[00:00:29]Okay.

[00:00:34]Using the airbags, we're able to put the metal all kind of back together.

[00:00:39]It brings the tear together.

[00:00:41]It doesn't separate the tear.

[00:00:43]It's risky to your equipment. You might end up, you know, cutting a bag with the sharp [music] edges.

[00:00:48]You know, so it's a bit of a gamble.

[00:00:50]This is the critical time right now. The wall is holding.

[00:00:54]>> The guys need to rig up here a little bit now.

[00:00:57]Get your tailboard right here.

[00:00:58]On an angle.

[00:01:00]You want to be pulling right here.

[00:01:03]Now Colin and operator Johnny Tipton will use their wreckers to lower the trailer back onto its wheels once the airbags have done their job.

[00:01:18]Set. This should be good.

[00:01:20]With two winch lines running from the wreckers and one strap, the operators will try to guide the trailer onto its wheels as the airbags let go.

[00:01:34]You just take a little bit of weight, they'll blow up.

[00:01:39]Pull your bottom ones first. Do the bottom ones and only do the top if you have to.

[00:01:50]The groceries are starting to fall down inside here.

[00:01:56]This guy is at the maximum now. It's going to pop out first.

[00:02:05]Good.

[00:02:12]Perfect.

[00:02:17]Good.

[00:02:18]Oh, see there he goes.

[00:02:22]The air cushions have done their job.

[00:02:25]But the loaded trailer still needs [music] to be moved to the road. It's going to be a struggle just getting it 50 ft.

[00:02:32]You just keep tight here.

[00:02:47]Wall's coming out of it. The force of the pull makes the back wall bulge out even more. Damn.

[00:02:54]The only wrecker in Jamie's fleet designed to lift it was sold months ago.

[00:03:00]If we had the rotator, we'd lift this.

[00:03:03]Really, what we need here is a rotator and swing the front end of the trailer onto the pavement. Problem is we don't have the rotator here.

[00:03:11]So, you know, we're faced with the facts.

[00:03:14]This is what we have to deal with.

[00:03:16]Put one safety chain to your deck to here.

[00:03:18]And you put another safety chain in over here.

[00:03:21]So it doesn't slide on you, right? The only other option for us is to put the underreach underneath, lift up like a big hand, and then try to drive it in.

[00:03:30]>> Yeah.

[00:03:32]And And you pick this whole thing up, right? And then you just idle ahead.

[00:03:39]This is a really critical situation here right now.

[00:03:42]We're at a point here where this thing could blow apart. And then that's all we can do.

[00:03:47]They've got the road closed for now.

[00:03:49]All stop.

[00:03:54]Tighten those chains up.

[00:03:57]Left.

[00:04:00]Keep going.

[00:04:03]Yeah.

[00:04:12]Okay. So what you do now is just you just pull straight ahead.

[00:04:15]>> Okay.

[00:04:20]Turn your wheel to the left.

[00:04:23]Okay, good. Good. Good.

[00:04:26]Keep going.

[00:04:28]You got a 53-ft trailer kind of dangling off the back of your truck. Okay, go ahead a bit more.

[00:04:33]Drive forward.

[00:04:35]Are you kidding me?

[00:04:45]Crank it to the left.

[00:04:54]Okay, go ahead a bit.

[00:05:02]These are the kind of things that makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck. This trailer is just about ready to break apart.

[00:05:29]It seems like this is never going to end.

[00:05:39]Another couple inches is all we need. We need this much.

[00:05:56]Okay.

[00:05:58]Okay, good.

[00:05:59]We don't have felt there.

[00:06:02]She's barely hanging together.

[00:06:07]That's sketchy.

[00:06:09]The trailer is on the highway, but can't be towed more than a few hundred feet to a side road. We're going to be really lucky if this trailer even makes it just to that pullout over there.

[00:06:20]We've got to come back tomorrow and unload this trailer.

[00:06:23]Is that all open up there now?

[00:06:26]Southbound is open.