Holy crap!

[Moonshot_1]

Heading out for a ride today. Going to Spencer IA. to a Menards, a Home Depot kind of place. About a 50 mile ride one way.
Anyway, Get to leaving my town and have to stop at an intersection. Stop right behind a semi with a wide load. The load was  what looked like a 16 row planter. 8 big seed bins on each side. Was kinda folded up on the trailer.
So I figure I'd pass him shortly but had to wait till I got to a passing zone.
For some reason this guy is flooring it and we get into some curves and he drops the right side of the trailer onto the shoulder. Trailer kicks up a bunch of rocks and such and his trailer starts swaying a bit as he tries to get it back on the straight and narrow. I'm backing off because of the rocks.
Things quickly settle down and I am just about to make my pass when one of the big seed bins come flying off and into the road. (The on coming lane, where I would have been if I was a passin him.)

Holy crap.

He slowed down and began to pull off to the side to retrieve the bin and I went ahead and passed him then.

Man, if there had been on oncoming car at the time, it would have been real interesting.

Never a dull moment on a bike.

[Thespian]

 Sounds like a newly (badly) trained driver, glad your OK.  KEEP YOUR HEAD ON A SWIVEL!   

[Jess from VA]

I continuously eyeball stuff on the back of trucks, large and small. 

In my neck of the of the woods, it is the 10,000 white vans with ladders on top.  If a ladder comes off and gets sideways, it could get very interesting.

[alph]

i would have stopped with him, gotten the name of the company he was driving for, and reported him.  no reason for him to be driving so recklessly.  what if there were a car coming from the other direction when that bin fell off? let alone, you, while you passed?