Well, here's something I know a bit about.
Disclaimer: My own father** and my brother were both evicted from the same trailer park. The events were about 25 years apart though.
I just don't see how the liability can fall anywhere but on the hauler who was being paid to do the job; he claimed to have experience and insurance for it, and the "vehicle" was under his control at the time.
There's no way that dude was insured.
When my brother was evicted* he looked into moving his trailer to another location. He bought it for about $7,000 in 2002. Turns out it'd cost about $3k to move the darned thing. He had it crushed.
*: He was evicted because he moved out and told a buddy he could live there if he paid the park rent. The guy never paid the park a dime. Brother got a call from the park, drove to the office, paid all the bank rent and said he'd have it crushed pronto. The clerk was amazed. It was the only time she'd seen somebody pay back rent in such a case.
So, yeah, you're pretty much an idiot if you think a guy can move your trailer for $200.
A stretch of bad weather could have shut that road down for at least that long. I fail to see how that kind of destruction serves a useful purpose in the long run.
Weather clears up on its own. Trailers don't grow legs and march.
My Jeep's probably worth about $6-7k right now and you wouldn't have much sympathy for me if I rolled it out into the road and tore the tires off. That's about what she did. Oh sure, she paid Skeeter's Tractor Haulin' Service a bit to move the thing, but that obviously wasn't a prudent move.
She could try and sue the guy she hired to move it, but I'm guessing somebody that's willing to lash up a truck/tractor/whatever to a late 1960's, maybe early 1970's mobile home for $200 probably doesn't have a lot of assets.
Stupid hurts, sometime physically sometimes financially. That's life. Been there, done that, and I've certainly made mistakes bigger than $5k before.
**: Dad got evicted because he and his roommate didn't keep the trailer nice enough. They worked long hours, both being truck drivers, and given their strange hours some of the neighbors thought they were drug dealers. He PROPERLY moved his trailer to the "lower class" trailer park of the town and that's where I spent the first 3 months of my life. In 1980 he moved out of there and bought a house for $27,000 on, I think, 8 acres of land. He now lives in a $500,000 home about 300 meters down the road from that house. I have very little sympathy for the "boo-hoo, I'm poor, help me!" crowd.
