What damage could you cause (other than getting wet) to the truck ?
No I wouldn’t is the answer 
and that vid could mean someone @ Turnips gets the sack tomoroow 
25-26 seconds it looks like it is right on his windscreen 
Dont really know the effects on the engine could ■■■■ up a few sensors being submersed i suppose. If he has super hot brakes getting rapid cooled might crack them? Maybe i dont know im actually pretty impressed by his guts, dont think id have the balls tbh
Waits for orys to post his video of the truck crossing the river
It says ERF not RAF:
What damage could you cause (other than getting wet) to the truck ?
You could wreck it on something left under water in the middle ie a rock, or worse, a car!
Theres one of a police van getting stuck in a flood on there somewhere while blue lighting, all the rozzers get out and push… knee deep.
Its not the damage to the wagon but the surrounding area/buildings.
That tidal wave was quite big, houses behind the trees may have thought they had got away without being flooded until this ■■■■■■■ turns up.
Lets hope this video does find its way to Soham.
legend! Dunno if i’d risk it though lol.
i wouldn’t dream of trying it , the guys got balls and maybe a wee bit of luck on his side
Sorry but no i think the driver is a prat for doing that. We have a had name as it is we don’t need muppet’s like him
My old mate, God rest his soul, did something like this a few years ago and the truck ended up in the river!
So no is the answer, you can’t see under the water!
While in the army I have had to do that sort of thing on a number of occasions, taking supplies to cut off villages etc, the most important thing is once you start you have to keep the momentum up creating a bow wave, that keeps the water out of all the parts you don’t want it in, we wouldn’t go through water any deeper than about 3 feet, but there was no hard and fast rule.
The main difference we had was we would have someone with their heads out of the roof hatch spotting any dangers in the water ahead, examples being bridges washed away or sections of road missing and of course where the edge of the road was, sometimes that was hard to see from the driving position if you came to them you would have to stop, but would also have to get the engine switched off quick before the air intake got wet. None of the vehicles were specially prepared for fording flood water.
If the water is that deep, would it seep under the curtains and soak the load? also the weight of water against the front grille and valance etc, being made of plastic and GRP, would it buckle and crack up?
Complete prat. It only takes a a drop of water up the air intake to hydraulic lock the piston, which in turn will bend the con-rods like a banana, plus damage to the turbo, plus the electrical problems. Jeez, it could have thrown the starter motor in or anything. What an imbecile. He should be looking for another job very shortly, preferably out of haulage as I don’t really relish the prospect of sharing the roads with such a fool!
In reply to the question, you may have guessed, no I wouldn’t.
Balls of steel although daft you can’t say that doesn’t look awesome as the unit crawls back out of the water 
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DoYouMeanMe?:
Complete prat. It only takes a a drop of water up the air intake to hydraulic lock the piston, which in turn will bend the con-rods like a banana, plus damage to the turbo, plus the electrical problems. Jeez, it could have thrown the starter motor in or anything. What an imbecile. He should be looking for another job very shortly, preferably out of haulage as I don’t really relish the prospect of sharing the roads with such a fool!In reply to the question, you may have guessed, no I wouldn’t.
You’d have a job getting water in the intake when its at roof height even then small amounts of water would be caught in the filter/ intake mesh
Same as car would risk flooding the engine, I took some risks in past but that deep is too far 
water in the back axle and gearbox through breather pipes also into the headlights mind you if you pay peanuts you get …!!
Moose:
water in the back axle and gearbox through breather pipes also into the headlights mind you if you pay peanuts you get …!!
Crappy spec Volvo’s?
a u boat might of been better!
I dont see any buildings to damage and if there are, the footings may already be damaged, as long as the engine is running to keep the exhaust clear, the air cleaner will pull in air from the stack and as long as the bow wave is created, there shouldn’t be any damage to the engine. It is possible that was the only way out, if there was a low bridge or something similar.
In those circumstances I would probably have done it. Living close to York where the River Ouse came over fairly often, it was sometimes the only way to get to the house in Escrick. The last time it happened to me, I was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee with a car on a trailer and also had to tow a police Range Rover through the water
We also got caught out quite often between Bubwith and Wressle near Breighton
Balls of steel.legend.WTF The guy is an idiot and woudn’t have tried that had he owned the truck.If he was a driver of mine he would not be anymore simple as 