driver and car driver hurt but ok. some of the cars went over to the coast bound side.
ps think I did photo right if not ill try again
Went past it on my way home , glad no one was hurt but what a mess , and yes it looked as if two cars made it onto the other side 
Is it just me or does there seem to have been a lot of incidents involving transporters recently? One overturned on A34 a few weeks ago then there was one on M1 and then this. Is it the standard of driving which is slipping in this sector?
xfmatt:
Is it just me or does there seem to have been a lot of incidents involving transporters recently? One overturned on A34 a few weeks ago then there was one on M1 and then this. Is it the standard of driving which is slipping in this sector?
I would say yes.
roads are not getting better and see them wobble in the tramlines
xfmatt:
a lot of incidents involving transporters recently? Is it the standard of driving which is slipping in this sector?
Cue stobbarts bashing thread
xfmatt:
Is it just me or does there seem to have been a lot of incidents involving transporters recently? One overturned on A34 a few weeks ago then there was one on M1 and then this. Is it the standard of driving which is slipping in this sector?
Its most likely to have been caused by bad weight distribution coupled with inexperience. Mine behaves perfectly on that section of road as long as I load it right. The 4x2s tend to be the worst.
I maybe wrong and not pointing fingers but , it looks like someone came on via the sliproad and the guy swerved to miss and the forces of gravity took over 
id never swerve, hit the one coming on cus its there fault when will people learn who has right of way
iangam:
xfmatt:
Is it just me or does there seem to have been a lot of incidents involving transporters recently? One overturned on A34 a few weeks ago then there was one on M1 and then this. Is it the standard of driving which is slipping in this sector?Its most likely to have been caused by bad weight distribution coupled with inexperience. Mine behaves perfectly on that section of road as long as I load it right. The 4x2s tend to be the worst.
I must admit I wouldn’t be at the front if the queue to do the transporter job what with weight and height distribution being so critical and the risk of low trees wacking your cargo! How long is the training for this job?
xfmatt:
iangam:
xfmatt:
Is it just me or does there seem to have been a lot of incidents involving transporters recently? One overturned on A34 a few weeks ago then there was one on M1 and then this. Is it the standard of driving which is slipping in this sector?Its most likely to have been caused by bad weight distribution coupled with inexperience. Mine behaves perfectly on that section of road as long as I load it right. The 4x2s tend to be the worst.
I must admit I wouldn’t be at the front if the queue to do the transporter job what with weight and height distribution being so critical and the risk of low trees wacking your cargo! How long is the training for this job?
2 weeks usually, but thats purely a grounding to teach you the basics.
It takes years to become fully competent, and some no matter how long they do the job ever work out how to or develop the ‘feel’ for vehicle stability.
I always look at these and think of the tail wagging the dog
You can’t drive a transporter on job and knock without attending the school of hard knocks in the process.
Didn’t this particular line of work used to be well-paid?
I imagine now the firms have joined the race to the bottom, and use bods from the “9 points OK” pool… 
I come past here regular, cars hammer it round off the slip road when surely they can see their is no way a wagon can pull over to let them out and most expect you to get on the anchors to let them out. I just sit tight and let them realise who has right of way.
Winseer:
Didn’t this particular line of work used to be well-paid?
I imagine now the firms have joined the race to the bottom, and use bods from the “9 points OK” pool…
It still is well paid on the proper companies, nothings changed and in my humble it won’t within reason and will be a good game again in due course (i think), many have tried to do it on the cheap in the past and it simply never works, the poor payers end up as free training for those who wanted to get into it, they got trained did loads of damage whilst learning then once reasonably competent buggered off to the good jobs.
Some ex ■■■■■■?! drivers have been receiving phone calls asking them if they want to come back, there’s a shortage of skilled competent drivers and as seen its getting worse.
Didn’t ring me up mind, i must have been more useless than i thought, if they do call the second word is ‘off’, i do hope they call… 
We need much more of this too happen, without people being hurt or killed hopefully, it would force the industry to reconsider its “cheap labour” situation, I hear many rumours that some big companies have started to no longer employ the “cheap labour” due to the standard of driving and damage costs. Hope it’s true.
Alcpone:
I just sit tight and let them realise who has right of way.
+1 when I got the decker on more so
I got offered a shift at Swifts at Aylesford (going back a bit eh?) which was described as a “Car Transporter Run”.
I got there, and it was some nuts & bolts engine parts in boxes on pallets in the back of a 600cf (7.5t) to my dismay… No “experience opportunity” for me there after all. 
They had me sitting in their waiting room for nearly 3 hours, and wanted me to “Book off” for that period as well.
I told them I expected to be paid from when I got there, to when I left to go home.
“Insist upon that, and you’ll not be invited back” I was warned.
What do you think my answer was?
Juddian:
xfmatt:
iangam:
xfmatt:
I must admit I wouldn’t be at the front if the queue to do the transporter job what with weight and height distribution being so critical and the risk of low trees wacking your cargo! How long is the training for this job?2 weeks usually, but thats purely a grounding to teach you the basics.
It takes years to become fully competent, and some no matter how long they do the job ever work out how to or develop the ‘feel’ for vehicle stability.
Same problem in horse transport, most drivers just can’t seem feel how to balance the load, anyone can do it by driving very slowly but it’s only the minority that can crack on and still give a comfortable ride to their load.
Anyone know what company owns the car transporter in the crash?
I worked for a well-known company wand was shocked to find out they hired a new driver with zero experience driving trucks. He had passed his artic test 8 wks beforehand. They gave him a two wks training and let him out by himself driving a 10 car transporter.
First car got wrecked only days after he was out by himself.
Pure insane letting lads out like that!