Death of driver struck by his own HGV

Harry Monk:
I agree with Kevmac, palm couplings are transparently mechanically inferior and I have had the same problems…when folk say “there’s nothing wrong with them providing you spit on them beforehand”, then there’s something wrong with them.

They still use them on trains and I always couple up with bare hands or a rag. I save my gloves for going inside the tank for samples, with palms, you keep your own palms clean, they don’t need dropping in diesel tanks to push them on!

Wouldn’t do for us all to be the same spose…