Ok lads the blue boxes are 10footers usually 8.6high but they can be 9.6 high . They are shippers own boxes imported we deliver lots of these but on semi low loaders
They are never done skellys
Regards gazzap
Driver is in the ■■■■ whichever way you look at it.
Carryfast:
Might not have hit the bridge at all.Can’t see any marks on it or front of the container.
The container looks like it’s only secured with straps and the straps have let go and container fell off just coincidence at that point close to bridge.
It looks to me like the lorry has started to drift left ( no shoulder), been over corrected & started to roll over. Landed on the arcam & been stopped by the bridge support. Photo from the front you can see daylight at the top o/s corner, the top n/s cornet is hidden by the bridge support. Had the container come off the lorry would have been upright wouldn’t it?
Wiretwister:
Carryfast:
Might not have hit the bridge at all.Can’t see any marks on it or front of the container.
The container looks like it’s only secured with straps and the straps have let go and container fell off just coincidence at that point close to bridge.It looks to me like the lorry has started to drift left ( no shoulder), been over corrected & started to roll over. Landed on the arcam & been stopped by the bridge support. Photo from the front you can see daylight at the top o/s corner, the top n/s cornet is hidden by the bridge support. Had the container come off the lorry would have been upright wouldn’t it?
To fast down the hill 
Wiretwister:
Carryfast:
Might not have hit the bridge at all.Can’t see any marks on it or front of the container.
The container looks like it’s only secured with straps and the straps have let go and container fell off just coincidence at that point close to bridge.It looks to me like the lorry has started to drift left ( no shoulder), been over corrected & started to roll over. Landed on the arcam & been stopped by the bridge support. Photo from the front you can see daylight at the top o/s corner, the top n/s cornet is hidden by the bridge support. Had the container come off the lorry would have been upright wouldn’t it?
The container has shifted sideways well over the near side of the trailer possibly enough for the overhanging weight to then drag the trailer onto its side.It didn’t fall off completely.Also looks like broken strap/s laying on the ground.
Having said that there are some small deep gouge marks on the bridge to the right of the lane marking.
But one of them is very high on the bridge.Looks like another foot or two higher than the bridge deck underside.It looks like an angled bridge so front offside top corner of container connecting with an angled bridge might have done it but the container would have been at an extreme height to connect at those points on the bridge.
Edit to add the top gouge mark on the bridge might have been the result of the front corner of the container lifting on that side as the truck toppled over.
Carryfast:
Might not have hit the bridge at all.Can’t see any marks on it or front of the container.
The container looks like it’s only secured with straps and the straps have let go and container fell off just coincidence at that point close to bridge.
Bridge struck
OwenMoney:
Franglais:
blue estate:
Franglais:
A standard 20box on typical UK skelly....136" ?
hapag-lloyd.com/en/services … -cube.html
Looks like the bed of a 40flatrack is about 2, so can we say its about 156"?
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Lots of guesses and assumptions there.
.I reckon a high cube
That
ll give 12" more...166"…so tight…SDC trailer? Sliding skelly? (looking at raised back locks)
sdctrailers.com/products/st … g-skeletal
How high from rubbing plate to container lock? If they have a deep chassis my 136" will be nearer 14. So with Blueys high cube were looking at 17`0.
Does the 5th wheel rise much if those Renault six wheelers lift the center axle?Still lots of guesses and assumptions, but…
Or - The bridge has sunk
Or - The M27 has been resurfaced
Or - There was something sticking out of the top of the blue box
Or - General Incompetence came to visit
About 9 miles away from the 27 - A31 to be exact - and about the same distance from the last bridge, so probably joined at gate 1 at Cadnam.
stu675:
Carryfast:
Might not have hit the bridge at all.Can’t see any marks on it or front of the container.
The container looks like it’s only secured with straps and the straps have let go and container fell off just coincidence at that point close to bridge.Bridge struck
Certainly looks like it.Didn’t see those gouges on the bridge to start with.
They either need to rethink the idea of unmarked bridge heights or limit overall truck/load heights to 16’.
Cosmic:
Definite bridge strike. But how tall was it?0
Is that some sort of cable-drum in a steel frame?
What size is that?
Cosmic:
Definite bridge strike. But how tall was it?
Obviously 16’6’’ +.
Hate to say it but this happened to me once with a giant agricultural item going from Southampton to Derby.I scraped a cattle bridge on the a34 around Newbury,not the same deal as this poor fella thank god, l stayed shiny side up and made the nearest layby with a few ■■■■■ in the machinery that had to be repatriated.I hadn’t touched flat-racks for donkeys years so l loaded it,asked on the containerports- intercom for heights etc,got a useless load of uncertainties from them so contacted my office,equal level of obfuscation/misinfo etc and told them i’ll get to a larger layby and overnight there, but would they please give me the technicals before i ventured into the sticks of Derbyshire next day.Then l met my bridge on a ruddy dual-carriageway which wasnt fun.Only grazed thank frick.
The ■■■■ thing should have been on a lowloader it transpired instead of a rack 
plus it was technically a ‘wide-load’ but l didn’t twig due to it being less wider than than my mirrors .I got a disciplinary and a usefull week off but that photo’s triggered my ptsd 
and then some thinking how really bad it could’ve been.
I`ve got one of these in the door pocket.
ebay.co.uk/itm/154210574003 … SwRkVfvOMK
And I have the relevant training to use one…Thank You Miss Hulbert, an excellent junior school teacher.
Its one of those open sided ones thats been put on a skelly making it overheight. Should have been put on a low loader.
WheelsofCardiff:
Its one of those open sided ones thats been put on a skelly making it overheight. Should have been put on a low loader.
Cowboy firm
That will be a nice trip to the TC, without tea or biscuits for the driver and a heap load of paperwork and probably a similar tea-less trip for the operator.
I thought…
The Dcpc stopped this kind of thing.
Acorn:
That will be a nice trip to the TC, without tea or biscuits for the driver and a heap load of paperwork and probably a similar tea-less trip for the operator.
I reckon youre right, and that aint all.
Recovery cost already been mentioned.
Fluids dripping out of that truck. What will the chassis be like after the 5th wheel pulled it to a stop and “upnover” in no time flat?
Trailer will be due a very close inspection.
Load and flatrack all damaged.
Bridge “looks OK” but will be getting a proper inspection of course.
yourhavingalarf:
I thought…The Dcpc stopped this kind of thing.
The DCPC doesn’t cater for employed drivers when the guvnor ‘orders’ ‘take it’, it will be fine.
As opposed to the CPC and O licence of the operator or an owner driver.