kindle530:
Sorry to see that mate, its just one of those things, at least youre mobile again, and no-one (apart from MR VAIN) was hurt.
Thanks mate. Like you say one off them things. I should get the photos of the damaged wheel on here.
I once had one go, on my old ERF, many years ago, just North of Strensham services, the bill then was over 200 quid to get it towed into the nearest ERF dealer,before they even got their spanners out. Whilst crying to my mate, on the phone, he said why not get your fitter to come down with a new hub? (only 200 miles 
) This is at about 4.30 pm, daft as it may sound. We did it, I set off limping up the hard shoulder, at walking pace and made it to the 1st layby at Worcester, he loaded the pick up with a new hub, gas bottles and half a ton of tools, turned up about 9 O’clock, and we were on the road again about 2AM. Lucky? Don’t I know it. Daft? Certainly, but that was many years ago. 
Sounds about right, but like so many things in haulage them days are gone. Nearly every breakdown these days will be a recovery. In them days the driver would of rolled up his sleaves and helped out, now you’d be lucky if they’d roll a ■■■! 
MR VAIN:
Sounds about right, but like so many things in haulage them days are gone. Nearly every breakdown these days will be a recovery. In them days the driver would of rolled up his sleaves and helped out, now you’d be lucky if they’d roll a ■■■!
And I certainly wouldn’t have been allowed to crawl about 5 miles up the hard shoulder of the M5 
Sounds about right, but like so many things in haulage them days are gone. Nearly every breakdown these days will be a recovery. In them days the driver would of rolled up his sleaves and helped out, now you’d be lucky if they’d roll a ■■■!
what!?
our service van repair rate at the roadside is over 90%
cheeky buggers.
wrecktech100:
Sounds about right, but like so many things in haulage them days are gone. Nearly every breakdown these days will be a recovery. In them days the driver would of rolled up his sleaves and helped out, now you’d be lucky if they’d roll a ■■■!
what!?
our service van repair rate at the roadside is over 90%
cheeky buggers.
Well done! I’m pleased to hear that
renaultman:
I once had one go, on my old ERF, many years ago, just North of Strensham services, the bill then was over 200 quid to get it towed into the nearest ERF dealer,before they even got their spanners out. Whilst crying to my mate, on the phone, he said why not get your fitter to come down with a new hub? (only 200 miles
Was called out to recover unit ( I forget which, think an FM) pulling fully loaded tandem axle trailer with the nearside rear pair fallen off. Wheel nuts had come loose and it all went see you later.
So, I walked back down the hard shoulder the 400 yards to get the one wheel that I had seen resting on the crash barrier at which point Hato turned up and asked if I wanted the other one which one of their units had just picked up about a mile back.
Half a dozen donor nuts from other wheels, wound back on to the not very nice studs but tight enough and a slow ■■■■■■ off the motorway to industrial estate where fitter turned out and refitted new hub and wheels etc as a complete unit.
Easy job for me apart from undoing trailer wheel nuts with a breaker bar. I now have a torque multiplier for just such occurences.