I passed a Mercedes unit on the A55 this morning pulling a car transporter trailer with six new Subaru Impreza’s on it.
It had three on the top deck, as usual. What was odd was that it also had three on the bottom of the top deck…they were bolted there, hanging upside down.
Has anybody else seen anything similar and if you have I have a few questions:
How do they get them up there in the first place?
How do they get them down afterwards?
How do they stay there? (Some kind of frame obviously but do they drill them or what?)
The picture of the unfortunate lady reminded me of when I worked for a newspaper in St Ives, Cornwall and had to take a picture of a German tourist who had fallen off the pier. I did not like to take a picture of him in agony, so took one of him being loaded onto the air ambulance instead. It still went in the paper, but I got told off for not taking a picture of the injured person.
makes a refreshing change there normally scattered all over the M25 christ an these blokes earn £600 upwards,shame there too bone-idle to move them around a bit to counter act the ‘pendulim’ effect which means too many of the bloody-things keep tipping over
These are the new Subaru Spider Impreza’s. You can order one on the web !
Also heard that the RAF are using the bottom three, for the first stage of pilot training !
chrisy boy:
makes a refreshing change there normally scattered all over the M25 christ an these blokes earn £600 upwards,shame there too bone-idle to move them around a bit to counter act the ‘pendulim’ effect which means too many of the bloody-things keep tipping over
The ‘Pendulum Effect’, as you describe it. Do you think it may have anything to do with the narrow & small trailer tyres fitted to car transporter trailers, designed to lower the axle and increase the loading width on the bottom deck enabling the maximum load to be put on. They’re a pig when they hit the tram lines. But obviously you knew that because reading from your previous posts you seem to know everything about road transport…
My transporter weighs 22.5 tonne empty and majority of the weight, i.e. the framework of the transporter, is very low down, much lower than a normal truck… The height of cars on a transporter, which can be dictated by the design of the particular transporter meaning they have to be carried that way, has less effect than the weight distribution. For example, if you do not have enough weight on the front of a drawbar trailer, bearing in mind of course the heavy part of any loaded cars is at the front, then that can lead to increased fish-tailing.
As you can see Chrisy-boy, the reasons car transporters are inherently unstable is generally more complicated than ‘the driver can’t be arsed to move cars around’. But after all, I 'm only telling you things you know anyway…
dont recall ever proclaiming to ‘know it all’ about transport,or saying ‘cant be arsed’ either,anyway most of my ‘transport’ knowledge is in what i see in my average 80-100 thou a year…its just that according to the radio stations im tuned into every day its your bloody ‘expensive loads’ causing most the havoc on the roads,your lot are paid a premium for a good reason?..
and i thought i was seeing thing’s when i saw one outside a dealers place near manchester tthe other day
christ an these blokes earn £600 upwards,shame there too bone-idle to move them around a bit to counter act the ‘pendulim’ effect which means too many of the bloody-things keep tipping over 
