Cost of hitting a bridge

Don’t worry, that will glue back together aright :laughing: couple of days in the repair shop and it will be just like new, as you said tractor unit worth more,

Swampey2418:
…as you said tractor unit worth more,

That’s not what he said.

Toddy2:
…the unit is worth far less than those trailers.

I stand corrected, :blush: really must wear my glasses when its this late at night

Really lucky actually that it tore off cleanly from a repair point of view.

New double deckers with things like internal lift ands all sorts of safety gubbins can easily be £100k+. Because there’s no real 2nd hand (B&M bargains used to buy old ones but think they’ve stopped) or export market for them I’ve seen 5 year old ones go for less than £2k which is some hell of a depreciation.

Looks worse than actually is - in theory should pull back in (after cleaning off the torn bits) then re-rivet between the existing ones

I have a couple of mates that could have done that local to the depot - but they are both rammed at the moment -
1 has a workshop full of busses & the other a lot of work for Maritime.

SO it has had to go back to the hub for them to deal with, trouble is the downtime - they are short of deckers as it is,

As for cost - those things are £120k each, can’t see why,
Luckily, the wiring at the top had enough slack in it to stay connected,
and all the deck & suspension controls that are on that corner still work ok,
But it could have been a whole lot worse
They have had a couple where the rear frame has been torn off - Apparently a new frame is £10,000