IndigoJo:
Aren’t they Hingley trailers or bodies, made in Stourbridge? I’ve been pulling the trailer version the past three weeks.
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Just so people don’t go getting the wrong impression…
Hingley Trailers do build complete slider trailers… They also body other manufacturers chassis… BUT they are not the only people in the UK who build them… it could have been built/bodied by a number of companies…
simon1958:
dieseldog999:
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It was a fitter who was driving the vehicle. Not the regular driver, and it seems that when they loaded the truck the previous night with six ton of steel the loader locked the curtain properly and the fitter didn’t’ lock his side , as witnesses on the M58 said the offside curtain opened and the wind has got in and ripped the lot off.
It was loaded for the mot brake test and the fitter was on his way back when incident happenedmust have been an agency fitter then?
Thanks for that deiseldog999. It reminded me that if any of the wood-bearers moved, the canopy was jammed… Fitter couldn’t lock the canopy shut. Q a good forky and guidance from the driver to remedy the situation.
New meaning to curtain blind.
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I’d be very surprised if one front side lock being undone would rip off the whole body…Unless the back stops are missing ? They are supposed to do exactly what it says on the tin…Back Stop…
Also… If the timber bearers move and jam the canopy…saw a few inches off the timber…works every time 
