In an event of an overturn,what is likely to fly around the cab,and hit you on the head,maybe the wheel jack or brace,if your cab locker is full of pot noodles,the thing is,do you tie all the cab junk and kit down?No time to don a hard hat in the event of a RTC.
Years ago a friend of mine was killed when his F89 overturned, he would have walked away from it but a bottle jack that was loose in the cab hit him on the head, things like this we don’t think about but all of these loose things in the cab that look so innocent could end up wiping you out!
Good post.
Terrific. Nice one, all we need now is for some H&S ■■■■ to read this thread and think, “What a great idea, lets make them wear hard hats while they’re driving in case they turn over!”
Jesus christ as if they need any help in the Stupid Ideas Department 
Half the drivers already wear their “HI-VIZ” when driving so why not just get everybody to wear a hard hat too… Oh and dont forget Safety Glasses… 
Depends would the bed lift? Lot of stuff stored under the bunk but in the cab the worst thing would be a tin of polish, my cab is very minimalist 
webby08:
Half the drivers already wear their “HI-VIZ” when driving so why not just get everybody to wear a hard hat too… Oh and dont forget Safety Glasses…
You left out the hob nailed boots!!
Thetaff:
webby08:
Half the drivers already wear their “HI-VIZ” when driving so why not just get everybody to wear a hard hat too… Oh and dont forget Safety Glasses…You left out the hob nailed boots!!
Might as well wear the rigger gloves as well and the hi -vis trousers - you can’t be to careful.
My wagon blew over on the M5 many years ago. Landed on it’s nearside, I dropped gracefully across the cab, landing on my back. Just as I was congratulating myself on a safe landing, my full-face crash helmet bounced off my forehead causing a massive BOOOIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNG! noise to go of in my poor little cranium 
The bunk didn’t flip up, and all my other kit just fell across the bunk and landed behind the passenger seat - just my luck my lid was the only thing to take a detour…
Still, I got to make that immortal call to the transport office:
me: I’ve broken my nearside mirror
traffic monkey: how the hell did you manage that?
me: Think it happened when the cab landed on it…
Don’t forget the chin strap as well, otherwise you could get hit with your hard hat
Some years ago a couple of Europa drivers, double manning to Sweden, were running along the Ostend/Brussells motorway, one driving the other on the bunk asleep. The bloke driving had a funny turn, left the carriageway and into a ditch, the guy on the bunk was consequently ejected from his pit, landing on the windscreen, followed by… about 20 cases of fosters bought on the ferry, that were on the top bunk.
Luckily both were fine, the 2 week old Iveco wasn.'t though.
Ok this post has scared me now, during dinner i just said to my wife i had to get somewhere other than the passenger floor to store the ratchets and straps in case i had a accident then i come on here and this is posted!
Think they will be out tomorrow now!!
A few years back we had a lad working for us driving a mixer, he landed on his side into a field. The tow hitch was in the passenger footwell, it came across broke the handbrake lever off and bent the steering wheel too.
Same old story (IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU)
Apart from my Waeco fridge the only thing loose in my cab was a big cuddly bear which doubled as a pillow 
That is why we had toolboxes on the trailers and side lockers that were chocka
is this thread off the back off bentons brothers artic being laid on its side yesterday at all? neva had the misfortune off being laid down but dont have anything float in cab apart from mobile 
What I’m going to do now is build a little perspex safety cubicle around the drivers seat.
Even though I only consider myself a “day” driver, my bag (a pilot case) always travels on the passenger seat with the seat belt strapped across it (front & top), & through the handle to minimise potential movement. only my jacket, gloves & snap box are “free” to move. my phone is normally in my pocket.
As for rollin one over ................ Ill ask my mate, as he`s the one who rolled the truck over near the stockyard a few months ago, with all the glass bottles on blocking the road
toby1234abc:
In an event of an overturn,what is likely to fly around the cab,and hit you on the head,maybe the wheel jack or brace,if your cab locker is full of pot noodles,the thing is,do you tie all the cab junk and kit down?No time to don a hard hat in the event of a RTC.
Yes Mum
Anyway the pot noodles would kill you first
switchlogic:
What I’m going to do now is build a little perspex safety cubicle around the drivers seat.
You can pretend you are a bus driver then. 
I’m more likely to be scalded/burnt/mildly irritated by the coffee carton flying across the cab and spilling the contents over me than anything else. Well that or my laptop which sits on top of the dash, in the closed position, so I can listen to stuff.
Coffeeholic:
switchlogic:
What I’m going to do now is build a little perspex safety cubicle around the drivers seat.You can pretend you are a bus driver then.
I’m more likely to be scalded/burnt/mildly irritated by the coffee carton flying across the cab and spilling the contents over me than anything else. Well that or my laptop which sits on top of the dash, in the closed position, so I can listen to stuff.
To be fair with the amount of stuff in my cab I’d be better off just jumping out and hoping for a quick death.
switchlogic:
What I’m going to do now is build a little perspex safety cubicle around the drivers seat.
keep that cucumber in the fridge
A few years ago now I managed to turn a car over in Norfolk, in the middle of nowhere. In those days I had a Krooklok (you know what I mean, like a big metal bar that goes across the steering wheel) and it lived on the floor of the car in front of the back seats - either that or on the back seats.
When I rolled the car, the only window which completely shattered was the drivers window, and the Krooklok ended up on the road. I didn’t twig what a near miss I’d had until the first policeman on scene looked at it, then the car, then me, and basically said “How the hell are you still alive?” I still have no idea how it missed my head as it sailed out through my window 