id reckon he will be even unhappier when it dawns on fatnorange that the scally in the woolly hat has just burgled his cab and scooted off on his bike. 
well the trailer is a broshuis extending trailer and it was registered after july 2012, as it has the conspicuous reflective tape (i think its july 2012 the reg’s came in 
). getting is moved is the interesting bit…
gonna need another unit and trailer to move the load, and a trailer to carry the knackered one away, and also a bloody big crane, to lift it all, and there not on every street corner…
F-reds:
Doesn’t look like he has put the legs down, just that they are now grounded due to the trailer snapping.I would say it’s got more to do with the fact that it looks like that [zb] massive load is only sitting on 2 points of contact on the trailer. 1 over the wheels, and 1 pretty close to where it snapped. I think the front half of the load was being imposed on the point mid way between the fifth wheel and trailer wheels. Just my 2 pennies worth, but I would not be happy if I was the gaffer.
I know the area quite well, if he has come down that hill (Beecroft St.) then it’s a fair gradient. The weight would have been lifted off axle 1+2. Axle scrub wouldn’t have been a factor as it’s an all steer Broshuis.
He has 4 chains on it making me think it’s a 40 ton lump. I dare say he was off route too.
Agency driver…
Well a "jack knife " folds in the middle …and that’s what the trailer is trying to do !!!
Hehehehehe
But in reality there don’t look to be many packer under that 40 tonne lump of concrete and with that sort of trailer on a camber with no real weight on some axles due to the leveling out of the road it’s going to put a lot of strain somewhere …and it did !
Article updated now, no mention of Jack the Knife Mcvitie now!
nodding donkey:
Agency driver…
And you’re a one trick company ■■■■■■■ Your point?
Anyone know how the recovery went ?
Jim
apparantly they sent an agency recovery driver to recover the agency orange pie eater with the broken trailer,so needless to say,there now waiting on a recovery truck to recover the agecy truck driver out of the way,so that they can recover the agency driver that broke the trailer in the 1st place…they can get a crane to lift the girder easily enough,its getting one capable of slinging orange pieman thats causing the holdup. 
truckman020:
surely the point is if an educated person like a journalist is going to run a story like that then he/she should get their facts right
Where does it say he is educated … ?
dieseldog999:
apparantly they sent an agency recovery driver to recover the agency orange pie eater with the broken trailer,so needless to say,there now waiting on a recovery truck to recover the agecy truck driver out of the way,so that they can recover the agency driver that broke the trailer in the 1st place…they can get a crane to lift the girder easily enough,its getting one capable of slinging orange pieman thats causing the holdup.
I’m still sitting here waiing for my agency to ring…
Maybe they changed the headline: This is what it says now.
MOTORISTS in Leeds endured a day of traffic chaos after an articulated lorry became stranded on one of the city’s busiest roads.
The 40ft-long concrete-laden lorry got stuck near the junction of the A65 Commercial Road and Savins Mill Way, close to Morrisons, in Kirkstall, at about 10am yesterday. (Feb 17)
It was attempting a left-turn onto the A65 from Beecroft Street when its trailer effectively snapped in two.
As the trailers pretty much dead anyway, couldn’t he have dragged it at least to the side of the road straight so it wasn’t quite as much a blockage?
It’s a double drive DAF so shouldn’t be short of torques.
49er:
truckman020:
surely the point is if an educated person like a journalist is going to run a story like that then he/she should get their facts rightWhere does it say he is educated … ?
No education or intelligence needed to be a journalist, I can assure you of that… 
F-reds:
Doesn’t look like he has put the legs down, just that they are now grounded due to the trailer snapping.I would say it’s got more to do with the fact that it looks like that [zb] massive load is only sitting on 2 points of contact on the trailer. 1 over the wheels, and 1 pretty close to where it snapped. I think the front half of the load was being imposed on the point mid way between the fifth wheel and trailer wheels. Just my 2 pennies worth, but I would not be happy if I was the gaffer.
Agree would have had a support as near the 5th wheel as possible and the others over the axles. Looks a nightmare to position though further forward or back would probably overload the unit or trailer.
Trukkertone:
dieseldog999:
apparantly they sent an agency recovery driver to recover the agency orange pie eater with the broken trailer,so needless to say,there now waiting on a recovery truck to recover the agecy truck driver out of the way,so that they can recover the agency driver that broke the trailer in the 1st place…they can get a crane to lift the girder easily enough,its getting one capable of slinging orange pieman thats causing the holdup.I’m still sitting here waiing for my agency to ring…
remember you will need to go on an induction seminar to be qualified as how best to sling a blimp in an orange suit…alternatively if you cant be bothered about doing the course,just leave a fish supper on the pavement and see how long it takes him to come down himself…mabey that’s what they should have done when the embarrassment of a Tosco driver wouldnt come down from the trailer when his tail lift stuck a Cpl months ago…it would be cheaper than calling out the fire brigade…
OP picture appeared in local paper Weds, but no mention of ‘jack-knife’. Article did say that a large crane was available locally to lift the load but there wasn’t enough room for it to manoeuvre, so they had to wait for 2 smaller cranes which were coming from Hull & Sheffield (to Leeds). The A65 was still closed at the start of evening rush hour despite the Incident occurring around 10am.
Not Shure but maybe ductape could help 
Looks like two lumps of concrete to me so what is indivisible about them?
cav551:
Looks like two lumps of concrete to me so what is indivisible about them?
Not 100% sure but doesn’t only the “out” load need to be indivisible to satisfy the criteria? If that’s the case maybe this was a backload.