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Raising tilt bed before strapping load - check
Failing to apply parking brake - check
Failure to look in mirrors - check
Ignoring tail swing - check
On the plus side he’s got his hi-viz and presumably a certificate if professional competence
Man, they’ll let anyone drive a truck in Jakarta these days, huh.
A biker (pictured) managed to grab onto the truck and slow it down before it hit a parked car (pictured)
Ok are journalists really THAT stupid to think a 70kg dude using 1 arm to try and stop a 7 tonne truck rolling downhill actually had any impact on its speed??
Compound result of employing incompetent who rushes round like their arse is on fire.
Biker chappie lucky he didn’t end up dragged under the wheels and/or crushed between the overhang and the side of the bus.
Cue calls for mandatory electric automatic parking brakes to add to all the other ■■■■■■■■ required in London to mitigate the catastrophe that inevitably results from employing people who will never be lorry drivers as long as they have the proverbial rear orifice 
and their equally hopeless counterparts on bicycles
Maybe people who passed their car licence before 1997 shouldn’t be allowed to drive 7.5 tonne lorries before passing a proper test to show they are competent to drive one.
Maybe it’s also the employer’s fault taking on someone who hasn’t actually passed a C1 and simply given one under grandad rights.
That driver definitely needs to avoid Class 1 because if you can’t use your mirrors correctly to check your tail swing on a rigid, you’ve got no hope of safely driving an artic.
carlston49:
Maybe people who passed their car licence before 1997 shouldn’t be allowed to drive 7.5 tonne lorries before passing a proper test to show they are competent to drive one.Maybe it’s also the employer’s fault taking on someone who hasn’t actually passed a C1 and simply given one under grandad rights.
That driver definitely needs to avoid Class 1 because if you can’t use your mirrors correctly to check your tail swing on a rigid, you’ve got no hope of safely driving an artic.
Well said. I know guys that struggle to reverse long wheel base sprinter youl see them kicking about usual pitted along one side from wall contact. So to jump into a 7.5t on a car liscence would be foolish.
No finer example…
Of panic than you will ever see.
Did he drive off or stop at the end?
That forklift probably weighs in at around 4 tonne possibly more - in any event the front axle loading is going to be well exceeded.
And it is on the tilt bed with the ignition on or the engine running. Hence the work lamps.
Are the fork blades sticking out past the bed’s headboard? IE, about to stick in the rear of the cab?
looks to me that the pizza delivery person nearly got what they deserved. They saw what happened and was happening yet still tried to carry on rather than hanging back.
Juddian:
Compound result of employing incompetent who rushes round like their arse is on fire.
Biker chappie lucky he didn’t end up dragged under the wheels and/or crushed between the overhang and the side of the bus.Cue calls for mandatory electric automatic parking brakes to add to all the other ■■■■■■■■ required in London to mitigate the catastrophe that inevitably results from employing people who will never be lorry drivers as long as they have the proverbial rear orifice
They’ll get like forklifts where if you get off the machine without the handbrake being set the horn goes off.
On newer electric machines the brakes are set every time there is no throttle input when stationary, pressing the go pedal releases the electronic brakes. And they have electrostatic braking.