Whether they are meant to be or not, these are doing quite well :-
leaderlive.co.uk/news/17205 … on-on-dee/
I’d love to know what’s behind that curtain. Ie what is that curtain actually holding up.
Also in the second photo it looks like the trailer is on a tilt. Is that just the camera angle or is the whole thing about to start tipping over if it wasn’t stopped?
DickyNick:
I’d love to know what’s behind that curtain. Ie what is that curtain actually holding up.Also in the second photo it looks like the trailer is on a tilt. Is that just the camera angle or is the whole thing about to start tipping over if it wasn’t stopped?
It has a load of timber on it and I suspect he has come round that bend too fast and load moved, there is a couple of sharp bends in Overton, seen pics on face book,
There’s the…
Wrongway and then there’s the Wrightway.
But it appears to me that the Wrightway of doing things is actually the wrong way of doing things.
There’s a whole bunch of wide load gags available too.
I’d think the above suggestion regards timber is most likely. Looks like a single long item pushing against the sheer? Probably strapped too, so it’s not just the sheets holding the load in place.
And I’m not about to commence the wideload punning. I’m not a pun-ter.
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well at least he’s got ‘wide load’ on the front
Looking at that first picture it looks like the roof will fail before the curtains.
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yourhavingalarf:
There’s a whole bunch of wide load gags available too.
And those are just about the size of the drivers arse
It says in the report that “the police stopped the truck”. So either he was driving around like that, or the reporter has it wrong.
Not sure what the fuss is about. Just take a sharp left turn and the load will settle back into place.
What could go wrong?
Ironically when we carry 1T pallets of bagged flour much of it is on plastic pallets which have a habit of sliding sideways when cornering and making the curtains bulge out, so it’s not too uncommon to counter this by sliding them back by cornering in the opposite direction
This proves 2 things.
1/ a load of timber needs properly strapping.
2/ if the load was a positive fit then there would have been no issue as it couldn’t have leaned over so much and would have been held by the curtain and dropped back in position.
So all this DVSA still wanting every single thing strapped when it’s a load bearing curtain, this proves their own theories wrong because clearly a curtain is providing adequate load security for a stack of toilet paper if a load of timber hasn’t fallen through it.
Timber needs strapping.
It also needs checking enroute. Any gaps between stacks will close up. The load will settle down. This will allow the straps to slacken and for more movement. Settling down is more likely with insufficient and soft bearers.
Strap well plus check later.
A good idea is to strap into the chassis, so tension can be checked without opening the curtains.
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