I was following a milk tanker up the road the other night there and we were coming into Kilmaurs where it’s very very tight. He indicated to go left at a mini roundabout now only a few weeks previous we were told to take control of the right hand lane to go left at this roundabout should we be brought here on the test as 1) it gives you a look as to what’s coming, and 2 it gives you room to get the wagon round.
Like I said, he indicated to go left and stayed in the left lane, and i thought oooft this is going to be tight, next thing he mounted the kerb a topper and came so very close to scraping the tanker off the side of the building, and to make things worse the artic that was delivering to the shop next door was sitting on the street he was turning.
It doesn’t look all that tight in the link and nor is it ever as quiet as it shows in the link either. It did make me wonder why he never made full use of the other lane as it was late at night with nothing around. He was in a 6x2 tag rigid.
Not really important or a headline story but have you ever came close and then realized god what could’ve happened if i’d hit that?
That mini-roundabout is a pain the arse in an artic. Never done it in a rigid, but I often take low-loaders in that way with plant on and you need your wits about you.
This bit of road in Sanquhar is even more hairy for me…
I come through there quite often, in the middle of the night, in an outfit not to dissimilar to this but with a 6x4 prime mover…
The kerbs are too big to let the low-loader pass over the top of, and so you just have to tuck it in as far as you can and crawl through very slowly, with no more than a couple of inches to play with between the terex and the building.
Gogan:
That mini-roundabout is a pain the arse in an artic. Never done it in a rigid, but I often take low-loaders in that way with plant on and you need your wits about you.
This bit of road in Sanquhar is even more hairy for me…
I come through there quite often, in the middle of the night, in an outfit not to dissimilar to this but with a 6x4 prime mover…
The kerbs are too big to let the low-loader pass over the top of, and so you just have to tuck it in as far as you can and crawl through very slowly, with no more than a couple of inches to play with between the terex and the building.
Aye GOGAN the planners did’ny think about low loaders when they altered the pavements
there, that few inches the took of the road to widen the pavement made it even narrower.
But when I am walking down or up past there if it’s clear and one’s coming I wave them through as that slight bend makes it difficult to see whats coming the other way. Another thing that would help Sanquhar High street is if they banned parking on both sides from the Pedestrian crossing to the Tollbooth as gie often trucks coming north cant getin to the side to let southbound ones through. Eddie.
PS if any of you see an OLD BOY taking photos of your truck around SANQUHAR dinny worry it’s no VOSA it’s only mee and Im jist adding to the collection. Eddie.
