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Moment lorry overturns emptying animal feed all over holiday cottage White out! Moment lorry trying to navigate sharp bend on coastal road overturns emptying animal feed all over holiday cottage | Daily Mail Online

Sorry if repost, not seen it. Way he just went on full bore, think he genuinely thought he’d made it lol

Strange animals, fancy eating lime.

The driver just went for it, no hesitation or bothering to check whether or not he was going to make it, lime gets everywhere so that must have made one hell of a mess :frowning_face:

Very strange part of the country that… They even have their own language, which is nothing like English and is classed with Welsh and Breton as part of the Celtic langage family.
And their roads are notorious, half of them are barely fit for cars, let alone HGVs.

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The journalism is of a similar standard to the driving, about which the author is writing.

Absolutely! The driver was trying to negotiate, not navigate the sharp bend :roll_eyes:

Well, we are speaking of The Daily Mail Online, just look at the other articles on that same page.

Assuming they do still have some journalists with a command of the English language, these people will probably have a more managerial role and won’t have a hand in “the copy” that goes online.

Apparently the modern young “reporter” is terrified of picking up a phone and calling a source, so they rely on texts and emails. The days of the Woodward and Bernstein style epic exposé are surely long gone with Gen Z at the laptop.

It looks like a reasonable line up to 0.07-8.But all went wrong from there.It needed to keep straight for longer to put the nose of the trailer further to the right.Then maybe a few shunts to clear the front offside corner of the unit.But needed to get out a few times to check the blind side.
But in the real world it was never going round that corner at best it’s an artic being used for an A frame drawbar outfit job

Another clown of a steering wheel attendant behind the wheel ffs,
licence from Trafford Park by the looks of things,
What a d======d , Waste of having a N/S mirrow, but then againg no brain to use it, the cpc works well though lol, maybe lack of powersteering would have solved this problem ?
How did the real drivers get on without it all them years ago i wonder?
Many years ago i saw a Suttons driver do that with a load of glass in a truck park in Markyate, He came and asked where he could a lift, i asked why, Thats me finished so will have to make my own way home lol I did give him a lift to J9 though,

To be fair the nearside mirrors won’t show a lot at that angle of turn.
But the steering inputs were more like a van than an artic.Also don’t get why he turned the unit so far to the left on the exit.Just made matters much worse.

Yep - another cowboy. CF’s observations are correct. Approach was much too fast and didn’t drive far enough forward into ‘the hole’. In crawler, he could have utilised every millimetre of space available. Then to cap it all he isn’t in the least interested in where his trailer wheels are. Again, as CF suggests, you can’t see much in the n/s mirror at that angle so simply get out, check, shunt, check again and accomplish the mission. Personally, I would have got and and done a recce before attempting the turn, but I’m a lapsed driver so what do I know!

Volvo of that age would have electrically operated mirrors so he could have widened the angle to keep his eye on the trailer wheels-if he could be arrised of course :face_with_peeking_eye: