del949:
at this stage we don’t know that the driver of the overturned truck WAS going too fast, give him the benfit of doubt until we do know
straight out of the tnuk handbook is that one 
just after “so called professional drivers” and “think of the children”
we will probably never know the exact reason,but for purposes of this discussion can we just assume 
afterall if we never talked about anything without knowing every detail was 100% fact…then we would`nt talk very often
My dad was talking to the driver back in Carnforth yesterday. Held his hands up and said he entered the roundabout too fast and couldn’t turn it. At the end of the day we all make mistakes, just his was on the upper end of the scale. Pretty sure he won’t do it twice!
There you are then… now you can discuss his excess speed 
del949:
There you are then… now you can discuss his excess speed
Oh, but wait. How do we know this is true…?
TAXI!
because someone told someone who told Dew who told us!
del949:
because someone told someone who told Dew who told us!
MMTM! Yaaaay, first time I’ve used that since I worked out what it stood for!
limeyphil:
stevieboy308:
limeyphil:
another one that can’t handle a lorry.Do you think that it’s impossible for you to throw one over?
well i’ve carried most things, including hanging. they don’t throw themselves over.
it’s not impossible. if i drove like a complete ■■■, then i reckon i could get one to go over.
My only ever truck accident was at 10MPH. I was carrying laminate worktops for Hygena. I don’t remember what happened as I got concussion but according to the car following me, apparently as I was going round the roundabout at Howden to join the sliproad for the motorway the rear wheel of the trailer caught the kerb on the roundabout island and the lot popped on its side.
I had used three sets of ratchet straps on each stack and used every available internal strap as well and my strapping it down had been recorded on CCTV. No action taken by Police and I was back driving there the following Monday. As I was agency, if I’d done anything stupid I wouldn’t have been back in. The TM visited me in hospital the day after the accident and said that they’d had drivers pop them on their side just spinning them round in the yard. It was very shortly after that that they put racking in some trailers and dedicated them to worktops.
Could you explain again how the trailer wheel hit the roundabout…? 
As long as he has learned his lesson.
Rooster:
“Bridge strikes? Yes - no excuse for being incompetent.”The Hereford/Ledbury Rd ( A438) bridge has been hit several times this year !
There are no I repeat NO signs giving information on the bridge height on the approachs to Hereford, the bridge is 14’ 6".
I blame both the local council and the highways agency, for not having information on road signs and not the drivers !
Are you sure about that one? If you are referring to the bridge just by the texaco garage, it is marked at the roundabout just prior to the Tossco local.
Happydaze:
Could you explain again how the trailer wheel hit the roundabout…?
Driver input
…and from one who saw it,( from the flyover) it’s a huge roundabout and only too much speed could make that happen,
unlike the roundabout(s) at Howden which are small and tight.
A rollover will only happen when the vehicle or load is going faster sideways than it is forwards which is why they can fall over at
any speed, including very fast and very slow.
Regards,
Nick
Bah chipboard does slide like hell even when it’s properly strapped, only way to drive with that is with caution.
In fact that don’t make sense. Properly strapped should be 6 ratchet straps per pack.
I’ve been to a few that’ve run our of Wilsonart at Shildon, it’s our area on the police scheme for heavies. They’re on their sides within a couple of miles of the facotry.
Stand the ttruck back up in 20 mins, then there’s 27 tons of chipboard worktops to handball back onto the truck 
And they’re always new, inexperienced drivers that do it.
