Iâm sure that is right. And the brakes wonât stop it on a sixpence.
It isnât an accident likely to happen in the next 5 yards, but it isnât good practice.
I stuck that shot on because those were just a rubbish load of empty solvent drums on their way to a printing works to be used to collect the waste solvent for return to Solrec at Heysham back in the day. They were partially covered in a redundant fly sheet so no harm was caused to a pristine sheet. Nice Cap load that was probably about one ton in weight 
Iâd suggest he tries base jumping off the North face of the Eiger without a parachute using one of Bewickâs old sheets for a safe soft landing.
Now THATâS a decent radiator cover.
Gets nippy in Germany
Someone in the US allegedly asked for a private number plate. It was something like 686BP8 . It was given them for a small fee.
The clerk asked why that number was chosen as it didnât seem to be a date or have any other significance.
âWell, it seems that it is very difficult to read accurately, and is not at all memorableâ
Nice colourful truck there!
Talking of football club themed trucks..
Anybody remember the MAN with Alan Shearer on the side, with ââTorque of The Toonââ written on front.
Reckon thatâs more like it.
Anyhoo getting my campervan sorted.
(Not really btw.
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Youâve obviously never carried banded or shrink wrapped bricks, blocks and paving.The bands or wrap only hold it on the pallet during storage or loading and uloading.Apply the kinetic energy of a hard stop or change of direction like a roundabout they often let go in which case youâve got a collapsed pallet load of flying bricks, blocks or paving heading for the scenery.As I said yes a sheet could only help if itâs covering it all âinsideâ of drop or cage sides as in containing it as it collapses.
But not instead of the drop cage sides on a flat.âIts just a piece of weather protection not a primary means of load security.Youâre confusing primary weather protection, which might help with some containment, with primary means of load restraint which a sheet generally ainât designed for.
With obvious exceptions proving the rule like empty drums spreading the load across the sheet thereby not exceeding its weak tensile strength.
As opposed to roping between full drums or paper reels etc to use the sheet as the primary load restraint way exceeding its tensile strength.
Saaay what?
Is there a truck heâs never driven, a load that heâs never carried, an engine heâs never worked on. How on earth has our man from Leatherhead crammed so much into such a relatively short time on this planet? I donât think he ever sleeps or eats, to do so would only use time spent better learning everything about everything.
What a man 
The MM8 is a Martin Phippard picture. Some ten years ago, he sent me by postmail an envelope With a fex prints of&L trucks.
⌠with a few prints of T&L trucks!
Itâs life Jim but not as we know it
For some reason I was always fascinated by that slight fairing of the front panels on AECs (and maybe others?) just under the headlights. Did it serve a purpose or was it purely by chance? 
I always assumed that it was to make the bottom of the bodywork âagreeâ with the mudguards - harmony of design and all that.