just heard about the crash on the M4 involving a rollover,i have been wondering how you manage to turn a hgv over,i am tempting fate here by saying I have never done so and I have been driving hgvs 25 yrs now,its not a dig at truckers who have done so its more my curiosity,i know one could be blowouts and losing control,hgvs being top heavy etc,be interesting to hear how it happens
I know guy who knows a guy who claimed he rolled an Electrolux decker because they filled it up, washing machines down one side and washer dryers on the other…
How true that is… who knows
It didn’t just roll over, it ended up facing from whence it came.
Lack of forward planning resulting in sudden violent avoiding action. Not saying that’s the case here, but if I were a betting man that’s where my 50 pence stake would be going.
truckman020:
just heard about the crash on the M4 involving a rollover,i have been wondering how you manage to turn a hgv over,i am tempting fate here by saying I have never done so and I have been driving hgvs 25 yrs now,its not a dig at truckers who have done so its more my curiosity,i know one could be blowouts and losing control,hgvs being top heavy etc,be interesting to hear how it happens
My dad went over on the roundabout at Beancross Rd, Grangemouth nearly 10yrs ago. His tacho was examined and he was only doing 12mph when he went over. He had loaded the container at Croy with bales of waste paper and it was loaded with a FLT with a clamp. Because of this, the bales weren’t packed tight together, meaning they could move in the back of the box during transit. They shifted going round the roundabout, taking the whole lot over. His mob had about 4 go over carrying the same load.
damoq:
truckman020:
just heard about the crash on the M4 involving a rollover,i have been wondering how you manage to turn a hgv over,i am tempting fate here by saying I have never done so and I have been driving hgvs 25 yrs now,its not a dig at truckers who have done so its more my curiosity,i know one could be blowouts and losing control,hgvs being top heavy etc,be interesting to hear how it happensMy dad went over on the roundabout at Beancross Rd, Grangemouth nearly 10yrs ago. His tacho was examined and he was only doing 12mph when he went over. He had loaded the container at Croy with bales of waste paper and it was loaded with a FLT with a clamp. Because of this, the bales weren’t packed tight together, meaning they could move in the back of the box during transit. They shifted going round the roundabout, taking the whole lot over. His mob had about 4 go over carrying the same load.
forgot about movement of load
Berkshireblue:
It didn’t just roll over, it ended up facing from whence it came.
hows the driver
Cuts and bruises. There are other vehicles involved, not sure to what extent.
Reading is still a car park, even this time of the evening.
Last wk in Belgium spotted on other carriageway an artic tipper on its side, a car or van big covered trailer loose & just in front of it & a regular artic behind with the right rear stoved in, so quite what had gone on I have no idea.
my mate rolled a tipper on a bend.he reckons he was going too fast
Looks like a cement mixer gone over and the mixer is detached from the truck.
getreading.co.uk/news/readin … on-9136987
A Scandinavian Flick, or in plain English a quick left right or vice versa flick will have an artic on its side pretty sharpiash on a straight road, as demonstrated in this video curtesy of the West Yorkshire filth.
One of our lads rolled his @8mph going around a roundabout. He was pulling a decker trailer loaded with cast iron.
Don’t know if the load shifted, but weight and height is a bad combo imho.
He was lucky though he went over on his near side, so apart from a few bumps and bruises he was fine.
He had a mate who rolled his onto the offside. Sounds insane now, but this poor sod put his arm out the open window to stop himself falling. He ending up loosing his arm.
Also all the stuff in the cab TV, fridges, your lunch end up landing on you when you roll on the offside. 
weeto:
A Scandinavian Flick, or in plain English a quick left right or vice versa flick will have an artic on its side pretty sharpiash on a straight road, as demonstrated in this video curtesy of the West Yorkshire filth.
http://youtu.be/l_eiP8sk_KQ
Everytime I see this video, I still find it hard to believe that the truck in front, who looks to be from the same firm, did not see what was going on. He is returning to nearside lane, he must be checking his nearside mirror? His mate is behind him…how did they bith miss the car being there?
Even with the truck turned over and blocking the carriageway, his mate carries on oblivious to it all. Amazing!
I do suspect there is a bit more going on here than is shown on the video though.
Rolled one over at 24 mph after hitting black ice with nearside wheels and then getting on dry road with traction.
The vehicle was sliding to the curb on the ice and when traction came back the top kept going and the chassis etc stopped sliding…over she went.
No prosecution, no blame.
When I worked at Carlsberg we had a few rollovers with keg loads coming off M25 onto southbound M11 towards Docklands. The radius of the slip road tightens quite a bit a caught the drivers out. Not a great design but ultimately the driver’s fault.
I took a rigid tipper onto a landfill site. The dozer operator told me where to tip. All looked smooth and level but there must of been a cache of empty plastic bottles concealed below the nearside surface. Opened the back, returned to the cab, raised the body, hey presto, horizon reoriented and nearside clavicle bust, compensation.
the maoster:
Lack of forward planning resulting in sudden violent avoiding action. Not saying that’s the case here, but if I were a betting man that’s where my 50 pence stake would be going.
The only accident I ever had in a truck on the road involved putting a Hygena wagon on its side not long after passing my test. I don’t remember it but apparently according to a car following I was just going round the roundabout on the Howden spur barely 2 miles from the yard and the rear axle just clipped the kerb and over she went. I wasn’t speeding, I wasn’t rushing because it was melamine worktops and I’d been told by absolutely everyone it was a dangerous load, the load was secured as well as it could be with internal straps and ratchet straps. It just shifted and once they start moving you’re not stopping them.
I wrote off a nearly new scania and trailer and the load. Given that Hygena self insured so bore the full cost and I was back in there the following week and didn’t even get a visit from the Police I think its safe to say they didn’t put it down to driving like a nutter.
Strangely coincidentally after that they fitted some trailers out with racking for worktops. I later found out a couple had been popped on their side with that load on just spinning around in the yard.
Berkshireblue:
Cuts and bruises. There are other vehicles involved, not sure to what extent.Reading is still a car park, even this time of the evening.
Should’ve come through from j12 at 1am then…it was still a car park! A4 at Calcot (that tiny stretch of D/C) had artics parked in the middle overnighting. Took me an hour to get from j13 to Worton Grange near j12. M4 e/b was also backed up for miles trying to get off as 12-11 was closed all night. You’d have thought that after resurfacing the bit where the mixer went over, they’d have cancelled the planned closure to free the traffic. Once we’d passed the traffic lights at Burghfield Rd, it was pretty good going… I tweeted Reading Birough Council earlier, asking why they never turned the traffic lights off at 11ish but had no reply yet! Anyway…I’ll be collecting my infringement points next week when they analyse the tacho…I’m claiming dispensation!!!
