Actrosman:
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!
Didn’t need to! My front window looks onto the A4, through the trees Just down to the right from your first photo! I was aware of wagons still trying to trundle through at about 3.00, hearing the hiss and clack of the gears as they got to the roundabout. Then it suddenly went quiet again, must have been when they reopened it. It was empty at 4.30 when the first alarm went off.
Berkshireblue:
Actrosman:
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!
Didn’t need to! My front window looks onto the A4, through the trees Just down to the right from your first photo! I was aware of wagons still trying to trundle through at about 3.00, hearing the hiss and clack of the gears as they got to the roundabout. Then it suddenly went quiet again, must have been when they reopened it. It was empty at 4.30 when the first alarm went off.
Could’ve been stood there with a big urn going, supplying tea/coffee to those of us not lucky enough to be tucked up in bed…50p/cup, you could’ve had the the rest of the week off!
Took a Woolies decker once and new there was something badly wrong straightaway as I could see far too much trailer appearing in the top of the mirror with every road bump.
Creeped back and the bottom was filled with kids clothes and the top, which I think were going to be used by a store having a refit, was all empty metal cages nested together.
Muppet forkies that can’t tell a heavy pallet from a light one do my nut in TBH, as well.
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.
from what I heard he was a lucky man then
Carlbob:
Looks like a cement mixer gone over and the mixer is detached from the truck.
getreading.co.uk/news/readin … on-9136987
saw the truck at the garage at membury services west today ,bit of a mess
Own Account Driver:
Took a Woolies decker once and new there was something badly wrong straightaway as I could see far too much trailer appearing in the top of the mirror with every road bump.
Creeped back and the bottom was filled with kids clothes and the top, which I think were going to be used by a store having a refit, was all empty metal cages nested together.
Muppet forkies that can’t tell a heavy pallet from a light one do my nut in TBH, as well.
all you needed then was a slight bend and it would have been bye bye trailer and unit
I heard they kept a lane shut this morning to allow the cement from the ruptured drum to set so they could break it up
Another two in roughly the same area this morning, one on the M4, and another coming down form junction 18 I think - not totally sure of the location of the 2nd one.
I have put a tipper truck on its side. Tipping on perfectly level ground one of the hinge pins on the body sheared off as it went up. Found to be as a result of a badly welded repair on the bracket.
I flipped through 90 degrees with the cab but managed to grab the steering wheel. Crashed feet first through the passenger door glass as the mirrors came up to meet me. Thank heavens for rigger boots.!!
As for rolls on the open road, I have never even got close to one, but am guessing they down to a combination of top heavy or unsecured loads and probably excessive speed. Can think of a few badly designed roundabouts with excessive cambers.
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
I can give you the number of my old driver if you like and let him try explain it to you [emoji12]
Matt.
Conor:
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.
Did you “choose” to be an agency driver shortly afterwards? 
Contraflow:
Conor:
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.
Did you “choose” to be an agency driver shortly afterwards?
B
Never one to let the facts get in the way of a good (if somewhat tired) joke, he mentions in that same post, that he was back there the week after…
nodding donkey:
Contraflow:
Conor:
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.
Did you “choose” to be an agency driver shortly afterwards?
Never one to let the facts get in the way of a good (if somewhat tired) joke, he mentions in that same post, that he was back there the week after…
I only got as far as the first sentence.
Congratulations to you though for making it to the end of one of Conor’s tl;dr posts.
Contraflow:
Conor:
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.
Did you “choose” to be an agency driver shortly afterwards?
Choose?
You don’t choose, the agency dark side chooses you
He had the grubby hi-viz and bluetooth earpiece already and the injury from that accident completed the transformation by adding a limp. Like Darth Vader the journey to the dark side was then complete.
Well known fact Darth Vader had actually won the lottery and only went Vadering, as a lifestyle choice, because Mrs Vader couldn’t stand him being round the house.