cracker-bar:
The piece under the video says “the driver put on the emergency brake”, hardly surprised that load shifted, if he banged the handbrake on at that speed!
Reporters are well known for getting this stuff correct… not.
cracker-bar:
The piece under the video says “the driver put on the emergency brake”, hardly surprised that load shifted, if he banged the handbrake on at that speed!
why do you think pulling the handbrake is more likely to make the load shift than a traditional emergency stop using the footbrake ?
It wouldn’t, but the first thing I noticed was that he didn’t seem ready to stop, ie; slowing down a bit if it’s stale green, especially with that lot on. The commentary said he was 31% overloaded, so that wouldn’t have helped either. Drive accordingly…after securing the load properly.
I almost got arrested in the 90’s for losing my rag with a driver who pulled out in front of me then hit the brakes, I did see red mist but more so when a dog van decided in his infinite wisdom it was my fault.
its easily done and thinking how we used to shove all sorts into tilts am amazed more people didn’t have this happen.
Carried pipes and concrete out of Stanton and Stavely for a while. Never felt entirely safe with either no matter how well I secured them. I never saw anything bad happen to anyone but heard some horror stories. I have never braked so smoothly in all my life as I often wondered in an emergency would the load come through the cab. Quite often the pipes were actually higher than the headboard.
It always surprises me there are not more such accidents with loads, and not just lorries; I remember a while back a lad in a Sprinter called in and took away a gearbox (Quarter ton or more?) lifted into the back on the forks, and then he just shut the doors. I said are you not going to strap it down, he looked vacant, opened the doors tried to push it with all his might, concluded “thats not ganna shift mate” shut doors again and pished off, left yard with mobile phone held to his lug !
Anttoeknee:
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Bluey Circles:
could they be traffic lights on the gantry ?Yep - quite possibly. Didn`t clock that one. I just noticed that a second or two before the load punches through, the vehicle filming it shuffles forward a couple of feet, then stops again. Curious.
Story and different angle here
Anyone on here know Chinese? I wonder if he is the Chinese Angus Nairn? 
I used to drive a 7.5T truck for a steel stockholder in Staines. They had a mixture of billets (which were in stillages) and rods, which were just placed on the bed, always unrestrained. The truck did have a bulkhead which stopped the rods shooting straight through the cab, but whenever I had to brake (especially if sharply), they would thud against the bulkhead and sometimes pushed the truck forward. I’ve driven for another stockholder more recently which transports steel sheets and coils, mostly on 44T artics, and they use dog chains to hold the stuff down, and of course there’s a bulkhead. Regardless of overloading or the driver’s error, the lack of a bulkhead and other restraint is what killed that driver.
albion1971:
Carried pipes and concrete out of Stanton and Stavely for a while. Never felt entirely safe with either no matter how well I secured them. I never saw anything bad happen to anyone but heard some horror stories. I have never braked so smoothly in all my life as I often wondered in an emergency would the load come through the cab. Quite often the pipes were actually higher than the headboard.
Trick with those things was to ratchet them down tight, drive over some of the potholes on the Stanton site (choice of thousands) then ratchet them down again before you went on the road. Used to fetch them out of there for Willie Wests years ago. Worst ones were those where you’d just got two pipes on but to keep them within the width limit they were set up with dunnage so that one sat higher than the other; they were a sod to get right.
Sidevalve:
albion1971:
Carried pipes and concrete out of Stanton and Stavely for a while. Never felt entirely safe with either no matter how well I secured them. I never saw anything bad happen to anyone but heard some horror stories. I have never braked so smoothly in all my life as I often wondered in an emergency would the load come through the cab. Quite often the pipes were actually higher than the headboard.Trick with those things was to ratchet them down tight, drive over some of the potholes on the Stanton site (choice of thousands) then ratchet them down again before you went on the road. Used to fetch them out of there for Willie Wests years ago. Worst ones were those where you’d just got two pipes on but to keep them within the width limit they were set up with dunnage so that one sat higher than the other; they were a sod to get right.
You are so right. I used to do the same. Got to say I liked the pipes better. I hated it when I got sent to concrete dept.
Took this lot to Liverpool.
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