On those large road cranes there is a wind speed detector at the end of the boom for a safe wind speed to work in, the same for the cranes at the large deep sea container ports, if it is not safe they stop work.
Why not for a truck, a computer in the truck to work out the risk and the weight, then if it was too windy to drive, you stop the truck.
The technolgy must be there, but will your boss pay for it?But how much is the recovery and the Goods in transit claim with the lorry in the ditch?Loss of time, damaged goods, injured or dead driver and so on.Driver claims for full term injury.
Have you had a trip or a fall?
Retired Old ■■■■:
Have you had a trip or a fall?
Indeed. If you’re too stupid to be able to work out when it is too windy to drive and to park up, you shouldn’t be driving a truck.
Some bosses tell drivers to carry on in high windsand they do.
toby1234abc:
Some bosses tell drivers to carry on in high windsand they do.
Not all of them, some insist you park it 
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We had a few 16’3" tautliners on Swifts and a lot of 15’6" ones that blew over in high winds. It’s not rocket science, if you feel the wind is too powerfull you slow down or stop and not on the top of an unprotected hill or some flat windswept plain. You don’t need any device to tell you, all you need is common sense.
I would sometimes drive down the A1 in Yorkshire and see one or two of ours on their sides, it’s just a matter of driving to how the thing feels, I never stopped completely for the high winds even when empty. You should learn to feel the vehicle you are driving as if it were an extension of your body.
wouldnt really work as its not the constant wind speed that blows most trucks over but a gust,
you could be happily driving along with your fancy computer telling you the winds blowing a steady 30mph and round the next corner a gust of 70mph knocks you over
Its slightly different, the difference between ground wind speed and at the top of a boom is huge.
Its not the wind so much that blows a truck over but the gusts, it would be pointless having a warning system as by the time you get an alert you could already be on your side plus an warning about wind in one area could be pointless 5 miles down the road, you’d never get any work done.
If my wagon had a wind detector fitted I would be well stuffed, it would never go anywhere, I like Guinness and curries
Pat Hasler:
I never stopped completely for the high winds even when empty. You should learn to feel the vehicle you are driving as if it were an extension of your body.
Even for us Agency drivers who may have been driving that particular vehicle for 20 mins until we find ourselves exposed on the M62?
I was unfotunate to be blown over in the late 70’s…it was a rigid furiture all alloy lightweight body to carry bulk not weight…it was febuary id come up from Bristol and was going to Buxton…on the Leek road its not the best…winds and hail it was lousey…the wind kept lifting the truck up a bit could here revs go up and then down…i thought if i can just get into Buxton get shelter…not a chance up it went and carried on going on my side i could see a dry stone wall looming i just braced my self and bang…truck went through about 5 mtrs of dry stone wall ripped all the side out furniture was matchwood blowing round the field…a woman that had been following me at a distance came to the front of the truck skirt blowing round her neck shouting are you ok ? yes i was ok just a bit shocked and bruised …i climbed out of the passenger door like i was getting out of a submarine…kind lady took me into Buxton…no mobiles in those days, rang firm not happy…told them to bollox…recovery picked me up and truck…next day same high winds gaffer said anyone refusing to take there truck out bugger off and get your cards…we all walked out…by lunchtime he came crawling asking us all back, just shows you that there lives are more important than yours or they like to think so…not something i would like to experience again been close to going over but pulled out of harms way if i could.
Pat Hasler:
You should learn to feel the vehicle you are driving as if it were an extension of your body.
I suppose thats like having your ■■■■■ grafted onto your backside. 
chester:
Even for us Agency drivers who may have been driving that particular vehicle for 20 mins until we find ourselves exposed on the M62?
So it’s YOU doing that then (See the “Things you see” thread) 
When I first started on artics, I went straight onto Q7’s and double deck trailers, had some hairy moments, but never got blown over, since then I’ve felt it being blown about but don’t feel that I’m going to go over, even with an empty double deck from Glasgow about 2 - 3 months ago when the wind was really bad.
Do trucks really get blown over or is it mostly a combination of a good gust during a turn or when hitting a dip or something?
I still mainly drive a 15’ trailer but sometimes a double deck around 15’9 - 16’ depending which 1.
I blew over on the M80 last December at night in the dark with a 14’8 trailer…It always amazes me how many 'know it all’s there are on here,who know exactly what to do,whatever the event!!
It was windy and there were GUSTS of 90mph on that day,I was empty after tipping at Bellshill and was on my way up to Blackford for the morning,I was 20 minutes from finishing for the day when I got to a flat plain just north of Dunipace,a gust of wind caught me and that was that,game over!!
■■■■ happens and it happens so quickly,all these people who come out with this self righteous ■■■■,who have never experienced but yet know exactly what to do and can react with lightning speed in the situation aren’t really worth wasting my energy arguing with,cause they know best.
Bikemonkey:
I blew over on the M80 last December at night in the dark with a 14’8 trailer…It always amazes me how many 'know it all’s there are on here,who know exactly what to do,whatever the event!!
It was windy and there were GUSTS of 90mph on that day,
When I was doing night trunking for a pallet company with 16ft trailers there was nights like that. I refused to go out.
Conor:
When I was doing night trunking for a pallet company with 16ft trailers there was nights like that. I refused to go out.
The Palletline company I’m on for at the minute wouldn’t even have one thought about any of this. They wouldn’t have any back up plan if there were gales about . I’d be interested to see how they go on during high winds that are sure to come about.
Bikemonkey:
It always amazes me how many 'know it all’s there are on here,who know exactly what to do,whatever the event!![zb] happens and it happens so quickly,all these people who come out with this self righteous [zb],who have never experienced but yet know exactly what to do and can react with lightning speed in the situation aren’t really worth wasting my energy arguing with,cause they know best.
Well done, nail on the head!