Sent to me by a mate.
Truck at Brampton hut.
I bet the poor sod’s tried to turn around in the dark, those low riding axle-less double deckers are too easy to jam up on a kerb.
Why does everyone now need to take picture of EVERYTHING and post it on fudging Facebook/instagram/twitter.
I’m starting to sound like an old man I know but I was in the town the other day and people were walking down the street just taking pictures of themselves like wtf. Everyone always has their phones out these days 24/7 constantly glued to them.
Also I remember one time when I got rear ended some random people just started taking pictures of my car they was not involved and did not see a thing yet they are just taking pictures anyway? When I asked them why they said ‘for facebook’.
At least he hasn’t hit the bridge, ■■■■ clever those Dutchmen keeping a double decker under 13’2 when ours are 3 feet higher
This is the kind…
Of thing where the dcpc could actually make a difference. A short simple section that states ‘anything other than smooth black tarmac or good solid concrete and your truck will stop dead in it’s tracks’. As obvious as that statement may seem, there’s a bucket load of drivers who learn the hard way. I’ve seen four seperate occaisions this year where drivers have got stuck in lay-bys on the A1 and had to be pulled out with a wrecker.
You can’t buy experience but you can educate drivers to avoid getting stuck like this.
Unless you are the bod that drives the truck that brings the smooth black tarmac.
What do we do about concrete coloured concrete? 
slowlane:
What do we do about concrete coloured concrete?
As long as it is good and solid, it should be alright!! I personally would wait at least 48 hours after it’s been poured to be on the safe side…
Probably the same driver that hit my truck last Wednesday trying to blind side in to a bay in BIrchange services
Perhaps he was trying to park between the cones 
Last seen tailgating a car beside DickyNick. Looks like he got a clear run at last.
So.……We have those sat behind a desk designing such things, to go into places designed by others behind a desk, and driven by those who do not know what it is like to drive a desk…It was never going to end well…Was it? No matter how much they are told, those who sit behind desks will never know what it is really like if they are not in the environment…Do they even know that rain is actually wet?
Well…Do they? Because this is where we are at, not just haulage, but every aspect of life, it is controlled by those who have no experience of the actual environment and from what I can see, it is not going well…Is it?
I could walk you along several miles of river bank and tell you all about the wild life that used to exist, but it is all gone now, because of those who sit behind a desk and have never walked the river that I do…The UK, you are welcome to it.
Where do you live?
att:
So.……We have those sat behind a desk designing such things, to go into places designed by others behind a desk, and driven by those who do not know what it is like to drive a desk…It was never going to end well…Was it? No matter how much they are told, those who sit behind desks will never know what it is really like if they are not in the environment…Do they even know that rain is actually wet?
So are you saying it’s the fault of the persons who designed the trailer and the dead end road, not actually an access to anywhere?
As someone who recently got stuck… I have a lot of sympathy for him. His was different to mine - I had a horrifically tight turn - then went down the road. It got narrower and narrower with cars… At one point it was so tight I had to put the handbrake on and jump between my window and passenger side, you couldn’t open the doors. I had about an inch either side, the trailer was overhanding cars… After about 20 mins I’d got 100m down the road. Only to find a couple of cars parked illegally. Meaning I’d never get out.
If someone took a photo I’d be ridiculed as well. I made a small mistake of not realising what it was like - in the pitch black on an unlit street. I’ll get abuse for this - but I almost wanted to cry. It took three hours for me to get out of it… and it involved me getting loads of abuse from the drivers of said cars. Looking back I think I did pretty well to cause zero damage. But I can appreciate how that driver feels.
I won’t ever make that mistake again - and I’m sure he won’t.