Mike used to live in Bromyard top end of town take Winslow rd residential area to get to old holders site also turning in road complete no no plan route if in difficulties phone police for assistance then you’re covered with any decision they make and with the transport office
well whatever happened here the driver wont forget it in a hurry and will probably never make the same mistake again
i was sent to la hoist in buxton with a 14.6 box on anyone that knows it there is a low bridge just near the entrance i spotted this on the map and came in up through the village some of the tightest and windy rds i ever been on at one point i thought i was getting stuck
gets to the place only to be told the bridge sighn is wrong and everyone comes in through that way 
Wonder if he had to sell his car on Ebay 
Contraflow:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Looking at the picture i dont think that would have happened…Your eyes must be better than mine. You’re able to accurately assess how firm of a piece of ground is from a picture? I’m impressed.
Yep.
Own Account Driver:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Own Account Driver:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Mike-C:
FarnboroughBoy11:
You seem to have taken my post out of context, i wasn’t explaining to you how to do anything. I was simply stating one of the options as to what he could have done differently as a reply to what you have stated which i have highlighted in red.OK mate, you go ahead. Explain what he could of done differently, i got it all wrong.
I was just saying, if he was so adamant that he wanted to spin it around he could have sacrificed the trailer by putting it on the grass instead of the unit thats all.
If the grounds slightly soft there’s still a good chance the trailer will sink down to the axles and if there’s a kerb you might not get the wheels back over even pulling straight ahead.
This was either an inexperienced driver with a reversing phobia or a slightly more experienced one that panicked. Best thing would have been to sit there with the hazards on and phone plod if the road was too busy or fast to reverse back along.
Looking at the picture i dont think that would have happened on this occasion, putting the trailer wheels on the grass for 10 seconds then spinning it round with enough momentum i personally think he would have got out of it. Not disputing the grass and everything will be completely [zb] around him but i dont think he would have got stuck like he has done. Its a chipliner anyway isnt it? so probably not that heavy.
Something makes me recall from a previous thread you’re a bit over-confident on spinning it round where Stobart drivers have come unstuck.
I really don’t think a successful spinning round was on the cards there whatever position he started out at.
yes and I am still adamant that one day I will have to pass through that village and I will have my video camera ready.
And I agree with you, I think it would have been best if he put the hazards on and reverse, stopping for traffic when need be.
happysack:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Own Account Driver:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Mike-C:
FarnboroughBoy11:
You seem to have taken my post out of context, i wasn’t explaining to you how to do anything. I was simply stating one of the options as to what he could have done differently as a reply to what you have stated which i have highlighted in red.OK mate, you go ahead. Explain what he could of done differently, i got it all wrong.
I was just saying, if he was so adamant that he wanted to spin it around he could have sacrificed the trailer by putting it on the grass instead of the unit thats all.
If the grounds slightly soft there’s still a good chance the trailer will sink down to the axles and if there’s a kerb you might not get the wheels back over even pulling straight ahead.
This was either an inexperienced driver with a reversing phobia or a slightly more experienced one that panicked. Best thing would have been to sit there with the hazards on and phone plod if the road was too busy or fast to reverse back along.
Looking at the picture i dont think that would have happened on this occasion, putting the trailer wheels on the grass for 10 seconds then spinning it round with enough momentum i personally think he would have got out of it. Not disputing the grass and everything will be completely [zb] around him but i dont think he would have got stuck like he has done. Its a chipliner anyway isnt it? so probably not that heavy.
why would a chipliner not be heavy? Trailer and unit weight is in the 17 ton region. Loaded with something like coke then it would easily be 44 ton.
Bulk loads can vary, recycled material can be light, but woodchips, sawdust, peat or bark will usually be 44 ton.
Oh are they not, I’ve never done chip liners. I was just going by materials like bark and wood chips I’ve had in one of those big bags and they seemed much much lighter than say a bag of sand or soil so I thought that a fully loaded trailer with them wouldn’t be that heavy.
But I know you do it so I believe you 
Yeah, very easy to mega overload a chip liner or walking floor.
Silver_Surfer:
Yeah, very easy to mega overload a chip liner or walking floor.
Yes very very easy!
Although once loaded waste chocolate on a tipper with no weigher. Got to Brackley Dryer and had to drop the trailer on weigh bridge! My old 420 (red spot) still went like a train! When we worked out the net weight I was quite surprised just how heavy chocolate is!
Pat Hasler:
He’s a Stobbart driver, he is obviously trying to make a ‘U’ turn but hasn’t got it figured out because he is a Stobbart driver. Not to say all Stobbart drivers are bad, but a vast persentage are as dumb as a box of rocks, they are the UK equivelent fo Swift, Hunt or Werner drivers over here.
Persentage ?,stobbart ? Dumb as a box of rocks 
dozy:
Pat Hasler:
He’s a Stobbart driver, he is obviously trying to make a ‘U’ turn but hasn’t got it figured out because he is a Stobbart driver. Not to say all Stobbart drivers are bad, but a vast persentage are as dumb as a box of rocks, they are the UK equivelent fo Swift, Hunt or Werner drivers over here.Persentage ?,stobbart ? Dumb as a box of rocks
Equivelent?? Perhaps all these new words are just Americanisms?