Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
26 ton of thatchers cider , happened 2 mins from my house , gutted for the driver
Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
226 ton of thatchers cider , happened 2 mins from my house , gutted for the driver
Am I guessing right dimlow van driver had gone wrong side of central reservation and Gregories had to slam the brakes on ?
Well boss…
Remember you said you prefer curtain ciders?
blue estate:
Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
226 ton of thatchers cider , happened 2 mins from my house , gutted for the driver
Am I guessing right dimlow van driver had gone wrong side of central reservation and Gregories had to slam the brakes on ?
No he was helping with traffic control , fair play stayed there for ages assisting driver with this until recovery arrived even when I left he was still there ,
ezydriver:
Well boss…Remember you said you prefer curtain ciders?
trucknet csi, i suspect he’s approahed that chicane a bit too fast… 
m.a.n rules:
trucknet csi, i suspect he’s approahed that chicane a bit too fast…
Apparently it happened before he got to this point M5 is 2 mins from here so he come off as he didn’t want to cause chaos on motorway,
My first thoughts not strapped apart from back 2 which funnily enough have stayed pretty much in place
I have done the same work for dhl trade team and the trailer are all strapped up by warehouse only when collecting empties we need to strap and the trailer are curtainsider but are made for this type of job
Gregory should copy
Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
126 ton of thatchers cider , happened 2 mins from my house , gutted for the driver
Notice how he’s stood there at the back only just now deciding to put straps on it?
It’s shifted because his lazy arse couldn’t be bothered to put straps on it, not even internals.
Even if they’re not strapped, they won’t move if you drive it like a lorry, and not like a car.
ezydriver:
Even if they’re not strapped, they won’t move if you drive it like a lorry, and not like a car.
It depends on the state of them when they’re loaded on the trailer. If the pallets are machine packed and wrapped and kept in a dry warehouse then they’re not going anywhere. If they’re hand stacked, wrapped and/or have been left to get damp, then once on layer of boxes collapses it doesn’t matter how carefully you drive, they are going to be leaning against your curtains.
Conor:
It’s shifted because his lazy arse couldn’t be bothered to put straps on it, not even internals.
“Whey man ah divven’t strap nowt down me, ah just drive to the load…” Or words to that effect in whatever his home dialect might be 
His TM would do well to have a browse of pages 51 to 55 inclusive:
assets.publishing.service.gov.u … efects.pdf
DCPCFML:
ezydriver:
Even if they’re not strapped, they won’t move if you drive it like a lorry, and not like a car.It depends on the state of them when they’re loaded on the trailer. If the pallets are machine packed and wrapped and kept in a dry warehouse then they’re not going anywhere. If they’re hand stacked, wrapped and/or have been left to get damp, then once on layer of boxes collapses it doesn’t matter how carefully you drive, they are going to be leaning against your curtains.
I’ve done thousands of loads from breweries, and though I agree with you, I’m yet to see a full load which has been hand stacked and wrapped, or wet through. I’ve only ever seen machine stacked and wrapped, and dry.
We sometimes get a shot load like that in our yard. It’s always the foot-down-Friday drivers who seem to get them. Always.
On the third image, is that white square on the curtain an EN-12642-XL cert? Fuzzy on my screen.
If so it doesn`t necessarily need strapping on every pallet to be legal.
The load has stayed on the trailer, although it clearly isn`t going to be taken any further.
Those XL trailers will contain a lot of loads. They are strong.
Even strapping every pallet won`t restrain pallets that are badly stacked, or inadequately wrapped, or chucked around by drivers or FLT operators.
Strapping will always be better than not, but maybe not always necessary.
Conor:
Happy Trucker1:
Happy Trucker1:
126 ton of thatchers cider , happened 2 mins from my house , gutted for the driver
Notice how he’s stood there at the back only just now deciding to put straps on it?
It’s shifted because his lazy arse couldn’t be bothered to put straps on it, not even internals.
That’s not the driver he’s busy directing traffic
ezydriver:
DCPCFML:
ezydriver:
Even if they’re not strapped, they won’t move if you drive it like a lorry, and not like a car.It depends on the state of them when they’re loaded on the trailer. If the pallets are machine packed and wrapped and kept in a dry warehouse then they’re not going anywhere. If they’re hand stacked, wrapped and/or have been left to get damp, then once on layer of boxes collapses it doesn’t matter how carefully you drive, they are going to be leaning against your curtains.
I’ve done thousands of loads from breweries, and though I agree with you, I’m yet to see a full load which has been hand stacked and wrapped, or wet through. I’ve only ever seen machine stacked and wrapped, and dry.
We sometimes get a shot load like that in our yard. It’s always the foot-down-Friday drivers who seem to get them. Always.
Yeah, if that’s a full load of boxed cider then it’s most likely come off a machine packer, so the likelihood is it’s down to his driving or insufficient strapping. But it’s also not beyond the realms of possibilites that an event happened just prior to this where he had to suddenly swerve to avoid a collision, so it’s unfair to finger-wag without knowing the full story.
I’ve done keg loads out of KNDL with non-net curtain trailers down to Hams Hall with kegs 3 trays high (22s? The big [zb]ers) and got them there still upright, although required some extremely delicate driving. As you’ll know from doing brewery work yourself, it’s impossible to use the internal straps on keg trays as it just bends them out of shape and obviously the kegs are still loose either side of the straps anyway, so a completely pointless exercise. We really shouldn’t have been doing the subby work at all as our trailers were totally unsuitable without internal nets. The H&S wallahs of today would have had kittens if they’d seen the state of the loads we were taking out of the gate . Different times…
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ezydriver:
Even if they’re not strapped, they won’t move if you drive it like a lorry, and not like a car.
It depends on the state of them when they’re loaded on the trailer. If the pallets are machine packed and wrapped and kept in a dry warehouse then they’re not going anywhere. If they’re hand stacked, wrapped and/or have been left to get damp, then once on layer of boxes collapses it doesn’t matter how carefully you drive, they are going to be leaning against your curtains.
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I’ve done thousands of loads from breweries, and though I agree with you, I’m yet to see a full load which has been hand stacked and wrapped, or wet through. I’ve only ever seen machine stacked and wrapped, and dry.
We sometimes get a shot load like that in our yard. It’s always the foot-down-Friday drivers who seem to get them. Always.
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Yeah, if that’s a full load of boxed cider then it’s most likely come off a machine packer, so the likelihood is it’s down to his driving or insufficient strapping. But it’s also not beyond the realms of possibilites that an event happened just prior to this where he had to suddenly swerve to avoid a collision, so it’s unfair to finger-wag without knowing the full story.
I’ve done keg loads out of KNDL with non-net curtain trailers down to Hams Hall with kegs 3 trays high (22s? The big [zb]ers) and got them there still upright, although required some extremely delicate driving. As you’ll know from doing brewery work yourself, it’s impossible to use the internal straps on keg trays as it just bends them out of shape and obviously the kegs are still loose either side of the straps anyway, so a completely pointless exercise. We really shouldn’t have been doing the subby work at all as our trailers were totally unsuitable without internal nets. The H&S wallahs of today would have had kittens if they’d seen the state of the loads we were taking out of the gate . Different times…
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My load Wednesday , from Drotwich to eagle brewery Bedford , new empties and new pallets , all on wooden pallets , every row cross strapped, standard XXL trailer and internals
Pic at brewery after careful driving and going M5/42/6/1 and A421 to Bedford plus careful driving
P/s subbie did it Friday before only cross back straps and spent 2 hours restocking them