To be fair this is what happens when drivers have no fear of cut in because it’s been put out of sight out of mind on the tail sweep.
There is a YT video somewhere of drawbar drivers rounding switch back curves on a mountain road. Did it by jacknifing the trailer over the edge of the drop to gradually get it all round. Haven’t time to find it at the moment, but no doubt someone will. 
BTW, as an ex dragster myself , and having no wish to take anything away from the obvious skill of that Wolterkoops driver, it is easier to reverse a longer trailer than a shorter one. 
Exactly the same thing crossed my mind as I watched the vid. I think I’d sooner reverse that ‘lange hanger’ than reverse a short steerable hay wain with a MF 135 in a farmyard!
Well yeah I get that, the longer the trailer, the easier it is to reverse…same with an artic, assuming you know what you are doing.
(Blagging that btw, no experience whatsoever with W’&Ds.
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Which would have got round that corner easy peasy in comparison, despite being overall much longer. A big drag fan myself as evidenced by my mass conversion of the artic and rigid fleet at Toray. 
I hate the cussed contraptions with a passion, because in this country they’re usually associated with a particular vocation, mud carting! I.E. tippers, running up and down the same five kilometre route, at breakneck speeds to get the maximum number of (paid by the) loads in a day.
I’d like to see the carry on they had getting wreckers in and him up and out!
Got to be our resident A frame specialist on a mission
Good job the lads who just missed the ferry weren’t on the balcony 
Mind, that balcony must have been well fixed!
Cut in is one thing, tail sweep is the exact opposite so once again-what are you on about (or just on)?
I was clearly referring to the video posted by Rob, of the truck hitting the building on the LEFT, with the left hand side rear tail sweep, while trying to turn RIGHT.
As opposed to the LEFT hand hairpin bend v artic CUT IN incident.In which I more or less agree with Ro’s verdict and which I’d commented on in the other previous topic on the subject.
Along the lines that artics don’t like going around hairpin bends because it’s the worst possible combination of a long trailer combined with only one point of articulatio at the front end.
So the driver needed to be very creative with the line on entry and the steering inputs to have a chance of getting around it.
Which is also why A frame drawbars are rightly the outfit of choice in the Alps.
I wonder how this absolute trumpet would cope with that tight arsed road in Devon, when he can’t even negotiate a bog standard road junction without causing carnage. 
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I mean yeah these bollards totally did their job to uhm…protect the innocent bystanders and…cats?
Bonus points he’s managed the full house of tail sweep and cut in on opposite sides.