Well a tescos DD has hit Hinkley A5 bridge today
Whatever it takes to avoid the M1 and M6 etc seems to be the default choice with good reason.The result being good alternative routes clogged with at best 35 mph running trucks, driven by a generation of drivers that donāt seem to be able to handle a car let alone a truck.
And you deliver and collect carsā¦
My observations of too many modern truck drivers have nothing to do with what Iām driving.To be fair it obviously wouldnāt have happened if we outlawed double deckers in favour of LHVās limited to 4 m height.
Then no doubt the ādriverā in this case wouldnāt be able to reverse it.
In CFās defence hesitant and āplobbingā lorry drivers wind me off the scale. Iām a regular on the A17 between Kings Lynn and Newark and Iām heartily sick of truck drivers driving like typical car drivers along this stretch! Speeds varying constantly between 35 and 45mph regardless of whether empty or loaded, coming to a complete standstill at every sodding roundabout even though itās obviously clear with no approaching traffic, brake lights coming on every minute or two as some kind of bloody safety blanket 
Aaaand breath.
Ironically my default for Manchester way is M40, A43, A5, A 515, A523 even on the M40 lane 1 is usually a 45 mph no go area often cars if not trucks causing the hold up.
As for the 515, and 523 they ( would be ) far superior to the M6 if it wasnāt for all the 35 mph everywhere cretins.
The same applies to numerous other motorway avoidance alternatives like through Herefordshire and Shropshire or Cheshire or East Midlands and East Anglia and the North East.With overtaking also now being a licence losing or dangerous lottery of speed cameras or too much opposing traffic and worst of all the types who accelerate at the first sign of an overtake.
Can obviously add to that trucks pointlessly using such alternative routes and running into things like bridges and houses.
If he puts it in reverse with the difflock in thatāll come out on itās own!
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I reckon the upward tilt of that curtainsider has lifted the arse-end. If the drive wheels are clear of terra firma, no diff-locks, town & country tyres or snow chains are going to propel him back to innocence, happiness, the dolce vita or even good old alcohol-fuelled oblivion.
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Think n/s rear wheelās on the ground-it was just a thought 
and a worthy thought, if the rear wheels are actually drive wheels and not āliftā ones!
Yeah, I was wondering why he didnāt back up and bolt before anyone noticed. If thereās enough trailers in his yard, he could unhitch and not say anything. 
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Michael Caine had more chance of getting the Italian Job coach home than the driver has of backing that wreck out and driving it back to the yard.
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I donāt know the area but heard itās most bashed bridge in the UK.
Is there a reason. For this?
Is it near am industrial estate or warehouses?.
Or maybe itās badly signposted?.
Surely canāt be down to bad driving that itās always being hit.?
Itās signed for @ 20 miles in advance, depending on the route in, thereās the worldās second largest hazard stripe across the front of it from both directions.
Hit it and get a trip to the TC and possibly points on science depending on which police attend, but hit it and injure someone, is towards cause serious injury by careless driving 
. Min 2yrs disq and retest
Thereās loads of posts about professional drivers - those ones who hit a bridge and those who take a punt and scrape under arenāt
So how do you think the ā¦
DRIVERāS āCertificate of PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCEā
has gone so far then, in terms of success?
Ayeā¦me too.
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Looks like someone needs to logon to DeepSeek AI and generate a CV
we have discussed this before. There needs to be a proper test at the end of it from a formal independent body with independent examiners with either examiners going from center to center or candidates going to external centers.
this mish mash of different modules and untested garbage doesnt work and it never will. It needs to be a properly structured thing.
i think where we differ is the regularity of it. for example blogs has done the same job for 10 years and will do for the next 5 then fine if he hasnt had issues then an in house almost cursory check that he is doing the right things is fine. I understand that is where you are coming from however there are loads of drivers myself included that are newish to the job and may not be doing the same job next year as they gain experience and narrow down the type of work they want to do there may be something that they didnt pay as much attention to as it didnt affect them at the time.
Have they still got the matrix signs warning you of over height on that bridge ( northbound ) ? I do remember comming upto it when I drove for irlams & the warning sign went off which did get me doing a swift turn round at the r/o ( canāt remember if road layout was the same ) , couldnāt make sense of it as knew I wasnt anywhere near over height , checking everything confirmed I wasnāt , only thing I can think of was the lorry behind being overheight , but he didnāt turn round he went under it .
As itās Tesco , wonāt he have a risk assessment with route to use , think heās going away from tesco Hinckley ( going n/b ) , Iād of thought there would of been something on the risk assessment about that bridge , directing him to m69 ( or have I got location of tesco Hinckley wrong , not bern there for years but thought it was south of bridge ?) .
Itās along time since Iāve done tesco works but I do remember you had to be trained to do a d/d , so Iād of thought heād be aware of height
Very strange to be honest , assuming it is a Tesco unit pulling it , canāt believe they Chuck the keys , thereās the motor / tri off you go , but maybe Iām wrong .
I did a tesco recently & the tannoy was blasting out about your speeding , this that & everything & I was a few mph over limit , so as I say this does suprise me , with it being a d/d as well .