Rusty Nail:
I think the reason for not chaining the trucks down on the HSS is because it’s an aluminium structure and the anchor points would bust out after a bit of use??!! Plus all this talk of the handbrake not being on, does anyone know that for sure? Or is it just the whole ‘my mate said so saga’.
Looks like we may have got the job of going to get it anyhow in the early part of next week. Been to get one of turner’s earlier today. They haven’t had anything major happen for a while. It’s a good company run by decent people so i’m sure they’ll get it sorted.
What other logical explanation can you think off if it wasn’t the handbrake !!!
the things some firms do to get a bit of cheap publicity! seriously though, its nice to know that a fifth wheel can still hold in such circumstances (I’ve often wondered at just what point it would give way), and finally, we have to give thanks that a far more serious situation didn’t develop, remember Herald of Free Enterprize?
Is it possible for a Ferry/ ship’s “driver” to be done for insecure load, it was only last week one had a shed load of wood causing mayhem in the channel now this,
Mabe they should be redeploying a few VOSA bods to the Coastguard and Maritime agency
What other logical explanation can you think off if it wasn’t the handbrake !!!
as a keen armchair accident investigator
it’s alamost certainly something to do with the handbrake but;
how about hanbrake not on-on the trailer,no yellow airline feed putting the brake on the trailer when the unit handbrake was applied(not sure if that system is fitted to this age of erf-definetley not on older ones),a wet deck and then the captain gives it big licks and the 26 ton of powdered whatever overrides the two handbraked axles on the unit(which just skid down the wet deck) and the whole lot slides backwards out the door.
let’s not hang the driver just yet.
good job it didn’t sink.
that’s not to say drivers don’t leave the handbrake off but normally it’s a hooking up mistake(it rolls away after the red line is fitted.) not a parking up mistake.(although it sometimes happens).
So JD, racially discriminatory remarks written by willie mac are condoned by this forum!!! That is disgraceful in this day and age, Shame on both you and willie mac!! This is 2009 and if you think racially discriminatory comments that cause offense to a whole nation of people are acceptable compared with what i wrote in reply then you should resign your position immediately or be sacked.
Yours in total disgust,
truckinhell:
So JD, racially discriminatory remarks written by willie mac are condoned by this forum!!! That is disgraceful in this day and age, Shame on both you and willie mac!! This is 2009 and if you think racially discriminatory comments that cause offense to a whole nation of people are acceptable compared with what i wrote in reply then you should resign your position immediately or be sacked. Yours in total disgust,
