harry_gill:
Retired Old ■■■■:
That strikes a chill in my belly. One of our local hauliers was heading home from the London area with a 20-ft loaded box. As he approached the bottom of Chalk Hill on thev A40- before the M40 was built- he had to pile on the brakes in an attempt to avoid a car which had emerged from a side turning. The box was fastened to the platform by two chains & sylvesters and slid forward much in the style of the vehicle in the photograph. The resulting mess took an age to clear up and left a widow and young child without a breadwinner.
In those early days of shipping containers it wasn’t generally realised just how much force was involved when travelling at around 40mph. The vehicle was relatively easy to stop- a fully loaded box was another thing altogether.hiya,
Doesn’t bear thinking about when pulling for Northern Ireland Trailers I’ve travelled the
length and breadth of the country with containers “fastened on” to a flat trailer with
nothing more than rope through the container fixings didn’t even have chains and war-
wicks to try and secure them with, thankfully I got back on the BRS and there it was a
no no to carry boxes with a trailer not having twistlocks.
thanks harry, long retired.
A few years ago some containers WERE BLOWN off a freight train on the West Coast main line. None of the twist locks had been engaged, the containers were just dropped on the flat bed rail cars.
Many years ago, Birstall traffic lights a de mountable waste skip set off from the light, skip shot off backwards off an 8 legger, the car and occupants behind had no chance. 
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