This is info I heard from a driver who heard it from a fitter in our yard, the driver was on the phone leaving the site with the back up, the site were trying to ring him to tell him but they couldn’t get through because he was on the phone.
Maybe he’ll get done for the phone as well.
peirre:
bald bloke:
It’ll be interesting to know how much the total bill for it all will be ?I’d hate to think how much it will cost just for the crane hire this weekend to remove the gantry, let alone the road closure for the whole weekend
Plus the hire of a crane, labour etc etc when they put a new one back up !!
peterm:
Maybe he’ll get done for the phone as well.
Let’s hope so, it’s idiots like him that give us all a bad name…
Surely cameras on the network will have recorded wether it went up by itself or he was driving with it already raised,Working on the theory that it is a modern truck .they are programmed…So to go up by itself whilst driving ,the PTO would need to have been able to engage at 09kph ,this isn’t going to happen ,and if the PTO had been left engaged they are generally programmed to kick out after you hit a certain speed which would be a couple of mph.if it didn’t disengage because of an issue it wouldn’t have been long before the PTO destroyed itself…So he has either left it up and never checked his mirrors ,or he has put the lever to lower driven off and there has been an issue with the hydraulics where it hasn’t lowered and again he hasn’t checked his mirrors
Moral of the story is don’t put your company name on the tipper body lol
norb:
Moral of the story is don’t put your company name on the tipper body lol
God knows what this will cost in the final analysis, there’s many different levels of pain to go through.
Obviously this will result in a court case involving the mainstream judiciary. As a rough indication, over twenty years ago (2001 IIRC) a car transporter brought the East Coast main line to a halt for just seven hours after connecting with the power cables. The operator was fined over £1 million for that. 
Now multiply that for inflation with the passage of time, double? Triple?
Is the insurance company going to be amenable to paying out? Not likely, bound to be many ways to say “Not a chance matey, you’re on your own.”
As much I feel a lot of compassion towards drivers under excess pressure from cowboy employers, this is straightforward driver negligence, he’ll have his entitlement suspended by the TC (minimum 6 weeks, but likely to be much more than the minimum), so he’s out of a job and will face a separate court case too, so will get points on his licence.
Driving without due care and attention is easily proven in this case, worth between 3 to 9 points on his licence, making it harder to get another job when he gets his entitlement back. Assuming he doesn’t already have some points, in which case he will lose it under the totting up procedure.
He’s fessed up in Facebook, so people know his name: who’s likely to give him a job after this? Only some even worse cowboy outfit, and they’ll pay him minimum wage at that I’ll bet. If I were him I’d be thinking of a different career right about now.
The Operator will face a PI, they’ll be massively penalised, if the subsequent investigations (both Police and DVSA, potentially HSE as well) uncover as much dirt on the Operator as has been suggested by other people, they’ll be very lucky to hold on to their O-licence at all. I’d imagine DVSA have already set up camp in the company’s office and will be there for quite some time.
Who would be a customer of this company after this incident? Even if they survive Crown Court, and the TC, then the financial consequences of losing customers will finish them off.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-64822217
Anything that driver can do, this driver can do better.
Pennineman:
M5 traffic: Motorway partially reopens after crash near Bristol - BBC NewsAnything that driver can do, this driver can do better.
No suggestion…
That the driver has been apprehended.
yourhavingalarf:
Pennineman:
M5 traffic: Motorway partially reopens after crash near Bristol - BBC NewsAnything that driver can do, this driver can do better.
No suggestion…
That the driver has been apprehended.
Police are following lines of enquiry
Pennineman:
Police are following lines of enquiry
Oh…
Good one! 
Obviously wasn’t trained.
Another one in Essex where a tipper brought down the overhead electric cables on a level crossing somewhere between Stanford-le-Hope and Pitsea:
I’m on the tippers atm and the Renault ones have an alarm and dash message saying ‘body not in travelling position’ or something like that.
When I’m getting loaded by pavers I have to raise the body a touch to get the scales to zero, and even for the few mins I’m shunting around with body raised the alarm is getting pretty annoying. No way I’d be able to drive at motorway speeds with it fully up. Wind resistance would be crazy.
Tailschwing:
I’m on the tippers atm and the Renault ones have an alarm and dash message saying ‘body not in travelling position’ or something like that.When I’m getting loaded by pavers I have to raise the body a touch to get the scales to zero, and even for the few mins I’m shunting around with body raised the alarm is getting pretty annoying. No way I’d be able to drive at motorway speeds with it fully up. Wind resistance would be crazy.
Probably disabled…
By the driver, along with his seat belt warning too no doubt.
He’s denied driving dangerously!
Star down under.:
bald bloke:
trevHCS:
bald bloke:
^^and this is precisely what happened I have inside information from someone who knows he drove off after tipping in the raised position.Do they know how he didn’t noticed the wind resistance or presumably rocking effect having it raised that much? Guessing it can’t gave gone far as there are a lot of gantries on the M5 these days.
The driver tipped locally and hit the first gantry apparently.
You’re obviously using the term very loosely. How can anyone drive more than a few hundred yards, without looking in the mirror?
I struggle to understand why the sudden jolt - didn’t liquify this particular driver?
The jolt was enough to detach the entire back frame, after all…
Not exactly knocking your cup of coffee over you’ve just put a ■■■ out in - is it?