This may get Limeyphil and VOSA peeps wound up.
After dealing/listening in to a couple of jobs recently with wheels coming off trucks (it has happened with cars/coaches as well previously so you don’t all get wound up) the age old question what do you think is the main reason for wheels bouncing off, sometimes with fatal and life changing results, (for the wheel through the windscreen recieving person on the opposite carriageway as well as the truck driver and his/her family).
Is it a lack of maintenence/daily walk round check ?
Lack of training ?
Where do you learn about these things ? When i was a lot younger and possibly greener i asked the older drivers what the clicking noice was as i couldn’t find it, loose wheel nuts were pointed out. Ever since that day i always check my wheel nuts/tyres religiously for “defects”.
I’ve noticed on some wheels the “ovaling” of holes which is loose nuts or possibly very old wheel hubs wearing through, but the other night 2 wheels off a trailer, one completely lost, the other by the truck. Not a nut in sight but the “nut” holes looked fine (possibly the inner wheel on a double axle ?).
I think vosa/BIB take a dim view on such events what do you guys think.
Ps in one recent job the wheels came off while the truck was already under a PG9 for an other unrectified defect I reckon that would be a trip before our esteemed MS Bell
There were approx 300-400 passengers on the last vehicle, could have ended up with lots of fatalities everywhere . But a lifetime supply of mutton stew