Classic Trucks, Wagons

[DRM]

When was the last time, you saw a FIAT tractor-unit?

It would have been about 1998/99 and had been relegated to being the yard shunter, I remember it, as one day, whilst going to reception to sign in at this site, the lad that drove it had just uncoupled a trailer, and jumped back in to go move another, but had forgotten to disconnect the airline, i'm shouting to stop, he's looking out of the window with an expression of "Eh" until there was a loud rush of air & it stopped dead, it was a bit rusty, I'm surprised the cab didn't fall off!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 24th

Seen on Facebook this morning

Hell!, you’d not dare use that pallet-truck!

 

[simongt]

Monday 24th

Seen on Facebook this morning

Hell!, you’d not dare use that pallet-truck!

The ground clearance looks a bit suspect, definitely billiard table smooth roads only I think - !

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The ground clearance looks a bit suspect, definitely billiard table smooth roads only I think - !

'Dropped' on air suspension, at a guess?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've not seen that name before

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdnvd1pqnqo

Clearopathra

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 18th

New edition
It went on sale, on Friday 14th

It arrived in todays post

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The car driver was so very lucky

The presumption is that, he was alongside, possibly in a blind-spot, when the truck pulled into lane 2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5ry4lgz1ro

 

[Jameshow]

The car driver was so very lucky

The presumption is that, he was alongside, possibly in a blind-spot, when the truck pulled into lane 2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5ry4lgz1ro

Might be a right off!!

 

[Drago]

That's why you don't start an overtake on a lorry until your exit is clear.

 

[DRM]

The car driver was so very lucky

The presumption is that, he was alongside, possibly in a blind-spot, when the truck pulled into lane 2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5ry4lgz1ro

They do that all the time, just pull out without looking properly, under the rule of might is right, & stuff the consequences

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

They do that all the time, just pull out without looking properly, under the rule of might is right, & stuff the consequences

But if a car's in the blind-spot?

(the truck was on normal mirrors, not 'mirror-cam')

 

[DRM]

But if a car's in the blind-spot?

(the truck was on normal mirrors, not 'mirror-cam')

You look, look & look again, there's no excuse, just a simple lean forward gets a good look in the blind spot via the mirrors, and there will be a convex wide angle mirror under the main mirror, which are far better than car or van mirrors
Edit on that Scania it's above the main mirror

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Or, the car driver misjudged his/her approach speed?

 

[DRM]

Or, the car driver misjudged his/her approach speed?

Quite possibly, but I’ve seen it so many times on the A1 or A19 HGVs just pull out to overtake another without giving two hoots with regard to anything alongside, just to participate in a 56mph v 55.7 mph drag race, for mile after mile

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've been trying to find something in the 'geograph' thread, & came across this, I remember the event well
The driver, & passenger, of that Scania were possibly the luckiest people in the UK, that evening

They were heading west, on the M62, between jcts 31 & 30

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...esting-geographs.215788/page-329#post-6856976