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Post by jpzone on Jun 19, 2020 19:50:50 GMT
Seems like no one knew how to use the handbrake or went to find some chocks.... Loved how they tried to stop a 30 or so tonne machine.
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Post by graham on Jun 24, 2020 12:40:43 GMT
One of the funniest things I ever saw was when I was on the wagons, myself and another driver had just returned to the yard in Calne, Wiltshire on a Saturday morning, both of us having run down from Nottingham that morning with 25 tonnes of plasterboard each on the trailers. Instead of disconnecting the air lines between cab and trailer, which automatically blows the trailer brakes on, and then winding down the trailer legs, for some unfathomable reason he jumped out of his cab and immediately pulled the pin on the trailer. The trailer started to roll off the fifth wheel coupling, with the legs still wound up, he runs to the back of the trailer and tries to stop it.
All the air lines sheared, which did put the brakes on the trailer but the damage was already done and he then had the unenviable task of walking across the road to the transport office to tell the manager that he had just dropped a fully loaded trailer without winding down the legs.
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