Making waves..

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Digby

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8,237 posts

246 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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I understand the frustration, but the driver appears to be doing around 5 mph!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26090057

agent006

12,034 posts

264 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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About time someone lost their st at some plank sending a foot wave through everyone's house.

s p a c e m a n

10,774 posts

148 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Nah hes doing at least 10mph there, he could be doing that a lot slower. Although I'm impressed thats not sucking in water, wheres the air filter on them?

Digby

Original Poster:

8,237 posts

246 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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If I were this particular 'plank' and driving that slowly caused outbursts such as this, I would wish you good luck and would stop transporting or delivering anything.

Having driven through water such as this myself, 2 or 3 mph is enough to cause such a wave.You either want the trucks to move items around in such adverse conditions, or you don't.

chilistrucker

4,541 posts

151 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Digby said:
If I were this particular 'plank' and driving that slowly caused outbursts such as this, I would wish you good luck and would stop transporting or delivering anything.

Having driven through water such as this myself, 2 or 3 mph is enough to cause such a wave.You either want the trucks to move items around in such adverse conditions, or you don't.
Spot on !

gd49

302 posts

171 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Don't think he could have made that wave much smaller, its just the physics of a big vehicle moving through a flood. Unlike the HGV which drove past me in a flood when Sheffield flooded a few years ago, managed to create a wave that cleared the roof of my car and the ones in front and behind!

smifffymoto

4,544 posts

205 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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From the drivers seat it's difficult to see the wave in front of the bumper no matter how slowly you drive.

Panda76

2,570 posts

150 months

Sunday 9th February 2014
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Simple solution really, stop going down there until the floods have subsided.

fttm

3,677 posts

135 months

Tuesday 11th February 2014
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Digby said:
If I were this particular 'plank' and driving that slowly caused outbursts such as this, I would wish you good luck and would stop transporting or delivering anything.

Having driven through water such as this myself, 2 or 3 mph is enough to cause such a wave.You either want the trucks to move items around in such adverse conditions, or you don't.
Put yourself in the farmers wellies , or any local resident for that matter . They've been flooded for weeks and no seems to want to help them . Keep building on the flood plains , stop dredging , keep sending millions in foreign aid . Let the tax paying nationals bend over and take it again .

Digby

Original Poster:

8,237 posts

246 months

Tuesday 11th February 2014
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fttm said:
Digby said:
If I were this particular 'plank' and driving that slowly caused outbursts such as this, I would wish you good luck and would stop transporting or delivering anything.

Having driven through water such as this myself, 2 or 3 mph is enough to cause such a wave.You either want the trucks to move items around in such adverse conditions, or you don't.
Put yourself in the farmers wellies , or any local resident for that matter . They've been flooded for weeks and no seems to want to help them . Keep building on the flood plains , stop dredging , keep sending millions in foreign aid . Let the tax paying nationals bend over and take it again .
All of which justifies ranting at someone who appears to be innocent and is probably 'doing his bit', in some capacity or another, to help out? I would be patting drivers like that on the back..

surveyor

17,807 posts

184 months

Friday 14th February 2014
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Digby said:
fttm said:
Digby said:
If I were this particular 'plank' and driving that slowly caused outbursts such as this, I would wish you good luck and would stop transporting or delivering anything.

Having driven through water such as this myself, 2 or 3 mph is enough to cause such a wave.You either want the trucks to move items around in such adverse conditions, or you don't.
Put yourself in the farmers wellies , or any local resident for that matter . They've been flooded for weeks and no seems to want to help them . Keep building on the flood plains , stop dredging , keep sending millions in foreign aid . Let the tax paying nationals bend over and take it again .
All of which justifies ranting at someone who appears to be innocent and is probably 'doing his bit', in some capacity or another, to help out? I would be patting drivers like that on the back..
Notwithstanding that his wave is flooding the blokes home. Are you expecting him just to watch that happening?


Digby

Original Poster:

8,237 posts

246 months

Friday 14th February 2014
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surveyor said:
Digby said:
fttm said:
Digby said:
If I were this particular 'plank' and driving that slowly caused outbursts such as this, I would wish you good luck and would stop transporting or delivering anything.

Having driven through water such as this myself, 2 or 3 mph is enough to cause such a wave.You either want the trucks to move items around in such adverse conditions, or you don't.
Put yourself in the farmers wellies , or any local resident for that matter . They've been flooded for weeks and no seems to want to help them . Keep building on the flood plains , stop dredging , keep sending millions in foreign aid . Let the tax paying nationals bend over and take it again .
All of which justifies ranting at someone who appears to be innocent and is probably 'doing his bit', in some capacity or another, to help out? I would be patting drivers like that on the back..
Notwithstanding that his wave is flooding the blokes home. Are you expecting him just to watch that happening?
No.I would expect him to get the arse with anyone who drove through causing a wave you could surf on.If his home is flooded, the rather tiny wave created here is hardly going to make a difference.

He's ranting at the wrong person due to his lack of understanding of how vehicles move through deep water.Part of me hopes the driver was trying to deliver the world's most powerful bilge pump, but decided instead to just turn round and go home.