Things which fall off lorries
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Driving behind an unmarked white van on parcel deliveries who had his rear door swinging open. I hooted and flashed to be met by him flicking me the bird. As he accelerated away at a junction a large box tumbled out of the van. I stopped, picked it up and put it on the pavement. The addressee was a scientifics company on the next industrial estate to ours, so I popped it in the car and delivered it. They were very grateful and explained to me it was a £6,000 high precision instrument! It was carefully unpacked and seemed OK.
Huge sheetsof 3/4" pickled steel slid off the side of a wagon and destroyed a traffic light.
And a couple of coils of cold rolled steel came off a wagon going round an island in Oldbury when the stillage they were standing in collapsed.
Both incidents could have been deadly but by luck nobody got hurt.
And a couple of coils of cold rolled steel came off a wagon going round an island in Oldbury when the stillage they were standing in collapsed.
Both incidents could have been deadly but by luck nobody got hurt.
I followed a transit pickup on a B road badly loaded with truck tyres, they were bouncing about on the bed of the truck but the driver was listening to his choons so I couldn't get his attention , until one fell off, bounced once, hit a van coming the other way and flew off into the trees, he woke up then
25 years ago my dad was following a skip wagon fully loaded, as it went round a corner a liquid spilled out all over the front of my dads old volvo ,he carried on to work not thinking anything of it, when he got there whatever it was had marked the paint on the bonnet , over the next few days all the paint lifted off it in streaks
25 years ago my dad was following a skip wagon fully loaded, as it went round a corner a liquid spilled out all over the front of my dads old volvo ,he carried on to work not thinking anything of it, when he got there whatever it was had marked the paint on the bonnet , over the next few days all the paint lifted off it in streaks
Edited by wack on Saturday 19th August 18:08
There is a quarry near me, the exit of which is immediately before a stretch NSL dual carriageway. The drivers are supposed to check their wheels before they leave, they rarely do. The result is often big chunks of rock get lodged between the dual tyres, or in the tread. I had the unfortunate experience of having my work van hit by aforementioned chunk of rock as I was following a aggregate tipper as we where both accelerating. It took out a chunk of my radiator grill, I feel lucky it didn't hit ~30cm higher as it would've wrecked my windscreen.
MorganP104 said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Legally, or otherwise?
This didn't get the recognition it deserved.Have one of these, sir.
"Where did you get that"
"Fell off the back of a lorry!"
"A lot of things seem to fall of the back of lorry's near you!"
" I live on a corner, mate.."
Many moons ago, on a cold, dark wet winter evening, my Dad was the recipient of a Peugeot engine in its packing case.
It had fallen off the back of a flatbed and was lying on the road, until dinked by a Transit coming the other way. It shot over the road, in front of the old boy, who after contact, made his way down the road up on two wheels!
After the dust settled, and the plod had arrived, a flatbed turned up asking if anyone had seen a big, heavy packing case? I bet the conversation went downhill quite quickly.....
I was quite proud of the control he had of his one and only brand new car! (A silver/blue Sierra Sapphire).
FF
It had fallen off the back of a flatbed and was lying on the road, until dinked by a Transit coming the other way. It shot over the road, in front of the old boy, who after contact, made his way down the road up on two wheels!
After the dust settled, and the plod had arrived, a flatbed turned up asking if anyone had seen a big, heavy packing case? I bet the conversation went downhill quite quickly.....
I was quite proud of the control he had of his one and only brand new car! (A silver/blue Sierra Sapphire).
FF
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