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What’s going on recently with hgv crashes? Seems to be something every single day recently, on arrow straight sections of motorways. People falling asleep? Messing on phone? No doubt some are caused by 3rd parties but it seems ridiculously frequent this year.
Just this week alone, truck crashed by itself into the concrete barrier on m6, over 2 hours delay.
Few hours later, truck overturns on m6 again, closed for nearly 12 hours.
Today tipper has hit a gantry with his raised bed up, m5 now closed both ways.
Not had a clean run all week without some kind of issues. Doing Chorley - Bristol - Chorley all week so the 2 hour delay meant I couldn’t make it to Bristol and had to stop so far away that I then still couldn’t make it there and back to Chorley without another 45 so in total nearly 3 hours delayed.
Just this week alone, truck crashed by itself into the concrete barrier on m6, over 2 hours delay.
Few hours later, truck overturns on m6 again, closed for nearly 12 hours.
Today tipper has hit a gantry with his raised bed up, m5 now closed both ways.
Not had a clean run all week without some kind of issues. Doing Chorley - Bristol - Chorley all week so the 2 hour delay meant I couldn’t make it to Bristol and had to stop so far away that I then still couldn’t make it there and back to Chorley without another 45 so in total nearly 3 hours delayed.
Edited by Glenn63 on Thursday 2nd March 13:35
wot you mean all those 3 letter acronyms taking control of braking and traction they had to fit to trucks to stop fools ramming each other up the ring piece or turning the whole lot over on perfectly straight roads arn't actually stopping either events?
where do you start? speed limiters inevitably leading to bunching and tailgating, autoboxes allowing any fool to select D and steer, people apparently controlling their vehicles by switches or touch screen alone or worse still allowing the vehicle to self control for them, equals zombie behind the wheel, one could go on all day with examples of dumbing the job down having results anyone with an ounce could have predicted.
One bod is propping an overhead gantry up on the M5 with a tipper body so i hear, mirrors not optioned?
where do you start? speed limiters inevitably leading to bunching and tailgating, autoboxes allowing any fool to select D and steer, people apparently controlling their vehicles by switches or touch screen alone or worse still allowing the vehicle to self control for them, equals zombie behind the wheel, one could go on all day with examples of dumbing the job down having results anyone with an ounce could have predicted.
One bod is propping an overhead gantry up on the M5 with a tipper body so i hear, mirrors not optioned?
Edited by Smint on Thursday 2nd March 20:04
Edited by Smint on Thursday 2nd March 20:04
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