Gonna cost more than a penny

[Hayley]

This is what happens when you jump out of your cab to have a quick slash and forget to put the handbrake on...

One mile and a top speed of 40mph later, the cab and the 20 tonnes of steel in the back come to a nice gentle inexpensive stop in a ditch in a field.

http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/hayzyb/IMG006.jpg

Its one of the guys my Dad drives with and he has Quote "been invited in for an interview with the bosses" lol

haha anyone want a job with unitruck?

[Jack]

http://www.carplan.co.uk/clients/www.carplan.co.uk/assets/Image/t_cut/TCW500_hi_300_%28AM%29.jpg

[TeddyThom]

Oh dear oh dear...

Some one has got a P45 to pick up from a ditch lol

[Hayley]

My dad's boss reckons at least £200k for new cab and trailer. ouchers!


I cant help laughing tho at the mental image of the poor driver running after the lorry as it pootles along down the road. lol

[Asa-James]

2 minutes jack? thats slow even by my standards lol

[mowgli]

My dad's boss reckons at least £200k for new cab and trailer. ouchers!


I cant help laughing tho at the mental image of the poor driver running after the lorry as it pootles along down the road. lol

well, he could get one for less in the current market..

i'm not sure about the circumstances... if you left the cab with no handbrake on, having turned the engine off, there is a warning buzzer...

the truck would also be starting to roll straight away, so you'd notice it..


unless he connected it to the trailer, which lost a lot of air, then it pumped up with the engine running, which i have seen.. but either way, he must have had the worlds largest piss not to catch up with it.

i'm not sure someone can be sacked for crashing a vehicle. unless thwere were some extrordinary circumstances.

[Hayley]

all I know about that is that the truck was left running. and im assuming was on a slope?

Thats the story im getting but whatever happened, its weird that the guy wasnt in it so something must of gone a bit awry

[novacabrio]

Thats what insurance is for!! But ouch!

[mowgli]

yup, it sounds like my third guess.

when you connect to a trailer, the trailer brakes are already on, and quite often the air tank is low. now drivers can forget to stick the handbrake on at this point. when they connect the red & yellow pipes, this drops the pressure in the lorry, so its brakes pull on too.. then when the engine powered air compressor pumps everything up, and all the brakes come off... then & this might help a touch.. the gearbox in neutral in a lorry has so much drag between the gears that it can actually pull the lorry along a bit...

[AndrewJenkins]

http://www.carplan.co.uk/clients/www.carplan.co.uk/assets/Image/t_cut/TCW500_hi_300_%28AM%29.jpg

:thumb:

[Hobbit]

Could've just jumped out and left the hand brake off Mowgli. I watched someone do the exact same thing yesterday, he backed up to a bay, jumped out to open the back doors but forgot the hand brake lol he only just had time to jump back in and that wasn't much of a slope. If it was a decent slope I could see it running away from him.

[bazil]

Ouch lol

on the scania a warning flashes and the buzzer goes if you open the door with the handbrake of and not in gear,

But I've done it on my old fl6, went to jump out and quickly threw the handbrake on but i didn't check it engaged properly, I managed to catch it before it got to much speed up lol

[NOVA saloon]

**** the bed lol. Be rite what ever happend only the driver will know lol

[ryansnova]

could have been even worse someone could have been in the pasengers seat

[Yorkie]

Thats what you call a whoopsie

[AlexW]

could have been even worse someone could have been in the pasengers seat

Would hope the passenger isnt a dip**** and gets up and stops it.