How many lorries to cripple a city?

[Arfur]

Gotta wonder how the hell a lorry managed to run into the back of another up there !

The driver said he didn't even see the Monty truck..
Monty truck was fully freighted (44t) with a load of peat which means it would have been travelling at around 30 mph or slightly under. I suppose he could have been distracted or maybe tired and a bit sleepy. He hit the truck that hard it lifted her of the ground!

 

[roverspeed]

you can make out the Monty trailer in this pic

Jack-knifed lorry leads to chaos on M2 - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

The Belfast telegraph needs to learn what Jack knifed means

 

[O.C.D]

The driver said he didn't even see the Monty truck..
Monty truck was fully freighted (44t) with a load of peat which means it would have been travelling at around 30 mph or slightly under. I suppose he could have been distracted or maybe tired and a bit sleepy. He hit the truck that hard it lifted her of the ground!

Well said. ..bit of sence in your statement.

 

[O.C.D]

The Belfast telegraph needs to learn what Jack knifed means

That's the problem ....a lot of people haven't a clue what there talking about...and they are experts at the same time !! Not just the Belfast telegraph but on here as well !!

 

[stevieturbo]

The same way a car can run into the back of another car.

And I've never understood that either really. And trucks are a bit harder to miss ! And even more so going uphill !

 

[stevieturbo]

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Cheap for what you get, comfort, meet new people, not being part of a traffic jam, excellent.

"what, I work for the place, the trains are always full so we must be doing something right"!

I hear the train to dublin is good for all that.....unless it hits a digger lol.

 

[O.C.D]

And I've never understood that either really. And trucks are a bit harder to miss ! And even more so going uphill !

Your 100% Brilliant mate ..fair play to ya !

 

[Maranellohouse]

I hear the train to dublin is good for all that.....unless it hits a digger lol.

Ah but 2 things you got wrong there Sir, it wasn't a Dublin train (which is well it wasn't as it would definitely have de railed) and it was the bucket of a digger, the digger want attached. Could have been very serious we got off light!

 

[O.C.D]

Your 100% Brilliant mate ..fair play to ya !

OH ...99% brilliant now lol

 

[Davey Mack]

Look nasty enough that shunt, @Arfur are both drivers ok??

 

[Arfur]

Look nasty enough that shunt, @Arfur are both drivers ok??

It was a heavy enough shunt that's for sure. Our man was grand apart from being shaken up a little, don't know too much about the scania driver but I don't think it was anything serious... Lucky fella! Felt a bit sick when I seen it.. Could happen to anyone of us I suppose.

 

[Davey Mack]

It was a heavy enough shunt that's for sure. Our man was grand apart from being shaken up a little, don't know too much about the scania driver but I don't think it was anything serious... Lucky fella! Felt a bit sick when I seen it.. Could happen to anyone of us I suppose.

Good to hear that's the main thing there ok,!! no it's not nice being involved in a shunt, for me it only sank in when I seen my truck few hours later and were it ended up and how bad it could have been. , but he cant dwell on it, best to get back on the road when he's fit!

 

[Arfur]

Good to hear that's the main thing there ok,!! no it's not nice being involved in a shunt, for me it only sank in when I seen my truck few hours later and were it ended up and how bad it could have been. , but he cant dwell on it, best to get back on the road when he's fit!

Definitely getting back in the saddle would be the best thing, the longer it's left the worse it'd hit you I'd imagine