So how did this happen...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6385189.stm

Amazing!

Andrew j
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Presumably the tipping mechanism got activated accidently, and the driver
didn't notice.

 

*Theoretically* is shouldn't. Most tipper bodies have a body not stowed or
raised warning in the cab. They are usually a proximity switch that sounds
when the body is even only 6" or so off the bed.
The PTO wouldn't have engaged unless the driver forced it to or there was a
short circuit in the handbrake interlock or if air operated they usually
fail safe and the body stays down.

Would love to see the resultant damage to the (not pictured) truck....or did
he bugger off sharpish

;-)

 

Not really, it was in Scotland. At least one of them was pissed and the
other was a fat c***t

 

Probably an expensive piece of motorway signage to damage too.

 

ISTR that there was a similar incident on the A20 (years ago) caused
by a lorry carrying a JCB where the lifting arm gradually raised. It
hit a pedestrian footbridge near the start of the A2 which i recall
had to be demolished as a result.

 

Good job it wasn't loaded (with something really horrible like fish
entrails or Bernard Matthews turkeys).