Mobile Sleeping.....Yeehaa
Submitted: Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 23:12
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Member - Doug T (W.A)
It's not a good idea to have a sleep when behind the wheel , bad enough in a car or 4x4 .....but a Triple Road Train definatley NOT a good idea , There was stubbies of Hahn Premium Light laying about, Cans of Jim Beam , Kegs , Just as
well the ...um ..Locals didn'y know about it
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Reply By: crykies - Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 23:36
Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 23:36
Hi there Doug,
Great pics.
QUESTION ???
Why wasn't i anywhere near this when it happened LOL !!!!!
when i first read ya post i thought that in his cab they found cans and kegs.
Must be getting late and i have had a few bundies tonight.
All the best Chris.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 23:41
Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 23:41
crykies
Criky it it's just not your day , Nah the beer was part of the frieght, along with Cattle Licks ,wash basins , 1 tonne weights, [ the yellow blocks]
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Reply By: hiab - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 00:57
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 00:57
assuming the driver went to sleep. maybe a mechanical failure?
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 01:01
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 01:01
I been around trucks long enough to know what I see and hear.
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Reply By: hiab - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 02:56
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 02:56
of course you do. a wise old man once told me, "believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see".
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 21:43
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 21:43
Hi hiab
"maybe a mechanical failure?"
if it was, I don't think it would have travelled so straight, unless wheels locked at centre.. and I would fined that hard to belive
Regards Richard
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Reply By: Member - Karl - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:12
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:12
Breaks my heart - hopefully they were able to salvage enough of the kegs, beer etc.
I remember an accident many years ago when a ute went off of a
bridge in
my home town just before Xmas. It was loaded up to the hilt in the rear with cartons of beer cans. It landed upside down and the driver was trapped inside - shaken but to badly hurt but he was unable to get out of the cabin.
An anonymous call was made to the Police about the accident and by the time they got it it 20 - 30 min after it had occurred all the cartons were gone and the driver was still trapped inside.
He had heard everyone taking his beer but not one person helped him!
I don't think we have advanced too much these days either.
Karl
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:16
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:16
No we probably haven't Karl, that's why the other company truck was parked near. if you look closely at the photo you will see the driver watching .
Doug
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Reply By: DIO - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:42
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:42
Probably just as
well no one else was travelling in the opposite direction and got cleaned up. Wouldn't be much of a joke then - would it.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:51
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:51
I don't think anyone has made a joke about the situation except for the beer , the fact that it happened is certainly no joke , These accidents should not happen we all say but they do, I was just 15 minutes ago reading where Qld Gov' is boasting about new reast areas built by the money from fines and then think it will stop accidents like this from happening,
www.ownerdriver.com.au/article.cfm?id=7
Well all I can say is dream on because this accident happened on a highway just 9klm from a truck stop, on a highway in WA that has an abundant of truck
parking bays
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Reply By: Member - Duncs - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 12:07
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 12:07
The first out of town incident I responded to when stationed in
Broken Hill was a truck roll over. The beer truck. It was a 2 trailer road train and was carrying mostly cartons and maybe 8 kegs. There was a little general cargo but it was mostly beer. Apart from the kegs very little was salvageable. The insurance company wrote it all off.
Twas a sad day in the
Hill.
The replacement order was loaded and on its was before we had even headed back to town.
Thankfully no one was seriously hurt. A little embarassed maybe but not hurt.
Duncs
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Reply By: V8Diesel - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 19:32
Friday, May 04, 2007 at 19:32
Looks like
driver fatigue took its Toll. Boomboom
C'mon, it is pretty funny. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one after all.
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Reply By: Member - Brian (WA) - Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 14:47
Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 14:47
Doug. I have just got back from
Meekatharra (a night mare two weeks ).herd about this when in Meeka van park. It does not suprise me. Judging by the number
of bottles with brown fluid in beside the road the truckies don't even stop to
relieve themselves, just gotta keep moving. The number of escort vehicles on
the road I reckon I must of passed you somewhere. Cheers Brian
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 12:49
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 12:49
Brian
I just again got
home from up there again, I read your statement about the bottles, I might add I too have guilty of that, It's not that they hav'nt got time to stop, that's not the reason, Lazy would be the first reason, not worth the time and effort of pulling up 42.5 / 100 tonnes just for a pi$$ , and like me at times .....damn it ...just got going and now need to go again ...but I don't condone throwing bottles out the window , lid on , emptied at an appropriate place and binned .
Doug
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