Sleepy B-Double on the Bruce Highway
Submitted: Thursday, Jul 09, 2009 at 17:48
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Sir Kev & Darkie
I got a phone call last night once again for an SES call out, this time it was 1am :(
A D-Double full of perishable goods had gotten sleepy and had decided to lie on it's side about 5km south of Benaraby.
It had blocked part of the north bound lane and the rear trailer was in the tabledrain.
We arrived onsite at about 1:30am to start manually unloading the 40' rear trailer that had goods that were starting to thaw (bulk ice cream etc). All the goods in the trailers were placed into a skip bin and then taken to the landfill.
By 7am we had fully unloaded the rear trailer and the recovery boys had disconnected it from the front trailer. Our relief crew arrived at 7am as
well and I got
home at 7:30am.
After a quick shower I was back out the door headed for work.
It has been a long day at the office, I haven't moved that much stuff since I worked in a fruit packing shed 15 years ago LOL
The driver walked away from the accident, and was pretty upset as it was his own rig and trailers. Both trailer are a right off, the rig will need a few repairs but I reckon they will be able to get it back on the road.
Cheers Kev
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