Reply to: How to invert an artic

[vetran]

Lorry maintenance is very regular.

http://www.transportsfriend.org/pdf_...worthiness.pdf

appendix 4.

Plus a driver has to do a daily walk around.

Now retreads ...

[OwlHoot]

Move over slow coach.

I might have guessed!

[DimPrawn]

Chances are it wasn't the artic driver's fault, probably a bunch of hyper-impatient type A personality drivers desperately trying to nip in front of the lorry before it reached the queue onto a slip road.

Move over slow coach.

[suityou01]

Having lost me glasses again I initially read that as how to invert an attic.

Actually that's a great idea, if a the average roof was the other way up it would keep the rain off just as well but, instead of gutters and 2 or more drain pipes you could have one big central pipe and stick a turbine in it to provide electricity.

Nurse!

[xoggoth]

Having lost me glasses again I initially read that as how to invert an attic.

Actually that's a great idea, if a the average roof was the other way up it would keep the rain off just as well but, instead of gutters and 2 or more drain pipes you could have one big central pipe and stick a turbine in it to provide electricity.

[DS23]

chances are it was someone chasing a run-away war chest.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

What odds do y'reckon I could get at Paddy Power that the lorry driver's not from the UK?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

BBC -
"A lorry driver has been arrested following a crash that closed the M25 between junctions 23 and 25 and left four people injured.

The road was shut near Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire, after a lorry overturned across a central reservation.

One man was in a critical condition and another was seriously injured.

Police said the man, who is being held in custody, had been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving."

So not the account manager in his 318d for once.

[DaveB]

Anyone seen Sockpuppet recently?

Just asking' like...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I'd bet 99% of accidents caused by mechanical failures are nothing to do with mechanics messing up, or parts failing, but are from owners neglecting the upkeep of their cars.

There was that "inverted" coach incident recently where the owners had fitted a 20 year old tyre they found lying around the yard. Do we blame the tyre manufacturer?

Yeah that was a bit extreme IIRC the tyre was older than the coach it had been fitted to!

[VectraMan]

Or they could simply have lost control of the car due to mechanical failure, a tyre blow-out... unless you want to charge a fiver to the mechanics who last serviced the car, or the tyre manufacturer.

I'd bet 99% of accidents caused by mechanical failures are nothing to do with mechanics messing up, or parts failing, but are from owners neglecting the upkeep of their cars.

There was that "inverted" coach incident recently where the owners had fitted a 20 year old tyre they found lying around the yard. Do we blame the tyre manufacturer?

[suityou01]

Most of that has nothing to do with the accident. It's just like that.

Aye, it's grim darn sarf.

[doodab]

Glad I wasn't in the area for that!!! Leave the office, turn the sat nav on and get this... Yuk!!

Most of that has nothing to do with the accident. It's just like that.

[suityou01]

Good Pedantry

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Glad I wasn't in the area for that!!! Leave the office, turn the sat nav on and get this... Yuk!!

The South, innit.