GazCro
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Doug potter demo?
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Lancs Lad
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Ok ...question ....accidents happen but the feeling of looking back at the motorway gantry etc must be pretty unique...
anyone ever experienced it ...fked a few things in my earlier years but nowt major ...yet 
anyone ever experienced it ...fked a few things in my earlier years but nowt major ...yet
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Not personally ......
Early '80,s ...... August bank holiday Monday - Monmouth
My younger brother worked for Red & White/National Welsh Omnibus ... service fitter in the depot there ... Afternoon shift and had just come on ... morning shift had had one in and it needed a road test ...
pulled out the depot, looked left up the main street - absolutely rammed, so swung right and got 4 feet under the arch when the horrible noises reminded him he was in the only decker on the fleet of 14 buses in the depot .... embarrassing to say the least - especially with a bank holiday audience.
a week after they'd repaired it and put it back into service, a service driver, relieving a driver off sick, managed to get it a LOT further through the arch than he'd managed and that was the end of the Monmouth depot's decker
.... singles went through it no sweat
there is now a new bridge over the river and the arch is no longer open to traffic
Early '80,s ...... August bank holiday Monday - Monmouth
My younger brother worked for Red & White/National Welsh Omnibus ... service fitter in the depot there ... Afternoon shift and had just come on ... morning shift had had one in and it needed a road test ...
pulled out the depot, looked left up the main street - absolutely rammed, so swung right and got 4 feet under the arch when the horrible noises reminded him he was in the only decker on the fleet of 14 buses in the depot .... embarrassing to say the least - especially with a bank holiday audience.
a week after they'd repaired it and put it back into service, a service driver, relieving a driver off sick, managed to get it a LOT further through the arch than he'd managed and that was the end of the Monmouth depot's decker
.... singles went through it no sweat there is now a new bridge over the river and the arch is no longer open to traffic
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mart1602
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he looks very pleased with himself,some serious talent to turn that over on flat ground
doobin
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Just drove past this
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
over cooked the roundabout exit .....
came up to the tunnels on M4 at malpas, Newport one night and they'd got a contraflow in place with the one tunnel shut for maintenance .... parked neatly on the double row of Armco in the central res. cross over, leading to the other tunnel entrance was an XJ6 and a 20-ish foot caravan - all wheels off the deck and plod pissing himself laughing
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bobthebuilder
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i seen him in there knocked the stone out in the arch ,second bloke didnt have soo much stonework to hit,thus got further thruNot personally ......
Early '80,s ...... August bank holiday Monday - Monmouth
My younger brother worked for Red & White/National Welsh Omnibus ... service fitter in the depot there ... Afternoon shift and had just come on ... morning shift had had one in and it needed a road test ...
pulled out the depot, looked left up the main street - absolutely rammed, so swung right and got 4 feet under the arch when the horrible noises reminded him he was in the only decker on the fleet of 14 buses in the depot .... embarrassing to say the least - especially with a bank holiday audience.
a week after they'd repaired it and put it back into service, a service driver, relieving a driver off sick, managed to get it a LOT further through the arch than he'd managed and that was the end of the Monmouth depot's decker
there is now a new bridge over the river and the arch is no longer open to traffic
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Lancs Lad
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You can't park that there
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and took off 80% of the roof as was going a hell of a lot faster ...
brother only had the front and first side windows, plus the first 4 feet of roof panel
You're either my age or must've been very young @bobthebuilder
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bobthebuilder
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i was in school or bunking off ,i had one brother at len hunts ,another at county when they were in town next to shacs,and my 3rd brother was at fwt on wonastow.and took off 80% of the roof as was going a hell of a lot faster ...
brother only had the front and first side windows, plus the first 4 feet of roof panel
You're either my age or must've been very young @bobthebuilder
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
diggerjones
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To be fair you would think they would give the trucks enough room to avoid this. Hope everyone inside survived
Bucket on wheels
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Police and paramedics are on the scene and luckily there have been no significant injuries.
https://onthewight.com/watch-red-fu...qIDuRcRYPXY-1631000900-0-gqNtZGzNA7ujcnBszQgR
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Brendan
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Lancs Lad
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Giles
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Monkeybusiness
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I’ve had a spring break on one of those exact trailers and it nearly caused an accident tbh - the back axle twisted and the trailer rode up over it, and everything came to a very quick stop!
They need double springs as standard imo, and if not then it’s essential to keep an eye on the bump-stops.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
but that's a single axle BTLs and looking at the position in the road I'd say he kerbed that -- hard ... tyre looks seriously damaged on the N/S if you zoom in on it
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