What's your worst/funniest/oddball FU or disaster?

allways pays to use timbers under landing legs, especially fridge vans. the vibration of the engine running soon compacts the ground underneath the bitumen. i saw one bloke who left a b-double set on the off ramp near the shell at goodna. when i went past the a-trailer was right down to the chassis. when i came back old mate had just turned up and i could read his lips and see steam coming out of the cab lol.

nearly happened to me in rocky. i had a van that had large round plates welded to the bottom of the legs. i had loaded it at the meatworks and thought that i would drop it at the old skating rink across the road from the shell in rocky. it had not rained and the ground there was hard as a rock. well i went home for a few hours to return to it and it had sunk about 4 inches. lucky i was travelling down with a mate so i dumped the air bags and he barred the front of the turn table up and i just got under it. by crikey it took some shoving to lift it up. a lesson well learnt for a young fella, another half an hour and it would have been a crane job.

The red dirt country along the Eyre Hwy and Coolgardie-Norseman Rd used to catch plenty of blokes out after a rain .. just like that Frightliner. The green East-Wester driver would pull off onto the shoulder for a quick stop .. and right after a rain, she'd be down to the hubs in seconds. :'(

I remember seeing a bloke (or his tracks, anyway) who went to sleep, and ran off the Coolgardie-Norseman Rd, right near the Kambalda turnoff. There was a big flat area of red loam that was essentially a flood plain area (when the creek ran) that adjoined the road. It hadn't long rained, and this bloke left the road with an East-Wester .. ran through the fence .. ran up the fenceline for about 150 metres .. then pulled back onto the Highway!!! ..

He left wheel ruts about a foot deep all the way through this red mud! .. and we reckoned he must have been doing 140 klicks when he left the road .. and he kept the pedal to the metal all the way!!
I dunno how else a fully loaded semi could go so far, so deep, in gooey red mud, and then make it right through, and still get back on the road!!

He also got lucky, fencewise, because the fence was just an old station fence with about 5 strands of plain wire, through old mulga posts, that he just parted like Moses doing his Red Sea trick .. and I don't think he even got any wire caught up anywhere ..

Hi Onetrack ,Iwas just reading else where a little story about a d7 on the back of a mack low loader and a narsty corner .Care to retell it ? ian.

When I first started driving 785s at an absolute poo-hole of a place a couple hours north of Perth, I managed to put one pair of my duals through the windrow and ended up with Pos 1 (left steer) about a metre off the ground. Had to wait for a dozer to hook up to me before tipping my load.

On the old truck front, a couple of years after my 785 wheelie, I had just washed the B61 and decided to take it for some high-speed runs down the runway at my mate's place. On the umpteenth run, I let her go a bit longer before turning and managed to find a nice soft spot where I got her bogged and then had to face the 'shame' of being pulled out backwards by my mate's Fergy. Could've done with a snatch strap.

Also managed to get the Manjimup Volunteer Fire Brigade's Land Rover light tanker bogged on two separate occasions and subsequently earned the nickname 'Bogulator'. Second time was in a spot that I'd already driven over several times and ended up breaking through to the stickiest, stinkiest, blackest crap on the face of the planet.

Here`s a couple takin in 1988 up near Laura,Cape York.a trailer wheelbearing was the culprit.The driver when asked what steps he took,replied-Big Ones. :)only joking!

looks like the old s line got a bit over cooked........... did ya see the pics, of the western star tanker, very similer too that s line, the only thing left standing, was the bull bar

I saw the pics of the western star on the Cairns Post web site,someone got some pics of it burning,it looked pretty spectacular,and I saw the insurance pics,it looked like it got a lot hotter than the old S line,on the same road too.

i dread dealing with burnt out truck and trailers, ya never quite know what ya up for, untill ya get there,

This driver didn't do a bad job

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What is holding that truck there ?