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

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Sarge :-X

In the 60's I was driving petrol tankers for Mobil, based in Auckland, and my usual tanker was a 1962 2-stroke Foden S21. One day I came in to work at shift-change, about lunch time, and was told "Shanksy's been held up and won't be back for a couple of hours, you'll have to take the old Beaver".

This Beaver was about a 1950 model with a top speed of 33mph, onlu used as a spare, and it and the tanker it towed had just come out of the paint shop after a Dulux recondition. This would be its first trip out on the road after its paint job and it looked dreadful in its new colour of MOBIL BEIGE. >

I loaded up with petrol and headed off for Port Waikato, on the west coast, 33mph all the way except for downhills where the normal practice was to knock it out of gear to get a bit more speed.

It had been raining hard all day (we get rain over here in Kiwi country) and as I was getting near Port Waikato I came round a corner at 33mph to find that the rain had washed half a farm across the road in front of me and the road was covered with wet clay.

The tanker did a perfect jack-knife, the tractor with the brand new paint job hard up against the semi with its brand new paint job, but everything still upright, lots of dents but no holes in the tanker. It was pissing down with rain, mobile phones hadn't been invented then, but fortunately the local farmer had been looking out of his window watching his farm being washed away, saw what had happened and came down with his bully and towed me back into a straight line.

I was able to do the deliveries and drive the Beaver back to Auckland where it had to go back to the panel and paint shop from where I had picked it up that same morning.

Here is some poor B-Double Driver stuck in a suburban street..... He ends up having to split the trailers and take them out one at a time.... :-[

Stuart,

I suppose he got the biggest fine from the coppers ever!

Joe

But you got to ask yourself this question, W T F was he doing down a back street/laneway in Adelaide, or some other $hit hole in South Aust, with that jigger anyway ?

If'n he was chasing a bit-o-skirt, well, he still got what he deserved, you just don't go down roads as narrow as that with a B double.

regards greenie [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif]

go eazy
Aincha ever been lost B 4
tiz OK no disaster happend
only a Volvo anyway
there could B a million excuses why n how (give or take a duz)

Jist goes to show
Roads R designed for cars n trucks R spose to use m
n they should design it the other way
design rds for trucks n let cars use m

LOL

Cya

[ch9786]

Here's mine....

When my brother and I were younger, we used to wash vehicles owned by the local Avis Rent-A-Car branch during the school holidays. Well, one day we were washing a 3 tonne pantech and my brother thought it would be fun to pump about 200 litres of water up the exhaust pipe and into the engine..... fortunately Dad saw it happen and stopped old mate from starting the truck!

Moral of the story: don't let young children wash trucks - it could end in disaster!

Joe

This would fit into the worst disaster category:

www.dailyliberal.com.au/news/local/news/...ar-save/1605663.aspx

Old mate had only been with a well-respected freight company for one day yesterday - driving south out of Dubbo, just near the zoo turn-off and the turbo shat itself..... drove for another kilometre and a half till he could pull over, grabbed his fire extinguisher and put the fire out!

This bloke has never had a turbo failure in 10 years of driving - but has had bad black ice experiences and overtaking dangers.... the turbo failure blows them all out of the water!

You can only just make out the mess that the oil blowing everywhere made, including all over the Newell Highway, in the image below:



Fortunately, he was very lucky to save the entire truck - the prime mover, the B-Double trailer set and the load on the trailers - total value of all this: a very cool $1,000,000!

Joe

HEY THERE JOE
you diddnt happen to catch that DRIVER,s name

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could it of been shane ??

Pat,

Driver's name is Shane Crawford of Temora - he drives for Concord Park Interstate Transport!

Joe