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From: Chris Bartram on 17 Mar 2010 17:00 On 17/03/2010 20:54, Adrian wrote: > Chris Bartram<news(a)delete-me.piglet-net.net> gurgled happily, sounding > much like they were saying: > >>> you'd not feel any resistance either. > >> Crikey. Really? Not feel the drag from 4 tyres sideways? (That's a >> genuine question). > > I rather suspect 2500lb/ft of torque and 38 ton x 56mph of momentum is > going to easily overwhelm 4 x 165 teflonFreds... Good point. I can totally believe he couldn't *see* it due to the angles of view. You'd have thought he's feel the shunt though, or do the trailers shunt about on the coupling?
From: Steve Firth on 17 Mar 2010 18:54 Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPmw3OVQMo The car driver appeared to be lucky, so far, in that video. I saw a van driver in Italy in similar circumstances but the truck had rolled up the van like a roll of carpet.
From: NM on 18 Mar 2010 01:50 On 17 Mar, 20:49, Chris Bartram <n...(a)delete-me.piglet-net.net> wrote: > On 17/03/2010 11:35, Conor wrote:> you'd not feel any resistance either. > > Crikey. Really? Not feel the drag from 4 tyres sideways? (That's a > genuine question). I pushed a Fiat 500 sideways up a steep hill, inside was a woman driver of about 75 and her mother, I didn't notice a thing probably because it was a very steep hill and I wasn't expecting F1 speeds from the truck, I heard scraping and when I stopped I spent quite a few moments examining the trailer for a defect, only after I couldn't find anything obvious and I walked back to the front did I see them.
From: Vicko Zoomba on 18 Mar 2010 02:15 On 17 Mar, 20:49, Chris Bartram <n...(a)delete-me.piglet-net.net> wrote: > On 17/03/2010 11:35, Conor wrote:> you'd not feel any resistance either. > > Crikey. Really? Not feel the drag from 4 tyres sideways? (That's a > genuine question). No. You wouldn't. I didn't when it happened to me. In fact when her car hit the corner of the tractor unit, it was only a very slight bump I felt. Potholes shake the cab far more. McK
From: Conor on 18 Mar 2010 12:12
On 17/03/2010 21:00, Chris Bartram wrote: > Good point. I can totally believe he couldn't *see* it due to the angles > of view. You'd have thought he's feel the shunt though, or do the > trailers shunt about on the coupling? There's lots of banging and clanging going on thanks to the current UK road network. A tanker tends to spend a fair bit of time lurching forward and then dragging back and depending on how much its baffled and how much its moving, it can be one hell of a bang - the backwards momentum of the fluid being sufficient to prevent you moving off from standstill when you drop the clutch. ......not that I'm excusing anything. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |