i work for a subbie who owns the trucks as well mine was the newest to the fleet a 2000 x plate leyland /daf it has been a gritter all its life and only has about 30.000 K,s on it
the council contractor we work for has two 6 wheel grab trucks which have demount bodies put it when needed
anyway as the wash down has been frozen for the past week things have got a bit dirty ,but on Thursday night they had managed to thaw one out ,we were all asked to empty out and give the trucks a good wash
one of the 6 wheeler drivers ( a subbie) washed his truck and parked it up
he did not empty it and did not tell anyone this
come Friday morning they needed a grab truck ,so went about the process of removing the demount ,what followed was a number of things
i think that there was a bit of over enthusiastic unloading ,three ton of grit stuck up the front of the body ,and lack of thought
as the tipper got tipped higher , the stuck grit got dislodged and the demount shot out snapping the strap the should hold it into the body until you have fitted the front legs into the front of my truck
although it does not look bad it is ,as the dash and steering wheel pedals have all been pushed back to the point where i can only just fit in
the driver who did not empty the truck is no longer required
the strange thing is they had to move my truck to get the 6 wheeler out ,in stead of dropping the demount of where it was parked (with a bank of dirt behind) they got it out then reversed mine back in ,then tried to drop the body of in front of it
anyhow i am back to the old seddon atki now
Tim
it was a good job no one got hurt