midob
E9th, C6
@kleptomage
Some of our roads are extremely steep, especially in Scotland.
Some of our roads are extremely steep, especially in Scotland.
@RD4590
Wow, didnโt expect the UK to have the world steepest street, always assumed itโd be some southeast asian country.
Wow, didnโt expect the UK to have the world steepest street, always assumed itโd be some southeast asian country.
A previous job I had involved driving skip lorries (pictured below), we had a job at a hotel with an extremely steep access road. I dropped the skip there no problem. After a week they rang us for a collection, when I got there it had been filled with earth (extremely heavy, roughly 10,000kg), lifted it onto the lorry, as a pulled off selected crawler mode on the gearbox.
I went up this hill, the lorry was struggling but making progress, suddenly the lorry decided (despite being in manual crawler mode) to shift up a gear, well the lorry rolled back immediately, I pressed the brakes, all four wheels locked up, the lorry kept rolling backwards, it was fucking terrifying, behind me were homes built on a sweeping corner along a cliff edge. Luckily after releasing the brakes and gradually re applying them I regained traction.
This could have ended in disaster, I always hated driving automatic transmission skip wagons and this futher fueled my hate toward them, DAF ATโs are utter wank.