happy to hear these are not frequent accidents compared to what we see here in South Africa. Lately we have had a spate of tragic accidents involving trucks so much so that certain roads I refuse to travel now. With the open border policy we have more lucky dip drivers and they are causing these disasters. Speeding with no clue what they are doing is the concern as the number of deaths has spiraled out of control. The one stat showed a fatal accident every two days on the one road where trucks are fully loaded with coal. I have my heavy duty licence and it sends shivers down my spine when I see these clips as these guys have no right to be on the road with a bicycle let alone a truck.
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ooof, that's terrible. are "lucky dip" drivers people who do not have the qualifications to drive but do it anyway?
They are the drivers that have come from other African countries who are as corrupt as here and have bought them without doing the tests. There must be close to 40% or more drivers on the road who have never passed a proper test and it is an experience driving here now. You can tell when we have power outages and the traffic lights don't work as it should be treated as a 4 way stop. This lot don't know what to do and will randomly just go out of turn. Seen some drivers go around a round about the wrong way and this is scary stuff. This is a lethal combination as when I hired drivers I used to test them myself. At the one warehouse the container trucks used to have to reverse around a corner to make it through the gate and very few could do this.
I bet it is very tough to back in a full sized trailer. My family had a truck with a small trailer... like big enough for a riding lawn mower... try as I may I could never figure out how to back that bad boy up. It's a real skill, that's for sure.
I'm guessing you know how to do it pretty well?