One for the caravanners

[Bigbjorn]

This one is for those members who tow mobile road blocks up and down the highways and byways.

Heart-stopping moment caravan driver swerves across two lanes (https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/37845940/heart-stopping-moment-caravan-driver-swerves-across-two-lanes/)

As an extra, an article in Brisbane's sunday Mail of 5/11/17 likened caravans to cholesterol blocking the arteries of commerce.[bigsmile]

[trout1105]

Probably a badly loaded or overloaded van or it could have been something as simple as a blowout on the van.
Old Mate turned a small "Wobble" into a huge one and lost control, A decent brake controller would most likely have prevented this accident.

As for "As an extra, an article in Brisbane's sunday Mail of 5/11/17 likened caravans to cholesterol blocking the arteries of commerce" I beg to differ.
The amount of money spent by the caravanning community not only on their vans but all the other costs of doing the Grey Nomad thing are Fuelling the arteries of commerce Not blocking them [bigwhistle]

[weeds]

As for "As an extra, an article in Brisbane's sunday Mail of 5/11/17 likened caravans to cholesterol blocking the arteries of commerce" I beg to differ.
The amount of money spent by the caravanning community not only on their vans but all the other costs of doing the Grey Nomad thing are Fuelling the arteries of commerce Not blocking them [bigwhistle]

I’m with you.....stopping caravans would ignite a whole lot of other issues....

Wonder why truck accidents aren’t reported so quickly.

[Homestar]

Yeah, pretty dumb statement about caravanners there. Mostly comes down to ignorance, intolerance or impatience - or even jealousy? Grey nomads inject millions into local economies all over Australia every year. Some small centres would almost entirely rely on them for income.

Your description of them as 'rolling roadblocks' shows you are clearly in one of the camps listed above - I believe you are a truck driver? I would have thought you'd have more constructive things to say, but I guess you're on of 'those' truck drivers - you know, that drive rolling roadblocks us motorists have to put up with. [bigwhistle]

I already know how you'll answer that, so don't bother, don't give me the big truck speal - I get it and I've been part of the industry so understand it all, but was merely making that statement to show it goes both ways with issue like this depending on where you sit and making statements like that only furthers the divide between motorists.

Would be far better if we all could be patient and courteous enough to allow all road users to do what they need to do be it on a car, a vehicle with a caravan behind it, a truck, a motorbike or a push bike. Think how easy life would be if we could all relax and take a deep breath and give each other a bit of room and time.... I'll keep dreaming obviously but it's something I try and live as well as preach.

As for the accident, I would have thought that small wobble would have been easy enough to correct with an application of the trailer brakes from the controller so probably lack of experience caused that - that's a whole different conversation from what the article talks about though.

[DoubleChevron]

THe driver should have known better. He is likely doing the speed limit ... or more and overtaking a truck ..... WTF did he think would happen when the caravan gets sucked in by the truck. He should have had the 'vans brakes 100% on via the brake controller. it would have pulled back straight (but put him back behind the truck he is overtaking)

I'd have been behind the truck. Not a snowmans chance in hell would I be doing more than 90km/h .... and sure as **** would NOT be passing a truck at any sort of speed ( me passing trucks == caravan brakes gently applied via controller to keep the whole think in shape while the truck passes me). Yes I may pass a truck, but if I did, it would probably be doing 60->80km/h. Speed is exponential, **** will go wrong badly at 100km/h that will not effect anything at 70km/h.

seeya,
Shane L.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Nice how the truck driver stopped to help out,,,, :bat:

[p38arover]

Hmm, it wouldn't play on my iPad and now I'm on the computer, the video is no longer there.

[101RRS]

Hmm that link takes me to something about a big spider on the window in Qld - what a lot of sooks.

[Mick_Marsh]

I get a 404 error now.
I suspect it's been removed.