Thread: Bogged Truck

Yep nature strips look so inviting. Bet the driver did not even consider the weight factor. Would not have leaned over too much more.
Cheers Hall

I wonder what he told the boss.

You didn't pull him out with the D2?

John

Well i work for a large company that is part of a larger transport chain that has green trucks, one of the drivers managed to bog a semi in our warehouse driveway preventing entry and exit from the premises .

After the rain we had last year, a couple of blokes from the local brigade moved the truck out of the (new) shed onto the sealed apron in front of it, to give it a clean. That is as far as he got. It sank down to the axle through the thin bitumen layer. I didn't see it, but I saw the mess they made getting it out! I presume the tank was full, and I think they got it out by emptying the tank and using four wheel drive.

Would have been a lovely situation if they had been called out.

John

Geez, a bit of forethought would have helped there. Who organised for the sealed apron to be so thin????

I don't think I ever found out, but it was probably an afterthought to seal it in any case. All the sealing was intended to do was to cut down the dust. What it needed, and did not have, was drainage ditches each side of the apron so that the water did not pond almost level with the surface of the apron - the bitumen stopped the water evaporating as it was fed in from the sides. Of course, the ideal would have been to extend the shed's slab as an apron, preferably right to the bitumen.

The whole area is pretty flat.

John