Thread: One for V8ian

Back in the 70's & 80's Lindsay Bros had an appalling accident record. This produced an industry joke -

What is red, white, and blue and goes flip, flip, flip? Lindsay Bros. Transport

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Back in the 70's & 80's Lindsay Bros had an appalling accident record. This produced an industry joke -

What is red, white, and blue and goes flip, flip, flip? Lindsay Bros. Transport

AKA Upside down freight.

Unless a truck has a drivecam i would think most companies wouldnt have picked up on it missing unless it failed to meet a critical deadline.

I'd be most surprised if El Bees don't have a multitude of cameras, including a fatigue monitor.
It took my mob less than an hour, last week, to contact me when I inadvertently obscured the camera.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I'd be most surprised if El Bees don't have a multitude of cameras, including a fatigue monitor.
It took my mob less than an hour, last week, to contact me when I inadvertently obscured the camera.

So you cover it when you are somewhere you shouldn't be..

The truck in question was apparently only 6 months old,so no doubt it would have the latest tracking and monitoring systems,you would think.

Did it happen at night? Would it be fully monitored real time at night?

Originally Posted by rammypluge

Did it happen at night? Would it be fully monitored real time at night?

24/7

With a 19:30 departure the truck either would have been unloaded in the early hours of the morning (Unlikely), camp somewhere for a few hours till depot opened up or had to sit in a queue.
Some places with lots of traffic have queues to negotiate, every 5 minutes or less they have to move the truck in a line till they get to be loaded or unloaded. Instead of having a parking area where drivers could sleep till their turn to be unloaded.