Sweeping a grain lorry out in a lay-by? Great news for rats!Even with all the health and safety protocols on the planets mishaps will happen. Yes the driver maybe should have been told not to tip to sweep out but then again he was driving and maybe should have looked up first.
I would also question why he was sweeping part of a customers load out into a lay-by and not a reception pit at the point of delivery.
The haulier and end user should have a joint duty of care that each load gets fully emptied before moving off the premises!
Sweeping a grain lorry out in a lay-by? Great news for rats!
It's called Darwin's law.
Do drivers not sweep out over the pits when delivering? Seems the more logical choice...
Why wouldn't they let you sweep out It's the same sh!t that was just dumped off.
I'm going to say what others are thinking, any driver that tips without looking for power lines shouldn't be on the road.
They are a danger to everyone, though I am sorry for his injury.
Oh the doors definitely have force behind them. Especially if the trailers already tipping.I think that opening the doors is frowned upon because a driver was killed when he did that and the door hit him, must have been under pressure from the trailer contents.
You would think that with tractor units costing over 100k that someone would invent a safe, quick way to empty the trailer, it is after all how haulage companies get paid, loading and unloading.
Fair one but he/she only has to forget once and they're in the sh*t, the person that never made a mistake never did anything.
The blames with the driver no doubt but there's plenty of companies that know this sort of thing goes on and turn a blind eye to it, "its the drivers problem, we don't care". Its just the way the world is now, everyone's too busy covering their own arse to worry about anyone else.
err, trucks / trailers here have air operated rear doors . . .
“Forget once” = an act that financially wipes out your workmates and destroys a business that was probably built up over decades and hundreds of thousands of man hours, all safely carried out by people who didn’t carelessly fudge up. I have a lot of sympathy for the injured driver, but I doubt a bullet point in a manual under his seat would have stopped him making a monumental error of judgement.