I can't see why they took so long faffing about scratching their heads. It was obvious how to do it.
They must be stronger tail lifts than those on our vans, which are regularly failing just loading wardrobes etc. They must have been carrying a tonne each?
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What happens when they want to unload it? Have both lorries got to travel to the destination point?
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Could just reverse it out very quickly. Might work.
;-)
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I'm struggling to think why they didn't just drive the Volvo to wherever they were going. It hadn't broken down as it was driven into the lorry.
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They didn't think that one through. Rather than back up the lorry holding the rear of the car, it would have been much easier and safer to reverse the lorry supporting the front; the rear wheels would be held by the handbrake, and the front wheels would roll if the car was in neutral. Would have saved one of the drivers the precarious task of getting into the car with nothing but the floor beneath him.
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Am I the only one that scrolled down to "watch the video"?
bulletproofhome.org is an interesting read and listen. Not.
Why didn't anyone warn me? That is 30 minutes that I will never get back.
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Our firm used three methods.
1.Back the lorry upto a four-post ramp which had the car on it-drive it straight into the lorry.
2.We had the remains of a semi-trailer float with front board and trailer connections removed so that the front of it touched the ground.Wheels were still at the back so you could drive up it and into the lorry behind it.
3.If it was going onto a "float" type lorry rather than an enclosed one,we used a small mobile crane.
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I scrolled to bulletproof home, Dunc. After 15 minutes or so I realised we were not going to see anything and it was probably just to promote a book. Waste of my life as well !
I remember having to transport a very low sports car of some type from the Midlands to Scotland. It was very difficult to winch it on to the trailer but I got it on with various blocks of wood and bricks easing the angle of the ramps. I'd arranged to meet the Glasgow man at Southwaite services where we would have to go through all the palava again. Arriving, I noticed a traffic island on the car park about 15 inches high with gravel on it and those big kerbs surrounding it..
I reversed up to the island and dropped the ramps onto the kerb. Easy to roll the car off...almost level. The Glasgow man arrived and did the same in reverse......easy !
I wonder if anyone noticed the tyre tracks in the gravel and wondered how a car had managed to get up there !
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How to load a Volvo - Cliff Pope
