FLEETS

Rocking and rolling and hitting the wall

AN ARTICULATED haul truck driver had a narrow escape at an underground metal mine in New South Wales recently when he reversed into a wall and rolled his loaded tub while unloading at an unfamiliar stockpile.

 The Regulator's image of the incident

The Regulator's image of the incident

The driver was reversing the articulated dump truck into an underground stockpile when the rear right wheel ran up the wall. This caused the truck's loaded tub to roll over, while the operator's cabin...

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