> Came across a new unexpected hazard on the road the other morning
> about 2am. Coming back from a late-night trip to Woolworths and two
> houses passed me on truck-and-trailer units. Wrong side of the road,
> through red lights. What was funny though was the second one clipped
> all the road signs on traffic islands. ptang, ptang,ptang, ptang, must
> have got every single one of them. They were all bent in half but
> soemone's been around and had a go at straightening them

My dad sold a house for removal this week so we watched it leave.
Amazing to watch, one load was 11m wide. They clipped some of those
small arrow signs but they (mostly) bounce back. The lights on a pole
at pedestrian crossings have a bolt at the bottom that they take out
and then it hinges down flat. Give way signs get pulled up and
replanted after. Guys busy everywhere, racing ahead dropping poles,
pushing up power lines, checking clearences, putting things back into
shape afterward. The trailer was cool though. Self leveling
hydraulic. PIC in there? Manual control to raise/lower/tilt. Power
pack on the trailer runs it all. I'm sure they could do with some
remote cameras so the driver can see what's happening at the sides
and on top.

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