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Old 15th January 2015, 20:01
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Originally Posted by robertdavey6 View Post
I have driven a 44 tonne artic in similar conditions. If I put the park brake on, and released the footbrake, it wanted to slide down the banked curve of the M25. That got a little scary when the curve was a right hander and the camber was towards the centre barrier.

A week later I was driving in +40 degrees, in Perth, W.A!!!
Sounds scary.
We had an incident similar to the one in the article when I worked as a bus driver. A bus stoppe to let another vehicle, going in the opposite direction, pass as the road was narrow there. When he started again the rear wheels of the bus slid down the slope on the side of the road.
They had to get a gritter there to sand the road so the tow truck could get there...
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