Wide Load Teamwork – Making The Dream Work!
Tasked with collecting a 40ft x 12ft office cabin, weighing c. 4 tonne, from Pevensey and deliver it to KSD Mackley, in Newhaven, it needed proper planning and teamwork, involving 4 of the Southdown squad.
Rendezvousing in Pevensey first thing was Carl in one of the fleet’s 32 tonne rigids fitted with a Hiab capable of craning more than 11 tonne at 6 metres, so a pretty easy lift onto Lugs’ artic for transport.
Being a wide load, and adhering to all the necessary road-safety precautions and the company’s FORS standard, ‘Lugs’ needed a ‘2nd man’, Matt, to keep a 2nd pair of eyes all round and in the mirrors and for any potential hazard or obstacle that might result in a roadblock or complete disaster. Up front was stalwart Tony, in the 4×4 escort vehicle, with hazard lights on and WIDE LOAD sign above the cab to courteously encouraging drivers to make way for the oncoming convoy.
After a thankfully unadventurous 75 minute trip along the south coast to Newhaven, and Chapter 8 barriers helping create a safe unloading area, the cabin was carefully lifted from Lugs’ artic to terra firma. Job done, just going to prove the old phrase that “teamwork makes the dream work”!
