Was it Parcelfarce you worked for by any chance as that’s the main run my mate does.I remember a mild and particularly windy winter in the late 90s when I was on my nightly Glasgow/Warrington/Glasgow trip in my lorry. For weeks there had been few nights when there wasn't gale force winds blowing, which to be honest I preferred to the usual snow going over the hills in Southern Scotland and Cumbria.
On one night while heading south, the wind was gusting to over 90mph and on one 6 mile stretch of the M6 in Cumbria I counted 13 lorries blown over, but one incident puzzled me. Two lorries were on their side northbound, but what puzzled me was that you could stand between them and almost touch both at the same time.
On my way back to Glasgow 5 hours, the wind had died away and as I passed those 2 lorries which had been coned off, my curiosity was satisfied. They had both been parked up on the hard shoulder and been blown over. Interestingly both artics were curtain-siders which are definitely more susceptible to being blown over.
I can still feel my backside gripping onto the seat, it was scarey
or turn left onto M6 on my way to Scotland
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