How to get an artic that's well and truly stuck out of a jam...Biglorryblog offers this video solution!

Quite an expensive litte exercise indeed.
Glad im not footing the bill!

This happened in Cornwall a fair while back somewhere near Liskeard or Saltash. I think he was trying to get to Looe and was following the dreaded "twat-nav"

surprised if he didn't get told to lay low for a few days after that

bob beech could tell you all about this one as he has been associated with mortimer's for years.

Bob Beech has very kindly sent me this commentary and it's taken me an unforgivable amount of time to paste it up. Sorry BB!
Anyway this explains how it all happened...

"Hi Brian , Further to our recent conversation regarding the air born Eat More Chips trailer in Cornwall. It happened in about Oct 07. He was delivering to a regular customer D W Ruby at Trematon , just off the A38 past Saltash, brilliant people who really helped to sort out this cock-up.
Despite having been there five times before, our hero managed to miss the turning and keep on going for nearly five miles and head down the steep hill into the village which I believe is called Foder, despite the best efforts of the local postman to stop him a mile or two earlier. He was unable to stop because of the gradient, gravel on the road and the fact that he was going too fast and proceeded to bounce off the walls until the truck was jammed at the bottom. The load was handballed off onto smaller trucks, but it was impossible to pull it back up the hill, so dropping the trailer and lifting it over the house was the only option. Most of the locals took it in good part and said that it attracted a far bigger crowd than Saltash carnival. Also the young guy on the phone at the end is young Toby Ovens , the boss's eldest son, who featured in the young driver article in T&D earlier this year. He was given the task of sorting out the mess, acting with far more maturity and common sense than the 50+ clown who put the truck in this situation.
So perhaps us older generation can rest easy as there are still a few old heads on young shoulders, but I suppose the exercise did demonstrate just how strong a Gray and Adams chassisless fridge trailer really is, after a new set of sideguards and a bit of TLC it was back in service within two days, the DAF tractor had a week or two in the bodyshop.
Hope this explains things. RGDs Bob Beech

MERC ENGINE IN THAT CRANE!