I will add a further story in the same vein LOL ( would it really be me if I didn't?)
My Uncle owned and operated a pretty successful transport company in Geelong ( he shall remain nameless ) but like most early truckers he built up a decent enterprise over many years from a simple one or two truck operation ...
Way back in the early days he had to do a delivery in the Western Victoria district , in an area that had a good few bluestone smaller bridges ... and back then it was sometimes a "try and see" enterprise ( lol ) .. he came to one such bridge he had passed under previously a year or so ago , and he knew it was close , so he cut the truck back to a crawl and eased his way thru ... annnnnnnd halfway thru it bit ! ( what he didnt take into account was a road crew did some roadworks a few months earlier and laid a good 3 inches of new tar over the old road base ... So there he was ...stuck... evaluating things he decides to hop out of the cab and let the air out of the tyres so he can reverse and not rip apart his van ... As he steps down from the cab , who should arrive but a passing member of the constabulary ( police man ) ... who gets out of his car , takes off his hat and states the obvious
" Bit Stuck Mate ???"
Quick as a whip Uncle comes back with
"Nah Mate ... was just delivering the bugger, and I cant for the life of me remember the drop off address ...."
( above tale was confirmed in exact detail by his "jockey" .. passenger workmate)
He then let about 50% of the air out of the tyres and dropped it an inch or so , so he could carefully back out with little to no damage done ...
