Huge truck in the East Wall & D3 area last night

highdef

Hi all

Was coming home from work around 9pm last night and heading away from Dublin port on East Wall Road. Got stuck in terrible traffic and there were loads of flashing orange and blue lights ahead. Got stuck for about 20 minutes and couldn't move so eventually drove (very slowly) down the footpath as there was nowhere else I could go. When I got back on the main road, I saw what looked like a huge, and I mean HUGE truck being escorted and it appeared to be stuck at the corner of EastWall Road and Alfie Byrne Road.

So went on my way, got home and then back into the city to watch a film in Cineworld on Parnell St. On the way home on the Howth Rd, I got diverted by the guards again, near Killester. Had a feeling this may have been connected to the earlier sighting so I backtracked and managed to park at The Beachcomber pub in Killester as the escort appraoched - Now this truck was Massive - a few hundred foot long easily. Huge truck up front, then another section, then the main load (not sure what it was), then another section with a guy steering the middle section and then then another large truck pushing behind. There were loads of work people and gardai around and the truck was not going fast. Walking pace at most - this would explain why I was seeing it 3 hours after my first sighting - ANyone know what this was all about????

Ste.phen

No idea, but i'm kinda interested myself, no dodgy camera phone pics, no?

tk123

Hey now that I think of it there seemed to be loads of sirens (not the usualy ambulance ones) a good few times yesterday. I'm in Drumcondra btw...It could have been from a concert??

Xylophonic

Saw one of these on the Malahide Rd before opp. Coolock Church (St.Brendans), 36 wheels in all, close to 60/80 ft.

Had pictures but it was months ago, I have since lost them! :cool:

GerardKeating

highdef wrote:

Hi all

Was coming home from work around 9pm last night and heading away from Dublin port on East Wall Road. Got stuck in terrible traffic and there were loads of flashing orange and blue lights ahead. Got stuck for about 20 minutes and couldn't move so eventually drove (very slowly) down the footpath as there was nowhere else I could go. When I got back on the main road, I saw what looked like a huge, and I mean HUGE truck being escorted and it appeared to be stuck at the corner of EastWall Road and Alfie Byrne Road.

So went on my way, got home and then back into the city to watch a film in Cineworld on Parnell St. On the way home on the Howth Rd, I got diverted by the guards again, near Killester. Had a feeling this may have been connected to the earlier sighting so I backtracked and managed to park at The Beachcomber pub in Killester as the escort appraoched - Now this truck was Massive - a few hundred foot long easily. Huge truck up front, then another section, then the main load (not sure what it was), then another section with a guy steering the middle section and then then another large truck pushing behind. There were loads of work people and gardai around and the truck was not going fast. Walking pace at most - this would explain why I was seeing it 3 hours after my first sighting - ANyone know what this was all about????

You get a few of them a year, supersize loads coming off ferries. They usually go out via EastWall Road and Alfie Byrne Road, up the coast road, to Raheny, in via Watermil road and scatter to the four winds after that.

Once was parts for a power station in the midlands, another time, something for a factory in Kilkenny.

Guy:Incognito

Is there not signs on East wall road saying that trucks arent allowed up/down it? And that they have to go the long way round?

Wishbone Ash

On Morning Ireland AA Roadwatch mentioned a Garda escorted exceptional load being transported on the N2 at Kilshane Cross around 7am this morning (yesterday morning now I suppose).

MrJoeSoap

Something to do with the golf perhaps? I dunno!

Wishbone Ash

Stekelly wrote:

Is there not signs on East wall road saying that trucks arent allowed up/down it? And that they have to go the long way round?

Those type of signs would apply to standard trucks. An oversized load would require permits from the local authorities of each district it travels in and the route would have to be planned to avoid overhead bridges etc. Depending on it's size/weight it may also require a Garda escort.

GreeBo

highdef wrote:

drove (very slowly) down the footpath as there was nowhere else I could go.

:eek:
You could wait?

highdef

I had waited almost 30 minutes and I had places to go. I would have done a U-turn expect for the fact there was an articulated truck and line of traffic beside me. I was virtually imprisoned and not able to move anywhere and the gardaí were doing nothing to help traffic reroute

GreeBo

highdef wrote:

I had waited almost 30 minutes and I had places to go. I would have done a U-turn expect for the fact there was an articulated truck and line of traffic beside me. I was virtually imprisoned and not able to move anywhere and the gardaí were doing nothing to help traffic reroute

Still, you cant just decide to break the law because you are busy or impatient.:cool:

highdef

Well if you must know, as well as heading to the cinema, I also needed to go to the toilet. So it was a choice of driving at walking pace (slow enough for me to need to use the brake to keep me so slow) on about 20 foot of deserted footpath or urinating on the street which is also illegal. And I wasn't going to piss on the street. If I could have turned back, I would have done so no problem. I couldn't even walk to a pub to use toilet facilities as I would have left my car blocking a lane of traffic in the event that traffic got moving again. So either way, I HAD to break the law.
Anywho, every other car behind me followed suit, as I was very close to the junction when I mounted the footpath.

tubes

This escort was bringing a part to the ESB power station on the old N2 just north of Finglas. These are the guys who do the transport...

http://www.gkt.ie

fricatus

GreeBo wrote:

:eek:
You could wait?

God, why are you so horrified that he drove on the footpath to get out of a traffic jam? He's right to do so. It's not as if he tore down along it at 40 mph, scattering pensioners and mothers with buggies!

Stark

highdef wrote:

Well if you must know, as well as heading to the cinema, I also needed to go to the toilet. So it was a choice of driving at walking pace (slow enough for me to need to use the brake to keep me so slow) on about 20 foot of deserted footpath or urinating on the street which is also illegal. And I wasn't going to piss on the street.

Greebo suggests that you should have pissed in your pants :cool:

Wishbone Ash

fricatus wrote:

God, why are you so horrified that he drove on the footpath to get out of a traffic jam? He's right to do so.

Probably because it's illegal to do so!

PS - fricatus, this thread is 9 months old.

Bluetonic

Wishbone Ash wrote:

PS - fricatus, this thread is 9 months old.

So it's just been born awwwhhhhh