What to put on the insurance claim form?

[Mikkel]

Reminds me of an incident I had while in the car coming in towards Fairlie from the Tekapo side. Passed one of these warning trucks... Next thing I looked ahead and thought - "sweet all the slow buggers are pulling over, time for me to get ahead". How I missed the house coming the other way I don't know - but it most likely has to do with SEP-field (SEP = Somebody Else's Problem). I mean, you don't expect a house to be driving down the road towards you...

Anyway, nothing untowards happened, I saw the house with plenty of room to spare. Went onto the grassy shoulder, down into the "trench" (shallow, wide) and just kept on driving. Yay for GT-B's they got four-wheel drive

Best of luck with your claim.

[TimeOut]

I thought for a house they had to have two pilot vehicles

[trustme]

Night running up to 3.7m = 1 pilot [ class 2 ]
3.7m to 4.5m = 2 pilots [ class 2 ]

The house guys do tend to get along, they have not got all night you know.

The joys of overdimension loads, so many memories, so many stories , so little time, main lesson , car drivers switch off their brain when they switch on the ignition.

So often a bit like Frosty you see them thinking , 'yeah yeah another flashing light ' until they charge onto the narrow bridge you are crossing & suddenly they realise ' Faaarrrkk it is big '

[FROSTY:Me]

ep that was about it cept gosh hoinest it was so wide I swear there was no way a car or a truck woulda got past it so fuck Knows what woulda happened. Then again it was in the wee smalls so It coulda be a heap higher than I thought I saw it at.
I had a fair chuckle thinking of how my obituary would read-"died Not so peacefully in a house on SH1"

[Ratti]

thank goodness it was a posting we've been reading, not an obit.

watch out for speeding houses Frosty,

[speights_bud]

I've had exactly the same thing happen to me back when i was riding my 250Ninja one night, saw the pilot vehicle, slowed right down and pulled over to left, saw the truck coming and thought sweet as heaps of room the roads 3Lanes+ wide here, but holy shit it came up quick and got shitloads wider, i ended up on the grass verge to get out of the way. Dunno what they'd do if it were a truckie instead of a bike

[trustme]

The other thing to watch out for is a transporter that may not seem very wide that will suddenly slow right down to a crawl & move into the centre of the road over a seemingly innocuous little bridge. He's heavy & has speed restrictions on certain bridges, he isn't doing it to piss you off.

[Ryda]

Man thats crazy, pretty lucky