Surprisingly, I am back home after a short excursion to look at some data loggers I have installed in some trucks. I only needed to actually physically look at one truck, which turned out to be an interesting exercise since it was parked in a garage and needed to be moved. The only thing was that this came with an offer of ‘just move it and park it next to your car there’…

I should point out that this was not your normal three or four ton truck – it was a large garbage type truck – a street sweeper which probably weighs 15-20 tons. And it would have involved reversing it out of a garage, and then into a parking spot next to my car. Yeah, sure. Oh, and it is LEFT HAND DRIVE!

Well, the last time I tried to drive a left hand drive car I could not even get it into gear! So I got the mechanic to move it for me. That worked so much better, and it does mean that my car does not need any major panel beating because I reversed a truck into it. Much Much safer!