Author: Anthony Marriage

The eagle has landed

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As the amazing photo shows, a golden eagle found itself lodged through a trucks windscreen after being hit at a speed of 60mph. The accident came about when the eagle flew in the wrong direction whilst feeding on a dead deer on the road.
“I heard a loud thump like a brick or something coming through the glass,” said Daryl Young, the co-driver who was dozing in the sleeper berth when it happened. “I woke up, and the windshield was all over me. Next thing I know there was a big bird lying on the floor.”
However, after being examined it was concluded that despite the odds, the young female suffered only internal bleeding and that no bones had been broken. Wiegle, nicknamed for being a ‘window eagle,’ was taken to Teton Raptor Center in Wilson, Wyoming, where she was nursed back to full health. After proving she could hunt, feed and fly independently she was released back into the wilds of Bear Lake, Idaho.
Teton Director Amy Brennan McCarthey said: “This return to the wild qualifies as the most remarkable among our success stories. We are very proud to play a role in giving this eagle a second chance at freedom.”

Rainbow road

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We cover a lot of colourful stories but this one surely wins by a mile. In Massachusetts, a truck flipped over spilling its entire load of gallons of printer ink. Reds, yellows and blues stained the motorway after the driver lost control of his truck as the vehicle crashed into the side of an exit barrier.
Joe Ferson, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, confirmed that 16,000 pounds of red, blue, and yellow ink cartridges from an Indianapolis-based printing company were involved in the crash. Local police stated that there would be no lasting damage to the area before an environmental clean-up company was called in.

Fortunately, the driver aged 36, escaped with only minor injuries.

Pucker truck

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Jamie Oliver has teamed up designer David Rockwell to create the “Food Revolution” truck. The food truck is the result of Jamie Oliver wining the prestigious TED award in 2010, which had a prize fund of $100,000.
The mobile kitchens have been designed and built from scratch with the intention of educating schoolchildren about healthy cooking and ultimately hoping to prompt change in the American school system when it comes to food.
Jamie Oliver stated it was designed so that everything can be fully strapped down, allowing the truck to travel to new destinations and host demonstrations across America. The back of the truck also houses an inflatable amphitheatre capable of hosting a live demonstration to large audiences.

I have this sinking feeling…

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We all feel the bump as we drive over potholes in the road but a mammoth sized pothole in Shropshire has all but sunk a Nissan 4×4. The car, worth £24,000, hit the pothole causing the owner, Chris Nedic and his two passengers to leap out, fearing that it would sink entirely.

Luckily there were only minor injuries sustained despite the vehicle nosediving into the pothole and lifting off its rear axel. The pothole was caused by two burst water pipes along the A464 near Albrighton in Shropshire.

True Horsepower

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They might be have been replaced by the wheel and motor a long time ago but sometimes the trusty steed can come up trumps. After a large tanker slid off a snow filled road, an Amish man and his band of horses pulled the truck so that it could continue on to it’s destination. Sugar cubes all round!

Mayo Spread on Motorway

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Over 20 tons of mayonnaise spilled from a truck in Missouri, USA, when its driver lost control of the vehicle. Despite the truck and trailer being ripped apart, the driver miraculously survived unscathed after crawling from the wreckage to safety. The slick of mayonnaise that covered the road took workers 8 hours to clean up.

Lieutenant Leavin told KY3TV, “This is a one in a million, this is truly divine intervention, the guy literally walked away unhurt, no injuries. The fact we’d had rain slowed the semi down, it’s probably what saved everything.”
Driver Jason Ezell told the channel, “It was the worst wreck I’ve ever seen and I’m an over-the-road truck driver so I see a lot.”

Tanker drivers to strike?

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Unite, the UK’s largest union, is threatening strike action for its tanker drivers. Representative of over 3,000 drivers, Unite is proposing industrial action over spending cuts as well as a deterioration of working conditions with the major supermarkets and oil companies.
Len McCluskey, well known for his Left-wing militancy and moniker “Red Len,” stated that industrial action was not simply down to pay:

‘It is unacceptable that an industry of such national importance can operate without any stability mechanisms in place or without responsible regulation. This commodity is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market. This is now a very serious situation. The industry is on the highway to catastrophe.’ He added: ‘This industry must understand how serious my members are.’
A spokesman for the UK Petroleum Industry Association said the biggest threat could come from panic buying. “As always panic buying is the real problem and often that is what leads to shortages.”
Shiply would like to know your views on the proposed strike action and how this might effect the transport industry, which is already feeling the strain of ever-increasing fuel prices.