That’s fine on private property, but over a public road seems ridiculous to me.
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Leavin the platform in the air also keeps pressure on the hydraulic seals thereby (hopefully) promoiting a longer seal life.
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Not if they are double acting rams.
I bet he lost 
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Just walked past this this afternoon.
Work isn’t even finished on it and some berk in a BMW has decided to PLAC on top of one of the brand new traffic lights.
(not my photos)
As is frequently the case around here, it leaves me wondering how the driver even managed this.
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Wotta cunt:
Thank goodness professional drivers wouldn’t ever do anything ‘distracting’ with lights 
I do agree about the Sellotape though.
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Apart from the blue lights, that is compliant; white light to the front; amber to the side and red to the rear…
I recall in a previous life lorries going in for MOT having black tape applied to non- compliant lighting- amber lighting on the grille was a bit of a fashion item back in the mid 'ninties!
Compliant, yes (do we just ignore all the red lights inside the cabs though ?). But distracting nonetheless, surely ?
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I meant to get back to you on this a while back; I asked a lorry driver about these red lights and they said it was a popular measure to avoid eye strain- particularly at night.
In any case, if there are reflections in the windscreen, it’s probably no worse than driving a bus at night.
I always drive with one row of saloon lighting switched off to prevent this. 
Can’t park there mate.
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Yeah, that’s going to make trains not work well.
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Is that photoshopped? Doesn’t look right (that and there’s no bend in the rail path round the corner in the news pics)
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Depending on the angle the rails are either straight or bent. Also there appears to be a distortion in the foreground.
I suspect ‘shopping.
Took it as a direct link from the Beeb news story, so it is obviously a false picture to benefit Starmer/Farage/Israel¹
¹ delete to suit personal prejudices
The overhead shot also shows signs of rails being pushed out of alignment if you look closely, from what I can see the photo is taken from by the bridge at track level.
Edit: by the look of it the lorry was heading south here
https://maps.app.goo.gl/x4XZMQdgb7gSfA8n9
with the bend in the low shot being off to the right.
I think it’s just forced perspective from a very long lens and a tight crop making everything seem very exaggerated. The bend in the background is prob quite a distance away
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I don’t believe it’s been edited; a 44 tonne lorry has travelled at speed down an embankment and into the side of the rails.
The mud and other debris has been thrown up and onto the track and the wheels have sunken into the ground.
It looks like the offside front of the lorry has taken the brunt. Behind the bumper is a mandatory front underrun bar and I reckon it’s is that which contacted the rail.
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