I attempted this route a few weeks ago in an empty artic, thought id fly up with being empty. It had the complete opposite effect and i didnt even get to the hairpin before i spun and couldnt move. Everytime i released the handbrake i just wheel spun and slid backwards, was honestly one of the worse experiences ive had driving. Thankfully i managed to put the trailer into that patch of mud or half a layby whatever it is and turn around. This road is not to be underestimated, its steep AF and very tricky when wet
@@Rickytricky01that was my first thought. Good video highlighting this on here, class 1 going round a roundabout, back wheels of the unit just slid out, rear axle was down I think, probably nothing in the trailer.
The biggest problem with Sutton Bank is the road surface, it's slick with no grip. It wouldn't take a huge cost to put some high grip coating down. I went up it every week when I was on the HGVs, but the road surface was far better then.
Well done to the driver for getting that beast round the hairpin. For anyone not familiar with Sutton Bank, it's a lot more steep than it looks in the video, and the hairpin tighter. It's tricky because you can't carry momentum so you can easily find yourself in the wrong gear and lose traction.
My old man was a trucker and we once went for a holiday to Helmsley. It would have been the late seventies. We went up Sutton Bank which he already knew from his trunking and the car failed. It turned out to be the cable for the accelerator had come adrift from the carburettor. I remember clearly him bemoaning that his lorry never fails him getting up the bank. He loved that ERF. 🤣🤣🤣 RIP Dad. X
That hairpin has been improved over recent years, but its still steep.. there in lyeth the problem, the weight on long vehicles shifts to the back taking valuable traction away from drive axles on artics... sutton bank has caught many out, even nearly got caught out myself on a motorbike fully loaded with camping gear on my yearly jaunt to a bikers rally at Duncombe Park in Helmsley because i was forced to stop by car that fluffed a gear change, stopped and couldn't get going again, and so my own bike wouldn't move until i turned my traction control off ! So it can even catch experienced drivers & riders out ! Take care all, its all part of the fun and building experience ! But do heed the signs caravaners !! 😉😊
Yes I know it's a pain in the butt having to make a long detour, but there are many signs from miles ahead warning that the road is not suitable for heavy vehicles and caravans etc. I sometimes think it's that "won't beat me!" human mind set that gets people stuck, rather than roads and conditions. Get stuck a couple of times before succeeding and the detour may have been quicker and less stressful for all concerned 😢
You went back to give assistance had he got stuck , others would have just pulled out their phones and video the struggle, top bloke I hope your close if I ever need help
Thanks for your video, l thought he was going to struggle with that climb because the road surface was wet and it seemed there was a lot of weight in that rig, well done that driver 👏👏👏.
Am a fairly local retired driver. We never went up or down loaded with bulkers. We had grip but would break half shafts. On tautliners with 4x2 units only go up with less than 10 tonne loaded up front, 6 x2 with a tag lifted ok, but mid lift, dicy. If it was wet go around via the caravan route or Malton and Pickering. Fridge boxes with plastic trays full of meat would regularly have them escaping out of the back doors on their way up the bank on their way from Durham to Malton Bacon factory.
I did this climb up Sutton Bank with a fully loaded artic, only went that way to take in the views on my way to Stockton, then began to realise their could be a problem when the drive axles began losing traction, the tractor unit (fortunately) was a FODEN three axle with double drive, with diff lock and cross axle diffs engaged i finally made it ONLY JUST, thanks to the FODEN set up, which was the one and ONLY benefit that the FODEN possessed, thanks to the Kenworth chassis set up.
brilliant driving on the second attempt, also backing down to find his crawler gear with a piggy back trailer on the artic trailer, brilliant reversing as well.
I had this experience back in the 1990s in a lightly loaded artic, it just wouldn't make it up. A kindly police dog handler in his car saw my attempts, and watched me to reverse back to where there was room to do a U turn.
I drove up this Monday about 7.30 in morning roughly 22ton had a nice queue behind me but took it nice and steady traffic behind was patient but turned foggy halfway up
I once saw a truck carrying very long steel girders going up Sutton Bank with an escort van, the engine on the escort van blew up when it got to the top !
I'm ex-REME attch 5R-Anglian a TA battalion, that was reserve for BOAR, so we were 24hr activation, I was a driving instructor for the Batt teaching new recruits how to drive a L/R into and out off Tank Traps, Don't unless you absolutely, positively, MUST, was always my first words, I've busted 4ton(SWL)winches trying to pull half-ton(AP)land rovers out of soft mud, You try and tell car drivers, that wet grass has less traction than Ice, they look at you gone out,
In the 50’s and 60’s underpowered push-rod engined cars would boil over tackling Sutton Bank. 👍🏻🏴 It was notorious for stalled and broken-down vehicles.
Done it in a rigid and stuck it in manual at the bottom to be on the safe side. Fortunate I was 3/4 loaded as it was an 18T box van that didn't like traction if it was empty.
I've been up Sutton Bank several times in a car and even then it is obvious how many car drivers do not know how to approach steep and twisty banks like this one and try to get up in far too high a gear only to lose engine revs when they try to change down and end up stalling. THEN they have trouble remembering how to do a hill start!!! Especially on that hairpin! At which point I stop a comfortable distance back, apply handbrake, put the car into neutral and let them sort themselves out.
Interesting to see a trucker's point of view. I am a member of the gliding club at the top, so I tow a glider trailer up and down Sutton Bank from time to time. With a four wheel drive Audi A4 it's no real problem, but keeping moving makes it a lot easier. Still it has my full attention! Occasionally a car driver who should have no problem takes one look and panics, which is a pain.
@@rogeratygc7895 I was wondering about that! Towing a glider is not a lot of difference to towing a caravan so wondered how you guys went about it, that car certainly is the key!!! Very nice. I mentioned the glider club in the 1st video I did. I get a thrill flying the drone so your thrill from flying gliders must be unreal!
@@thetruckerseye I don't know, but I suspect the glider trailer may be lighter. At any rate the power of the A4 is ample, and I have never had a problem, though if forced to stop I wince at the thought of what I'm asking of the clutch. I saw your video where you mentioned the gliding club - thanks - and yes, gliding can be thrilling. I have experienced an "adrenaline high" once or twice in the 54 years I have been gliding.
Instead of putting anti slip tarmac on, making turnaround better, cutting tree's down to help see and dry the road better, they shut it to hgvs and caravans. Have you tried the caravan route to avoid it, you should do a video on that. If you coming from South go to Malton - Helmsley. From north come down stokesley. West good luck
The biggest problem with Sutton Bank is the road surface, it's slick with no grip. My car spins its wheels when it's damp. When years ago when I was on the HGVs I went up there without a problem for weeks on end.
2nd December 2024 1.30pm drove up Sutton Bank in my motorhome, road surface challenging, the first steep gradient near emergency lay yards was extremely rough and pitted and then after the hairpin bend surface very smooth ,giving cause for wheelspin ,I've been driving on this route for nearly 50 years on and off and this is the worst surface ever NYCC need to stop experimenting and put down decent surface .
I went up there recently and some daft woman in a Vauxhall Corsa in front of me couldn’t even make it up. Either no driving skill or the clutch or gearbox was shot to begin with
I might have gone to where the caravan had been I took a tarmac paver, a cat skid steer & possibly 2 rollers however I was advised to avoid Sutton Bank it apparently put 45 minutes going via the diversion I was in a terrible G450 Scania with a single drive axle & tag axle just terrible
I hate doing anything more than a cheeky 15 for a snout and keep the WTD happy in there. The road surface in there looks like there was an air strike at some point, cratered to buggery!
Well done on holding back to let him back down easier, so many road users, fellow lorry drivers included I've seen just drive up behind wagons that are having to reverse, for whatever reason. I see he's a single drive rigid and his trailer was most possibly up towards maximum gross, although I couldn't just see what size/weight it was. I think, like you, that the auto box could easily have been responsible for his first fail, somewhere I've a wagon in my archives that failed on the Dumbers due to it changing on the steepest part, but he was very badly loaded too. Of course his first attempt may have been thwarted by someone else, that he was following baulking him or someone stopping or cutting the corner, but yes I was glad he'd got up there by keeping it in low. You really need to keep in manual for this sort of road just to be in control of the gear changes, as that auto slip as I've seen has been responsible for such things as snapped half shafts and prop shafts. Oh loved the little history lesson too at the start. I've now subscribed to your channel. All the best.
I am not a driver but having been up and down there and seen the signs for no caravans, I am surprised that someone tries it with a large trailer on the back of a truck.
It's different for a few reasons. Front wheel drive cars have virtually no traction and that'a why they are banned with caravans as the caravan acts as even more of a counter balance. I tried to explain this in the 1st video I did about it if it helps? 🤣
@@john1703afraid not. Hence the caravan ban and signs. You see even with 4x4 drive you still have next to no weight on the front wheels for traction or decent grip for steering.
@@KeithBurnett-f1o you either didn’t read what I wrote or you answered the wrong person. I clearly stated that I do not drive. Full stop. I asked the question as I didn’t know the answer. However, there are a number of HGV drivers who I presume do know a bit about their vehicle and how it performs and other need to know things but somehow manage to get themselves stuck on this and similar hills. There are others that I have witnessed locally to me who think that they can fit a 40 foot unit up a road that has a sign saying 6foot wide no HGV and then cause havoc when they get stuck between two buildings. Then again others who think they can fit a 3 or 4 metre high trailer under a 10 foot bridge. I don’t need to know about these things but it is hoped that the drivers of them do. 😀😀
I was aHGV driver for 43 years ,and used Sutton bank regularly before retiring in 2003t. the way to drive up II from the bottom is start I In the lowest gear you can when loaded , do.not change gear until reaching the summit, straddling the crown of the road if possible especially at the first bend to prevent load transfer on the drivve axle(s),
I deliver to many farmers here in Ireland with roads like that but narrower then that which in a way a god sent no traffic...i now engage manual gear press button to drop weight on drive axle and put diff lock on...then foot to the floor my GVW can be up 48.5 tonne...several times made the steep hill but its the farmers yard covered in mud/cow s@@t where i get stuck..so on goes tow loop and farmers do there thing.
The signs are clear regarding articulated vehicles,…..it is best not to use this road as there are easier alternatives and these are safer to use and avoid the risk of getting stuck. Use your brain and stay safe .
He may not even have attempted a first run. He may have decided on seeing the approach signs to abort as when you came up on him the first time he seemed to be too far away from the hairpin to have reversed that far? he then realised there was no turning or side roads so aborted the reverse? I'm not a truck driver but do have a C+E and with modern trucks they should be able to climb any gradient in a low enough gear. I think the failed attempts are when the driver trys to approach at too high speed and gear and if there is a camber on the bend then possible loss of traction due to weight transfer and then when the inevitable gradient kicks in the gearbox can't cope? Hmm just my thoughts!
Thought this was about my mate at work coz he went up Sutton bank in an artic to get to Pickering and was threatened with the sack untill he told the office manager that’s his at nav took him that way and he just saw it as the A170 untill he got to the bottom of the bank.. Fact is he got to the top no issues but our office staff are a bunch or morons who haven’t even been up Sutton bank in a car😂
It’s a full ban for Caravans, advised not suitable for heavy loads, there’s no ban on HGV`s or coaches. The Trucker’s Eye did a video on this previously, showing all the signs from Thirsk.
Ironic that you are calling out "these people" for not being able to read roads signs when in fact it's you that can't. Caravans are not allowed to use sutton bank, there is no signs saying HGVs aren't allowed
Ya know those signs you are reading? They actually read Caravans are prohibited. HGV's aren't mentioned. Cars are front wheel druve and when pulling a caravan the caravan will act as a counter balance to the weight leaving the towing car with no traction. HGV's are a totally different configuration!
@@imogenharrison3432 have you got the idea now halfwit! Shows how much attention you dickheads in cars pay, come back when you know what you're talking about
gearbox in most trucks today are automated not automatic, there is a distinct difference, automated gearbox are in essence all the mechanical functions and layout of a manual gearbox including a plate friction clutch that have had the clutch peddle and H-pattern or HH-pattern gear shifter replaced by automated actuators controlled by ECU, they are known as AMT (Automated Manual Transmission), on the other hand automatic transmission are a very different kettle of fish, they are very much like the automatic transmission you will find in cars etc, which combine a torque converter and an automatic gearbox, you will find this type of gearbox is seldom fitted to truck this side of the pond, because they are inefficient, and the main manufacture of them is Allison Transmission. over this side of the pond, if you need a torque converter, you often need the efficacy of a full manual or full AMT, combined with a torque converter, which means you will be wanting a turbo-clutch, which is a conventional dry-plate clutch as you would find in a manual or AMT with a torque converter mounted on the back of it, which you will find in the likes of MAN and Mercedes truck used for heavy haulage, and military off-road wrecker's made by them, in the form of the ZF WSK, or Voith turbo-retarder-clutch, which combines the torque converter function with that of a fluid retarder, which unlike most secondary retarder is a primary retarder (gets to fully function based on every gears ratio, thus is able to give many thousands of KW retardation in 1st etc gear)
People think that Alf Wight's "patch" was the Yorkshire Dales as the original series was filmed in Wensleydale and upper Swaledale (mostly) but most of his patch was in the Hambleton hills, Sutton Bank eastwards. He did occasionally go to Leyburn to help another vet there ("Ross McEwan" in the books).
@@stephenphillip5656 I've read his photographic book "James Herriot's Yorkshire" featuring some stunning pictures of Sutton Bank and the Yorkshire Vet is a good real life documentary
I attempted this route a few weeks ago in an empty artic, thought id fly up with being empty. It had the complete opposite effect and i didnt even get to the hairpin before i spun and couldnt move. Everytime i released the handbrake i just wheel spun and slid backwards, was honestly one of the worse experiences ive had driving. Thankfully i managed to put the trailer into that patch of mud or half a layby whatever it is and turn around. This road is not to be underestimated, its steep AF and very tricky when wet
I think that exactly was your problem going completely empty & no weight over your 5th wheel nothing to force your drive axle/s into the tarmac
@@Rickytricky01that was my first thought. Good video highlighting this on here, class 1 going round a roundabout, back wheels of the unit just slid out, rear axle was down I think, probably nothing in the trailer.
The biggest problem with Sutton Bank is the road surface, it's slick with no grip. It wouldn't take a huge cost to put some high grip coating down. I went up it every week when I was on the HGVs, but the road surface was far better then.
Well done to the driver for getting that beast round the hairpin.
For anyone not familiar with Sutton Bank, it's a lot more steep than it looks in the video, and the hairpin tighter. It's tricky because you can't carry momentum so you can easily find yourself in the wrong gear and lose traction.
My old man was a trucker and we once went for a holiday to Helmsley. It would have been the late seventies. We went up Sutton Bank which he already knew from his trunking and the car failed. It turned out to be the cable for the accelerator had come adrift from the carburettor.
I remember clearly him bemoaning that his lorry never fails him getting up the bank. He loved that ERF. 🤣🤣🤣
RIP Dad. X
Aww nice one. I didn't mind an ERF (especially the Olympic), still call them Every Rattle Felt!
That hairpin has been improved over recent years, but its still steep.. there in lyeth the problem, the weight on long vehicles shifts to the back taking valuable traction away from drive axles on artics... sutton bank has caught many out, even nearly got caught out myself on a motorbike fully loaded with camping gear on my yearly jaunt to a bikers rally at Duncombe Park in Helmsley because i was forced to stop by car that fluffed a gear change, stopped and couldn't get going again, and so my own bike wouldn't move until i turned my traction control off ! So it can even catch experienced drivers & riders out ! Take care all, its all part of the fun and building experience ! But do heed the signs caravaners !! 😉😊
Yes I know it's a pain in the butt having to make a long detour, but there are many signs from miles ahead warning that the road is not suitable for heavy vehicles and caravans etc. I sometimes think it's that "won't beat me!" human mind set that gets people stuck, rather than roads and conditions. Get stuck a couple of times before succeeding and the detour may have been quicker and less stressful for all concerned 😢
You went back to give assistance had he got stuck , others would have just pulled out their phones and video the struggle, top bloke I hope your close if I ever need help
Thanks for your video, l thought he was going to struggle with that climb because the road surface was wet and it seemed there was a lot of weight in that rig, well done that driver 👏👏👏.
Exactly what I thought!
Am a fairly local retired driver. We never went up or down loaded with bulkers. We had grip but would break half shafts. On tautliners with 4x2 units only go up with less than 10 tonne loaded up front, 6 x2 with a tag lifted ok, but mid lift, dicy. If it was wet go around via the caravan route or Malton and Pickering. Fridge boxes with plastic trays full of meat would regularly have them escaping out of the back doors on their way up the bank on their way from Durham to Malton Bacon factory.
I did this climb up Sutton Bank with a fully loaded artic, only went that way to take in the views on my way to Stockton, then began to realise their could be a problem when the drive axles began losing traction, the tractor unit (fortunately) was a FODEN three axle with double drive, with diff lock and cross axle diffs engaged i finally made it ONLY JUST, thanks to the FODEN set up, which was the one and ONLY benefit that the FODEN possessed, thanks to the Kenworth chassis set up.
I live in the vicinity of Sutton Bank, do not underestimate its difficulty !
brilliant driving on the second attempt, also backing down to find his crawler gear with a piggy back trailer on the artic trailer, brilliant reversing as well.
I had this experience back in the 1990s in a lightly loaded artic, it just wouldn't make it up.
A kindly police dog handler in his car saw my attempts, and watched me to reverse back to where there was room to do a U turn.
I drove up this Monday about 7.30 in morning roughly 22ton had a nice queue behind me but took it nice and steady traffic behind was patient but turned foggy halfway up
Thanks again for another insightful video Mr Trucker 👍
I once saw a truck carrying very long steel girders going up Sutton Bank with an escort van, the engine on the escort van blew up when it got to the top !
fantastic video lov the james herriot theme
I'm ex-REME attch 5R-Anglian a TA battalion, that was reserve for BOAR, so we were 24hr activation, I was a driving instructor for the Batt teaching new recruits how to drive a L/R into and out off Tank Traps, Don't unless you absolutely, positively, MUST, was always my first words, I've busted 4ton(SWL)winches trying to pull half-ton(AP)land rovers out of soft mud, You try and tell car drivers, that wet grass has less traction than Ice, they look at you gone out,
Bryan, it’s BAOR- British army of the Rhine. Boar is the guy I seem to get stuck next to on the train
Is this another one of your 'Tall Stories' Byran? 🤔
Sutton Bank did for the clutch on my fathers Morris 1000 back in the 1960's. I've always been wary of it ever since even in a modern Mercedes car.
In the 50’s and 60’s underpowered push-rod engined cars would boil over tackling Sutton Bank. 👍🏻🏴 It was notorious for stalled and broken-down vehicles.
Done it in a rigid and stuck it in manual at the bottom to be on the safe side. Fortunate I was 3/4 loaded as it was an 18T box van that didn't like traction if it was empty.
The first time I ever did it was 1996 and in a rigid with a long overhang, i thought I was going to do a wheelie 🤣
I've been up Sutton Bank several times in a car and even then it is obvious how many car drivers do not know how to approach steep and twisty banks like this one and try to get up in far too high a gear only to lose engine revs when they try to change down and end up stalling.
THEN they have trouble remembering how to do a hill start!!! Especially on that hairpin!
At which point I stop a comfortable distance back, apply handbrake, put the car into neutral and let them sort themselves out.
Interesting to see a trucker's point of view. I am a member of the gliding club at the top, so I tow a glider trailer up and down Sutton Bank from time to time. With a four wheel drive Audi A4 it's no real problem, but keeping moving makes it a lot easier. Still it has my full attention! Occasionally a car driver who should have no problem takes one look and panics, which is a pain.
@@rogeratygc7895 I was wondering about that! Towing a glider is not a lot of difference to towing a caravan so wondered how you guys went about it, that car certainly is the key!!! Very nice. I mentioned the glider club in the 1st video I did. I get a thrill flying the drone so your thrill from flying gliders must be unreal!
@@thetruckerseye I don't know, but I suspect the glider trailer may be lighter. At any rate the power of the A4 is ample, and I have never had a problem, though if forced to stop I wince at the thought of what I'm asking of the clutch. I saw your video where you mentioned the gliding club - thanks - and yes, gliding can be thrilling. I have experienced an "adrenaline high" once or twice in the 54 years I have been gliding.
Years ago, and I mean at least 45 ago I drove an army 3 tonne Bedford up, Jeez. Crawled up in first gear took for ever
Instead of putting anti slip tarmac on, making turnaround better, cutting tree's down to help see and dry the road better, they shut it to hgvs and caravans. Have you tried the caravan route to avoid it, you should do a video on that. If you coming from South go to Malton - Helmsley. From north come down stokesley. West good luck
The biggest problem with Sutton Bank is the road surface, it's slick with no grip. My car spins its wheels when it's damp. When years ago when I was on the HGVs I went up there without a problem for weeks on end.
2nd December 2024 1.30pm drove up Sutton Bank in my motorhome, road surface challenging, the first steep gradient near emergency lay yards was extremely rough and pitted and then after the hairpin bend surface very smooth ,giving cause for wheelspin ,I've been driving on this route for nearly 50 years on and off and this is the worst surface ever NYCC need to stop experimenting and put down decent surface .
I went up there recently and some daft woman in a Vauxhall Corsa in front of me couldn’t even make it up. Either no driving skill or the clutch or gearbox was shot to begin with
Minor, pedantic point - not sure the van flashing you confounded your fears - you were right and he confirmed them!
I might have gone to where the caravan had been I took a tarmac paver, a cat skid steer & possibly 2 rollers however I was advised to avoid Sutton Bank it apparently put 45 minutes going via the diversion I was in a terrible G450 Scania with a single drive axle & tag axle just terrible
Good video mate, watching on my 45 is south mimms, would definitely rather drive this road than the m25 though 😭😂
South Mimms typifies the M25! Both are absolute holes lol
I hate doing anything more than a cheeky 15 for a snout and keep the WTD happy in there.
The road surface in there looks like there was an air strike at some point, cratered to buggery!
Well done on holding back to let him back down easier, so many road users, fellow lorry drivers included I've seen just drive up behind wagons that are having to reverse, for whatever reason. I see he's a single drive rigid and his trailer was most possibly up towards maximum gross, although I couldn't just see what size/weight it was. I think, like you, that the auto box could easily have been responsible for his first fail, somewhere I've a wagon in my archives that failed on the Dumbers due to it changing on the steepest part, but he was very badly loaded too. Of course his first attempt may have been thwarted by someone else, that he was following baulking him or someone stopping or cutting the corner, but yes I was glad he'd got up there by keeping it in low. You really need to keep in manual for this sort of road just to be in control of the gear changes, as that auto slip as I've seen has been responsible for such things as snapped half shafts and prop shafts. Oh loved the little history lesson too at the start. I've now subscribed to your channel. All the best.
I am not a driver but having been up and down there and seen the signs for no caravans, I am surprised that someone tries it with a large trailer on the back of a truck.
It's different for a few reasons. Front wheel drive cars have virtually no traction and that'a why they are banned with caravans as the caravan acts as even more of a counter balance. I tried to explain this in the 1st video I did about it if it helps? 🤣
@@thetruckerseye This implies that a rear, or four, wheel drive car and caravan would be OK.
@@davegb99 well thats because you drive a car and no comprehshion of anything to do with hgvs
@@john1703afraid not. Hence the caravan ban and signs. You see even with 4x4 drive you still have next to no weight on the front wheels for traction or decent grip for steering.
@@KeithBurnett-f1o you either didn’t read what I wrote or you answered the wrong person.
I clearly stated that I do not drive. Full stop. I asked the question as I didn’t know the answer.
However, there are a number of HGV drivers who I presume do know a bit about their vehicle and how it performs and other need to know things but somehow manage to get themselves stuck on this and similar hills. There are others that I have witnessed locally to me who think that they can fit a 40 foot unit up a road that has a sign saying 6foot wide no HGV and then cause havoc when they get stuck between two buildings. Then again others who think they can fit a 3 or 4 metre high trailer under a 10 foot bridge.
I don’t need to know about these things but it is hoped that the drivers of them do. 😀😀
I was aHGV driver for 43 years ,and used Sutton bank regularly before retiring in 2003t. the way to drive up II from the bottom is start I
In the lowest gear you can when loaded , do.not change gear until reaching the summit, straddling the crown of the road if possible especially at the first bend to prevent load transfer on the drivve axle(s),
Once a year us bikers head to the farmyard party at the hall....we love sutton bank 😅
@@SameSh1tDifferentDrain no probs for you guys! I bet you love the hairpin!
I deliver to many farmers here in Ireland with roads like that but narrower then that which in a way a god sent no traffic...i now engage manual gear press button to drop weight on drive axle and put diff lock on...then foot to the floor my GVW can be up 48.5 tonne...several times made the steep hill but its the farmers yard covered in mud/cow s@@t where i get stuck..so on goes tow loop and farmers do there thing.
I towed a hgv up Sutton bank once. Huge tailback so figured I'd move him if I could. Never knew my car had so many fans and warning lights 😅
Is the signposted "caravan route" still plagued by huge speed humps? It was like an obstacle course when I towed that way (quite a while ago now).
Because of the corners, HGVs with dodgy loads could do with a tow vehicle, but that would make the load uneconomic.
The signs are clear regarding articulated vehicles,…..it is best not to use this road as there are easier alternatives and these are safer to use and avoid the risk of getting stuck.
Use your brain and stay safe .
LOL its a killer for heavy trucks
He may not even have attempted a first run. He may have decided on seeing the approach signs to abort as when you came up on him the first time he seemed to be too far away from the hairpin to have reversed that far? he then realised there was no turning or side roads so aborted the reverse? I'm not a truck driver but do have a C+E and with modern trucks they should be able to climb any gradient in a low enough gear. I think the failed attempts are when the driver trys to approach at too high speed and gear and if there is a camber on the bend then possible loss of traction due to weight transfer and then when the inevitable gradient kicks in the gearbox can't cope? Hmm just my thoughts!
Thought this was about my mate at work coz he went up Sutton bank in an artic to get to Pickering and was threatened with the sack untill he told the office manager that’s his at nav took him that way and he just saw it as the A170 untill he got to the bottom of the bank..
Fact is he got to the top no issues but our office staff are a bunch or morons who haven’t even been up Sutton bank in a car😂
HGV's and Caravans are banned on Sutton Bank. Plenty of signs for miles before the gradient. Why is it so hard for these people to read a road sign?
It’s a full ban for Caravans, advised not suitable for heavy loads, there’s no ban on HGV`s or coaches. The Trucker’s Eye did a video on this previously, showing all the signs from Thirsk.
Ironic that you are calling out "these people" for not being able to read roads signs when in fact it's you that can't. Caravans are not allowed to use sutton bank, there is no signs saying HGVs aren't allowed
Delivery dictates where these people go you arrogant halfwit
Ya know those signs you are reading? They actually read Caravans are prohibited. HGV's aren't mentioned.
Cars are front wheel druve and when pulling a caravan the caravan will act as a counter balance to the weight leaving the towing car with no traction. HGV's are a totally different configuration!
@@imogenharrison3432 have you got the idea now halfwit! Shows how much attention you dickheads in cars pay, come back when you know what you're talking about
A bit long winded.
Dont ever try Blakey Bank.
@@awalk5177 ooh, where is that?
@@thetruckerseye Coming out of Rosedale abbey. Its 1:4
@@awalk5177i'll have a look at that thanks. Same gradient as this one. Maybe I should head there for a video ha
@@thetruckerseye Maybe I am getting confused with Rosedale Chimney bank. But they are in the same area. Check them both out. Good luck.
Or Boltby which runs to the east of Sutton
gearbox in most trucks today are automated not automatic, there is a distinct difference, automated gearbox are in essence all the mechanical functions and layout of a manual gearbox including a plate friction clutch that have had the clutch peddle and H-pattern or HH-pattern gear shifter replaced by automated actuators controlled by ECU, they are known as AMT (Automated Manual Transmission), on the other hand automatic transmission are a very different kettle of fish, they are very much like the automatic transmission you will find in cars etc, which combine a torque converter and an automatic gearbox, you will find this type of gearbox is seldom fitted to truck this side of the pond, because they are inefficient, and the main manufacture of them is Allison Transmission.
over this side of the pond, if you need a torque converter, you often need the efficacy of a full manual or full AMT, combined with a torque converter, which means you will be wanting a turbo-clutch, which is a conventional dry-plate clutch as you would find in a manual or AMT with a torque converter mounted on the back of it, which you will find in the likes of MAN and Mercedes truck used for heavy haulage, and military off-road wrecker's made by them, in the form of the ZF WSK, or Voith turbo-retarder-clutch, which combines the torque converter function with that of a fluid retarder, which unlike most secondary retarder is a primary retarder (gets to fully function based on every gears ratio, thus is able to give many thousands of KW retardation in 1st etc gear)
All his weight is on the trailer....not ideal.
No, I thought he'd struggle! I guess the longer chassis of the rigid helped with the drive axle being half the length of the whole vehicle back
Thats why there are warnings and restriction’s, any idiot caught attempting to take a restricted vehicle up there should lose their licence !!!
Only 1 restriction and that's for caravans beibg prohibited!
This is so BORING!!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
Am I the only one to get the "All Creatures Great & Small" reference at the start? 🧓😆
No
The author of the stories lived in Sutton under Whitestonecliffe near the bottom of Sutton Bank
People think that Alf Wight's "patch" was the Yorkshire Dales as the original series was filmed in Wensleydale and upper Swaledale (mostly) but most of his patch was in the Hambleton hills, Sutton Bank eastwards. He did occasionally go to Leyburn to help another vet there ("Ross McEwan" in the books).
@@stephenphillip5656 I've read his photographic book "James Herriot's Yorkshire" featuring some stunning pictures of Sutton Bank and the Yorkshire Vet is a good real life documentary