GE
BT tend to use smaller trucks from the likes of Cloudbass for the first round games. The BBC used Arena for the first round draw (you could see the truck in the drone footage as part of the programme!) so may well be using them for the games too.
I've heard that there's been a fair bit of a reshuffle of resources for this weekend, with a couple of big trucks from elsewhere in the NEP group being moved to fill in for the fire-damaged Visions units, and other companies being booked as backfill.
thegeek
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Not sure if they have the BBC/BT Sport FA Cup live game contract?
I've heard that there's been a fair bit of a reshuffle of resources for this weekend, with a couple of big trucks from elsewhere in the NEP group being moved to fill in for the fire-damaged Visions units, and other companies being booked as backfill.
MA
They did really well to get so much out, the trucks indoors will have likely been in their deployed state, (sides out,
hydraulic legs down, powered up etc) it's not exactly a quick or safe job (considering a building rapidly filling with toxic smoke and fumes) to get the sides in, and legs up, and drive out. Also, some of the trailers won't have been hitched up to tractor units, so no chance for them.
Update : List of destroyed trucks
http://m.broadcastnow.co.uk/5096523.article
Some good drone footage on that website, clearly showing the scale of the damage to the building and the number of trucks they managed to get out and park up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSTgDGHwCOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSTgDGHwCOk
They did really well to get so much out, the trucks indoors will have likely been in their deployed state, (sides out,
hydraulic legs down, powered up etc) it's not exactly a quick or safe job (considering a building rapidly filling with toxic smoke and fumes) to get the sides in, and legs up, and drive out. Also, some of the trailers won't have been hitched up to tractor units, so no chance for them.
Update : List of destroyed trucks
http://m.broadcastnow.co.uk/5096523.article
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