One of the very few times I got one over on Liverpool dockers. Two of us were loaded with small steel plates that could be lifted by hand, we got on the unloading set inside the dock at about 11.30am and was told by the checker that the steel had to be stacked onto pallets, so they put a stack of pallets by the side of our trailers for us to hand ball off, come 11.45am the dockers were ready for away to the canteen and pubs, so we asked the checker if he would sign our notes then we would stack the steel nice and tidy and could leave before they came back which he did, ‘‘Big Mistake for Him’’ as soon as they had gone we started to unload our way, and that way was just getting the load off our trailers, the plates were skimming all over the cobbles because we had our lines signed. We were away down the dock road and over Millers Bridge well before they came back other wise we would have been swimming in the Mersey.