TommyTanker:
grumpyken52:
andy187:
mrginge:
A member on here called ‘shade’ works for Fly By Nite and when I asked him about any extra work on top of driving e.g Spots he said:shade:
No , thats incorrect . We are truck drivers .Also one driver i met at a festival said “if we help out and hurt ourselves… who drives the truck back?”
When I have run stuff into shows it’s always crew that unloads or loads , they just check that you are happy with what they are doing as the driver is ultimately responsible.
I always had a tail lift which was offered to help with heavy units at venues without docks or forks .
We ran only 7.5t or 18t for the extras , replacement equipment or merchandise.
Usually very good communication with heads of crews and they kept you informed of changes and the order of delivery .
Bumping into familiar faces all over the UK and Europe was always good and most places looked after the truckies and crews as they did work hard to make things work .Sent from my SM-G903F using Tapatalk
I never in 5 years saw an arctic with a tail lift, all came down a ramp that was stored under the trailer. That includes the bloody mixing desks, usually only one in a venue at front of house, festivals have several. they are extremely heavy and the worst place We had to put one was the shepards bush empire. that was a ball ache for the front of house mixing desk, the astoria was the worst for everything, used to be the royal Albert hall but they spent money getting rid of the very dangerous load in/out ramp and built a loading dock under the place with a lift to bring the equipment up to stage level.
If we saw big heavy bits having to come off we always offered to drop it with our tail lifts by reversing onto the rear of the big box .
Never had a refusal !
Usually it was a pallet full of staging that weighed over 600kg .
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