FarnboroughBoy11:
I can’t even be arsed to argue or try and reason with people anymore, I used to get it all the time on multi drop work in a rigid and an artic. I just pretend to be polish, point to the phone number on the door of the wagon and get on with what I gotta do
So that’s why our opinion gets worse and worse
Well ok polish was just an expression, i should of said I pretend to be “foreign”. I doubt many people can tell the nationality of someone just by looking at them
Squiddy:
Seems the only people who object are those who live in identical barratt homes who dont want their view of the barratt home opposite them obscured.
I guarantee if you parked an expensive merc or bmw or audi outside they would be happy as it raises the tone.
But a dirty working class truck brings down the image of their identikit street.
Its a class thing and us lorry drivers are seen as people who failed all their GCSE’s so took up lorry driving for a living.
Living in a Barrett home is hard work you know. I hate this when the next door neighbour parks hiss van outside my house as i can not see whats going on.
Only joking, theres nothing wrong with us Barretts home owners
I was coming out of Weymouth on the back road towards Wool. There is a petrol station with a layby outside between the entrance and exit which I pulled into just to get a sandwich. While i was in the shop, this Colonel blimp type pensioner came into the shop and really let rip at me about lorry drivers blocking the road, thinking we own the road etc, he said that his wife couldn’t get out of the petrol station because of my lorry.
The Lady behind the counter then looked out the window, switched on the tannoy and said “If your wife can’t get out of there because of the lorry, she shouldn’t be driving the bloody car!”
I have found the best retort to one of these angry people. I am going to ring your boss, dial the number for them, pass them your phone and nip into the shop for your butty, when you come out they are having a nice chat with your boss
My GF once parked her car outside this old [zb]s house up the road. Not blocking anything. She left her car key in my house so i went back to grab it. When i got back up to her car he was out telling her off. He then noticed me and when i asked what the problem was said “nothing” then scurried off. The GF was not happy about it and it did quite upset her because apparently he was quite nasty about it all.
So if someone can be like that about a little red car, i hate to think what he would be like if a truck pulled up outside his house
when they say “i will report you to your boss”.
then just explain that he will be ringing you, as you own this truck, and another 72 like it.
he’ll soon change his tune.
I’d finish work and more often than not go to the pub, and park my Sprinter outside. This old crone from opposite the pub one day lent out of her window and started yelling at me to move my van as it was “blocking her light”.
I pointed out that it was dark and she had her curtains closed, so how could I block her light?
Anyway she then threatened to phone the police, so I told her to carry on.
The cops duly arrived and went to speak to this old ■■■■. They then came over to the pub and asked to speak to the owner of the sprinter. Me.
They said, we know the vans taxed, insured and is too new for an MOT. There are no parking restrictions on this stretch of the road, and you arenot causing any obvious obstruction. But to keep the lady from across the road happy could you please move the van?
No, I replied, because then I’ll be breaking the law, as this is my 3rd pint.
Sod it said the copper leave it where it is then!
Funny the things you thought you’d forgotten come back when you read a thread like this.I like to think I try to be considerate where I park,and if some one asks me politely to help them out,then thats ok.
Back in the 70s sometime,I stopped for a packet of ■■■■ outside someones house,out she comes banging on the cab door ranting and raving. no reasoning with her, so I start to cross the road to the shop.I’m half way across when she shouts “my husband pays (cant remember exact amount,too long ago!! )£15 road tax to park his car here”.Quick about turn,marches back to lorry opens passenger door,pulls tax disc holder off the screen,thrusts it in her face and said"sorry luv,think this just beats you,my gaffer pays £75…
I’d finish work and more often than not go to the pub, and park my Sprinter outside. This old crone from opposite the pub one day lent out of her window and started yelling at me to move my van as it was “blocking her light”.
I pointed out that it was dark and she had her curtains closed, so how could I block her light?
mickyblue:
Living in a Barrett home is hard work you know. I hate this when the next door neighbour parks hiss van outside my house as i can not see whats going on.
Only joking, theres nothing wrong with us Barretts home owners
Come to think of it, a barrettt homeowner ranted at me in Witney a few years ago for parking infront of his house (the site wasn’t quite finished). I just pointed out it was ok to park there while his house was being built and ok to park there and tip topsoil for his garden. He got into his TT and (zb)ed off…
mickyblue:
Living in a Barrett home is hard work you know. I hate this when the next door neighbour parks hiss van outside my house as i can not see whats going on.
Only joking, theres nothing wrong with us Barretts home owners
Come to think of it, a barrettt homeowner ranted at me in Witney a few years ago for parking infront of his house (the site wasn’t quite finished). I just pointed out it was ok to park there while his house was being built and ok to park there and tip topsoil for his garden. He got into his TT and (zb)ed off…
Squiddy:
Seems the only people who object are those who live in identical barratt homes who dont want their view of the barratt home opposite them obscured.
I guarantee if you parked an expensive merc or bmw or audi outside they would be happy as it raises the tone.
But a dirty working class truck brings down the image of their identikit street.
Its a class thing and us lorry drivers are seen as people who failed all their GCSE’s so took up lorry driving for a living.
We all know that lorry driving is for blokes who have no other skills or cannon fodder who have left the army
Well, I just let them finish their rant before responding with something similar about “who the [zb] do they think they’re talking too” and usually end with “if it wasn’t for PITA’s like me, then they wouldn’t have a pot to ■■■■ in” and they usually go silent and walk away while I’m listing the things that they own, eat, use, live in, etc etc that have travelled in a truck first - I usually get as far as the plastic used to make their credit cards before they just go away…
But I’ve also managed to get to the “if you wanna complain, the numbers written on the effin’ cab door”
Keep up the good work everyone, there are people who have respect and consideration for truckers, even if it’s only other truckers…
Had a run in with a local whilst driving through Hemyock in Devon,she was ranting and raving that we shouldnt be going through HER village with our dirty,smelly chicken lorries,despite the fact the large chicken farm has been there for over 20 yrs…just then i noticed her shopping on the back seat of her car,and guess what was on the top of the bag…yep,an oven ready chicken …she wasnt happy when i asked her how she thought that chicken in her shopping got to the supermarket…she soon cleared off
Get your hazards on, that makes everything better!
I have never understood why these people go out of their way to complain about trucks. Luckily i havent had to deal with any mad locals due to mainly delivering to HGV friendly places. The only problems i have is when reversing, some how i become invisable so people automatically drive behind me. They soon move when they realise that i aint stopping!
I’m usually considerate where I park, but I always have a good laugh when I bring truck home for an hour or so, nice wide main road, always park it touching the kurb, yet I’ll go out to a queue of cars behind it, and the abuse I got off 1 ‘lady’ who’d been there for ‘15 minutes’ (so she claimed) because my truck wasn’t movign was hilarious… I said, it won’t bloody move itself will it, and I’ve been in the house for an hour, so it wasn’t moving when you stopped behind it.
Had a neighbour come out and complain about my car running once, he could smell fuel in the house, it was a 1984 car, so they do smell a little when running, but I was warming it up to do a service and also make sure the fan was kicking in etc, so he got told where to go. He now lets onto me everytime he sees me.
I tend to get extra polite when confronted. I stop waht I am doing and explain at great length about how the tail lift operates and the health and safety problems and driver’s hours and on and on until they realise and walk off.
mickyblue:
Living in a Barrett home is hard work you know. I hate this when the next door neighbour parks hiss van outside my house as i can not see whats going on.
Only joking, theres nothing wrong with us Barretts home owners
Come to think of it, a barrettt homeowner ranted at me in Witney a few years ago for parking infront of his house (the site wasn’t quite finished). I just pointed out it was ok to park there while his house was being built and ok to park there and tip topsoil for his garden. He got into his TT and (zb)ed off…
Did you manage to find spanishvan?
Now, whats Spanishvan got to do with Barretts homes?
