Before you bring it up, no I don’t mean the taking a dump in the tipper body next to a bus/whatever story!
Was taking a load of banana’s out of a fresh fruit market earlier and had some boxes unopened from the Caribbean. As I was loading them some of the guys (knowing I’d not done fruit before) said I had to be careful as they can get nasty spiders hiding in the bananas. They had some bits in the office from various zoo’s showing gratitude from all the ones they’d donated over the years!
Anyone had any nasty surprises in the load over the years?
Thankfully no spiders for me today… I can handle scorpions, snakes, you name it but not them little beggars!
Alex
When we used to unload the fruit from aircraft delivering them to the UK there was always some form of creepy in the hold…used to make me scream like a girl!!!
Very expensive loads of champagne or other high value goods being written off,due to immigrants getting in the trailer,and using it as a toilet,a whole load would be rejected,even with a small amount of bodily fluids inside it.
A nasty surprise for a posh lady ,open top car,she pulled up at the lights,a livestock wagon had heifers that were just off the fresh grass,which made them runny jet propelled in the toilet department,they left their deposits on her fine leather seats,through the sides of the trailer,she went to court for damages.
Not that nasty but I used to deliver big blocks of foam. In the summer wasps and bees would always get trapped in-between the blocks when it was getting loaded and when it would only trap them and when you’d push one block unloading they’d be ■■■■■■■ fuming and make a bee line for you. (no pun intended ) horrible things.
i was unloading fruit pulp at barrs and when he`d finished there was maggots all over the trailor bed
i shouted forky and he replied calmly"oh yes fruit fly maggots-why do u think we all drink water"
I had recently a few coffins on my van and a drum with some liquid. The guys for whom the drum was were feeling a bit uncomfy about the coffins when they were taking it out and asked me if I am sure the coffins are empty.
I told them “no, they are filled with instant zombies, so be careful and don’t spill your liquid on them”
I needed to finish early one day so boss went out and picked up my last load of produce from a farm about 30 miles away.
Load was left on overnight for me to tip at a packhouse next morning,when i opened the curtain,there was a Springer Spaniel looking at me!
Boss loaded in the dark and the farm dog must have jumped onto the lorry without him noticing.
I was collecting at the same farm later in the day so the dog rode with me until i took it home.
Davnic:
I needed to finish early one day so boss went out and picked up my last load of produce from a farm about 30 miles away.
Load was left on overnight for me to tip at a packhouse next morning,when i opened the curtain,there was a Springer Spaniel looking at me!
Boss loaded in the dark and the farm dog must have jumped onto the lorry without him noticing.
I was collecting at the same farm later in the day so the dog rode with me until i took it home.
lol… many years ago when I worked in a big warehouse in SK, a truck pulled in with washing up liquid from HU, backdoor opened and a dog looked at us and barked!
Dachshund cross, drank half a bucket of water, ate some biscuits and stayed with us few days; then disappeared, never found out whether he walked away or got a lift.
When I worked in London years ago we used to import machinery parts from France. They came in wooden boxes packed in wood wool.
One box had a tiny field mouse with a litter of babies in it. They jumped out and scattered everywhere. I wondered how they would talk to the local mice though…
I done a delivery of Nairns Oatcakes once and when they guys were breaking down a pallet of the stuff this big ■■■■■■■ massive wasp thing was inbetween two of the boxes and was quickly waking up. It must have been 1-2in long and had a massive sting sticking right out. Never seen a group of warehouse men scream and run so fast in all my life haha. Someone eventuall grew a pair and went up and squished the bugger lol
toby1234abc:
A nasty surprise for a posh lady ,open top car,she pulled up at the lights,a livestock wagon had heifers that were just off the fresh grass,which made them runny jet propelled in the toilet department,they left their deposits on her fine leather seats,through the sides of the trailer,she went to court for damages.
can you give me a link to that court case as I’ve always believed it to be a drivers myth
Not in the load,but under the trailer,3 ■■■■■■■■ complete with holdalls,1 on each axle on a small wheeled stepframe garment trailer waiting in Tangiers to ship over to Algeciras.Hooked em out & sent them on their way,well started to let the air suspension down on them as that was the only way they were going to move off.
In my previous life I was a docker and came across a big snake in the ships hold which was full of far east plywood so the snake probably would have been poisonous and boy do I hate snakes.
