Any nasty surprises in the load?

Once picked a tilt (unnacompanied)up from Ramsgate in the 90’s, it had 50ft-ish pipes (around 6) so they were overhanging the back, looking along the sides i could only see 3 spansets threaded thru the sidegates, typical Belgians, so i grabbed myself 6 straps from my cab, climbed up in the back, and dropped them of at even intervals along the trailer.
When i got near the front i saw a leather jacket, did a double take and there was someone wearing it, he was curled up into a ball trying to make himself invisible. I casually got out the trailer and got security, they told me to get him out and they would deal with him, i told em its their job, they didnt want to, in the i flicked the back sheet up onto the roof, 2 blokes started banging like mad on each side of the trailer, while the other bloke stood on the other side of the sidegate to where the immigrant was, barking like a dog.
With that the immigrant came running out the back, and got taken away.
By the time id finished strapping the pipes up, one of the security blokes came up to me and told me they’d been doing random checks on the trailers in the dock, and they’d found another 23 immigrants.

Denis F:

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 :wink:

We get the chickens ‘firing’ out of the side all the time,best ive seen so far was a bank hol monday running back from Taunton up the M5,the traffic came to a stand still and one of the birds in the lorry in front ‘fired’ one straight onto front windscreen of a brand new BMW,i nearly wet myself :laughing: :laughing:

washy jnr:

Denis F:

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 :wink:

We get the chickens ‘firing’ out of the side all the time,best ive seen so far was a bank hol monday running back from Taunton up the M5,the traffic came to a stand still and one of the birds in the lorry in front ‘fired’ one straight onto front windscreen of a brand new BMW,i nearly wet myself :laughing: :laughing:

That just your driving that scare the [zb] out of em lol

Will:
Not in the load,but under the trailer

There was a case in 80s some time after the Martial Law in Poland about two young boys, who hidden under the trailer of foreign truck and escaped to Sweden and asked for Asylum. They were 12 and 15 years old, and when their father was sacked from his job as a history teacher for talking the truth about KatyÅ„ massacre, they decided to go to the West to “work there and support the parents”. When the Communist Goverment found it out, they ordered the parents to ask for extradition, but the parents refused, affraid of that they will loose kids anyway, so they rather wanted them to be safe in Sweden than in Polish orphanage. The Goverment took their parenting rights away and then Sweden decided to do not send kids back and placed them in foster family there…

There was even movie about it made in 1989, it was recognized as a “best young European film of 1989” and it’s still worth watching. This is a piece, but no English subtitles:

youtube.com/watch?v=YFzQbpL1 … age#t=393s

the big un:

washy jnr:

Denis F:

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 :wink:

We get the chickens ‘firing’ out of the side all the time,best ive seen so far was a bank hol monday running back from Taunton up the M5,the traffic came to a stand still and one of the birds in the lorry in front ‘fired’ one straight onto front windscreen of a brand new BMW,i nearly wet myself :laughing: :laughing:

That just your driving that scare the s**t out of em lol

You sir know me to well… :sunglasses: :unamused: :unamused:

Many moons ago I was unfortunate enough to be doing agency work for a mob called ‘Poofreight’, ooops I mean Nightfreight, or Nightfright, whatever, doing an 18 years old job doing parcel deliveries. Part of my round was the Geest banana factory at Lt Canfield near Gt Dunmow in Essex, and they had a bank there rather than bays and it was quite a regular occurence to see a ‘galloping major’, re a great hairy spider the size of your fist running around with several geezers with brooms trying to squish it! I HATE SPIDERS!

When I was on boxes I had to take a 40’ ‘soft top’ to Leigh Environmental out Sutton in something out Mansfield way. It transpires that this is Leigh equipment being returned to the UK from Malaysia. There was a Land Rover, trailer, a compressor thingy, and various other stuff. Trouble was these items of equipment still had half the bloody jungle on it!
Yep, you guessed it! All manor of creepy crawlies, flying things and slithering things came with it. There were five snakes in there, one of which was apparently extremely poisonous, did I tell you, I HATE SNAKES AND SPIDERS!
One of the mummy spiders had given birth on the trip over, and they have thousands at a time! I was not a happy bunny, because, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, I HATE SPIDERS! One of the blokes there said ‘we usually get more than that!’

I was ever so pleased when the Guvnor sent me into Leeds Freightliner to get shot of that box.

‘Crazytrucker’

Not in the load. A friend of mine bought a house in Phoenix Arizona so took down a load of furniture. We were there a week unloading and unpacking everything. Spending the early evening in our bikini’s tanning in the back yard. The second last day the exterminator that was called 5 days before finally showed up. There were cob webs all over the place. He went through the house inside and out as well as the garage. He told us he had found and killed 2 black widow spiders. :open_mouth: One in the garage and one under the sliding door going into the back yard. The very door we had been going in and out of in bare feet for days. :open_mouth: Ummmmmm I really hate spiders, bugs, creepy crawly things, snakes, reptiles, couldnt sleep for 2 days after.

Jumping majors arn’t a problem compared to these.

4.5 million cigarettes was a nasty suprise for me.

my brother was unconcious for 5 days in the south of france. he was bitten by a spider.
they tried all sorts of injections, but they were having no joy, on day 5 they gave him anti venom for the european black widow. within about 2 minutes he woke up and went for a shave.

zaax:
Jumping majors arn’t a problem compared to these.

What exactly is this, to an arachnophobe like me, very unpleasant-looking photo of?