I always pull a flatbed doing high collections, so I’m used to throwing straps in a variety of weather conditions.
Today I was strapping up a 15 feet high load in the wind and the rain. Because I was unable to move from the loading area I had to throw with a terrible side wind.
Straps being blown around and back at me is something I am used to as its part of the job. However today I turn around and other driver is laughing at my strap / wind issue and sat in his cab filming the whole thing on his phone.
I didn’t want to get in trouble on the site so didn’t make a scene. But I was really ■■■■■■ off that another driver would do this.
Probably the other driver has an IQ lower than their age or he’s one of the new breed of steering wheel attendants who only have to sit and steer because everything else is done for them including wiping the dribble from their chops
The world we live in unfortunately. Rather than help, it is now peoples first instinct to get their phone out and start recording it.
The guy who tackled the knife weilding lunatic in a London tube station last month said he was disgusted that while he was struggling with the guy, he could see other grown men who were too busy recording it to bother helping. Too many people are so immersed in social media and want the likes or retweets that all they can think about is getting it recorded and creaming themselves as they post it online (which, btw, is where your strap throwing humiliation is most probably at now!)
Snowman I’m sure the footage was posted online before I even left the site.
But I’m not fussed, let them have there social media fun, I’m glad I could assist him.
If it had been some young kid passing, I suppose you expect it.
But a fellow driver , what an absolute feckless 2at
it would be more like if he got off his useless ■■■■■■ arse and helped you.
■■■■■■■■ to making a scene, I would not be able to contain myself.
You should have left him with the camera hanging out of his arse
Got to be honest here but as an ex squaddie I would have ■■■■■■ myself laughing at you struggling BUT I would of got out of my cab and actually gave you a hand. It’s bad enough when your battling against your curtains in high winds.
danalex84:
I didn’t want to get in trouble on the site so didn’t make a scene.
You didn’t need to make a scene. Climb into the passenger side next to him, pull your hammer out of your pocket and ask him what his game is. Just two drivers having a friendly chat as far as anybody else is concerned.
In that situation I might have had a really bad wobble (due to wind) and accidentally struck the piece of glass that he happened to be filming you through, with the hook end.
I might have even said " Put that on Youtube, bellend ".
Disclaimer** I normally don’t have trouble with wind. I tend to stay clear of Mrs Beaver’s cooking.
If you didn’t feel the need to confront him, at least you should have got your phone out, took a photo of him and put it on here to embarrass the knob.
Wtf could he say to you as he had been sat filming you.
Same 'ole same ‘ole. He’d probably have filmed it if something heavy had fallen on you as well. A little chat something along the lines of "how yer goin’ %^££$$£@((&%^^&&*^%(&&^^I" And while I’m at it, ‘how about a colonoscopy with yer poxy phone.’
Carry a spark plug in the future and lob it at his windscreen. Least it will make an interesting YouTube video instead of some boring pish about throwing straps in the wind.
Just after I’d passed I ■■■■■■ up and got stuck trying to perform an impossible reverse to turn around. Basically it resulted in an old peoples home/retirement village being cut off from the road network whilst I was being winched out. Everyone was brilliant and really sympathetic except for one prat who decided to film everything. It got to the point where the recovery driver gave him an ultimatum of either get out the way or he would abort the recovery until the police arrived to cordon the area off due to the risk of the tensioned steel ropes snapping and recoiling into him.
It’s just savage entertainment m8 the blokes is a proper bellend no matter where you go theses days there will be a prick with a phone waiting for you to ■■■■ up
Can’t see the point for a flat bed tbh as you can just wang it over, but for curtainsider if you’ve only got a few inches gap to get through it’d be useful.
, what an absolute feckless 2at 
