Once the trailer is empty and you have the green light on the bay to pull off check that the goods in staff have not tied all the internal straps to a post or girder inside the bay door.
The result is damage to the trailer roof and broken straps.
It is easy just to pull off and not go the rear of the trailer to check.
They will not inform you of your straps being tied.
This post is aimed at Newbies to save them making an error.
Another clanger is to forget the trailer number plate when dropping it on a bay.
I have climbed under to retrieve it.
Please post your clangers on this list.
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I had a door pop open once … worn clips etc … a mate of mine had the same so we put 2 dog clips on a length of chain …1 clip on each door. It never happened aglain
toby1234abc:
Once the trailer is empty and you have the green light on the bay to pull off check that the goods in staff have not tied all the internal straps to a post or girder inside the bay door.
The result is damage to the trailer roof and broken straps.
It is easy just to pull off and not go the rear of the trailer to check.
They will not inform you of your straps being tied.
This post is aimed at Newbies to save them making an error.
Another clanger is to forget the trailer number plate when dropping it on a bay.
I have climbed under to retrieve it.
Please post your clangers on this list.
Title :Clanger list;
Surely if the light is green then that’s good to go. If the numptys in the warehouse have done that to the straps then that’s not your fault
At some depots,when on a bay unloading and the goods are still secured or strapped,they just cut them with a Stanley knife.
When empty and look inside the trailer,it looks like Edward Scissorhands has paid a visit.
gunner1983:
toby1234abc:
Once the trailer is empty and you have the green light on the bay to pull off check that the goods in staff have not tied all the internal straps to a post or girder inside the bay door.
The result is damage to the trailer roof and broken straps.
It is easy just to pull off and not go the rear of the trailer to check.
They will not inform you of your straps being tied.
This post is aimed at Newbies to save them making an error.
Another clanger is to forget the trailer number plate when dropping it on a bay.
I have climbed under to retrieve it.
Please post your clangers on this list.
Title :Clanger list;Surely if the light is green then that’s good to go. If the numptys in the warehouse have done that to the straps then that’s not your fault
It’s may not be your fault but you can be ■■■■ sure it’ll be your problem
Tipper Tom:
gunner1983:
toby1234abc:
Once the trailer is empty and you have the green light on the bay to pull off check that the goods in staff have not tied all the internal straps to a post or girder inside the bay door.
The result is damage to the trailer roof and broken straps.
It is easy just to pull off and not go the rear of the trailer to check.
They will not inform you of your straps being tied.
This post is aimed at Newbies to save them making an error.
Another clanger is to forget the trailer number plate when dropping it on a bay.
I have climbed under to retrieve it.
Please post your clangers on this list.
Title :Clanger list;Surely if the light is green then that’s good to go. If the numptys in the warehouse have done that to the straps then that’s not your fault
Your probably right
It’s may not be your fault but you can be ■■■■ sure it’ll be your problem
Driving over a kerb while under a fuel station canopy.You were under height before going over the kerb stone.But not any more.Then hit the roof.
with curtainsiders that have the roofs that open you have to be very gentle when reversing on to bay otherwise the bit of the roof above the back doors pops up and you cant get the back doors closed again with out getting a forklift to push it back down again.
another way of fixing it if there is no forklift around is to throw a ratchet strap over the top of the trailer and tighten it until the roof is closed again, but much easier to not let it happen in the first place.
toby1234abc:
Driving over a kerb while under a fuel station canopy.You were under height before going over the kerb stone.But not any more.Then hit the roof.
or like a tanker driver did at a BP petrol station, mount the high kerb then ground the fuel tank on it and get stuck 
If you are loaded and have had to drive / reverse under a roller shutter / doorway prior to being tipped , always check the exit height before you pull out again or lower your suspension to compensate for weight loss , otherwise you may clip the shutters / doorway on your way out 
Right here goes for a clanger.
Works just bought 20 volvo FH 500’S got the keys to 1 758km on it all shiny hooked up the trailer clip in no. Plate legs suzies then hit the brake (brand new trailer aswell) looked as it started rolling forward towards a container.
Quick oh ■■■■ pulled brake back on.ran round to the cab pulled the handbrake on.
Sat in the cab feeling very never done anything like that before sat with a coffee before going anywhere
Jeff.
…or the thieving ■■■■■■■■ haven’t knicked your pallet truck!
I was on a bay at Turners Newmarket, I waited in the office while being loaded, was given my keys and paperwork, I went to the cab and noticed a red light, I went back to the office and spoke to the supervisor who told me the bay is done, door down, the light must be broken, your ok to go.
I start her up and hear a clanging noise, go round the back of the trailer, to find my bars dragging on the floor. I look up at the bay and they have ripped off the insulated door on the bay. The mongs had only lowered the door down between the handles on the bar which is attached to the wall of the trailer.
They tried to say I’d pUlley off without going back in, luckily the supervisor admitted it to my gaffer right after it had happened when he was still in shock ha ha.
I once took a rental curtain sider into tesco which had straps running down the middle, warehouse numpties tied them to a flexi extendable working light, tipped & left them there. I pulled off on green & ripped the working light clean off the arm-it felt good & no damage to the trailer roof or the straps…:lol:
I was sat on a bay, light was red, one of the office guys in hi viz and shirt came over and told me I was clear to pull away and gave me my paperwork. I started to pull away and heard shouting. Got out to check and there was a guy in the back with a pallett truck, hadn’t finished unloading!
I always check for myself! Other people can’t be trusted!
Happened to me years ago at an old depot, the lights on the bays were never used and were always on red but you did have to hand your keys in and sit in your cab…
so eventually the shunter came out with my keys and told me i was finished and i pulled off the bay and i heard a bang then shouting and when i looked inside the trailer a forklift was still inside it loading me 
when the manager came running out and started shouting at me i quickly informed him of what happened, so he then turned his attention to the shunter who had mysteriously dissapeared by that time 
every time i went there after that i made sure they were finished !! 
tamarman:
If you are loaded and have had to drive / reverse under a roller shutter / doorway prior to being tipped , always check the exit height before you pull out again or lower your suspension to compensate for weight loss , otherwise you may clip the shutters / doorway on your way out
Along those lines ^^^^^ back when we had two axle units on steel springs I was pulling a 3 pot tanker when I turned up at my last drop in London village with 5000 litres of antifreeze in the front pot. I saw the fella I needed to see and he showed me their tank inside a warehouse, I figured I’d need to join 3 pipes together to reach or being naturally idle I could reverse into the warehouse and back up to their tank and use one 10 foot pipe.
I duly did this, tipped the load, squared everything away and set off out when BANG! too high to get out. After a bit of head scratching all I could do was use my pump to pull the antifreeze back into my tank, drive out, join 3 pipes and deliver it the way I should’ve done in the first place.
If I am on a bay and get a green light. I always walk to the back to check, often use a camera phone to take a picture of inside the trailer if space is limited. It has saved me more than once, when they have left some timbers, not raised the ramp or left a pallet truck inside
toby1234abc:
At some depots,when on a bay unloading and the goods are still secured or strapped,they just cut them with a Stanley knife.
When empty and look inside the trailer,it looks like Edward Scissorhands has paid a visit.
Would your company not have grounds to invoice them for the damage if they have clearly intentionally wrecked all the straps in the trailer?
one of the best balls ups i knew about when a wagon and drag with a pod went in for repair,cab tilted,tv fell out of pod straight through windscreen