I was held up at the gate house because the driver in front couldnt open the back doors,then I realised the handles were 8 foot above the ground.wtf!
How on earth do you open and close them.?
Most containers,the handles are at chest height
sounds like a pssu box,was it dark green… 
Seasoned…
Box jockeys carry a short length of scaffold bar.
Sploom:
Most containers,the handles are at chest height
they might be if your 12’ tall
yourhavingalarf:
Seasoned…Box jockeys carry a short length of scaffold bar.
Yup, carry mine in the car, like have a jemmy if youre a curtainsider wallah (to get the poles out).
But if they are 8ft off the deck a bar aint much good unless youre backed up against a dock and then you’d have to shunt so you could latch them back.
I’m 6’2 and I have to stand on tippy toes to reach some of the handles. Lower the suspension help a bit. If you a short arse get a step ladder 
yourhavingalarf:
Seasoned…Box jockeys carry a short length of scaffold bar.
Still have mine - and my crowbar for boxes with bad seals/rusted hinges! 
Lucy:
yourhavingalarf:
Seasoned…Box jockeys carry a short length of scaffold bar.
Still have mine - and my crowbar for boxes with bad seals/rusted hinges!
Bet you binned the light lenses tied together with wire?
That’ll be a container that’s designed to be used in a self storage yard / site storage etc so when its on the floor its easier to open the doors. Right pain when you get one on the back of a trailer lol
No,it was maroon.I think its unacceptable to expect a driver to close these type of container,health and safety…
There are plenty like that about, PA22. What’s unusual is that the UK insist on using skellies that are 40 feet in the air. The rest of the world uses much lower frames - in Europe they have gooseneck sliders - so none of this is an issue.
When I was first at ConShips we still had a load of gooseneck 40ft Tinsleys and fixed-frame Bell Lines knocking about, which were actually loads better despite being ancient. Everyone fought over the few modern sliders until they had to do a 20ft strip-out, at which point they all wanted a Tinsley. I was always partial to a Bell Line, simply because they didn’t have 20ft locks at all… 
Lower trailer suspension and a use a ladder. If its a 40ft pull out crash bar and stand on that
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