Craziest shift

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Thought I would share my adventure of last night.
Very new class 1 driver, only my 4th shift on a unit last night.
My boss sent me to Edinburgh and if you don’t already know they are burning loads of money building some tram thing, personally I think it’s just a job club :slight_smile:

Anyway, they have closed loads of roads and restricted left and right turn angles by building barriers just to give us drivers a challenge , and what a bloody challenge. Was lost for ages, up and down cobble roads and all sorts. All and all I got out of Edinburgh and back to the yard without hitting cyclist, pedestrians , traffic lights , bollards or any moving objects :slight_smile:
Got back to customers yard and they were even adamant I reveresed on to a loading bay. Guy standing on bay waiting me to reverse on, what a surprise he got when I reveresed on to a bay perfectly. Unfortunately it was not the one he or I intended to land on :slight_smile:

Boss has me back in yard tomorrow to practice reversing .

If any of you get the opportunity to drive c+e in Edinburgh, expect a dose of squeaky bum but one load of blinking experience with every situation you could imagine.

I have been very fortunate that the guy I had done some class 2 driving for was willing to give me a chance when it came up for class 1 . For all you new c+e like me, keeP the faith, prove you can do your class 2 and the opportunity will come.

Rossco

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lol…i would rather reverse onto a bay with trailors all around on bays than the pick any bay driver… :blush: :blush:
jimmy

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Who was you delivering to in Edinburgh?
Plenty of ways round Edinburgh without going anywhere near the road closures at the west end

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Hi mate,
Was delivering into George street , came in via M8 , down to haymarket, took right and it all went bad :frowning: plenty of practice with sharp lefts , rights , double parked cars in bends, priceless :slight_smile:

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R0ssc0:
Hi mate,
Was delivering into George street , came in via M8 , down to haymarket, took right and it all went bad :frowning: plenty of practice with sharp lefts , rights , double parked cars in bends, priceless :slight_smile:

yep did it wrong, shoulda went up Maybury road, onto Queensferry road then into Randolph Crescent and Ainslie place which will bring you onto queen street, from there take your pick of what road you wanna go up into George street.

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Aye, but would have missed all that fun :stuck_out_tongue: