I did a run for a large well known shipping and distribution firm yesterday (blue liveries, foreign origins I think) from south humberside, running to bradford to drop, then re-fill near wigan and droylesden for the run back to base. “nice little” v-reg ERF ecs11 10-wheeler with about 650k on the clock, pulling one of those funny looking trailers I don’t remember the name for, with curtain top and uppser sides, metal edges, tiny tail-gate at the back, and wires running through hoops/loops all the way round the edges to keep it all closed… running a load of plasticcy things to a manufacturer/distributer.
the run out must have been a massive weight!
Struggled up the M606 at 30mph, pulling away in low-split 1st on anything but level ground, and generally getting in everyone’s way if they wanted to go anywhere at normal speeds 
but it struck home how heavy it was and how it makes our job difficult when I had my first sphincter-tightening experience…
turning right into the side-road for my drop, I was static, waiting for the gap to present itself - lorry coming up toward me (an inlcine before the level/plateau I was on) flashed me on, so q little squirt in high 2nd to get the ball rolling, about walking pace, truck’s nose already nearly onto side road and trailer following round nicely, split left unchanged to go for high 3rd, clutch in, and scraaaape, scratch, scrabble, grind, scunchy noises from back of the truck - as the momentum at walking pace of the trailer begins to push the truck round into a jack-knife motion while there’s no drive through the wheels - the noises of course being tyres beginning to go sideways on tarmac! 
fortunately, having little or should I say no experience of this happening, being likely to happen in these circumstances, or what a driver is supposed to do I just got it in gear ASAP and back on the gas to draw the truck forward and make the trailer follow. seems to have been the right thing cos it went where it was supposed to and I’m here now having completed my drop and collections etc relaying the tale 
but crikey - it was an interesting (in inverted commas!) experience to have, with no idea it could/would, - so one more lesson to chalk up in my mental record - very heavy load = extra care on 90-degree turns from standing start …
and if the Dead Fish Delivery Service, are as accurate with thier weights as Flaming Mess used to be, then your paper work would bear no relation to what weight you actually had. Happy Days 
) - so I say humberside 
