I know anyone can make a mistake and it happens but I can’t believe the damage we do on sites and how it is actually done. Two yards I went in this morning someone had hit a bollard that was easy 2ft wide by 2ft tall and is on your right side as you reverse. The second was a fence had been hit and split open. I have no idea unless you went straight into it how you would damage it
Frightening
The one that always cracks me up is when the driver next to you throws open his/her door and dents yours. They then seem to think that this is ok 
I went into a yard where they had just laid block paving as i drove the bricks went sideways made a right mess
to be honest its not the trucks doing the damage is it …
Its the Muppets driving them
A lot of building sites ask for trouble; Why do they do all the fancy landscaping when there’s still heavy work like muckshifting, road building etc to do?
Look at the major housing developments, they start at the front and work to the back whilst people are moving in, parking cars on corners of already narrow roads.
Then chippies, plumbers etc that are too lazy to park in the contractors car park and expect everyone else to work around them.
Same goes for shop deliveries; Staff dumping crap on loading bays when they know deliveries are coming. So many customers think it’s acceptable for the lorry to get damaged (ask anyone on for a builders merchant) but woe betide if you touch the grass getting in.
nick2008:
to be honest its not the trucks doing the damage is it …Its the Muppets driving them
+1
Forkies/warehouse staff wannabee air traffic controllers arm flapping is usually as much use as a chocolate fireguard though.
Usual scenario is turn up and they do some arm flapping. Shunt back and forth and arm flapping seems to indicate the truck’s not where they want it. Around the point the clutch is starting to burn I get out and say can you just tell me where you actually want it, eventually you’ll get out of them ‘parked up against that stack of pallets’. I then get back in and park it exactly there in one go ignoring their ‘assistance’.
If you did rely on their arm-flapping I could well imagine a scenario where you could hit something.
Also the arm flapping that goes on inside the forklift, loading shovel or whatever. I can’t see you because the sun is reflecting of your window.
I hate arm flapping. Anyone helping me is told to stand so they can always see my mirror and not to move their arms until it’s time for me to stop.
Half these morons use the exact same movement for backwards as they do for stop. Hard to tell them apart looking in a mirror from 40ft away.
m1cks:
I hate arm flapping. Anyone helping me is told to stand so they can always see my mirror and not to move their arms until it’s time for me to stop.
Half these morons use the exact same movement for backwards as they do for stop. Hard to tell them apart looking in a mirror from 40ft away.
that’s because they aint trained 
With modern electronics being so cheap nowadays, it does make you wonder why so few trucks and trailers are fitted with rearward facing and side facing cameras?
Whilst it won’t stop the numpties demolishing buildings, it would make it far safer for a driver reversing a truck with massive blind spots everywhere. A 40 tonne truck just brushing against something is capable of doing significant damage. (especially to cyclists and security guards 
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m4rky:
The one that always cracks me up is when the driver next to you throws open his/her door and dents yours. They then seem to think that this is ok
Scania that are run by big fleets allways have dints on the doors at the side of the wndow near the driver,im guessing its caused by hitting the mirror on the unit parked next door,looks shabby,asda are the worst 
seth 70:
asda are the worst
At least they’re not running zb motors like some supermarkets:mrgreen:
I helped a guy to erect a sign that had Caution children playing written on it.The sign lasted a few hours only.
I had to do a (DREADED) blind side round the side of a building last week and there was a metal post about 10 inches thick in the floor to stop the numpties hitting the building. Needless to say it was bent right over and leaning up against the very building it was meant to protect. Looked like it had been clobbered a few times given all the missing paint on it.
Seen one of our own drivers rip a security fence off when reversing in off the road at one of our depots. And we’ve actually had customers refuse our artics and demand our rigids after various fence and wall related tomfoolery 
Anybody tried delivering to that new Halfords in Botley Road Oxford? Lazy me tootled down there to turn around, wish I had walked down for a recee first.
098Joe:
Anybody tried delivering to that new Halfords in Botley Road Oxford? Lazy me tootled down there to turn around, wish I had walked down for a recee first.
That’s my biggest fear - end up somewhere I can’t turn
oooh just had an idea - why don’t they fit trailers with two pins - that way if you get stuck you just drop the trailer and pick it up from the other end!? 
(it was an off the cuff thing - of course it would need more ‘proper’ thought!)
TheMissus:
098Joe:
Anybody tried delivering to that new Halfords in Botley Road Oxford? Lazy me tootled down there to turn around, wish I had walked down for a recee first.That’s my biggest fear - end up somewhere I can’t turn
oooh just had an idea - why don’t they fit trailers with two pins - that way if you get stuck you just drop the trailer and pick it up from the other end!?
I did see a Masons driver a couple of weeks ago reverse up to the wrong end of a trailer. To be fair he saw me watching and we both laughed.
098Joe:
Anybody tried delivering to that new Halfords in Botley Road Oxford? Lazy me tootled down there to turn around, wish I had walked down for a recee first.
If it’s any consolation, they didn’t plan that site out well as I struggled with an 8wheeler. They don’t turn well at right angles
098Joe:
Anybody tried delivering to that new Halfords in Botley Road Oxford? Lazy me tootled down there to turn around, wish I had walked down for a recee first.
There’s room to turn round (in a rigid), but you still need a few shunts though.