if I phone for directions,then I just keep asking till I get a guy on the phone,that way you have a chance of finding the place. when a womans directing you,then because she knows where the place is,then she automatically assumes that you also know,with the usual disasterous …result…( I was going to type consequence but I couldn’t spell it)… 
we all do daft things.and everyone is allowed to have a momentary lapse of sanity now and again.when I was new I took some 50 ft girders on a 40 ft flat,left Glasgow,stopped near pleck road Walsall for a kip and noticed that the bouncing had let the beams move slightly towards the rear,woke early and had a brainwave…il just loosen the dwangs,and give the beams a wee nudge against this big brick wall,15 seconds later the beams knock down 30 yards of wall showing me the rear of a cop shop…15 seconds later,my trailer plates off,and so am I. the beams never fell off even with the slack chains til I tightened them at Corley services…I wonder if they will reopen the investigation now… 
Roymondo:
Why do these things happen?
Its called complacency:shock:
dieseldog999:
we all do daft things.and everyone is allowed to have a momentary lapse of sanity now and again.when I was new I took some 50 ft girders on a 40 ft flat,left Glasgow,stopped near pleck road Walsall for a kip and noticed that the bouncing had let the beams move slightly towards the rear,woke early and had a brainwave…il just loosen the dwangs,and give the beams a wee nudge against this big brick wall,15 seconds later the beams knock down 30 yards of wall showing me the rear of a cop shop…15 seconds later,my trailer plates off,and so am I. the beams never fell off even with the slack chains til I tightened them at Corley services…I wonder if they will reopen the investigation now…
LOL ! Brilliant Confession. At least Roymondo ‘Fessed’ up to the mishap.
We’ve got ‘Damage Fairies’ in our yard. Twice this week I’ve collected trailers with fresh curtain damage (due to trailers colliding) & no one ‘Fessed Up’ I’ve had to Defect them on my return. Grrrr.
Watch out for the loose dogs on farms.It will be called Razor tooth or Bone Crusher and come up behind you like an Exocet missile.
Farmer will say “He is ok with the other drivers, he must have smelt another dog on you, that is why he bit you.”
Farmers have a habit of collecting things to save for another day.
Old machinery where you want to turn.
Hay making spikes.
They do not see anyone all day.
You are the first person to speak to.
Allow two hours to hear a life story on poverty and having a bad year.
Note the two new Range Rover Vogues on the driveway with his and hers private plates.
The kids go to private schools.
Roymondo:
Gutted, I am. Been in and out of our yard on a daily basis for the past several years with never a problem. Today I drove into the yard and went to reverse into a parking space. Didn’t get the alignment quite right, so what I should have done is abandon the whole manouevre and start again. What I actually did was mess it all up, attempt to reverse from completely the wrong angle and ended up scraping the curtain of a parked trailer. No huge damage, and TM is quite calm about it, but I’m so ■■■■■■ with myselfWhy do these things happen?
I knocked a fence post over at the yard gate there yesterday, admittedly there was a land rover broken down in it with a tantalising 2 inches to spare for freedom. The 2 inches weren’t enough on the other side. Pitch black with flood lights shiny in your face, sometimes you just gotta go for it when you’re on the end of a 15… 
toby1234abc:
Watch out for the loose dogs on farms.It will be called Razor tooth or Bone Crusher and come up behind you like an Exocet missile.
Farmer will say “He is ok with the other drivers, he must have smelt another dog on you, that is why he bit you.”
Farmers have a habit of collecting things to save for another day.
Old machinery where you want to turn.
Hay making spikes.
They do not see anyone all day.
You are the first person to speak to.
Allow two hours to hear a life story on poverty and having a bad year.
Note the two new Range Rover Vogues on the driveway with his and hers private plates.
The kids go to private schools.
its a known fact all farmers are poor… well every one i deliver too is so they say.
farmers are so miserable that they only breathe in.
dieseldog999:
if I phone for directions,then I just keep asking till I get a guy on the phone,that way you have a chance of finding the place. when a womans directing you,then because she knows where the place is,then she automatically assumes that you also know,with the usual disasterous …result…( I was going to type consequence but I couldn’t spell it)…
didn`t stop you having a go at disastrous though, did it? 
toby1234abc:
Watch out for the loose dogs on farms.It will be called Razor tooth or Bone Crusher and come up behind you like an Exocet missile.
Farmer will say “He is ok with the other drivers, he must have smelt another dog on you, that is why he bit you.”
Farmers have a habit of collecting things to save for another day.
Old machinery where you want to turn.
Hay making spikes.
They do not see anyone all day.
You are the first person to speak to.
Allow two hours to hear a life story on poverty and having a bad year.
Note the two new Range Rover Vogues on the driveway with his and hers private plates.
The kids go to private schools.
I’d accuse you of stereotyping Toby but you probably think that means using the keyboard with more than one finger!
Roymondo:
Thanks, all. I just feel such a tool for doing it - I’ve always maintained that the sensible option if you ■■■■ up a manoeuvre is to simply back out completely and start again. Hopefully there won’t be too much ribbing when I go in tomorrow…
Yep been there a few times, really hurts your professional pride, but jobs still need to be covered, and the wheels still have turn
I put 2 trailers together at Norfolk Line in Felixstowe, way back in 98, and Tilts fall to pieces very quickly I discovered. My boss started to go into one when I phoned to tell him I’d had a bit off a bump, I had my still very new R reg Premium, he thought I had bent that, calmed down when He realised it was just a couple off Frans Maas tilts.
5 yrs later when I went to work direct for Frans Maas, the TM ribbed me about it even after that long, I did point out that the repairs would be cheaper if they were paying for them themselves, and not charging a subbie
Roymondo:
Thanks, all. I just feel such a tool for doing it - I’ve always maintained that the sensible option if you ■■■■ up a manoeuvre is to simply back out completely and start again. Hopefully there won’t be too much ribbing when I go in tomorrow…
If you where called out to a scenario where a manovering motor damaged a parked one when you where in the Police would you of looked to secure a due care prosecution or would you of been satisfied if the general public passing by said “oh it happens to all of us” ? I’m just curious to find out.
Very, very unlikely even to have been called out to such a bump. Force policy would have been for the Comms Operative to advise them to exchange details and leave it at that.
Even if we did attend, proceedings would be very unlikely in the event of a “damage only” collision unless there were significant aggravating circumstances (e.g. Drink/drugs, aggressive driving, very excessive speed, leaving the scene, threats etc).
Only got one thing to say, Roymondo,
Specsavers 
dieseldog999:
farmers are so miserable that they only breathe in.
Ace, one for the book.
Sidevalve:
toby1234abc:
Watch out for the loose dogs on farms.It will be called Razor tooth or Bone Crusher and come up behind you like an Exocet missile.
Farmer will say “He is ok with the other drivers, he must have smelt another dog on you, that is why he bit you.”
Farmers have a habit of collecting things to save for another day.
Old machinery where you want to turn.
Hay making spikes.
They do not see anyone all day.
You are the first person to speak to.
Allow two hours to hear a life story on poverty and having a bad year.
Note the two new Range Rover Vogues on the driveway with his and hers private plates.
The kids go to private schools.I’d accuse you of stereotyping Toby but you probably think that means using the keyboard with more than one finger!
Also Ace.
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dieseldog999:
if I phone for directions,then I just keep asking till I get a guy on the phone,that way you have a chance of finding the place. when a womans directing you,then because she knows where the place is,then she automatically assumes that you also know,with the usual disasterous …result…( I was going to type consequence but I couldn’t spell it)…didn`t stop you having a go at disastrous though, did it?
You were on the money with “consequence” as well, HTH.
toby1234abc:
Watch out for the loose dogs on farms.It will be called Razor tooth or Bone Crusher and come up behind you like an Exocet missile.
Farmer will say “He is ok with the other drivers, he must have smelt another dog on you, that is why he bit you.”
Farmers have a habit of collecting things to save for another day.
Old machinery where you want to turn.
Hay making spikes.
They do not see anyone all day.
You are the first person to speak to.
Allow two hours to hear a life story on poverty and having a bad year.
Note the two new Range Rover Vogues on the driveway with his and hers private plates.
The kids go to private schools.
used to take topsoil to a place in beddington lane in Croydon ,on the entrance is a bungalow [or was] and a jackrussell took exception to the lorries turning in there and one day managed to get out and the silly little dog was running alongside my tipper trying to bite the wheels,lucky he wasn’t killed
NOVE:
Who the blazes grows a hedge around a solid stone gatepost?
Reminds me of my favourite ever afternoon confession slot on Radio 2 …
Bunch of bored army lads with nothing to do build an awesome snowman 8 feet high. Next morning they are cross that it has been knocked down. So they build another one. Again, that night it gets mowed down, and they notice tyre marks straight through it.
So, hopping mad, they build it again, but this time around a concrete post…!
Next morning, they delight at seeing a military police car completely wrapped around this post. And smirk at the report someone is going to have to write saying they had this accident while engaged in the important work of knocking down a snowman…
I know, no one is more ■■■■■■ off than me when I get it wrong.
Case in point, better than yours I came back to the yard at 05:30 one morning in a hurry for the drop swap & usually there’s no one waiting to get in till 06:00 so I thought I’ll beat the rush & be up the road before the chaos but there was a car & a Mandy (I wish, auto correct from Landy!) waiting to get in so I popped the lecy gate for them to make way, 1st car in, Landy won’t start, cheers.
I tried him & it was one of them just a couple more inches (giggity) & no joy, which perturbed me somewhat, I’m on an ind est & of course just at that time there’s a legion of geezers trying to get to work in their cars so I have to reverse a max weight down a slope & out on to a busy road as my arse is hanging out anyway, then dodge them & re set it for the win & I just clipped the top decorative piece on the fence post, with head board on the reverse, just an unnoticeable scratch on the trailer but £350 quid to fix the fence, jack hammer needed & major downward work for some reason which was geniune.
I raised an eyebrow at that I tell you. Still worse things happen at sea…