Day 2 FIRST C+E job

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Hi all…day 2!!! In the depot 6.55 am. Gaffer hands me the keys to a 62 plate SCANIA TOPLINE 480. Stupid smile forms on my relatively handsome face. Gaffer says " Get yourself a trailer ". I reply " So im trailer trash am I? ". Gaffer explains that he makes the funnies,and I am ‘The new scrote’ who needs to crack on.

Climb into Swedish beast and am confronted by 3 over 3 gearstick,with TWO spiltters. TURTLE BACK IN TOWN. After jumping around the yard like a kangaroo,i find an empty trailer. Hook up,call in the office to give them the trailer number. Supervisor is impressed because Ive had common sense to let him know. Eager decides to tell said super one of his fave jokes. Supervisor no longer impressed. Once again reminded of ‘The humour food-chain’. Apparently I am ‘Plankton’.
PMSL…you cant make this up,im off to collect a full load of COMPOST!! (After yesterdays ■■■ talk,now im gonna have a trailer full).

Arrive at the depot in Ellesmere port,after making some cracking tunes with my new best gearbox friend and wait ALL DAY!! Major production issue means artics piled up everywhere.

Finally got loaded late afternoon and tried to deliver to a garden centre,but inevitably closed at 5.30. Ring up orifice and told no probs,make a note of the trailer number on the notes and come back to home depot with it.

Arrived back at depot after realising I only need to use gears 2-6 and not to bother with the other ‘half splitter’. No more gearbox drum and bass music lol. Dropped trailer and back home for fresh undies and a shower.

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glad its going well. what was the joke?

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Easy day then today :slight_smile:

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The joke was after yesterdays thread containing numerous ‘■■■’ comments,i ended up with a 40 foot trailer full of the stuff.

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Edit: doubled

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Wow so you got to work, drove to location, couldn’t deliver the load, drove back to depot and finished :stuck_out_tongue:

Simple and being paid haha

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Nice one, eager!

Fingers crossed you get to take your trailer full of ■■■ somewhere useful!

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Man this is entertaining. Keep up this work of yours. Good read. I would love down a pint with u in a pub.

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Gearbox drum and bass :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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I am a very tight individual indeed Dan. Beavers only chew on wood cos its free and plentiful. However your offer to purchase me alcohol is indeed a kind one. I am sure at some point we will all meet up at MSA’s and sit in a circle on the tarmac,holding hands,and singing ’ Morning has broken '.

Just a quick point…are you trying to groom me?

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just wondering, could you explain what a 3 over 3 gearbox with 2 splitters involves? (im another noob lol but havent even done my class 2 yet)

i understand 4 over 4 is 2 lots of gears ontop of each other with a switch to take you inbetween, and i assumed this switch was the splitter, so why 2 on the one you drove?

sam :slight_smile:

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The other splitter works as a high/low. So if I am loaded and going uphill for example; Assuming I was in 5th,if I have the extra switch ‘Down’,its 5 LOW. If I dip the cluch and flick it up its 5 HIGH.

Think of it as a ’ Half gear ’ switch. You half wit.

Sorry-bit aggressive that lol.

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eagerbeaver:
Just a quick point…are you trying to groom me?

U drunk?

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You mean Drunk as a skunk?

No. I have a fever. Beaverfever.