Ok so I drive a class 2 (Boo, I hear you say!) with a 13’ high curtain sided body. It’s a Scania R410.
I went away on holiday, and when I came back from a week and half of cooking myself in the Canaries, I discovered that my truck*(you know what I mean 
)* had in my absence, had an argument with a low hanging tree branch.
The result was that on one side the wind deflector was down by 4" or so, leading to my ride looking a bit sad and lopsided from the front. Now I’m not angry that this has happened, just upset that she looks wrong, I try my best to keep her looking as good as my line of work will allow, and I take pride in keeping her presentable.
This lead me to a conundrum - do I drive round in lopsided special for 2 weeks until inspection time, when I can ask a spanner monkey to fix my ailing wind breaker? Or do I have a go myself when I get a minute or 2?
Obviously I was going to have a go myself, and today with 3 hours of thumb in bum time planned, I had my window of opportunity. I’m no qualified fitter, but I’m useful enough. MY GOD Scania don’t make it easy to adjust the height of the poxy thing do they? I thought perhaps I could do it from the ground. Nope. I thought I could get lifted onto the body and lean forwards. Nope, too far. I thought I could get lifted beside the cab and reach in. Nope, too far. In the end I had to climb up a ladder and hop over the front of the body and kneel on the roof of the cab itself*(without safety harness, or high viz in sight!)* to adjust the nuts and lift the sagging corner of the air kit.
All in all maybe 30 minutes of faffing I guess, for a job that really should only have taken seconds, if only a bloody system had been designed properly in the first place. The job was so simple, but accessing it was a joke!
What’s the longest a job that could have taken seconds taken you?
Will I go to Health and Saftey Purgatory for daring to do something I was untrained to do?
