Set off from Eastbourne this morning at 04:00am and saw the same drag section off a wagon and drag still in the same lay by it was in when I went past at 14:30 yesterday. There were 2 cars parked in front of the trailer giving the driver no chance to be able to hook back upto it and be on his way. I bet this is a regular occurrence when drivers have had to drop the drag section so the can do the delivereys in restricted or hard to get to drops.
Have any drivers on here ever had the problem of returning back to find some idiot be it a car driver or even another trucker who has his curtains closed and is having his/her daily rest has parked so close to the drag that you can’t get back hooked onto it?
Have you had to ring the police or someone else to shift a vehicle that is parked in front of it?, have you ended up being stuck there for hours until they return and gave them a right gob full and got a look back like they don’t know what they have done to warrent the gob full?, what plans, ideas have you come up with so you don’t end up with such problems?
It’s also the same if you drop them on industrial estates I guess too.
Trouble is they can’t expect to drop a drag trailer in a lay-bys and reserve said layby all day til they come back ,it will get filled.
If they had sense they’d run right to the end of the layby and drop it so they can just get out leaving a gap just big enough for them to reverse into when they come back which would mean not enough room for a artic to park in front of it or a rigid to be squeezing in,it won’t stop cars though.
To be fair, you can’t expect most car drivers to know what a drag section is.
A hi viz cone in front might give them a clue though, if that’s not too agency type behaviour!
Tuffnells like dumping their drags in the middle of laybys. Have to say nobody seems bothered by blocking them in, there was a speed camera van right infront of one on the Oxford-Banbury Road earlier.
Not as annoying though as people dumping cars with for sale notices on them.
Goldilox:
To be fair, you can’t expect most car drivers to know what a drag section is.A hi viz cone in front might give them a clue though, if that’s not too agency type behaviour!
Surely it only an agency cone if it has a blue tooth earpiece and limps!
Captain Caveman 76:
Goldilox:
To be fair, you can’t expect most car drivers to know what a drag section is.A hi viz cone in front might give them a clue though, if that’s not too agency type behaviour!
Surely it only an agency cone if it has a blue tooth earpiece and limps!
Nah, its only agency if the hi-viz part is filthy and caked in dirt
Should leave em where they don’t cause problems for others - ie a transport yard or operating centre. Lay-bys are for r&r for those needing somewhere to stop.
returning back to find some idiot be it a car driver or even another trucker
the only idiot is the driver leaving the drag expecting to monopolise the lay by for as long as he needs.
The one and only time I took out a proper A-frame draw-bar and decided to drop the empty trailer on a huge industrial estate in Belgium, the road had like a hard shoulder running down both sides and not a car in sight, coming back the next day some knob had parked a car right in front of the bar, fortunately I had some chains and managed to drag it backwards using the front pin but in doing so somehow all the came out of his front tyre!
only once in harlow delivering double glazing split load part of the drag and part of the front box . came back to it
found it was blocked in and had to go in at 45 degrees to get on to the drawbar only took 2 goes so was fairly smug about that
considering at times i could take half a dozen goes at it straight on and fail to capture the hitch
until another driver told me that the usual driver had hit the pin so hard one day that it had bent the hitch off center
Drop trailer on ind est blocking an entrance with lorry is the best way.
At Sports Direct I used to try and leave them in a position with the end hanging over double yellow lines. Easy to find such places in that job though as it was all night work. Would be padlocked too and only contain empty cages.
Used to run demountables delivering to private homes so for a nice clear area to change boxes 99% of the time I stopped in MSAs (firm paid the parking), one half one day, the other the next. I know some of the other drivers carted the drag around with them to most of their drops (8 - 10 in each box) rather than leave it somewhere central to their deliveries. I was never questioned for picking somewhere 30-40 miles “off route” that suited me, maybe because I always got the W&D back in one piece and on time for loading and the next driver 
Well at least they leave it in a layby. Patrick and Seamus from a white and red firm decided that the best place to do a trailer swap today was on the hard shoulder of the M20 J8 slip road with one unit parked in lane 1.
del949:
returning back to find some idiot be it a car driver or even another trucker
the only idiot is the driver leaving the drag expecting to monopolise the lay by for as long as he needs.
+1
You can’t leave a vehicle unattended and expect people to worry about the ins and outs of its operation. Layby’s are for everyone. You could hope for common sense prevailing but we know that’s not the case. Not so long ago there was a thread about irate butty wagon owners having ago at lorries for parking in “their spot”. Consensus was tough ■■■■
Should the trailer be left unattended in the 1st place ?
When I was on wagon and drags I used to drop my trailer either at the end of the layby or on an industrial estate with the front next to double yellows, only twice have i returned to find a car parked in front of it, owner nowhere to be seen 
Luckily I had a hiab on the lorry so just picked up the front of the trailer and pulled it round so i could get onto the coupling.
If your going to drop the trailer in the middle of a layby then you’ve gotta expect other people to park in front of it.
It’s a drawbar trailer - never heard it called a drag section! Laybys are for drivers to take a rest in, not for use as a transit yard. robert
It used to be a ‘Dangler’ … ‘on the hook’.