Will_161:
what was with that bloke delivering the toys.
“Im like a stick of rock, cut me in half and I’d say Eddie Sobart!”
Hes defo after brownnose points
That guy sounded like a frigin nut job. I bet he is in the first in the depot and the last to leave, he has a bad dose of the green cancer
Anybody know what the other chuckle brother is up to nowadays ?
what made me laugh was here we have a massive company 2 say the least and there they are walking round the yard at nite feeding chickens, i mean spreading salt!wouldnt you think they would purchase a gritter,lets face it they could buy a cheapy easy,i speak from experience as i work 4 company doing gritting and weve just renewed our fleet so them famous fodens uve all seen were sold off next 2 nowt!!
why buy a gritter when youve a highways base next door,give them a few boxes of cream cakes and theyll grit it for free
Terry T:
If you look at Fiona’s truck after the tow truck pulled her out her lift axle is up. I’m assuming the tow truck guy told her to lift it up but pulled her out anyway to save embarrassment
Why would the midlift be down if the trailer was empty?
Terry T:
If you look at Fiona’s truck after the tow truck pulled her out her lift axle is up. I’m assuming the tow truck guy told her to lift it up but pulled her out anyway to save embarrassment
Why would the midlift be down if the trailer was empty?
Most of Eddies trucks based out of Newark are 4x2 units so maybe shes never had to play with a mid lift?
Biggest question must be why go from Newark to Liverpool surely they must of had a unit and trailer closer to Liverpool to do said job. What did Tinkler want to do about empty running last year wasnt it tax it or something?
most are 4x2,s but of late threres loads more 6x2,s in the yard, there always been a sprinkaling of 6x2,s in yard so im sure art some point over the years she must of drove one,i guess she just assumed you couldnt lift midlift, if she even knew of a midlift,she said shed only just started using manual option,i guess like alot they think a autos just that, a auto,
to me she shot herself in the foot with the quote ive proved myself as good as any bloke[words to that effect],cleary shes not,what little ive had to do with her she seems nice enough but certain remarks make me think fame or percieved fame is starting to go to her head.
or is it just a case of her getting stuck,would she or wouldnt she get the turkeys to tesco on time far better viewing than her driving straight up the slip road and on her way
Daft bint shoulda gone past the slip to the next junction, right at the R/bout, right at the next R/bout and follow that n she’ll be back at Tarbock island n do a left onto the 57,
Thats what I did before Xmas when there was a motor stranded on the same slippy
PS - Gotta love Les the Costa driver with the glasses, I can imagine him asking all the drivers stuck on the slippy if they were ok, real full on genuine true gent
I watched it on 5 OD because i missed it yesterday.
What a joke
The young lad who made the cameras be turned off seemed abit cocky and a right drama queen. Why not turn around at those islands? Did he just want to show off abit of a reverse into a tight side road?
The woman could do with some more training by the looks of it. Made me laugh how it showed about 3 trucks going past her no bother
Must be something not quite right with people that work for Stobarts. Saw a guy in the pub last week in full Stobart uniform, with hi-vis on Apparently he wasnt allowed on the programme because he swears too much
Did they slip up during the editing to get that full frontal of a FedEx motor,just proves that ES weren’t the only ones on the road during that weather!
Silver_Surfer:
Was I the only one willing her to raise the midlift, engage the difflok and put it in first and coast with no revs up that slip road where she was spinning the wheels and got stuck? I think she normally drives a 4x2 and this is probably the first patch of bad weather shes driven through in the 3 years shes been driving so can be excused a bit but you’d think Stobarts would send a memo out to the drivers with a few tips of how to cope and get the best out of the wagons in the snow and I bet a lot less would have got stuck. Hopefully some of the green brethren willl mention this to her. We all had to learn some time so i’m not knocking her but she could have got out of that situation with a bit of training. She is pretty though
Was funny when the loud fellow got stuck after missing his turn and threw a hissy fit at the camera crew :lol:
I’d been driving a week when we got the first load of snow and I ended up stationary on the M25 in December. It didn’t take me long to figure out that if I lifted the axel I’d have more weight on the drive axel giving more traction.
I’ve know Mark Dixon since we were kids and what you see on tv is what you get in real life. And yes he does paddy from time to time. lol.
Was i the only one who couldnt stop laughing at the star of the show backing in to a side road and getting stuck in the snow and then he started to
throw is toy out of is cott what a prat.Why did they send a empty truck from newark to liverpool when they have depot at heywood? could the heywood depot not pick the load up and take it back
bestbooties:
Did they slip up during the editing to get that full frontal of a FedEx motor,just proves that ES weren’t the only ones on the road during that weather!
Thats what i thought. He was saying he was lost whilst going straight over a roundabout, well thats what i thought it looked like.
The show was ok. A bit too much on the fact only Stobarts were running through the snow but my trucks kept on rolling and i would say most of the trucking industry did aswell.
Didn’t anyone else notice she was trying to drive up the slip road with no lights on? Lift axle down, seriously? I thought she was “as good as any of the blokes, maybe better”. Made herself look a chump.
The idiot that was saying he took the ‘wrong’ turn whilst on a roundabout made me laugh.
I must admit, I love the programme though. It’s annoyingly, cringeworthy watchable.
That Matt Dixon also said the country would’ve been in trouble without Stobarts. What a joke. They have what, 1300 trucks or something. You can spot more trucks than that standing on a motorway bridge for a few hours. They really do think they prop the whole country up in their little green machines. Stobart spotters licking their arses don’t help.
Terry T:
That Matt Dixon also said the country would’ve been in trouble without Stobarts. What a joke. They have what, 1300 trucks or something. You can spot more trucks than that standing on a motorway bridge for a few hours. They really do think they prop the whole country up in their little green machines. Stobart spotters licking their arses don’t help.
Gone to their head much ?
more like 1850 according to them but hey whos counting… not all of them are that bad
Thats what i thought. He was saying he was lost whilst going straight over a roundabout, well thats what i thought it looked like.
The show was ok. A bit too much on the fact only Stobarts were running through the snow but my trucks kept on rolling and i would say most of the trucking industry did aswell.
The fact he got lost was made even more enjoyable if you remember that 5 minutes before he had refered to the maps and directions as “idiots guides”
Suprised at Fiona not being suficently trained on the vehicle enough to use the manual gearbox
Did she drive off with no headlights or did the other headlight finally blow?
Stobarts spend a fortune keeping their yard open?
What two blokes with a shovel and a pile of sand that must cost them a fortune
As to yer mans bull about “without Stobarts there would be no Christmas”
What a load of rubbish plenty of hauliers were running were Stobarts feared to go
Keep spouting the company rubbish mate I’m sure Wiliam appreciates it
Terry T:
That Matt Dixon also said the country would’ve been in trouble without Stobarts. What a joke. They have what, 1300 trucks or something. You can spot more trucks than that standing on a motorway bridge for a few hours. They really do think they prop the whole country up in their little green machines. Stobart spotters licking their arses don’t help.
Gone to their head much ?
more like 1850 according to them but hey whos counting… not all of them are that bad
Either way, the country would hardly grind to a halt without them which is what some of them clearly believe.
There could easily have been some ‘direction from the cameraman’', to create these situations.
After all a bit of film of a truck going up a snowy slip road, or driving on a few hundred yards and doing a U-turn at a roundabout isn’t very interesting. Where as, reversing into a side road, or doing completely the wrong thing on a snowy slip road, and getting stuck, towed out etc etc probably filled most of that programme. I didn’t see it, but I’ve seen plenty of other ‘fly on the wall’ documentaries about people going about there normal daily work. They ALL seem to be way over the top with the ‘drama’s’ .
Hopefully us on TruckNet knew the job was going straight up [zb] creek without a paddle when you saw Fiona with her middle axle down on an empty trailer and when you saw who-ever it was starting to reverse into a snowy side road.
I expect those ES drivers did too, but carried on with it to give the cameras something to film.
Do you remember, quite a few years ago, the Police fly on the wall Documentary? There was one where a traffic cop got a call and had to chase up the M180 towards Doncaster Services. Just after the big roundabout in 1m sign a wagon in lane 1 started indicating and pulled across to lane 3, trapping the cop car against the central wire fence barrier. Rumour has it that the whole chase scenario was manufactured on a slow day, to give a bit of interest. They got a bit more than they bargained for that time .
The reason I’ve mentioned this is to demonstrate that in this type of documentary, they will do things to add interest. Those incidents on the ES show may not be ‘the driver being stupid’ at all.
Few others, other than truck drivers, would have much of an idea how pointless those incidents where.
And the commentator is the reason I don’t watch the ES show. His constant yammering and complete lack of much sense drives me up the wall. I told the same thing to the geeza on the Ice Road Truckers stand at Truckfest this summer. He looked rather put out by my comment, Hopefully he’s the commentator!
