Could these please go in the Truckers terminology/ Jargon buster, on the LGV training thread?
Elephant racing cracks me up, you couldn’t make up a more apt phrase if you tried. 
It’s got to be two tippers right - grey and solid? Or can it be any two identically sized HGVs?
Pointy shoes - I get the gist but would like more detail. What’s the definitive truckers dictionary definition please?
Tea & biscuits with the TC - as above.
Thanks
driveress:
Could these please go in the Truckers terminology/ Jargon buster, on the LGV training thread?Elephant racing cracks me up, you couldn’t make up a more apt phrase if you tried.
It’s got to be two tippers right - grey and solid? Or can it be any two identically sized HGVs?
2 Artics one with a limiter set slightly more than the other taking miles to over take
Pointy shoes - I get the gist but would like more detail. What’s the definitive truckers dictionary definition please?
And young gun transport office operative or planner
Tea & biscuits with the TC - as above.
When you go and see the regional transport commissioner for a disciplinary hearing and usually have you’re licence or O licence revoked at worstThanks
Cheers
One more - is a limper and agency worker?
driveress:
It’s got to be two tippers right -
You’re right to have learnt that tippers are always in a hurry!
driveress:
CheersOne more - is a limper and agency worker?
Limper; Person with a small stone in their shoe or as pointed out, an agency driver.
Another often used phrase is ’ Flip Flop '. A driver from Eastern Europe who often favours this style of footwear whilst operating and working around LGV’s.
driveress:
One more - is a limper and agency worker?
Yes a limper is a slightly derogatory term for an agency driver.
Limper for good reason, often older sorts who spent their best years holding down the clutch on a Scammell in traffic, or failing to have the correct sized length of wood for cruise control (max throttle) on a bloody Gardner 180, hence knees and ankles buggered.
Juddian:
Limper for good reason, often older sorts who spent their best years holding down the clutch on a Scammell in traffic, or failing to have the correct sized length of wood for cruise control (max throttle) on a bloody Gardner 180, hence knees and ankles buggered.
Or, possibly more likely, have spent much of their career jumping down from the backs of trailers etc.
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Thanks for clarifying.
Could Limper and the reasons why be in the jargon buster then?
Re: Pointy shoes…you do have to be young but you don’t have to be management or senior management to be pointy shoes, but you could be, is that right?
Roymondo:
Juddian:
Limper for good reason, often older sorts who spent their best years holding down the clutch on a Scammell in traffic, or failing to have the correct sized length of wood for cruise control (max throttle) on a bloody Gardner 180, hence knees and ankles buggered.Or, possibly more likely, have spent much of their career jumping down from the backs of trailers etc.
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Yep, that too, something we all did at one time, no one thought of steps or even side guards to use as steps, access to cabs wasn’t much better, Scammell Crusaders one of the highest UK made cabs of the time had a step ring on the wheelbolts which invariably was so worn you’d slip off the bloody thing then end up landing on the side of your ankle to the accompanying sound of your ankle bones cracking then roll on the floor for twenty minutes in agony trying not to throw up as your whole foot turned black and blue…ask me how i know this, right ankle never been the same since 
driveress:
Pointy shoes…you do have to be young but you don’t have to be management or senior management to be pointy shoes, but you could be, is that right?
As far as I can see people tend to refer to any office worker as a pointy shoes, you’ll find that a pointy shoes is typically referred to when drivers are talking about an office worker who has some, real or self perceived, authority.
Grease Monkey, A person of high education, top skill levels, modest & normally full of panache, who’s sole job is to correct the drivers mechanical ■■■■ ups & keep the wheels rolling to keep you all employed 
Pointy shoes are unsuitable for places where real work is carried out and steel capped boots are worn. Therefore a pointy shoe wearer is likely to be someone who has no experience in doing the job that they are trying tell you to do or how to do it.
On construction sites we have shiny coats, typically senior management who wear immaculate Hi-Viz coats and come out with all sorts of BS.
We also refer to black hats, typically foremen or gangers wear a black hard hat to denote their authority / make them easier to find. That can be useful to know
Thanks
Sounds like shoes are sorted. 
Talking of hats, I’m sure I’ve seen tin hats referred to more than once. Are tin hats a thing?
driveress:
Talking of hats, I’m sure I’ve seen tin hats referred to more than once. Are tin hats a thing?
Nothing to do with driving, people often talk about putting their tin hat on when they expect their forum post to get some flak from the other members
driveress:
Elephant racing cracks me up, you couldn’t make up a more apt phrase if you tried.
It’s got to be two tippers right - grey and solid? Or can it be any two identically sized HGVs?
One truck approaches another at light speed up a hill and gets 3/4 of the way passed and they get on the flat. The one being overtaken then gets his speed back and both drivers sit at the same speed until the next incline, rather than doing the sensible thing.
Downhill! That’s where it’s at! Got over 60mph today, glad my card wasn’t in
Has anybody ever been up in front of a TC and actually got tea and biscuits?
You get a hobnob
They don’t offer Hobnobs anymore, it’s only Bourbon or Rich Tea biscuits, if you don’t like those , they say there is the door .
