Was out today and went past a place I got sent a few weeks ago in the snow. It was an awkward gateway of a big house and as well as the icy slope the bloke was making a fuss about not running over his grass (wherever that was) He was adamant that I should do this, that and the other as he’d “driven artics in here before” Despite the fact the no-one knows my vehicle better than I he could not be told where I’d have to put it.
I came very close to handing him the keys, anyone ever done it and has their offer been taken up. Could be some funny stories I’m sure.
have often used the expression myself , while involved in roadworks and up pulls a truck blasting the horn and waving arms about
followed by the usual how am i supposed to get around there in this , i usually say jump out and i will do it for you , this generally focuses the mind and they set to it a find it is a doable maneuver
Dont think i’ve ever had the balls to offer the keys to someone through fear of them getting on the phone to my boss lol. Did have a delivery once where i said i couldnt get in and the guy turned round and said they had an 8wheeler in that very morning and i pointed down to the fence and said was that him who put the hole in the fence …
Had an d**khead of an artic driver (foreign driver, british truck) do a delivery in connection with my other work - he refused to park it where I wanted it to make the off-load easier, instead demanding I had it off-loaded on the street and it carried to where it had to be… his excuse was, there was no way it would fit blah blah blah.
After much arguing he jumped out the cab, and said if i was so f-ing clever do it myself…
Should have seen his face when I got in and fired her up, he went into a major panic!!
Herongate:
Had an d**khead of an artic driver (foreign driver, british truck) do a delivery in connection with my other work - he refused to park it where I wanted it to make the off-load easier, instead demanding I had it off-loaded on the street and it carried to where it had to be… his excuse was, there was no way it would fit blah blah blah.
After much arguing he jumped out the cab, and said if i was so f-ing clever do it myself…
Should have seen his face when I got in and fired her up, he went into a major panic!!
Herongate:
Had an d**khead of an artic driver (foreign driver, british truck) do a delivery in connection with my other work - he refused to park it where I wanted it to make the off-load easier, instead demanding I had it off-loaded on the street and it carried to where it had to be… his excuse was, there was no way it would fit blah blah blah.
After much arguing he jumped out the cab, and said if i was so f-ing clever do it myself…
Should have seen his face when I got in and fired her up, he went into a major panic!!
Did you park it for him lol?
Would have; the argument continued with me still sat in the cab, one of my mates on the job with me then came over and pointed out to him that I had a licence to drive it, so it was either i did it or he did… he backed down and did it
Herongate:
Had an d**khead of an artic driver (foreign driver, british truck) do a delivery in connection with my other work - he refused to park it where I wanted it to make the off-load easier, instead demanding I had it off-loaded on the street and it carried to where it had to be… his excuse was, there was no way it would fit blah blah blah.
After much arguing he jumped out the cab, and said if i was so f-ing clever do it myself…
Should have seen his face when I got in and fired her up, he went into a major panic!!
Did you park it for him lol?
Would have; the argument continued with me still sat in the cab, one of my mates on the job with me then came over and pointed out to him that I had a licence to drive it, so it was either i did it or he did… he backed down and did it
Thats brilliant, i’d of loved to have been there watching lol.
Look at it another way, get out of the chariot, weigh up the situation and ask the bloke
‘exactly, where you want it fella?’
If it can be done, do it. On the rare occasion it can’t, tell him where it will go. You’re the expert (even if it’s your first day) don’t give the ■■■■ the satisfaction that he might of beat you.
I know where I can get, where I can’t and when I’m likely to get stuck or churn up someone’s drive. I tried explaining but he wasn’t listening, so I carried on as instructed and churned his driveway up for him.
8wheels:
I know where I can get, where I can’t and when I’m likely to get stuck or churn up someone’s drive. I tried explaining but he wasn’t listening, so I carried on as instructed and churned his driveway up for him.
With your line of work I’m not surprised but there is nothing better than leaving a customer wondering…
'how the ■■■■■■■ Hell did he do that…? ’
One of the limitless pleasures of driving these things about IMHO…
A long time ago now (while I was doing agency work) I was on a job driving a wagon and drag with an A-frame trailer. The wagon had a tail-lift which would just barely drop down in front of the hooked up trailer, IF it was all in a perfectly straight line.
The people running this job were fairly switched on to the problems of the job and had a notebook with notes about most of their regular drops in the wagon. If you could get in with the trailer; where to drop it if you couldn’t; that sort of thing. This particular drop wasn’t in the book. I’d have done better to have dropped the trailer, but it was only a few items.
Anyway, it was rather neat for space, so it wasn’t easy getting into the right spot with everything in a straight line, I needed a couple of shunts. The manager at the drop came out and was quite disgusted that I hadn’t just driven straight into this spot, parallel parking a wagon and drag between two cars with about 3" of space extra once I’d got in. Once the drop was done and he was still there, giving it the “I’ve put bigger than that in smaller spaces” waffle , so I pulled it forward a bit with a gentle S in the rig, jumped out and offered him the chance to put his money where his mouth was. He declined
A standard wagon and drag is usually at least a metre longer than a standard artic by the way, so unless he drove a w&d he was unlikely to have driven anything bigger.
Clunk:
I’ve often had ‘you cant get that in there’ and have.
Had the same when I was on Widdowsons taking aload of windows to a site up a tight drive with brick walls either side, site man said every driver told him it couldn’t be done and unloaded them on the road with forklift, but the forklift drivers was off this day and I said I’d get it in and hand ball them out the back door. One hit, job done happy days. Even took a pic as it was that good lol.
Simon:
A standard wagon and drag is usually at least a metre longer than a standard artic by the way, so unless he drove a w&d he was unlikely to have driven anything bigger.
I cant stand it when people say that, (“we’ve had much bigger artics in here drive”) when they clearly bloody havnt! This really rubs me up the wrong way and have to hold myself back from telling them to do one.
Yep several times but no takers yet I always get the oh we had an artic in here with no problem and they get my stock answer well my truck is 40 feet long has a beaver tail with a 14 foot overhang plus a tail swing and doesn’t bend so I’ll tell you where the gear is coming off or it goes back
Reverse happened to me.
Came into a base once and a driver was struggling to reverse in between two buildings.
He had set himself up for “the dreaded blind side reverse” and was trying to get in.
My mate and I stood with all our kit watching then offered some help did he want watching back etc.
Anyway he eventually chucked his teddies one way and the keys our way giving it iof you ■■■■■■ clowns think you can even move it have a go.
I asked my mate if I could have first go and he agreed saying I’ll watch you back.
Jumped in lifted his mid lift shuffled back and forward a bit got myself set up for a “normal reverse” and backed it down to the unloading point.
He didn’t look to happy when I asked him “same time next week then”
My mate who was an HGV instructor was wetting himself as the driver had told him I 'd be lucky to get it in gear.
No keys involved well some keys more a fleet.
The MT Cpl copped a blighty one and got flown home.
I got chucked on a Chinook and flown down to take over the running of the vehicles.
To say I was handed a bit of a backlog and mess was a slight understatement.
Anyway a oneway brief with the BG master driver followed although he doubted I would do much better than my predessesor and he’d already had a bet with my bosses to this effect.
One of the joys of the master driver not being from my unit was he didn’t realise I was a ringer.
He simply thought one of the troopers had been dicked to take over.
I was T.A. worked in transport and was ex Reg.
So inbetween my daily patrols etc I would go in at night and work clearing things up work out servicing etc.
Got to go to some nice briefings and meet some interesting people plus nice trips to Kuwait.
On my “days off” I did minor servicing greased prop shafts,helped change a windscreen etc.
At the end of the tour the MD shook my hand and told me I’d done a good job.
My boss was chuffed as he’d got one over another unit
I don’t think they ever told the guy he’d been done.
ladder49:
Yep several times but no takers yet I always get the oh we had an artic in here with no problem and they get my stock answer well my truck is 40 feet long has a beaver tail with a 14 foot overhang plus a tail swing and doesn’t bend so I’ll tell you where the gear is coming off or it goes back
Are you my twin? That’s exactly the problem I have! And you can ■■■■ off with your wheel washes as well.
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