you’ve just delivered to a customer, one you’ve been to many times and its down a one way street, but this time some scaffolding has been errected and with parked cars the other side you cant get your truck through with out taking Simon the scafolder with you
So you have 2 choices…
either A.
Go back the way you came (main road is at the bottom of the road)
or
you got your sat nav out and it says go up here, turn left right left right left and you’ll end up on the main road again
you have to make an executive decision, which way you you go??
Harry Monk:
I wouldn’t take that decision, I would call the Filth and let them decide.
Well said harry the road should not be blocked by cars as they can stop the emergency services from using the road as access to and from the scene of an incident.
I would go along with Harry. There are people paid more than us to make decisions such as these, let them earn their money. If it goes wrong, it is their fault not yours.
44 Tonne Ton:
As long as the scaffolding is there legally then the cars are causing an obstruction. Job for the filth. Good luck!
Unless I have read this wrong, the cars aren’t causing an obstruction and that is the way he arrived at this point. He could therefore go out that way except that it is a one-way-street and he would be driving the wrong way along it.
Obviously, the Police can authorise him to do this, closing the other end of the road during the manoeuvre if they so wish, but if you took that decision yourself, it could all end in tears before bedtime.
you’ve just delivered to a customer, one you’ve been to many times and its down a one way street, but this time some scaffolding has been errected and with parked cars the other side you cant get your truck through with out taking Simon the scafolder with you
Maybe i not had much sleep, but this to me says that the driver is already at the address and has just jumped back in the cab to find scaffold and cars everywhere…
If it is, sit tight and ring old bill saying i cant get out without making an illegal manouvre, squishing everyone that gets in the way… erm i mean those who are using the road correctly
If the drivers approaching said delivery take the postmans attidude and pretend to knock on the door and leave a note saying “sorry you wern’t in”
I was under the impression that the delivery was before the scaffolding and the only ways out were the wrong way down the one way street or the unsuitable for HGV. I’d start by trying to find some car owners, it looks residential so some doors would be getting knocked, failing that ringing the law.I dont like the sound of the turn left turn right turn left malarky after passing the Unsuitable for HGV sign. What DID you do anyway CC?
While waiting for plod to turn up I suppose you could look at option B by getting out and walking the route suggested on your satnav (as long as its not too far) saves diving into the unknown and you get some exercise
tofer:
I was under the impression that the delivery was before the scaffolding and the only ways out were the wrong way down the one way street or the unsuitable for HGV.
should of explained better, tofer has it correct how i meant
tofer:
. What DID you do anyway CC?
I didnt do anything, hypothetical!!! lol just wondered what other people would do if that situaton ever arouse, whether it be scaffolding or parked cars
Call me I could have told ya! It’s the next village to where I live.
The right I suppose is by the pub, but it’s tight for a car, but if you’d have gone past the pub, and followed it round to the right, it’ll bring you back over near the m69, and out a little up the road, been up it a few times in both a 26t rigid and an artic, although I wouldn’t recommend doing it in an artic as it’s a bit tight with passing traffic on the twistys!
Harry is right but how many would actually do it, no many
Id take my chance with the unsuitable, its an advisory sign. Ive went down a few roads with that sign in the past - sometimes they are alright sometimes they are nasty ■■■■■.
If you go back down the one way street you end up being done for dangerous driving. But you could reverse down it that doesn’t seem to count with most people
tofer:
I was under the impression that the delivery was before the scaffolding and the only ways out were the wrong way down the one way street or the unsuitable for HGV.
should of explained better, tofer has it correct how i meant
tofer:
. What DID you do anyway CC?
I didnt do anything, hypothetical!!! lol just wondered what other people would do if that situaton ever arouse, whether it be scaffolding or parked cars
It’s only happened once to me, one of our drops in Sheffield is in a one way street that’s tight as. And you have residents cars, plus people from the bingo club parking all over the shop. I had the old cars left, cars right cars left scenario with not enough room to get through the gap. Parked up, hazards on and marched off up the road to the club, everyone denied knowledge of the cars. The people in the queue behind me were very angry and some started knocking doors, and some went back to the bingo and created a scene until the offending vehicles were gone.
i’m with harry and co.
you know in an ideal world what you’d like to do, but, in todays “cover your own arse” world,i called the plod, they have the power to make the decision, let em
