Was halfway through uncoupling and someone started talking to me… Finished conversation, re-checked legs, suzies, trailer brake… Yup, all good… Drove out and BOOM!
Done my hydraulic lines for my blower. Nice two hour wait for Pirtek and lots of hydralic oil to clear up.
Moral of the story, don’t talk to anyone when uncoupling/coupling 
I think most of us have been professionally embarrassed, in some way and at some point.
Been there got the tea shirt put it down to experience
Oooops, seen that done more than once 
Never done that myself, but I did forget all my air and electrical lines once, the electric one come unplugged when the suzie straightened out and sprung straight through the back window of my F10, I wasn’t talking though, I was racing my mate back to the yard and was way in front of him, well about 30ft, when I heard the BANG Luckily the red and yellow suzies had taps in those days, so I managed to get back to the yard before I got my bollocking
Not trailer lines but last night did get distracted before stowing the tail lift. Didn’t get far, first corner, before I noticed. Sorry to the poor souls who I delayed for 2 minutes while stowing the tail lift part way out of the side street in *********. Location hidden to protect the idiot driver glowing like a beetroot.
I’ve done it with a push out trailer. Rushing on a Friday night in the rain. Forgot the hydraulic pipes and bent the exhaust stack and frame behind the cab.
Done similar to you and NMM, was at Roadways, dropping last trailer of the year, saw the boss walking by, went to bother him about work in January as we’d been told it was quiet and wouldn’t get any work or money, nothing he could do, back to truck, climbed in and drove off, electrical cables ping about, air lines snapped, took truck straight to the on-site garage and left it with a note for the fitter to welcome him back in the new year.
I think we’ve all done it, one of the first rules of car delivery I was taught, don’t talk to anyone when loading or unloading, it’s to easy to forget to strap or unstrap a motor.
Dropped an empty once because of that, spent 30mins winding in low gear like a man possessed to get it back up afterwards !!! Thank god it was empty !!
I politely tell people to ■■■■ off while I do my couple/drop routine now 
Live and learn eh.
ibson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_vMXThvHQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Cool looking system, how many bosses do you think have placed orders/?
waynedl:
ibson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_vMXThvHQ&feature=youtube_gdata_playerCool looking system, how many bosses do you think have placed orders/?
I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say none…
People in a haulage yard should know better than bother a driver when he is coupling or un-coupling when trailers are involved.
ibson:
waynedl:
ibson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_vMXThvHQ&feature=youtube_gdata_playerCool looking system, how many bosses do you think have placed orders/?
I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say none…
That’s really strange, that’s the number I came to too
claretmatt:
Moral of the story, don’t talk to anyone when uncoupling/coupling
Yes, politely tell them to FOXTROT OSCAR! 
and start again! CHECK, CHECK AND CHECK AGAIN! 
bet you don’t do it again pal?
A real shame that, really cool system.
claretmatt:
Moral of the story, don’t talk to anyone when uncoupling/coupling
I keep telling myself that, then I forget what the flip I was supposed to be doing. I say shut up one of us is trying to work, while the other says mother never really loved you.
Dieseldog66:
I think we’ve all done it, one of the first rules of car delivery I was taught, don’t talk to anyone when loading or unloading, it’s to easy to forget to strap or unstrap a motor.
returning an audi a6 auto to it’s owner after it had been repaired in a bodyshop, i got talking to the owner while unloading it. everything had to be winched onto the bed. unstrapped it, lowered it off back onto the floor, forgot to unhook the winch cable, stuck it in reverse, foot of the brake and it didn’t move, so gave it a bootfull and ripped the towing eye and it’s mount out of the front of the car. loaded it back on and took it back to the bodyshop
i dropped a trailer on its knees last
at Arcadia Monkspath
Didnt couple up as soon as i was under trailer
i coupled up checked visually the pin drove to gatehouse
did the stuff pulled off and bang
didnt do any damage or knack susies
but very embarrassing the pin had obvouisly
not fully locked as the lever only halfway in
and the locky thing was only partly down
i put it down to tiredness and being stopped in
mid flow coupling up,
But still it was my fault for not being more thorough
odd thing i was on my third day on a new agency job
and i am still there