Have you ever done this?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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  1. have you ever popped your head out the window to reverse, only to find you have not wound the window down :blush: it hurts.

  2. have you ever ducked because you just caught site of that pidgeon about to hit your side window, but when nothing happens you realise that it was that piece of wrag tied to your mirror :blush:

  3. have you ever pulled right up to an obstacle ready for a reverse, and when you hit the gas, you realise that you aint in reverse, but one of them forward gears . :open_mouth:

  4. ever left the hand brake off, see it roll away and stop it in time :wink:

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I hate to say it but I’m a honest kind of guy…ALL 4 :open_mouth:

Bully

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dave:

  1. have you ever popped your head out the window to reverse, only to find you have not wound the window down :blush: it hurts.

  2. have you ever ducked because you just caught site of that pidgeon about to hit your side window, but when nothing happens you realise that it was that piece of wrag tied to your mirror :blush:

  3. have you ever pulled right up to an obstacle ready for a reverse, and when you hit the gas, you realise that you aint in reverse, but one of them forward gears . :open_mouth:

  4. ever left the hand brake off, see it roll away and stop it in time :wink:

  1. Yes

  2. No, but never mind eh :slight_smile:

  3. Yes. Scares the [zb] out of some car drivers!

  4. yes, and it rolled

  5. Ever accidentally pulled the handbrake on rather than changing gear? This is where the handbrake/gearstick is next to one another…

You poor thing you. You’d best go and have a lie down and relax. You’re having a stressful day!!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Sorry, but I felt the need to edit for the stars. Lib :laughing:.

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Just to add to #4. I was 21 years old and been driving a 7.5 tonne truck on muti-drop around Birmingham, only been doing it a couple of weeks and didn’t no my head from my ■■■ regards Birmingham. Anyway I had parked the truck in a main shopping area looking at my A-Z trying to figure out where this street was. Then a taxi cab pulled up in front of me COOL!!! (This guy will know where it is). Armed with my A-Z I jumped out of the truck and went up to the taxi and asked the guy if he knew where it was, as he went on to tell me there was a huge CRASH! And the taxi shot 15ft down the road…Yep you guessed it…dumb ■■■ Bully didn’t set the brakes and even though I had sat there 15 minutes looking at my map without the handbrake on by me getting out the truck and slamming the door was enough to set it in motion OPPPS!!!

Bully

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dave:

  1. have you ever popped your head out the window to reverse, only to find you have not wound the window down :blush: it hurts.

  2. have you ever ducked because you just caught site of that pidgeon about to hit your side window, but when nothing happens you realise that it was that piece of wrag tied to your mirror :blush:

  3. have you ever pulled right up to an obstacle ready for a reverse, and when you hit the gas, you realise that you aint in reverse, but one of them forward gears . :open_mouth:

  4. ever left the hand brake off, see it roll away and stop it in time :wink:

Havn’t done no 2 :laughing:.

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…erm, yes with a difference.

I actually got the live pigeon in the cab with me at Marchwood. :open_mouth:

  1. Ever been stung by the bee that has bounced off the mirror, come in through the open window and settled on your leg without you realising?
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All… but head-butting the window… Yet… !!! :smiley:

The ■■■■ gears on the FM12’s I drive are so stiff, I have trouble pushing the stick over to reverse sometimes, so i’m deffo guilty of that… :blush: :blush:

  1. Forgot to secure all your belongings and paperwork, only to see it disappear into the passenger footwell at the first island… Then have to go another 30 odd miles before you can retrieve it all…

Luv
Chrisie… :sunglasses:

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  1. ever gone to turn the radio on?, only to realise its already on.

I got a feeling i might be on my own with this one.

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I’ve done that one jammy and on a similar note gone to start the engine to find it is already running. :blush: :blush: :blush:

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  1. How about throwing the remains of your coffee out of the window, with the window still up!!
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done all four. the only time i had an artic roll away from me, i had forgotten to put the handbrake on in the unit. connected up, raised the legs and off it went. for some reason, instead of pulling the trailer brake which was in front of me, i legged it round the front of the moving truck and slammed my hand on the foot brake :confused:

i know im not the only one to do that :laughing:

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Have not achieved any of the above, YET! but I did do a classic some years ago.

Took an 8 leg tanker full of chicken fat to a farm in Norfolk and was trying to tip through the large botton dump valve, chicken fat was no co-operating so in an attempt to unblock it get broom handle pokes it up outlet pipe and yes, you guessed, it gave way and your truly was sent flying by a jet of chicken fat, ended up coverd from head to foot, made me feel ill, I stunk for days. :unamused:

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Qhunter:
…erm, yes with a difference.

  1. Ever been stung by the bee that has bounced off the mirror, come in through the open window and settled on your leg without you realising?

ive had a bee come through the window and i sat on it and it went down the crack of arse and stung me. :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

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Yep have to admit to all of the above. :blush: :blush: :blush:

Anyone ever put tilt on a taillift before lowering it!!! 800 bottles of cola make a hell of a mess when they hit the ground from 5ft, Couldn’t get near them for 20 minutes :blush: :blush: :blush:

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never had anything fall off the tail lift but i have had a badly stacked pallet go over in the back. cans and bottles everywhere. front to back, side to side. that took some clearing up :laughing:

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ive ducked when coming close to a pheasant and on a night shift once i was tired kept doing the nodding dog routine so i pulled into a layby on the 34 just off the 40 i dropped off to sleep. i woke up hit the brakes and hoped id stop in time then i realised he,d pulled in front of me while i was a sleep :laughing: :laughing:

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Carl:
ive ducked when coming close to a pheasant and on a night shift once i was tired kept doing the nodding dog routine so i pulled into a layby on the 34 just off the 40 i dropped off to sleep. i woke up hit the brakes and hoped id stop in time then i realised he,d pulled in front of me while i was a sleep :laughing: :laughing:

:laughing: :laughing: bin there done that :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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CM:
Have not achieved any of the above, YET! but I did do a classic some years ago.

Took an 8 leg tanker full of chicken fat to a farm in Norfolk and was trying to tip through the large botton dump valve, chicken fat was no co-operating so in an attempt to unblock it get broom handle pokes it up outlet pipe and yes, you guessed, it gave way and your truly was sent flying by a jet of chicken fat, ended up coverd from head to foot, made me feel ill, I stunk for days. :unamused:

I did the same with a coach toilet.Seemed like a good idea at the time!!j(‘:(’)(‘:(’)j(‘:(’)

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[zb] yourself whilst your stationary, thinking your rolling backwards, when the two wagons either side of you pull away in unison :laughing:.

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Sorry to say YES I’ve been there & done them all.
Also have you gone to through a ■■■ end out the window BUT it aint down & the zb burns like hell & your trying to put the embers out. I’ve done it quite a few times at night.