I done Liverpool in one hit from Macon that’s my excuse for been Tired 
kr79:
I done Liverpool in one hit from Macon that’s my excuse for been Tired
Yeah i done the wrong bus but for the same reason kr79. Came from ullapool to the train and the 45 minutes on the train was a brilliant kip but the red face afterwards woke me up proper!
malcolmj:
i always leave my keys in the ignition when using train because if anybody will loose their keys it will be me
I used to until my cab got robed, after that I always locked the truck, daft thing is it happened going towards France so probably on the platform at Folkestone yet I had to report it to the french police. I lost my wallet, fuel cards and some personal gear, along with a newspaper I had bought just before leaving for the train. I was not happy I had to park the truck in Calais and go back to the UK for a new fuel card and to borrow the wife’s credit card for personal cash.
I still have the police report somewhere, not that it got anything back.
It was through this that my boss changed fuel cards after finding out you couldn’t cancel a UTA fuel card between the end of the working day on Friday until the start of the following working week due there being no emergency number to deal with lost cards. Luckily the only card that got used was my bank card, and as it was already reported stolen I wasn’t liable for the money spent on it.
Wheel Nut:
newmercman:
Yep, but it wasn’t my faultI followed the bloke who sat next to me on the bus the other side, the fool got the wrong bus at the other end and I so did I
of course I was in pole position and I had a wagon and drag on air all around, obviously it had an air leak too, so to make matters worse I was 5mins building up my air before I could move off too
I suppose that could catch us all out if we were deep in conversation with a numptie
That’s the other bloke’s excuse sorted then 
Wheel Nut:
The bus nearest the drivers cab is always the front, even if they only use one door
Not necesarly. I was crossing there once and on French side both buses were waiting on one doors only for some reason. So I used the one on the front, together with other drivers who were on the same bus with me before, as it supposed to be ours, and then we had a long drive along our vehicles, someone pointed it to the driver, but he said “If you are in wrong bus, you have to wait”. So then we stopped at the first lorry of the second part, and he was surprised that noone gets off. 
We told him that there is noone there, but he drove along all the trucks stopping at each cab and not a single driver get off, so he had to come back and give us a lift to the proper one and he dropped us off in the oposite direction 
Got onto the wrong bus when you get off of the club car at the Eurotunnel?
I haven’t ever done it myself, but it is a perennial fear of mine that I will do someday and have to take the “walk of shame”.
Anyone done it? Fess up here!
Luckily No, but I did have problem finding my truck when on the Spirit of Britain, got my port & starboard mixed up 
did it a couple of weeks ago only 1 door on train club car was being used and yes i got on wrong bus luckly for me i was at the back of the front if you know what i mean? ,so didnt hold any one up!
raymundo:
got my port & starboard mixed up
Call yourself a master mariner■■?
Inselaffe:
raymundo:
got my port & starboard mixed upCall yourself a master mariner■■?
Yea I know, terrible init ?
Got lost on the decks many times,you think you can get back to the truck,but when it docks,after a meal,a sleep,you become lost,going up and down the decks, to find it.On a long crossing this is,not the Dover route.
Which one was that then Toby? Woolwich ferry ?
Studland Bay to Poole,the one with no engine,chains for an engine.
If you are on the tunnel for the first time,where is the warning to say which mini bus to get in to at the end of the journey,no drivers have told me which one to get in.I have got the wrong one.
I haven’t done it but I always laugh when others do it, surely when you are on a bus and you don’t recognise anyone is a sure sign.
The bus nearest the drivers cab is always the front, even if they only use one door 
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toby1234abc:
Studland Bay to Poole,the one with no engine,chains for an engine.
Oh yes it has…
Is that the engine to drive the chain motor?
toby1234abc:
Is that the engine to drive the chain motor?
Yes, and the chain motor is called a windlass and the chain is pulled by the ‘gypsy’, not ■■■■■!!
BTW, Whats this got to do with the bus?
Wheel Nut:
I haven’t done it but I always laugh when others do it, surely when you are on a bus and you don’t recognise anyone is a sure sign.The bus nearest the drivers cab is always the front, even if they only use one door
Exactly. When you get off the train the front bus is for the back and the back bus is for the front, couldn’t be simpler.
A few months ago my mate Bob tried to help an English driver and his paseenger who had got on the wrong bus.
Bob, “You’re on the wrong bus mate.”
Bloke, “Yeah, all right mate, (rolls eyes 
) a bus is a bus innit?” Looks around for approval as to his cleverness.
Bob, “No mate, that’s your bus there,” helpfully indicating the other same, yet different bus.
Bloke, just laughs.
Buses set off and our bus sails past the blokes truck on it’s way to the rear rake, at which point he starts shouting for the bus to stop, which is of course ignored.
Bob, “Told you, you’re on the wrong bus.”
Bloke, "Well that’s just [zb]ing stupid.
Bob, “Yes, it is.”
Never got on the wrong bus but jumped out of the cab to join the bus and dropped my keys down the side of the carriage on to the tracks and had to wait for the maintenance man to come and retrieve them while a bus full of driver’s stared daggers at me for missing our leaving slot. Apparently i wasn’t the first and i wont be the last it happens quite regularly.