Sod that, I wouldn’t touch it, I’d take it back unless … the price was right 
It’s always been the perk of the job that the driver only has to undo and close the box doors and sleeeeeeeeeeep
ha ha about time you did some work mate!! (i know thats a bit rich coming from me… 
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kindle530:
you might want to turn your brightness down on your moniter now, as my cab is a bit bright
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Kindle, here’s its’ older brother, carrying on the trailer what appears to be a gigantic basketball pole and hoop!
chorcheela:
kindle530:
you might want to turn your brightness down on your moniter now, as my cab is a bit bright
.Kindle, here’s its’ older brother
aaah proper motor!!!
I’m on the boxes and its not a fact of getting off my fat arse to get inside and strip boxes out its more to do with the fact of not being insured to do it.
The box is owned by the shipping company not by the haulier and so i’m not insured as the shipping company will not insure drivers inside.
I’ve had a many a disagrement with customers over not getting inside and helping,soon change their mind when you goto make a phone call to my gaffer and he says seal it back up and put into storage at their expense.
Just glad i don’t do intermodal work as being 5ft2in,it would be a bit of a struggle to strip a tilt out!
but jase thats fine on deep sea but on short sea it part of the contract usually lidl and aldis kit is fine. as long as you have the right attitude with then there fine
i’m not sure but that 143 might be over here in n.ireland. as recent as thursday i drove past a 143/500 and the colours are the same,i just couldn’t catch the reg. thought it started with a k but does that seem to old?
Thats what i meant by intermodal Allix,we don’t touch Lidl,s Aldi or any other cheap european supermarket who expect the driver to tip their own load!
But when i worked for Stobart i was expected to tip the load,not a problem as i was insured by them to be in the trailer,in fact i never used to mind tipping,i’m just not insured to go into boxes thats all,like my gaffer says if i get hurt in the back,who’s going to drive the truck back?
it was ythe same when we used to do deep sea work but we have always been insured to get in the back due to other contracts on the deep sea work iswas left to us to decied
It’s a condition of contract on Short Sea that drivers must be insured to get in the back. No driver assist = no contract/job.
Many years ago the driver was expected to get in the back of a box to help,but that all changed in the 80’s.
I remember the P&O drivers would just laugh if someone asked them to help,and know of a driver who turned up at a farm to load potatoes in a 20’ box was told by the farmer “They’re over there,give me a shout when you’ve loaded 'em”
The driver’s second word was “off!”,the first word would get me banned if I mentioned it on this site 
I once took a 20’ box to Liverpool,loaded with tinned food,for two drops.
At the first,they wanted me to get in the back,I refused,an argument followed but I stood my ground.They got in the back and unloaded their stuff from all down one side! And then said they were going to bill my boss for not helping to unload,“Go ahead,see how far you get” I replied.
By the time I got to the second drop the rest of the load had fallen over,so explained to the client what had happened and they said they’d bill the bloke at the first delivery for the damage
When I drove for Goodways,one of the drivers was opening the doors to tip,and a full 45 gallon drum fell out onto his shoulder.He was off sick for nearly a year and that was when the company decided that no driver is insured to open the doors,let alone get in the back,which as far as I know is still the case in container haulage today,you don’t even have to open the doors.
Obviously this only applies to deep sea containers,or I get the full wrath from a certain lady driver
Doors thing is easily solved - stick a strap around them so they can only open far enough that you can see whether there’s anything leaning on them before you take it off.
another old topic.
i worked for a month on containers last year.
i gto an empty tarp topped container and went to leed to load it.
when i got there,they said open it please.
very civil and all that.
i asked how do i get up there.
dont know mate was the reply.
i have never liked and still hate container work so ididnt care whether it was loaded or not.
i rang the boss and tole him.
he said.
no you are not insured to get up and open that.
i told the guys in the factory.apologised and asked if they wanted to do it.
#they said no and i went my merry way back to liverpool dock.
its their container.
we drive they load.
i dont mind back doors but that as far as i go.
and before anyone says anything about scousers being lazy.
i am not a scouser but irish.
i wont do anymore than open doors now.
had all that crap years ago,they try to shaft the driver,but i refuse now.
Lucy:
It’s a condition of contract on Short Sea that drivers must be insured to get in the back. No driver assist = no contract/job.
Well I beg to differ, some customers such as Aldi, Lidl etc do expect you to get in the back, but not all of them, I am on a firm doing short sea boxes from Tilbury & we are not expected to get in the back, it makes sense to do it sometimes for your own benefit but if it’s 33 plts of soft drinks wedged in as tight as a drum then no way jose 
we got enough to do driving them,better not call you cameraman again.
i dont go in the back now ever/
i worked for a company in dublin from 1995 until 2000.
bringing software to germany and holland.
5 tonne in the trailer[33 plts]
i used to roll them out to try and keep my weight down as i got so little exercise.
it didnt work,the weight still piled on.
there was 300 kgs on the pallets so i could run with them,some had less maybe a carton on them.it was easy.
I’ve been called a lot worse Greg
I did used to jump in the back & pull stuff down the trailer/box but like you the waistline kept expanding so now I lay on my bunk instead & get fat without all the hard work
I dont know if this has already been siad coz I’aintt read alof this thread. But when I was on tilts unacopanieds, I was allways lead to beleave that you were not insured to load/unload the trailer. The job was to make trailer ready for loading/unloading, then make it ready for the road again afterwards. We also had to write “said to contain” and “loaded and sealed by sender” on any CMR when we received a load. though that seems to be what you had to do there Kindle.
I’ve started doing Containers aswell now, am certainly getting trhough my DVD libary quick
KW:
When I drove for Goodways,one of the drivers was opening the doors to tip,and a full 45 gallon drum fell out onto his shoulder.He was off sick for nearly a year and that was when the company decided that no driver is insured to open the doors,let alone get in the back,which as far as I know is still the case in container haulage today,you don’t even have to open the doors.
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A bloke who drove for Walpoles out are way years ago, He was in the back of a Frans Maas tilt wheeling pallets of polymer about, he misjudged turning the pallet truck, and smashed his hand agaiinst one of the metal posts on the side of the trailer. was left high and dry for any compo. Insurers just said shouldnt have been in there, though we all know what theyre like for gettig out off paying anything.
We all know that in the real world we just get on and get the job done, but when the brown stufff hits the fan, the real world is a far distant place
i worked in a local distillers 2 years ago and when containers came in for a load we got in the back of it and loaded the casks [up on end]. Sweating like anything when finished but kept me warm in the winter. Driver got a chap on the door when we finished to tell him that it was loaded. That’s what would attract me to driving them, the fact that i reverse in / drive out with minimal effort, lol
what you doing driving your dads motor . kindle are you having one of them new 105s that are at chassis cab at mo