Loads you just hate

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Maize can be fun when you forget to put the sheet on

When I was a young buck doing bulk I kind forgot the technical side of my instruction on my firstv day and left a trail up the motorway.

PC Plod was good enough to point out the error of my ways bless him :blush: :blush:

Never forgot again though :wink:

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:laughing: I hate Crisps on Mainfloor and Brickets on Topfloor
or first 7 Meter 2700kg and left 6,5 Meter 22000kg

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knight:
Anything on the back of the waggon :smiley: I like driving just not keen on delivering :blush:
Mount Cenis! I’ve done that on a motobike. COOL. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Got to ask why didn’t you go through the Tunnel or wasn’t it there then

Cheaper, more fun, and closer if you were tipping Turin :wink: :laughing:

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Spardo But I think its closed now for anyting over 19t gross
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I think the worst loads I have carried were chipboard offcuts from Hygena to Pudsey :stuck_out_tongue:

Chipboard in any case is bad, these were odd shaped offcuts from kitchen worktops. To make it worse I carried it on a converted skip made into a flatbed :open_mouth:

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When I used to do skip work, one of the monthly jobs was emptying a skip from a dog kennels. I’ll leave you to imagine what it was full of, and it didn’t like coming out either :frowning:
I also had a skip like in the one in “one foot in the grave”, except it was a mini in it and not a 2cv.
In the summers we used to move alot of mobile toilet units, as you winched them up the ramps onto the truck, anything left in the pipes used to drain out over the bed and ramps. Mind you, no one stayed close behind you if you pulled away sharpish at the traffic lights :laughing:

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ALBA:
For me it has to be Septic tanks. They are alright if standing up, but up in this part of the country (Argyll) we have quite a few low bridges, so we have them lying on their sides :open_mouth:

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Yeah, ive not met many Americans myself, but have never given any of them a lift, after reading that, i dont think i"ll bother, sounds like too much hard work :laughing: :laughing: :wink:

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St Merryn Meat in Merthyr Tydfil collecting Sheepskins from side of abbatoir seeing all the heads and guts coming out of gut room which is next to Container ramp.

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Caberboard (like ‘shiney-sided’ chipboard sheets) as a return load from Scotland!! :imp: :imp: :imp:

It never used to ‘settle’ and I don’t think I ever drove for more than an hour (max!) without opening the curtains and doing all the straps another few clicks. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

Apart from that I suppose it will have been when I was on the ‘pooh-tankers’ (Whites) out of the water treatment works at Wanlip, Leicester. No prizes for guessing what we were loading!! :confused: . You got used to it apart from the odd time you got covered!! :cry:

I have loaded oiled-steel before but the Caberboard was worse


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Office removals with a 40ft er. Everything heavy and large went by staircase as it wouldn`t fit in lift. Driving wise, Tate & Lyles liquid sugar is fun on roundabouts grossing near the max.

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I hate any load where I know the receiver is an obnoxious moron. There aren’t too many like that though. :smiley:

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30 dozen eggs packed in one (1) box of which 960 are being loaded ‘by hand’ onto a 40’ curtain sider. All this needs to be done in the quickest of time and my best stands at 1 3/4 hours. This is done to gain extra space hence, the eggs come on pallets and are than being hand balled onto trailer and stacked to the roof (some havy overhead lifting involved). Delivery of the eggs is cross-channel next day to Oldham where all those boxes are hand-balled back onto pallets.

Another of my favourite loads is tyres packed onto a 40’ curtain sider. They have been loaded lose onto the trailer and are stacked to the roof. One trailer consists of roughly 9 -13 drops and all of the tyres have to be hand-balled off the trailer. Both loads are very good exercises for the fitness minded person of course.

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any load with any of the following on
nisa stoke
booker
nisa stoke
asda bristol
nisa stoke
costco
nisa stoke
budgens welllingborough

oh did i mention nisa stoke

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harry:
Spardo But I think its closed now for anyting over 19t gross
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Dead right Harry, for some time now I think, the last time for me was in about '84.
We’re off to Grenoble with the caravan this autumn for the World Pétanque Champs and might take time for a nostalgic (for both of us, we eloped that way in an F89 :unamused: ) run over there. :laughing: :laughing:

Just to keep this on thread, the load will be 6 steel balls and a couple of bar towels, not too bad though, they will be well stowed :wink: :unamused: :laughing: