yuppie:
Fair play to the lad ,bEen there enough times. but NOT on the road, should of dragged it a few miles, steady.
chester1:
as the tyres already shagged it wont of hurt him to drag it a bit further to a safer place to change it
Dragging it turns a trailer with a blow-out into a trailer with a blow-out, ripped airbag, ripped brake chamber pipes, knacked wheel arch, knacked light cluster.
I’ve seen the HA ‘escorting’ a horsebox with a blow-out down the hard shoulder. Although the donkey box was only going slow, the tyre had smashed all the bodywork up the offside. Further down the inside tyre blew out as well, presumeably from being driven fully laden on one tyre.
We attended it about an hour later, in the services (a few miles from where I first spotted it on the motorway).
The wheel rims were knacked, the wheel arch rovved out and the bodywork knacked. Turned a £200 job into a £2k job.
Saaamon:
Loads of heros in this thread, bet all the ones that are giving it the whole i’d change a wheel on the h/s [zb] are the same mincey little ■■■■■■ boys working for the likes of tescos/stobarts etc where your not even allowed to wipe your own arse.
don’t be sad now, I’m sure someone will teach you how to change a tyre when you grow up
As someone else said, drivers are always moaning that their not paid enough and the conditions are so bad, yet these same people are the ones who will happly live in a low roof CF and change a tyre on the H/S, now what the ■■■■ is that all about! On an ind. estate is a completely different matter im sure most who could change a wheel would.
I spose though because this is the internet we’ve all done M/E, ran our own trucks, all run bent and told hato to ■■■■ off.
Saaamon:
Loads of heros in this thread, bet all the ones that are giving it the whole i’d change a wheel on the h/s [zb] are the same mincey little ■■■■■■ boys working for the likes of tescos/stobarts etc where your not even allowed to wipe your own arse.
don’t be sad now, I’m sure someone will teach you how to change a tyre when you grow up
I spose though because this is the internet we’ve all done M/E, ran our own trucks, all run bent and told hato to [zb] off.
Haha!! That is funny . Funny enough I heard that in the wonderful place of sainsburys waiting room today.
Hato said this but I did that. No mention of chalk though…
In the past I have changed rear hubs on the hard shoulder, when one of our tipper’s lost his rear wheels and knackered the hub, and have also changed front springs but it was always a dodgy experience. We used to have to remove the propshaft before towing as well and you had to watch where you put your feet! I suppose if VOSA and the Police can pull you onto the hard shoulder to do an inspection (including underneath) as they have done with me then changing a wheel is acceptable to them, we never carried spare wheels anyway (weight penalty) so the problem didn’t arise and we always found ATS to be very prompt in responding.
Saaamon:
I spose though because this is the internet we’ve all done M/E, ran our own trucks, all run bent and told hato to [zb] off.
Of course ,
Have you
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My Grandad used to do European multi-drop as well , there and back in 5 hours – 6 `ish if they stopped for a 45
Tip out > return empty. Sometimes he would backload shrapnel.
It was in a multy engined Wellington 3 wheeler , no night heater and no sat-nav , and no lowline bunk bed either.
Headlights were a bit zb though apparently
A lot of you lot on here seem to have a problem with foreign drivers, I can’t figure it out, just because some of them work for firms who under cut UK firms and/or ignore cabotage rules, it aint the driver’s fault, we are all doing the same (crap) job, and when we are abroad it’s us thats the foreigners, give em a break ffs, I used to get stick in the UK by a lot of drivers when driving foreign reg motors, but their attitude soon changed as soon as I gave them as good back in native English, gob [zb]s the lot of them!
That aside I can see both sides to this, fair play to the guy for the wheel change, but he was a bit of a knob for the way he went about it, once over it was the drivers job to change a wheel on the h/s as I have done in the past, and think of this, the way the job has gone where it prioritises on economy at the expense of the driver, it may just come back! , but to get back to the thread, why didn’t one of the heroes who passed him with disregard , or swerved to avoid him,( or even the o/p!) not ring 999 and tell them of the high chance of a Polish meat feast on the inside lane, lane one could be closed everybodys safe, job done …drivers … yeh!
. Funny enough I heard that in the wonderful place of sainsburys waiting room today.
, but to get back to the thread, why didn’t one of the heroes who passed him with disregard