came over on the ferry from belfast and lifted a ducato campervan in widnes wed night,
loaded it up with camper furniture and headed up the M6.
got to southwaite and the engine dumped its guts and blew itself to bits so called the rac,
an hour later,im lifted onto the back of the slideback recovery truck,and due to covid,we cant go into the cab with the driver,but have to sit in the van thats now strapped on top of the slider.
head up to gretna and swap trucks to head for the ferry at cairnryan,
also due to covid,the rac lay on a taxi to take us,as the van heads off on the truck as we also cant travel with that driver in a big truck cab,but can squeeze into a taxi half the size.
we all get to the ferry,i get towed on and off by stena,then loaded onto another recovery truck to take the van to the garage whilst we get another free taxi home.
all in all we had a sleepless night,but they must have spent around £800 recovering us,so fair play and money on membership well spent.
i was well amused that it was ok to piggyback us still in the cab and drive us up the motorway whereas 4 month ago,if you had asked to be piggybacked,every h&s rule would have been flung at us as to how ridiculous and dangerous that thought might be.
anyone else with a h&s turnround of rules to suit the occasion?
ps.attention boss hogg…i was talking to one of your fellow wombles in attendance around 1.a.m. and asked if he knew you,but to no avail.
if you find out who he is,then you can tell him he missed the chance of getting my autograph… 
dieseldog999:
anyone else with a h&s turnround of rules to suit the occasion?
Just finished my 4 on. I’ve tipped at 3 places this week where not only have I been able to sit in the cab, but I’ve not been required to hand my keys in either. At one of these, when I went to hand my keys in I got barked at “no you keep them” 
ezydriver:
dieseldog999:
anyone else with a h&s turnround of rules to suit the occasion?
Just finished my 4 on. I’ve tipped at 3 places this week where not only have I been able to sit in the cab, but I’ve not been required to hand my keys in either. At one of these, when I went to hand my keys in I got barked at “no you keep them”
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i wonder how long itl take for the rule reversal back to health and insanity levels once the restrictions end?
did you have to stay in your vehicle on the ferry dd? Wightlink order us to stay in our trucks…unless there is a DG on board(usually a petrol tanker),then we MUST go up to the decks.
carryfast-yeti:
did you have to stay in your vehicle on the ferry dd? Wightlink order us to stay in our trucks…unless there is a DG on board(usually a petrol tanker),then we MUST go up to the decks.
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nope when your on the ferry as a non truckie,then they actually treat you like a human being.
recovered onto the recovery truck and sat in the van 12 feet off the ground,…stuck into a taxi from gretna to cairnryan because your not allowed to sit in the crewcab recovery truck cos of covid.
the logic of this escapes me when the recovery cab is 4 times larger than a taxi where your 2 feet instead of 2 yards away from the driver.
onto the ferry,walk upstairs,none of the staff/crew/recovery drivers/taxi drivers were wearing gloves or masks,1 person in 50 passengers wearing gloves or masks,it was the same going on the birkenhead ferry on the way out.
nobody really gives a toss.
i would imagine they would turn a blind eye to cabbing it during this time anyway,but if i was in a truck doing a crossing,thats where id be hiding as normal for a cpl hours kip.
all of a sudden,all the h&s crap rules get reversed to suit the big player.
I see my local council allowed three to four crew inside the cab of the dustbin lorries , in lock down days , no social distance inside their cab , no face covering or masks unless the blokes were all living together .