Another is when they have 26 x 1 tonne dump bags full of aggregates of some description and they put that magic ratchet ■■■■■■■■ the back 2!!! And nothing else… Why bother doing that, you have not on all the others… Makes me bloody chuckle… Lazy ■■■■■■
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This was back in the mid 90s when marshals used subies and I worked for this guy who had bought an old Marshall flat crane trailer off them there new ones had sides on 
Andy Hulse Transport, their drivers are good at it… Got it of to a tee, some even go further with no straps… It’s that ’ it will not happen to me attitude’
James
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overdrive:
nets didnt help me …had a trailer load of block pavers on that had already been craned on and off another truck from marshalls in halifax and delivered to marshalls at ramsbottom ,i craned them on to my truck and all the packs were very sloppy cause the banding had worked loose. i took them to liverpool but had to keep stopping to straighten them up.when i got to the housing site the foreman told me were he wanted them and i was mightely relived to get them all off …in one piece. on further inspection it turned out they were the wrong colour and had to go back. i straightend them up best i could but by this time the bandings were useless threw on my net and set off back to ramsbottom. i went via the east lancs instead of m62 so i could keep stopping to straighten the packs. all was going well till i was in some roadworks down to one lane the outside one for about 3 miles and to my horror i looked in the mirror and saw a pack starting to lean. there was nothing i could do and as though in slow motion they all started falling off. i stopped as soon as i got through the roadworks a guy in a van slowed down to tell me bricks were falling of my truck and what a so and so i was. i quickly straightend them up again and got going before the police arrived. that was the longest most awfull journey back to depot i have ever done …the nets didnt help me
Yeah that’s not good… When I done marshals I use to sheet and ratchet… A bit over the top I was… But kept them on… More luck than judgement…
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Somebody lost his load at Thrapston today…
wasn,t me…we have sides on ours but they do still move around especially when it was icy last december…
Saaamon:
Dont marshalls normally use dropsides?
See my post above.
Ken.
Quinny:
Saaamon:
Dont marshalls normally use dropsides?See my post above.
Ken.
It just sounded like he was pulling a flat, thats why i asked because the marshalls lorries that come into my work have either normal metal dropsides or curtain type dropsides.
Saaamon:
Quinny:
Saaamon:
Dont marshalls normally use dropsides?See my post above.
Ken.
It just sounded like he was pulling a flat, thats why i asked because the marshalls lorries that come into my work have either normal metal dropsides or curtain type dropsides.
Yes it was a flat with crane in the middle
The only time Marshalls use flats, is when they’re on Delta Block work, which they’ve just got rid of.
On normal brick and block, it’d metal sided trailers. Or at least the one I had today was…
However. They’re new 11 plate Daf CF drawbars, have soft sides, like a curtainside trailer, but a 1/3rd of the size. An accident waiting to happen.
Ken.
Quinny:
The only time Marshalls use flats, is when they’re on Delta Block work, which they’ve just got rid of.On normal brick and block, it’d metal sided trailers. Or at least the one I had today was…
However. They’re new 11 plate Daf CF drawbars, have soft sides, like a curtainside trailer, but a 1/3rd of the size. An accident waiting to happen.
Ken.
Why have they started using them sides? It cant be for weight, so assume it must be to cut cost. Me personally i’d be strapping them blocks down if i had them soft sides, as much as most packs of bricks stay where they are theres still a chance.
Sometimes a net isnt used at all 
Thats an all to common site, skip lorries with out a net on. No wonder why the public look at us lorry drivers like we’ve just crawled out of a sewer.
BIGRIG:
0Sometimes a net isnt used at all
If I was driving that, I’d tip some of that off-it’s above the loadline. Mind you, the load does have reinforcing wire in it; the reason I sometimes don’t sheet rubble as it rips the sheet to pieces if the load slips or sheet catches the wind. I do try to hose the load down where possible though to reduce dust…
Saaamon:
Quinny:
The only time Marshalls use flats, is when they’re on Delta Block work, which they’ve just got rid of.On normal brick and block, it’d metal sided trailers. Or at least the one I had today was…
However. They’re new 11 plate Daf CF drawbars, have soft sides, like a curtainside trailer, but a 1/3rd of the size. An accident waiting to happen.
Ken.
Why have they started using them sides? It cant be for weight, so assume it must be to cut cost. Me personally i’d be strapping them blocks down if i had them soft sides, as much as most packs of bricks stay where they are theres still a chance.
a lot of the reason is weight savin metal drop sides add bt a tonne to an unloaded trl/youre right those curtains will stop the odd brick but wont stop a pack same goes for the metal drpopsides wt eva happended to securing the load to the bed of the vechile buy more than its own force
Photoman1:
Another is when they have 26 x 1 tonne dump bags full of aggregates of some description and they put that magic ratchet ■■■■■■■■ the back 2!!! And nothing else… Why bother doing that, you have not on all the others… Makes me bloody chuckle… Lazy [zb]…
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why only 26 bags?
Quinny:
The only time Marshalls use flats, is when they’re on Delta Block work, which they’ve just got rid of.On normal brick and block, it’d metal sided trailers. Or at least the one I had today was…
However. They’re new 11 plate Daf CF drawbars, have soft sides, like a curtainside trailer, but a 1/3rd of the size. An accident waiting to happen.
Ken.
No mate back in the early 90s all Marshall trailers were flats… No sides to be seen certainly no drawbar outfits