I took a wrong turn on the way down to Paris near Charles de Gaulle airport in an 18t rigid and ended up driving through drop off area for passengers! Boy did I get some strange looks.
Also while over the water and again somewhere in France, I went the wrong way around a roundabout on a small industrial estate, whilst looking for my delivery point. Luckily it was quiet and no one was around!
Pwyll:
Reversing into a spot next to another truck.You feel your truck speed up so back off the throttle…
You don’t seem to be slowing down much so touch the brakes…
Panic setting in…
Standing on the brakes and still moving…
Right up to the point your brain let’s you see the truck you were watching finish driving away from you…
I did that the other day, I was parked up, doing some paperwork & I noticed to the side of my vision that I was rolling backwards [emoji33] I pressed the brake pedal as hard as I could in panic, but felt like I was still rolling backwards, then I realised, the wagon next to me was pulling away/Durrrrr, my handbrake had been on all the time. Lol.
Rob9b:
Also while over the water and again somewhere in France, I went the wrong way around a roundabout on a small industrial estate, whilst looking for my delivery point. Luckily it was quiet and no one was around!
Been there, done that, worn the T Shirt, working with a couple of Fitters/Conveyer Engineers in Frogland/Renault Factory about 20 years ago, got up one morning, had breaky, proceeded to our Transit Van & set off-‘ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD’ luckily one of the lads with me pointed out my mistake before we had to play Chicken with a Frog [emoji12]
Does anybody else play the Revving Game ?
Pull up to the front of the lights, Mr/Mrs Audi/BMW pulls up next to you & proceeds to play with their phone or tablet, give it about 20 seconds & just as they’re in mid text, Rev it up & watch them lurch forwards in panic [emoji1][emoji1][emoji1]
(I really should grow up)
I’ve posted my silly thing before on here.
Our truck wash uses recycled filtered water, but in the winter, it doesn’t filter out salt so your motor looks like it’s covered in milky ■■■■.
So what I always used to do was wait until the wash got to almost the back of the trailer, then fire up the jetwash. Get some decent soap on the unit, and I’d timed it so that even after the wash had finished, I’d have enough time left on the jet wash to rinse any residual salt of my unit.
It always coincided that as the wash was going back to its rest position, I’d be stood smack bang in front of my unit.
Every bloody time it got me. Backwards moving wash against stationary motor = appearance that truck is coming to get me.
And nearly every time it happened, the same old shunter, Dave, would be having a butty in his tug. Used to hear him howling with laughter as I jumped backwards, sideways, or wherever.
love this thread 
Priest:
love this thread
I didn’t think anyone would own up to anything. It’s turning into a Simon Mayo ‘confessions’ type thing
Nobby_Clarke:
Priest:
love this threadI didn’t think anyone would own up to anything. It’s turning into a Simon Mayo ‘confessions’ type thing
Not everyone is owning up, are they Priest? 
Most of us could write a list…
I pinged a huge metal gate off its hinges at an RM depot entrance on my first day in a Rear Steer Rigid! 
Nobby_Clarke:
Evil8Beezle:
I tried to unhitch the other day without releasing the 5th wheel!I’ve also driven through a hospital customer carpark in a rigid when trying to get to the delivery bays.
That was a bit tight!I’ve often wondered if a newbie has ever driven away with the legs up or hoses attached
Yup, snapped the suzies good and proper. Got me in the doghouse!
Chunkzilla:
Yup, snapped the suzies good and proper. Got me in the doghouse!
You’ll be in more than that if you do it twice! 
Evil8Beezle:
Most of us could write a list…
I pinged a huge metal gate off its hinges at an RM depot entrance on my first day in a Rear Steer Rigid!
Seeing as you’ve offered that one up I’ll share my finest hour:
Years ago when I was on a 7.5 tonner in tool hire,it had been raining and I couldn’t get the empty truck up the customer’s steep driveway. No problem I thought,i’ll wrap the winch-rope around the gatepost,sit in the seat with the remote,and let the handbrake off. Not being the brightest lamp in the street,it took me a while to realise the winch was going in but the truck wasn’t moving 
Evil8Beezle:
Chunkzilla:
Yup, snapped the suzies good and proper. Got me in the doghouse!You’ll be in more than that if you do it twice!
Never again mate!! And that was a few jobs ago, the job I’m doing now we tend to keep one trailer which reduces my risk factor!
Chunkzilla:
Nobby_Clarke:
Evil8Beezle:
I tried to unhitch the other day without releasing the 5th wheel!I’ve also driven through a hospital customer carpark in a rigid when trying to get to the delivery bays.
That was a bit tight!I’ve often wondered if a newbie has ever driven away with the legs up or hoses attached
Yup, snapped the suzies good and proper. Got me in the doghouse!
Remember, if you only snap one and no witnesses, then it must have got caught round the front corner when maneuvering guv… be careful mind cos one caught on a corner will only be stretched for about 1/3rd to 1/2 its length, whilst one thats been ripped out by its roots after leaving connected will be near enough straight and there is no way you’ll put a convincing coil back into it, so if you are away from the depot or your usual workshops and carry a few spanners then buy one from a factor and fit it and dispose of the old one pronto, when you produce the receipt you suddenly find yourself praised (well on a proper company) because you saved them a possible callout too… 
If you’ve ripped the lot out by the roots then its fess up time.
I’ll take this opportunity to re-iterate one of the most important principles a lorry driver can live by, and this should be writ large in your mind at all times :-
‘‘management should be treated on a need to know basis, and what they need to know is as little as possible’’
so don’t tell 'em Pike… 
Juddian:
‘‘management should be treated on a need to know basis, and what they need to know is as little as possible’’
so don’t tell 'em Pike…
Exactly, I only told my TM that I brushed the RM gate, I didn’t say it was laying on the deck after I brushed it!
Had 2 myself today.
Haven’t been out in a class 1 in ages , I mainly drive class 2 so I still see myself as a bit of a novice in class 1
Tried to back into a loading shed today. Could I get it in? Only after 20 mins of messing round.
Leaving another delivery site today, there’s a little bridge which is a see you next tuesday in a rigid never mind an artic, I go round and rather than drop it into the crawler gear, I keep it in 2nd, whilst watching the wall in start to ride on the clutch.
Bit of smokey smokey from the clutchy clutchy …oh balls. Managed to get it out, everything now seems okay.
Done