Oh Lord, why me?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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I back onto the bay at Farmfoods at Birchwood, hand my keys in and go sit in the canteen. I’d only been sat for 5 minutes when the tannoy announces “driver on bay 12 to the office”, so I’m thinking “Jesus, these boys are really on fire today”. WRONG!!!

As I’m halfway to the office a manager stops me and asks if I’m the driver on bay 12? I confirmed I was and he then informed me that another Lorry had reversed into me and tried to pull away out of the yard but had been spotted and stopped at the gate. So I can see the other lorry sat there with his Southern Irish plates and knew straight away that he’d speak next to no English. Anyway after swapping details, taking photographs etc I decided that my offside cab corner wind deflector could actually be secured by me and my handy tube of superglue. Bad idea!

The lid was sealed shut so I decided to bite the bottom of the tube off. A quick tip here; if anyone else is tempted to do this it is vitally important not to be squeezing the tube as you bite it! I got a good half a tube over my lips and teeth and stood there trying to keep my lips apart and off my teeth whilst keeping my teeth apart, so I’m stood there grinning like a full on lunatic making strange noises when I noticed my new Hungarian/Irish best friend and a few of the managers giving me the worlds widest berth! One told me later that he thought I was going into some sort of weird frenzy building myself up to attack the other driver.

Oh the trials and tribulations of a distribution technician eh?

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So is your gob glued shut now or not?

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Duct tape and cable ties, Smiler. :smiley:

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Contraflow:
So is your gob glued shut now or not?

You’ll be pleased to know that everything is fine with my mouth apart from it feels like my teeth have been sandblasted. :smiley:

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As soon as I read you bit into the glue I started to cringe. Hope you and your truck are both on the mend now.

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You sound as clumsy as me lol :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Casper68:
As soon as I read you bit into the glue I started to cringe. Hope you and your truck are both on the mend now.

The truck has (to my untrained eye) a couple of grands worth of damage, but knowing our lot and the fact that it’s not in any way unroadworthy and despite I have cctv, witnesses and all his details no repairs will ever be made to it, and in two years when they return it to the hire Co they’ll ■■■■ and bleat about the cost of putting it right. :imp:

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Must be something in the air some one reversed into one of our new 15 plate units the other day,made a lot of mess with his trailer,was definetly undriveable afterwards partly due to the fact the drivers door wouldn’t open :open_mouth:

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Someone reversed into me in Hartshead Moor services last month. £3k of damage to my unit. A slight mark on his trailer.

His response? “Ah well, accidents happen.”

I didn’t attempt to fix it or wolf down a load of glue though.

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Say cheese

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ckm1981:
Must be something in the air some one reversed into one of our new 15 plate units the other day,made a lot of mess with his trailer,was definetly undriveable afterwards partly due to the fact the drivers door wouldn’t open :open_mouth:

Saw a 64 plate EastTrans Scania driving down the M180 with its nearside door all bashed in.

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That was really funny mate :laughing: , although maybe not for you.
I thought it was only me that sort of ■■■■ happened to :smiley:
Hope your gob is ok now. :wink:

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That was really funny mate :laughing: , although maybe not for you.
I thought it was only me that sort of ■■■■ happened to :smiley:
Hope your gob is ok now. :wink:

Edit; posted twice, fingers like ■■■■■■ sausages :blush:

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I don’t know why, but this story reminded me of American Pie. The bit where he is watching the ■■■■ film and picks up the glue by mistake, instead of the lube…

“Boss I’ve lubed the fifth wheel, but now the trailer won’t detach”… :open_mouth:

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Radar19:

ckm1981:
Must be something in the air some one reversed into one of our new 15 plate units the other day,made a lot of mess with his trailer,was definetly undriveable afterwards partly due to the fact the drivers door wouldn’t open :open_mouth:

Saw a 64 plate EastTrans Scania driving down the M180 with its nearside door all bashed in.

Ours was only on its 3rd outing,will probably spend a month in the body shop now,new everything on the n/s required pretty much.

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One told me later that he thought I was going into some sort of weird frenzy building myself up to attack the other driver.

Love this lmao! [emoji38]

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apologies up front maoster,but thanks for cheering me up,i have not laughed so much for the last few weeks,i actually used tissue to wipe the tears from my eyes,absolutely brilliant

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I had a little wee wee laughing at this story :laughing:

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I aim to please Gentlemen! My gob is just fine now apart from the funny texture of my front teeth, but I’ll live. In the other guys defence (apart from trying to drive off that is) the bay’s there are ridiculously close together, you can’t even open your door more than halfway if someone is beside you, and add in the trailers dropped in front of the bay’s the whole place is an accident waiting to happen.

Hey ho, as the late Switchlogic would say “Onward”.

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One drunken afternoon my mates front crown fell out, so he went the shop opposite the pub and bought some super glue and glued it back in, thing is when it dried it was glued to his gum well enough but also his thumb, a quick tug and there was blood everywhere and a tooth stuck to his thumb :laughing:
Your not the only glue nut :laughing: