on its knees

I bet a lot of you have seen it in the past, the company grass comes steaming into the office with his tail wagging.

You wont believe what such and such has gone and done!!!
I think of them like ■■■■ dasterdly,s dog mutley…GIMMIE A MEDAL,GIMMIE A MEDAL.
And then as he rushes out the door to find someone else to tell, everybody makes like Gareth Hunt with the coffee bean gesture.

A grass is lower than a crapper in a submarine…On the other hand deep joy can be gained from giving them some made up titbit and hearing about how they spread it about :grimacing:

Suedehead:
Put the redline on when coupling up ONCE . . . then realise the handbrake isnt on :blush:
Why did i try jumping down from the catwalk , get in the cab to to apply the hand brake - now we must have all tried to do that instead of pulling the suzie back off !!

Done that one as well - I was the idiot that jumped off the wrong side and ran round the front - that was a very close one, good job I was wearing loose trainers :blush: :open_mouth:

dowahdiddyman:

Suedehead:

dowahdiddyman:
Never dropped one on it`s knees YET, but not so long ago pulled from underneath one with all the suzies still attached, was really embarresed cause was at a Scania dealers at the time.

The dreaded fitzzz sound then the bang on the back of the cab :laughing: - how long will they go before they snap ?

Not bloody long enough.!

And that one :laughing: It was the first time I’d ever hooked up on my own (the second time ever :unamused: ) I learned on wag and drag, so pointed this out first time I went out in an artic - they said that WILL lock into the 5th wheel - not might or won’t - will. Second time I hooked up, pulled away, turned a corner - pop, fizz, trailer rolling off in another direction and me stuck in the middle of the yard thinking WTF :laughing:

I should point out this is all in the dim and distant past - I’ve learned my lesson now :blush:

Coffeeholic:
If I got interrupted while coupling or uncoupling I started over.

dustylfc:
just a sad note really an old boy a few months from retirement,dropped a trailer on its knees today, 2 shunters couldnt wait to get over there for the linching apparently like armed guards…needless to say the old boy looks certain to lose his job, just goes to show after trucking over 30 years we are all still human and no matter how many rules and regs they bring in we are all prone to mistakes.
and i also tore my first curtain today and i too was surrounded by jobs worth shunters, but they forgot that i didnt give a toss it was a error which i had already reported but they thought they were gonna gain sum browny points off me …unlucky boys better luck next time with your ■■■ licking ways, promotion should be earned not through the cost of other mens jobs.

anyways i felt for the old guy , i bet there have been a few men on here that could tell us a story of there mistakes and accidents?

isnt there a picture somewhere ive seen a coke trailer dropped on its knees, im sure it said somewhere the driver was sacked.
me ive no problem over sacking someone for dropping a trailer on its knees if the company deem it to be a sackable offence, but that should apply to every driver , not just who isnt on the bosses xmas card list, it really grinds with me how some drivers make 1 mistake and there sacked or final written warning and others zb up big style every 5 mins and not a words said.if your going to have rules fair enough but apply them fairly.

Coffeeholic:
From then on if I got interrupted while coupling or uncoupling I started over.

I remember before the driver I do a trailer change with retired, he undid the dog clip, disconnected the lines etc but he did something that wasnt normal in dropping a trailer so I said to him “dont forget the legs”, he said he was going to do them but Im pretty sure he had forgotten :blush:
I’d rather remind him that the legs were still up and he knew rather than not remind him and watch him pull out from under it and drop it on its knees…!!

Had drivers on for me. Who couldn’t wait to drop their workmates or even divers from another company in the good old brown stuff.
I believe in Karma, so would never allow it (and when you’ve made as many mistakes as I have, you tend to learn to keep your mouth shut, in deference to those, who covered your arse in the past)

Suedehead:

dowahdiddyman:

Santa:
Last time I saw a trailer dropped on its knees - it was the shunter wot dunnit. He didn’t have air suspension either so I went and lifted it for him… Never know when you might need a favour.

He can’t be sakked just for that if his record is clean anyway.

Unfortunately he can be sacked, it`s classed as gross negligence, it happened to one of ours, it was fullyloaded and cost over 6k to put right though. Then again, ■■■■ in your cab and our mob will sack you.

Never dropped one on it`s knees YET, but not so long ago pulled from underneath one with all the suzies still attached, was really embarresed cause was at a Scania dealers at the time.

The dreaded fitzzz sound then the bang on the back of the cab :laughing: - how long will they go before they snap ?

ha ha ha i did it on the pad at seaforth docks when working shunting the containers from the railhead… but i didnt just snap suzie the bloody things came crashing through the back window of mafi shunter, everyone was out cos it was sunny they had a good laugh at my expense but it was funny they must of stretched a fair old way :laughing:

Ive havent dropped one YET!!! but there’s still plenty of time :open_mouth: but i have managed to back under a fully loaded trailer which had been parked up very high on the king pin without checking the height and i kept going and going thinking “bloody hell this is a deep pin” when BANG it hit the back of the cab :blush: :blush: i got away with just a smashed spot light but what made it worst was when i went into the office to fill out the defect book the day driver was still booking off and went mental at me :blush:

ive almost had runaway at coca cola fully loaded, connected red line and noticed the other trailer next to me was moving…until i realised it was me!! but luckily i was switched on enough to just disconnect the red, and this was all caused because i was rushing because i was under pressure but it was a lesson to take my time

Coffeeholic:
My dropping it on its knees incident happened many years ago. I was mid way through dropping a trailer and just about to wind the legs down when driver pulled into the yard and asked where the office was. I gave him the information he needed and carried on dropping the trailer, but forgot I was just about to wind the legs down, so that didn’t get done. Pulled out and BANG!. .

thats the problem if i have dropped a trailer it always because someone has interupped me and put me off, but again now i just start over again and realise ive been put off so go round and double check everything.

garnerlives:

Dunno then?:

arronls:

Coffeeholic:

dustylfc:
just a sad note really an old boy a few months from retirement,dropped a trailer on its knees today

Been there, done, that.

I’ve done it quite a few times. All when I was a shunter :stuck_out_tongue:

dustylfc:
2 shunters couldnt wait to get over there for the linching

Karma’ll get 'em eventually

I did it 2 weeks into my new job. :blush:
I’m still there. :smiley:

Happens to the best of folk :wink:

Yeah,it was down at Baumatic, Milton Park. Doing a trailer swap so luckily it was empty, :laughing:

The problem with big companies especially with the current climate is that your just a number to them and one big mistake and your out. Can’t understand people who feel the need to grass you up though, they don’t gain anything even though they think that they do, had this at a previous job any slight mistake and they’d be running to the supervisor, but they never got anything out of it and were still treated like (zb) like the rest of us.

In my current job I once pulled the pin on the trailer without the parking brake on and it rolled back tearing off the lines, boss weren’t too happy about it but as he said it’s happened to all of us and it’s a lesson learned so he left it at that.

When you’ve done it once, usually it doesn’t happen again. I just double and triple check things now when coupling/uncoupling as that’s the easiest time to damage things. Happened to me once when i’d just passed my test and pulled the pin first when uncoupling, like chap above, normally you’d get away with it but it was a tiny trailer and just rolled off the unit stopping just short of the rear fence, phew. Couple of shunters in Parcel Force Coventry came over and sorted it without a harsh word.

Can’t stand Jobsworth’s/Grassers/Backstabbers. I’d like to think most drivers aren’t like this but an awful lot are. Gossip about each other worse than washer women too. :unamused:

best I ever seen was an 8 mt container on an 8 mt skelly outside a bank in jersey channel isles unit pulled off bank employees loaded bags of old coins old 10p’s and the like couple of bods going in and out the bank puttin bags on the back and a couple of idle bums throwing em to front stood there on my lunch break watching the back tyres starting to lift, waiting for the point of no return and sure enough up it went laughed my ■■■■ off

ive not dropped a trailer yet and i dont think id laugh if somebody had it happen to them either tbh.

unlike the stobbie driver who just didnt bother to put his legs down properly.

ive missed the pin and luckily i was in a shunter so i just lifted the trailer,put the legs down more and dropped the 5th wheel then bingo sorted.

oatcake1967:
I bet a lot of you have seen it in the past, the company grass comes steaming into the office with his tail wagging.

You wont believe what such and such has gone and done!!!
I think of them like ■■■■ dasterdly,s dog mutley…GIMMIE A MEDAL,GIMMIE A MEDAL.
And then as he rushes out the door to find someone else to tell, everybody makes like Gareth Hunt with the coffee bean gesture.

A grass is lower than a crapper in a submarine…On the other hand deep joy can be gained from giving them some made up titbit and hearing about how they spread it about :grimacing:

Nicely put,those of us who’ve never screwed up have never done anything worth screwing up !!

i was once in felixstowe loading paper reels and a handburys davis driver dropped a fully loaded trailer weighing about 26 ton on its knees in front of me :exclamation: . i went over to see if i could help. he hadnt damaged the legs and was struggling with the winding handle scatching his head, i said il do the low gear on the handle you lower the cab suspension and we will work together and sort this out…

i toe’d like hell with this trailer and in the end he got the unit back under the trailer with no damage, i lowered the legs and shouted ok pull out now so he did and ■■■■■■ straight off with no thank you or nothing :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: :imp:

jessicas dad:
i was once in felixstowe loading paper reels and a handburys davis driver dropped a fully loaded trailer weighing about 26 ton on its knees in front of me :exclamation: . i went over to see if i could help. he hadnt damaged the legs and was struggling with the winding handle scatching his head, i said il do the low gear on the handle you lower the cab suspension and we will work together and sort this out…

i toe’d like hell with this trailer and in the end he got the unit back under the trailer with no damage, i lowered the legs and shouted ok pull out now so he did and ■■■■■■ straight off with no thank you or nothing :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: :imp:

he could of least bought you a cuppa the ungrateful git!!!

dustylfc:

jessicas dad:
i was once in felixstowe loading paper reels and a handburys davis driver dropped a fully loaded trailer weighing about 26 ton on its knees in front of me :exclamation: . i went over to see if i could help. he hadnt damaged the legs and was struggling with the winding handle scatching his head, i said il do the low gear on the handle you lower the cab suspension and we will work together and sort this out…

i toe’d like hell with this trailer and in the end he got the unit back under the trailer with no damage, i lowered the legs and shouted ok pull out now so he did and ■■■■■■ straight off with no thank you or nothing :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: :imp:

he could of least bought you a cuppa the ungrateful git!!!

even at the time i just laughed…what else can you do :question: :question: :question:

I’ve done it as well! :blush: :blush: :blush:
About 16 years ago, an empty skelly so wasn’t too bad, stretched the lines a lot, all over the 5th wheel so nice and greasy. Didn’t really worry about it too much as at the time I was working for that fat pig who used to run out of Manningtree!
But, until now I thought I was the only buffoon to have done it? :blush: :blush: :blush: Seen the shunters at Felixstowe/Harwich/Immingham try to do it on a regular basis, either that or smash the legs off completely! Got a full set of winding handles whilst having new legs fitted.
Never admitted this to anyone until now. :blush: :blush: :blush:
They say confession is good for the soul. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Missed the pin a couple of times where the unit has dipped into pot holes and the like, but only hit the cab once with no noticeable damage. :blush: :blush: :blush:
Feel better now I’ve owned up concience is clear. :smiley:
‘Crazytrucker’

I feel sorry for the poor bugger. I’ve never dropped a trailer, but like everyone else, I’ve done other stupid things. The most serious one that comes to mind was picking up a loaded trailer, plugging in the air and electrics, but forgetting to turn the taps on (yes, in the 60’s you could still do that on some trailers). Drove away and thought, ■■■■, this is taking some stopping. Luckily that reminded me, so no harm done.