i sat on a bay for two weeks at netto,until one of their staff tipped me.if i wanted to work in warehouse i would have applied for a job in a warehouse.and i got paid time and ahalf 
Complete Trumpets, I guess they probably drive for Nedexco/Visbeen etc missed the Herald of Free Enterprise by one truck, same applies for the Channel Tunnel train that caught fire (again one truck away), used to drive for a Formula one Team. dated Kylie, was in the Army knows Andy McNab (Heâs a Knob), Met Eddie Stobart (was offered a job but turned it down) etc
Best way is to nod agreeingly or turn your back and ignore (quite difficult in the waiting area at Tesco Peterborough)
oldsâkool:
Complete Trumpets, I guess they probably drive for Nedexco/Visbeen etc missed the Herald of Free Enterprise by one truck, same applies for the Channel Tunnel train that caught fire (again one truck away), used to drive for a Formula one Team. dated Kylie, was in the Army knows Andy McNab (Heâs a Knob), Met Eddie Stobart (was offered a job but turned it down) etcBest way is to nod agreeingly or turn your back and ignore (quite difficult in the waiting area at Tesco Peterborough)
Either that or simply agree with them and question them further, they are bound to make themselves look like vulvas sooner or later 
There was a good one on the old time forum the guy posted he was not far from the yugo border when the war kicked off and he was in a service station and another brit driver popped up telling him how he was only here as he had to use the phone to recive his. Special manoeuvre orders from hereford. So the poster who wore a hearing aid said you must be low ranking as he had his orders transmitted straight to his hearing aid.
Well have heard it all, used to love listening to the idiots on the ferries/train when i was doing Euro work, their stories did one of 2 things, made me fall asleep if they were boring as â â â â or had me and other drivers choking on our meals. It usually was always the bloke who was wearing a company uniform along with at least 2 collegues and the compulsory hi-viz with said company name on it, oh and he had a mouth that made sure everyone heard his ZB! 
Heard through a friend of a friend that one of goldstars drivers phoned the vosa to enquire if it was legal to be out all week in a renault premium.
Now it could be crap but with the mentality of some drivers. Iwouldnt be surprised if it was true
re the blue lightsâŚ
they are like notches on the bedpost, the more you have the bigger bull-ZBer you are
Clarky:
they are like notches on the bedpost, the more you have the bigger bull-ZBer you are
I thought they meant you were up for a bit of man on man action lol
kr79:
Clarky:
they are like notches on the bedpost, the more you have the bigger bull-ZBer you areI thought they meant you were up for a bit of man on man action lol
LOL well that too,
kr79:
There was a good one on the old time forum the guy posted he was not far from the yugo border when the war kicked off and he was in a service station and another brit driver popped up telling him how he was only here as he had to use the phone to recive his. Special manoeuvre orders from hereford. So the poster who wore a hearing aid said you must be low ranking as he had his orders transmitted straight to his hearing aid.
Superb. PMSL.
2 young lad s got on the ferry one night along with us - you know the ones - new dealer boots and a scania / volvo jacket ( delete as required ) . Nowhere they hadnât been , couldnât reverse into , 3 trips a week to Southhampton tipp and reload Belfast every time. Half an hour later one slides up beside me - âYou donât happen to know where this is mate?â and reaches me a set of delivery notes below the table. Looks at the adress - Wincanton Trafford park .
" Sorry mate - I donât do local work "
this might be true ,but in the seventies word was that the hush puppy night trunk carried left shoes one night and right shoes the next night.it may have been true who knows.
Got to admit to one piece of BS myself.
When I was driving for Direct Line (forerunner of Parcelnet) I once told a guy in a MSA who was asking what we carried, that we carried high value cars involved in accident claims.
gotta get your entertainment where you can when youâre a driver 
jeffreyk:
this might be true ,but in the seventies word was that the hush puppy night trunk carried left shoes one night and right shoes the next night.it may have been true who knows.
That is not the first time I have heard that. my mate was bringing shoes back from Italy and he reckoned they were all handed
Just reading about how basicly if at an RDC waiting to be tipped & your running out of your 15 hours.
The solution was Drop trailer, & bugger off in the unit in the yard to take your 9hrs.
However
What if your in a rigid ?
Assuming despite your best efforts & pleading your still stuck on the bay, and outta time.
Do you :
Pull off the bay (assuming you can) regardless of how much has been tipped & head off for a break.
Lock up & shut the curtains & have the break on the bay ?
Why didnât you REPLY to the thread youâre referring to instead of starting a new topic asking questions about a thread which we canât even see because youâve cocked it all up? 
Is the REPLY button in the bottom corner really that hard to see?
One load of left shoes is true,and the other load of right fitting shoes too,Portuguese did that method.No good if stolen.Did hear rumours of drivers being tied to trees in their underpants in Italy,the wagon to be found later,with the cab contents un-touched,off course the high value load of TVs or metal was gone,and drivers that had ground up broken glass put in their eye balls,but will keep an open mind on that story.
toby1234abc:
One load of left shoes is true,and the other load of right fitting shoes too,Portuguese did that method.No good if stolen.Did hear rumours of drivers being tied to trees in their underpants in Italy,the wagon to be found later,with the cab contents un-touched,off course the high value load of TVs or metal was gone,and drivers that had ground up broken glass put in their eye balls,but will keep an open mind on that story.
Not sure of the broken glass, but I have heard that the Mafia had some good valeters, a truck was stolen from outside a restaurant, later on or next day it was returned, empty, but washed and valeted with 100,000 Lire in the ashtray
Was that right that drivers going back to Italy a few years after they had their wagon stolen,would see it again,painted up in a different colour,but they could tell it was their old wagon.
Just to pre-empt a new post, what colour chalk do the police use if you are driving a rigid and you run out of hours?
Do you have to leave your door open so the night shunter can pull you off while you sleep