Just had a bloke come into the garage moaning about “crap Mercedes Benz blah blah blah”
Whats the problem?
Steering is bloody awful, absolute crap,German rubbish
Gets in the truck turns on the ignition and the stupid pillock had been riding round all day with the diff lock engaged!!!
And they have the balls to call car drivers. yeh right
lol bit he was abit red faced.
I went into a council yard a few years ago and they were winching a brand new gully sucker onto a recovery truck. When I asked - they told me that someone had driven it from Southampton to Worcester with the PTO engaged. It had taken him six hours and the gearbox was wrecked.
One lad I knew many yrs ago got in an f88 for first time,came back moaning it was slow,on talkin g to him it was established he never engaged o/drive all day.
regards dave.
When I worked at UFD in Cambuslang, another driver phoned in to say that his truck wouldn’t go above 40mph. He had driven all the way past Beattock like this before phoning it in. Sent the mechanic from Hill Hire out to see what the problem was and it was discovered that truck was 100% fine. The driver had been driving with the variable speed limiter set at 40mph.
When I was at DHL we got a load of DAF ssc in, After a few weeks a driver was complaining that the interior lights didn’t work . He spent a fortune on stick on lights, motion sensor lights and various other lights from CDC catalogue only to discover that he had isolated the lights by knocking it with his knee!
There’s two kinds of drivers though, the ones that can do the job, and those that have a licence
When i started out, there was a guy worked with me left the yard for London with a load of hanging beef. When he got there the trailer was empty. He’d picked up the wrong van.
Words still fail me 22 years later
not so long back a rigid from the same firm i was doing the odd day for went down a ditch, i wasn’t far away so i went for a look. the wrecker had just got there. the driver was a know it all, everyone listened when he spoke.(a big fat gob[zb]).
i happened to mention if he’d applied the dif lock? he didn’t reply (quite rare for him ).
had he switched off the rear steer? again no reply.
had he lifted the rear steer? i think he pretended he couldn’t hear me.
so i got in it, started it, engaged the dif lock, locked the rear steer, then lifted the steer axle, and drove away.
then i got in my lorry and [zb]ed off.
why is this type of basic [zb] so obvious to me and not others. i’m nothing special, i’m a driver, and a driver should know this [zb].
Don’t know about anyone else but I am a Professional.
rsdc1:
When he got there the trailer was empty. He’d picked up the wrong van.
Funnily enough, last weekend a guy I work with on a particular contract turns up on Saturday morning, gets his trip sheet from the office & asks for the keys for XYZ truck, he jumps in the truck & does the briefest of walk round checks and heads out the gate. He arrives at the drop (one of her majestys hotels :wink: ) and proceeds to go through the usual security checks to enter the premises. When he opens the back of the truck, he finds that its empty. Then the penny dropped ................ hed not read the trip sheet he was given (with the basic intructions, inc vehicle reg), he`d asked for & got the keys for the wrong truck.
So he had to head back from the drop to the yard, swop trucks & head back to the drop, luckily it was only 6-7 miles away
rsdc1:
Words still fail me 22 years later
Words fail me too … stupidity still happens in this day and age.
The same guy was quick to rip into me for dropping a heavey pallet off the back of the tail lift a while ago, now wait while I see him 
Santa:
I went into a council yard a few years ago and they were winching a brand new gully sucker onto a recovery truck. When I asked - they told me that someone had driven it from Southampton to Worcester with the PTO engaged. It had taken him six hours and the gearbox was wrecked.
That would sound like a vehicle issue anyway. Every truck I’ve ever used, with a PTO, would drop the PTO as soon as the handbrake was released. Would you expect to use the sucker while mobile? 
Having said that I’m sure I’d have stopped sooner if it was so obviously not right.
The DCPC will get this sort of thing fixed,wont it?I dont understand how management can hand over the keys to the Companies reputation and assets without making certain that the driver can really use the specialised kit that we have nowadays.There has to be proper training delivered by someone who knows about the particular job in hand.
damoq:
The driver had been driving with the variable speed limiter set at 40mph.
I did that once, I pulled in & was about to call in a breakdown but messed about with the limiter & finally found out how to disengage it.
alamcculloch:
The DCPC will get this sort of thing fixed,wont it?I dont understand how management can hand over the keys to the Companies reputation and assets without making certain that the driver can really use the specialised kit that we have nowadays.There has to be proper training delivered by someone who knows about the particular job in hand.
Course it will !like the pillock who tells our drivers on their “cpc” that add blue is bovine urine or that if you lose a bulb,any bulb the dorks have to stop and call the garage till some body goes to fix it,or even that snow bars on trailer roofs are there to make them more aerodynamic!!
If they are going to waste 35 hours of everybodies time every five years then they should get somebody in who at least knows what the hell they are talking about and as for any of these “tutors” knowing how or why a diff lock operates is well unlikely shall we say.
If they are going to do a “module” on how a vehicle and its systems operate would it not be a good idea to get someone in who looks after the bloody things and knows how they operate to answer drivers questions and not someone who “once read a book”?
Thought that the wonderful “cpc” was all about giving drivers more knowledge about their job.What better way to learn than being able to ask questions that have never been explained to someone who knows the answers and can give a bit of insight.
The ProFeSSional driver who (tried to) deliver 24 pallets of beer to Tesco Invoice Address, Cardiff instead of Hatfield RDC…
albion1971:
Don’t know about anyone else but I am a Professional.
I bet you don’t get paid professional wages though? 
mkb600:
The ProFeSSional driver who (tried to) deliver 24 pallets of beer to Tesco Invoice Address, Cardiff instead of Hatfield RDC…
Had a couple of those at our place, we’ve also had a few drivers putting tacho discs in back to front .One was doing it for nearly a month and it only came to light when he had to hand the earliest ones in to the office ,ill bet that conservation was interesting
martyh:
mkb600:
The ProFeSSional driver who (tried to) deliver 24 pallets of beer to Tesco Invoice Address, Cardiff instead of Hatfield RDC…Had a couple of those at our place, we’ve also had a few drivers putting tacho discs in back to front .One was doing it for nearly a month and it only came to light when he had to hand the earliest ones in to the office ,ill bet that conservation was interesting
I think he was just being and at least could use the discs again!
I’m sure all these “Problems” will be sorted with the Dcpc! After all!! There doesn’t seem to be a requirement to have a braincell to get one.
I’m proud to be a Steering wheel attendant! 
The bloke who did my first 2 days of dcpc wasn’t even a LGV licence holder, just did a course and got accredited 
Had to put him right on a number of issues, how can we be trained by someone who knows less than us?
Give the job to retired drivers who actually KNOW things.