m1cks:
The “I’m not insured” line is just a load of BS trotted out by people who don’t have the intelligence to get into a discussion.
I had a scenario where I was in a shop that belonged to our local football team, so not some small little operator. My 3 year old needed the toilet. I asked to use theirs and they refused saying it was in the staff area and we wouldn’t be insured as public weren’t supposed to go downstairs.
I duly told her that she was talking bollox and that thee would be no such clause in the insurance policy. She was adamant it existed.
I then pointed out the stairs we weren’t allowed down to access the toilet were also a marked fire exit route and asked if customers had to burn in the shop while staff made good their escape if there was to be a fire.
In the end they relented, but it was all unnecessary.
Not unnecessary, imo, people don’t like the public using the toilet because some leave it in a state.
I always work on the theory that if I can get it backwards Ill get back out again. If I cant walk in ahead of the entry ill reverse it in. That way I know ill be able to get out again.
There have been a couple of times I have taken a wrong turn and had to get out of a difficult situation but you can usually find an innocent bystander to help.
If I had that manager I would have pulled the curtains and pulled the card, set the alarm for about two in the morning and waited until the road was quiet. The idiot would have offered to help after about a hour or so, just long enough to prove you are serious.
You might try flagging down a motorist yourself, explain your predicament and ask him to pull up with his hazards on. Do the same the other way and basically create your own roadblock with willing drivers.
I had just such a situation recently, but thankfully the guy in the yard had some common sense and was happy to flag down the traffic for me.
ORC:
You might try flagging down a motorist yourself, explain your predicament and ask him to pull up with his hazards on. Do the same the other way and basically create your own roadblock with willing drivers.
I had just such a situation recently, but thankfully the guy in the yard had some common sense and was happy to flag down the traffic for me.
What if the said motorist was involved in an accident trying to help you out? Or a pedestrian you asked to stand in the road to stop the traffic got run over? All because you asked them to help you get out of a sticky situation. You as a professional driver could be held liable for their injuries surely.
If I were you I would very slowly reverse out with hazards on, eventually someone may get the hint and stop to let you out.
I’ve been driving down fun snakey country roads in a car before, gone round a corner to find a huge construction lorry parked across both lanes reversing in… It’s one of those things.
Don’t involve a member of public and potentially put their lives at risk due to a mistake you could of avoided. It’s not worth the court costs.
stick yourself on break and chill for 45. Once you have let your mind take it’s weight, usually things seem a little clearer. Do let us know how you solved the puzzle.
Surprised no one has pointed out that it is illegal to reverse out on to a main road… Any accident that would happen regardless of anyone else’s behaviour would come down to being your fault for carrying out an illegal menouvre …
I never realise this was law until I was doing my driver training…
Thruxton:
Surprised no one has pointed out that it is illegal to reverse out on to a main road… Any accident that would happen regardless of anyone else’s behaviour would come down to being your fault for carrying out an illegal menouvre …
I never realise this was law until I was doing my driver training…
It’s not illegal to reverse onto a main road, the HC says “do not” do it, it doesn’t say you “must not” do it, which I know sounds pedantic but there is a difference in meaning within the HC.
Sometimes it’s unavoidable.
Also don’t forget to block the entrance when you go to look so that anyone else coming can’t get in otherwise you’ll be waiting while they get tipped or loaded .
I had the same issue last week at a metal recyclers on Trafford Park, in my rigid, you had to drive in over the weigh bridge but because of all the gubbins in the yard the only way out was reverse, the guy just apologised I had to reverse out, I said no problem he ran out stopped the traffic and I reverse back over the weigh bridge and out with a toot of my horn as a thank you.
I was more worried about catching a tyre on the edge of the stupid weigh bridge as I reversed out rather than the traffic
Its quite common for me reversing into roads
I once had to get into a place on Winwick Road Warrington for a repo, I knew it would be tight so got there early before peak hours (only 2 mins from our yard) and reversed into the location rather than cause chaos reversing in or out at peak time or any time on that flippin road
A bit of planning or just be peppered for a huge audience that get frustrated = thick skin
ORC:
You might try flagging down a motorist yourself, explain your predicament and ask him to pull up with his hazards on. Do the same the other way and basically create your own roadblock with willing drivers.
I had just such a situation recently, but thankfully the guy in the yard had some common sense and was happy to flag down the traffic for me.
What if the said motorist was involved in an accident trying to help you out? Or a pedestrian you asked to stand in the road to stop the traffic got run over? All because you asked them to help you get out of a sticky situation. You as a professional driver could be held liable for their injuries surely.
If I were you I would very slowly reverse out with hazards on, eventually someone may get the hint and stop to let you out.
I’ve been driving down fun snakey country roads in a car before, gone round a corner to find a huge construction lorry parked across both lanes reversing in… It’s one of those things.
Don’t involve a member of public and potentially put their lives at risk due to a mistake you could of avoided. It’s not worth the court costs.
So sry ppl, I didnt have internet few days, the thing and solution by ORC was als my menagers solution… but impossible to do it for a many reasons, and yes the main reason is just what nurburg340 explained so nicely. I didnt want to put in danger anybody else. I pulled my truck all the way out, just few inches from the main road, get out from the truck to count howmany cars are passing and is there any posibility to do this safely … I am prity expirienced driver and I tell u people, I called my boss again to tell him that there is no way I can gett out from here safely, also get to the factory menager again to ask him to give me somebody to help. The anwser was the same. About hard 20 minits latter(me standing on the entrance of the factory) I got out, reversing slowly and praying, thats it. I got out, and I didnt killed anybody. That was luck, about next time well gona see. Everybody who was in the situation, knows, how I felled before the manuver and after, what to say more… Good luck pppl on the road, stay safe, watch yourself and watch for the others in traffic. If there is any posibility run over factory managers in the factory circle, they are insured there, I believe?! so no worries
ORC:
You might try flagging down a motorist yourself, explain your predicament and ask him to pull up with his hazards on. Do the same the other way and basically create your own roadblock with willing drivers.
I had just such a situation recently, but thankfully the guy in the yard had some common sense and was happy to flag down the traffic for me.
What if the said motorist was involved in an accident trying to help you out? Or a pedestrian you asked to stand in the road to stop the traffic got run over? All because you asked them to help you get out of a sticky situation. You as a professional driver could be held liable for their injuries surely.
If I were you I would very slowly reverse out with hazards on, eventually someone may get the hint and stop to let you out.
I’ve been driving down fun snakey country roads in a car before, gone round a corner to find a huge construction lorry parked across both lanes reversing in… It’s one of those things.
Don’t involve a member of public and potentially put their lives at risk due to a mistake you could of avoided. It’s not worth the court costs.
So sry ppl, I didnt have internet few days, the thing and solution by ORC was als my menagers solution… but impossible to do it for a many reasons, and yes the main reason is just what nurburg340 explained so nicely. I didnt want to put in danger anybody else. I pulled my truck all the way out, just few inches from the main road, get out from the truck to count howmany cars are passing and is there any posibility to do this safely … I am prity expirienced driver and I tell u people, I called my boss again to tell him that there is no way I can gett out from here safely, also get to the factory menager again to ask him to give me somebody to help. The anwser was the same. About hard 20 minits latter(me standing on the entrance of the factory) I got out, reversing slowly and praying, thats it. I got out, and I didnt killed anybody. That was luck, about next time well gona see. Everybody who was in the situation, knows, how I felled before the manuver and after, what to say more… Good luck pppl on the road, stay safe, watch yourself and watch for the others in traffic. If there is any posibility run over factory managers in the factory circle, they are insured there, I believe?! so no worries
I guess English is not your strongest point. Just saying
I am from another country, This is the level off english I learned when I was 12. Sry for speling and other mistakes. I still believe my posts are readable ?
ORC:
You might try flagging down a motorist yourself, explain your predicament and ask him to pull up with his hazards on. Do the same the other way and basically create your own roadblock with willing drivers.
I had just such a situation recently, but thankfully the guy in the yard had some common sense and was happy to flag down the traffic for me.
What if the said motorist was involved in an accident trying to help you out? Or a pedestrian you asked to stand in the road to stop the traffic got run over? All because you asked them to help you get out of a sticky situation. You as a professional driver could be held liable for their injuries surely.
If I were you I would very slowly reverse out with hazards on, eventually someone may get the hint and stop to let you out.
I’ve been driving down fun snakey country roads in a car before, gone round a corner to find a huge construction lorry parked across both lanes reversing in… It’s one of those things.
Don’t involve a member of public and potentially put their lives at risk due to a mistake you could of avoided. It’s not worth the court costs.
So sry ppl, I didnt have internet few days, the thing and solution by ORC was als my menagers solution… but impossible to do it for a many reasons, and yes the main reason is just what nurburg340 explained so nicely. I didnt want to put in danger anybody else. I pulled my truck all the way out, just few inches from the main road, get out from the truck to count howmany cars are passing and is there any posibility to do this safely … I am prity expirienced driver and I tell u people, I called my boss again to tell him that there is no way I can gett out from here safely, also get to the factory menager again to ask him to give me somebody to help. The anwser was the same. About hard 20 minits latter(me standing on the entrance of the factory) I got out, reversing slowly and praying, thats it. I got out, and I didnt killed anybody. That was luck, about next time well gona see. Everybody who was in the situation, knows, how I felled before the manuver and after, what to say more… Good luck pppl on the road, stay safe, watch yourself and watch for the others in traffic. If there is any posibility run over factory managers in the factory circle, they are insured there, I believe?! so no worries
I guess English is not your strongest point. Just saying
I bet he has a better understanding of english than you do of his native language.
At least you can make out what he is trying to say. If you can’t make it out then the fault probably lies with your own education.
