only 8 out o ten larry , you didn’t get the envelope tight enough over the headboard . blame it on the shunters eh .
greek:
None of you been in Amex at Newburn with sheet & coiled steel then,every load sighned wet NO MATTER HOW MANY SHEETS YOU HAD ON IT
Greek… You need to cover the floor, before loading, and the load with waterproof paper before rolling out your sheets.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Heres a one for Dennis. Regards Larry.0
Now that is a “fly sheet and a half” Larry if ever I saw one,how much did it “set you back” £££ 
Cheers Dennis.
gingerfold:
I cannot recall any “wet” claims with countless sheeted loads of soap powder, flour, paper etc. but can remember several “wet” claims with curtainsiders, even one as recently as December 2013. Progress eh.
Over the years we did get the odd “spurious” claim,not off our main paper mill customers I hasten to add,but we just refused point blank to entertain any of them as we always had decent gear and our drivers were “drilled” about flagging up any problems with our traffic office.One of the most blatent claims we received was from Nestles when the Milnthorpe factory stopped making Rice puddings and the last 70 odd ton of bagged rice was sent to Littleover Transport for storage for the nearby Nestle factory that was continuing to produce Rice pudding.Well Nestles own Transport Services did one load and we did the other two,guess what,we got a claim for a wet load !! But we had two good lads on the job who had got clear signatures and neither of our two loads were wet.When we rang Littleover Transport their warehouse lad came straight out with it “the only wet load was Nestles own load” which had been shunted about from pillar to post on their “magic roundabout” trunk operation for a week and in the process had been re-roped a number of times as their drivers apparently got a bonus for each roping and sheeting job they did(they never used fly sheets),plus they carried their own set of ropes 
Their sheets were absolute ■■■■■ as well so the paper bags of rice stood no chance in the weather Needless to say the claim was slung out but they did “try it on”.Cheers Bewick.
ddrbsn:
greek:
None of you been in Amex at Newburn with sheet & coiled steel then,every load sighned wet NO MATTER HOW MANY SHEETS YOU HAD ON ITGreek… You need to cover the floor, before loading, and the load with waterproof paper before rolling out your sheets.
Aye forgot to mention that waterproof wrapping paper I think thats why they have there own Fleet now no bugger else would work for them 
Bewick:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Heres a one for Dennis. Regards Larry.0Now that is a “fly sheet and a half” Larry if ever I saw one,how much did it “set you back” £££
Well Dennis IIRC, It was £120.00 PLUS vat, This was 1985/86ish
Good day All
Hope these couple of Tarped trailers meet with your approval.[In Auss its called Tarping as against Sheeting your way ]
Cheers Dave
i think i will have to give it my tacit approval , sight unseen dig . bloody hell i would need a taxi to get to the other end to check it , cheers , dave
rigsby:
i think i will have to give it my tacit approval , sight unseen dig . bloody hell i would need a taxi to get to the other end to check it , cheers , dave
That would be fun going down the Via Gellia with Dave, could have some problems on Slinter Corner though…
Pete.
probably shift a few of those cars parked down by the garage as well pete . trouble is it wouldn’t fit on the woodside if you wanted to stop for a brew either . one trailer was always enough for me , as long as it earned a decent wage . cheers , dave
rigsby:
probably shift a few of those cars parked down by the garage as well pete . trouble is it wouldn’t fit on the woodside if you wanted to stop for a brew either . one trailer was always enough for me , as long as it earned a decent wage . cheers , dave
Well I managed fine with no trailer’s Dave…
Pete.
Thanks men although I feel your trying to lead me astray in some foreign land but strangely enough it will usually go where you want it to if you press hard enough on the right hand pedal, and I couldn’t agree more one trailer is heaps unfortunately road trains are a way of life over here and the more trailers the cheaper the rates.The writing was on the wall when we started pulling oversize loads on 2 trailer road trains.
Cheers Dave
One from the archives. Comments invited please.
gingerfold:
One from the archives. Comments invited please.0
Very tidy sheeting IMO, but also very rare on 5 axles on a E reg Leyland in those days, Regards Larry.
gingerfold:
One from the archives. Comments invited please.0
hiya,
Just one fault there should have been a rope across the top of the headboard
there would have been a bit of sheet flap without a rope in that position that
rope was always put on after the front cross and it took all the looseness out
of the sheet where it would have been visible in the mirrors it also stopped
water ingress when giving the old girl big licks down the motorway.
thanks harry, long retired.
gingerfold:
I cannot recall any “wet” claims with countless sheeted loads of soap powder, flour, paper etc. but can remember several “wet” claims with curtainsiders, even one as recently as December 2013. Progress eh.
Given the amount of defected trailers and reports of wet stock over the last few weeks I’m suprised there are any working curtainsiders left.
Lawrence Dunbar:
gingerfold:
One from the archives. Comments invited please.0
Very tidy sheeting IMO, but also very rare on 5 axles on a E reg Leyland in those days, Regards Larry.
Tidy but would have looked a lot better with a rope BETWEEN every reel,would have tightened the sheets even more,just my humble opinion.
greek:
ddrbsn:
greek:
None of you been in Amex at Newburn with sheet & coiled steel then,every load sighned wet NO MATTER HOW MANY SHEETS YOU HAD ON ITGreek… You need to cover the floor, before loading, and the load with waterproof paper before rolling out your sheets.
Aye forgot to mention that waterproof wrapping paper I think thats why they have there own Fleet now no bugger else would work for them
You’re quite right we delivered literally hundreds of loads of coil to Ashman, Aztec, Amerex, Amex or whatever Mr. Holman was calling himself that week, all from Shotton and every one was signed as wet, even in mid summer, but interestingly he never once even attempted a claim. When talking to management at Shotton about it they said that he did try to use it as a lever for more discount. The best of it was though that 90% of what they bought was downgrade quality to begin with.
I do have to say that I always found Eddie Holman a personable and reasonable man and when we did the very occassional load for hm he paid a decent rate on time. But the stories that can be told of his tricks…
We had a claim in early December last year with a load of steel bar on a flat from Hull to Willenhall. Driver had sheeted it at Hull as told to do, got to the delivery 4.00 pm ish, told he would be tipped so unsheeted then told no it would be 7.00 o’clock next morning, so driver didn’t re-sheet and it rained during the night. 75% of load rejected as wet and sent back to Hull. Insurance claim submitted under our GIT and the assessor reported back to me last week. There will not be a claim paid out, the Hull supplier has “mixed” the wet bar into other loads (good man), and it seems that the Willenhall customer is always trying it on to get a price reduction. The only problem is that we won’t get paid for transporting the load from Hull to Willenhall and back again. I don’t normally “tramp” drivers like that these days but we were a bit quiet that week. The same week another driver imploded a powder tanker so it was not a good week. The trials and tribulations of transport eh? Incidentally the driver with the wet load is a young driver, rare these days, and is a good sheeter, taught by his dad an old time driver. He admitted he messed up big time, so not much I could say to him apart from the usual.