This is mean’t as a humorous post, so nobody get their knickers in a twist
Having seen quite a few scaffolding trucks over the years, driving past, in traffic, or parked at the side of the road, It’s led to me posing ten questions.
Why do at least one, if not all of the three man crew in the truck, have their shirts off, even in winter?
Why is a week’s worth (or maybe it’s a day’s worth) of empty Ginster pie packets, crisp packets, copies of The Sun or the Daily Star and Lucozade bottles lying at the bottom of the windscreen?
Why does the average scaffold truck look like the rustiest old nail on the road, with tie wrapped mudguards and light housings, a mixture of tyres from Korea, China and Bulgaria, and a poor old teddy bear lashed to the radiator grill?
Why is the scaffolders preferred jewellery a heavy gold or silver chain, and some sovereign rings?
How long does it take the driver to perfect the art of driving with his elbows, while making a roll up and sticking it behind his ear?
What do all the tribal tattoos mean?
Why, the second they see a bit of skirt on the pavement, are they banging on the horn and shouting " Wheeeeeeyyyyy, alright love?" through the window, even if the bit of skirt in question is rougher than a badgers arse?
Why do they come to the conclusion that “well, she must be a dyke innit” if the bit of skirt doesn’t return a smile and a cheery wave?
Why is their preferred drink Irn Bru?
If the company gets a new truck, how long does it take to get it looking like an authentic scaffold lorry as described in question 3?
a. One year
b. One month
c. One week
d. One day
If anybody on here is, or has been a scaffolder in the past, perhaps you can take us behind the scenes of their mysterious world?
citycat:
This is mean’t as a humorous post, so nobody get their knickers in a twist
Having seen quite a few scaffolding trucks over the years, driving past, in traffic, or parked at the side of the road, It’s led to me posing ten questions.
Why do at least one, if not all of the three man crew in the truck, have their shirts off, even in winter?
Why is a week’s worth (or maybe it’s a day’s worth) of empty Ginster pie packets, crisp packets, copies of The Sun or the Daily Star and Lucozade bottles lying at the bottom of the windscreen?
Why does the average scaffold truck look like the rustiest old nail on the road, with tie wrapped mudguards and light housings, a mixture of tyres from Korea, China and Bulgaria, and a poor old teddy bear lashed to the radiator grill?
Why is the scaffolders preferred jewellery a heavy gold or silver chain, and some sovereign rings?
How long does it take the driver to perfect the art of driving with his elbows, while making a roll up and sticking it behind his ear?
What do all the tribal tattoos mean?
Why, the second they see a bit of skirt on the pavement, are they banging on the horn and shouting " Wheeeeeeyyyyy, alright love?" through the window, even if the bit of skirt in question is rougher than a badgers arse?
Why do they come to the conclusion that “well, she must be a dyke innit” if the bit of skirt doesn’t return a smile and a cheery wave?
Why is their preferred drink Irn Bru?
If the company gets a new truck, how long does it take to get it looking like an authentic scaffold lorry as described in question 3?
a. One year
b. One month
c. One week
d. One day
If anybody on here is, or has been a scaffolder in the past, perhaps you can take us behind the scenes of their mysterious world?
I drove a scaffold and shuttering amongst other building stuff wagon and more or less the only bit you’ve got right is the state of the piece of zb Ford D series they gave me to drive.Having been used by everyone who’d driven it through its sorry life as a rubbish bin on the basis of it’s a heap so treat it like one.A bit like most of the council trucks I drove.
While as I’ve said elsewhere it was just me no crew to help load it and tip it and then to add insult to injury also being regarded as a building site labourer even before loading it or after tipping it.Having been lumbered with the job as a ‘class 1’ agency driver.
New truck in scaffolders terms means 55 reg Iveco (company wont invest in digital kit), was originally 12t MGW but only two blokes could drive it. So, company downrate it to 7.5t “because you can drive it on a car licence” and load it right up so it resembles a Greenham Common cruise missile launcher. Then, park illegally where it will attract attention, and just plead ignorance of the law when taken to a weighbridge.
most of them your bang on . also having them in surounding yard is also a nightmare . we have two next to our yard which also has some plush flats around too one lot make a right racket loading till about 10 at nite and had a lot of hassle to shut them up (they have never moaned about us so not nimbeys) and the other started spraying the ends of the bars and woods in the middle of there yard covering all our cars in bright yellow paint ( in fairness to them they did get all our cars sorted properly)
citycat:
This is mean’t as a humorous post, so nobody get their knickers in a twist
Having seen quite a few scaffolding trucks over the years, driving past, in traffic, or parked at the side of the road, It’s led to me posing ten questions.
Why do at least one, if not all of the three man crew in the truck, have their shirts off, even in winter?
Why is a week’s worth (or maybe it’s a day’s worth) of empty Ginster pie packets, crisp packets, copies of The Sun or the Daily Star and Lucozade bottles lying at the bottom of the windscreen?
Why does the average scaffold truck look like the rustiest old nail on the road, with tie wrapped mudguards and light housings, a mixture of tyres from Korea, China and Bulgaria, and a poor old teddy bear lashed to the radiator grill?
Why is the scaffolders preferred jewellery a heavy gold or silver chain, and some sovereign rings?
How long does it take the driver to perfect the art of driving with his elbows, while making a roll up and sticking it behind his ear?
What do all the tribal tattoos mean?
Why, the second they see a bit of skirt on the pavement, are they banging on the horn and shouting " Wheeeeeeyyyyy, alright love?" through the window, even if the bit of skirt in question is rougher than a badgers arse?
Why do they come to the conclusion that “well, she must be a dyke innit” if the bit of skirt doesn’t return a smile and a cheery wave?
Why is their preferred drink Irn Bru?
If the company gets a new truck, how long does it take to get it looking like an authentic scaffold lorry as described in question 3?
a. One year
b. One month
c. One week
d. One day
If anybody on here is, or has been a scaffolder in the past, perhaps you can take us behind the scenes of their mysterious world?
Perhaps it’s a secret training ground for agency drivers?
Or two years of old analogue tachos in the bottom of the windscreen, record keeping , what is that ?
Long tubes sticking out the back with no warning .In the morning, you will see the passenger and the guy sat in the middle crew seat fast asleep wearing a hoody top, they look like they have partied until six in the morning, have one hours sleep and go to work.
Black smoke out of the exhaust pipe, if it is fitted or not.
toby1234abc:
Or two years of old analogue tachos in the bottom of the windscreen, record keeping , what is that ?
Long tubes sticking out the back with no warning .In the morning, you will see the passenger and the guy sat in the middle crew seat fast asleep wearing a hoody top, they look like they have partied until six in the morning, have one hours sleep and go to work.
Black smoke out of the exhaust pipe, if it is fitted or not.
That’ll be right, lefthand half of the windscreen obliterated by cheap trainer footprints. Must have as much crap and bodies in the cab to try to get the front (slick) tyres to grip. Summer and winter the cab windows are always wound down, lets the Ginster/Monster/Redbull/IrnBru gas release go to atmosphere.
toby1234abc:
In the morning, you will see the passenger and the guy sat in the middle crew seat fast asleep wearing a hoody top, they look like they have partied until six in the morning, have one hours sleep and go to work
and load it right up so it resembles a Greenham Common cruise missile launcher. Then, park illegally where it will attract attention, and just plead ignorance of the law when taken to a weighbridge.
a boat was sunk and they said “thousands of pounds of scaffolding equipment saved”