Last night I was having a night out at southwaite services on my way back down from dundee. Was parked up with another driver from our company and we were sat watching a DVD in my motor. Film was “A Dirty shame”, with tracy ullman and Johnny knoxville, had to rate as one on the weirdest, funniset, yet totally rubbish film i’ve ever seen 
. Anyway film finished, started tidying cab ready for sleep, put rubbish in nearby bin, then noticed the other driver had left some of his stuff on the dash. Opened passenger door, climbed up what I thought was the first step, grabbed items, so both hands full, stepped back and…flat on my back on the tarmac. so today, due to various back/nerve problems i drive back dosed up on pain killers, hardly able to move. Tomorrow was pencilled in as a maintenance day round at yard, just rang the gaffer to tell him i won’t be in. still don’t know how I done it, I can only assume i was one step higher than i thought.
So what daft things have you done?
dean36014:
Last night I was having a night out at southwaite services on my way back down from dundee. Was parked up with another driver from our company and we were sat watching a DVD in my motor. Film was “A Dirty shame”, with tracy ullman and Johnny knoxville, had to rate as one on the weirdest, funniset, yet totally rubbish film i’ve ever seen
So what daft things have you done?
Exactly the same as you 
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Stupid mistakes??
Pulled out in front of a truck on a single carriageway. He was quite a way back, and if he’d only been doing 30mph as per the limit for the village it would have been ok. By the time he reached me I had already been at 30mph for about 10 seconds, but he still felt the need to sharply swerve to overtake me!? My fault or his? Either way, pretty silly mistake to attempt to pull out from a layby in front of a truck…
I’ve stepped back off a trucks deck in the past and “mislaid” the bottom step, or just slipped on something as well.
However. When you’re flat on your back at least you have a chance to think about the view… such as, is it worth cleaning under the wheel arch, and is that cloud shaped like a bus or a ups van 
Have a days rest. Take it easy. If it gets any worse you might want to pop into see your doctor…
Fell off one of them old fashioned loading docks, the ones that are open and look like a rail platform,
I was wearing rigger boots and as I went upsidedown the top of the boot gets caught in the steel work and I left hanging upside down with nobody round to help or laugh at me which was more likely.
I’ve done the opposite. Got used to driving trucks with three steps, and then started using trucks with two steps. Climbed down expecting another step and jarred my leg into the ground.
Another time, eveningtime in an old Scania rigid. On the motorway and it start to get chilly, so I reach up to shut the roof vent. I forgets that the vehicle does not have a roof deflector and the vent slams shut trapping my fingers. Painful. Also, I’m now so far out of my seat that I can’t reach any of the pedals.
driving around the m60 on wednesday chuging along at 56 mph in the middle lane just before the railway bridge at stockport with the window open when i heard this little ■■■■ noise.
lent back in my seat and bang a sharp pain shot up my spine. it was a [zb] wasp that had bounced off the door and landed between me and seat. i was in absolute agony but managed to keep it in a straigt line and managed to pull on the hard shoulder just after the junction for ten minutes to get my breath back.
kicked the little [zb] out on to the hard shoulder (it was still alive but a little dazed) and continued on .luckilyu i have been stung many times before so no worry about annafalatic shock(spelling).
all day today i had back ache
so the moral of the story is get a truck with air con then you don’t need the window undone 
jon
Hmm.
Got crushed between two 7.5t trucks at work, had an arm ripped out of socket by the curtainsider and broke my glasses in one fell swoop… 
Here’s one that happened to me today…
Delivering to one of our customers stores in York,driving an 18t rigid for a change,and as I was pulling a pallet to the tailift at the back,I swung the pallet round,and promptly fell off the tailift.
Luckily,as I was falling towards the floor,on my back,I manged to twist my body,and land on my left ankle,and left buttock.
Been to hospital,and fortunately,nothing is broken,but I’m very bruised. 
Ken.
Quinny:
Here’s one that happened to me today…Delivering to one of our customers stores in York,driving an 18t rigid for a change,and as I was pulling a pallet to the tailift at the back,I swung the pallet round,and promptly fell off the tailift.
Luckily,as I was falling towards the floor,on my back,I manged to twist my body,and land on my left ankle,and left buttock.
Been to hospital,and fortunately,nothing is broken,but I’m very bruised.
Ken.
Clumsy [zb] 
Thanks for that vote of symapthy Rob.
Are you sure your not my manager in disguise?
Ken.
Stepped onto the tail lift backwards and quickly found out that id lowered it and forgot, broke one ankle and dislicated the other…WOOHOO 6 weeks off
Quinny:
Here’s one that happened to me today…Luckily,as I was falling towards the floor,on my back,I manged to twist my body,and land on my left ankle,and left buttock.
Ken.
That’s a bum deal, Quinny. 
Jumped out of the Tractair (Like a tractor but with a bucket on the front and a aircompressor on the back)ignoring the next to useless steps… when I didnt reach the ground as quickly as usual I had a sudden revelation… or two,
the first was the memory that I had some how pushed out of my mind ,that I had just driven this particular tractair up onto the neck of the lowloader
the second was that this was going to hurt. 
One broken wrist and wrenched knee later…
Rikki-UK:
the second was that this was going to hurt.One broken wrist and wrenched knee later…
Did you swear??
If you didn’t that was remarkably restrained of you… 
Did you swear??
NO…
I was too busy whimpering gently
Rikki-UK:
Did you swear??
NO…
I was too busy whimpering gently
I swore quite a lot with mine 
Alas I was in the middle of the town centre at the time
Still, the ambulance crew were able to find my arm after a brief search
Did the ambulance crew give you that smelly gas stuff for the pain… I could get hooked on that…
Rikki-UK:
Did you swear??
NO…
I was too busy whimpering gently
I reckon you might have said something like “Oh Blow that smarts some what”
as to prove the usefulness of safety gear sometimes - been wearing hard hats for years and never even so much as brushed me head on anything…
then on a site a few years back (rikki, remember seabank?) i’d been up 150’ in the air on top of a new boilerhouse, and to look down safely without losing me hardhat i’d tightened the headband right up
an hour later down on the ground i was walking past an extendible trailer and just though to loosen the headband, walked around the back of the trailer while taking it off and ■■■■ straight into a large RSJ with my forehead which a) floored me, b) hurt quite a lot, and c) gave everyone else a great laugh 
rikki, remember seabank
How could I forget
gave everyone else a great laugh
You kept that quiet… I wouldnt have laughed… much
I have done something similar… ran around the back of a load of fabricated steel, completly forgetting bout the overhang, I still have the matching scars on my nose and forehead the wiidth of a steel beam apart
Cue another episode of non macho whimpering
muckles:
Rikki-UK:
Did you swear??
NO…
I was too busy whimpering gently
I reckon you might have said something like “Oh Blow that smarts some what”
No, he would have said [zb]