peterm:
Come back carryfast, all is forgiven.
peterm:
Come back carryfast, all is forgiven.
I think busby has lost the plot on this thread. As Neil says, don’t matter where you’re stood, front pallets are them at the headboard and back ones are them near the doors. If you’d said to me as FLT “just these ones at the front” without pointing at them, then I’d be pulling them all off to get to them at the front. I think you must be Aussie or something as you have some ■■■■■■ up logic going on in your head.
We had a driver in our place came in to load groupage for Ireland. The yard man says, “Open both curtains and pull them to the back.”
He backs under the canopy and pulls his curtains right to the front.
Forkie arrives with the first pallet and beeps at the driver who now has his feet up in the cab. “Oy mate,” he says. “You need to pull the curtains back.”
“I did.”
“No mate - they’re at the front.”
“Effin hell - I wish you lot would make your bleedin minds up !!! etc.”
The drive exits the cab and with mucho bad temper drags his (reluctant) curtains to the back and the forkie gets an unexpected ■■■ break while he watches. (He would have helped but…)
Santa:
We had a driver in our place came in to load groupage for Ireland. The yard man says, “Open both curtains and pull them to the back.”He backs under the canopy and pulls his curtains right to the front.
Forkie arrives with the first pallet and beeps at the driver who now has his feet up in the cab. “Oy mate,” he says. “You need to pull the curtains back.”
“I did.”
“No mate - they’re at the front.”
“Effin hell - I wish you lot would make your bleedin minds up !!! etc.”
The drive exits the cab and with mucho bad temper drags his (reluctant) curtains to the back and the forkie gets an unexpected ■■■ break while he watches. (He would have helped but…)
True story or aimed at a member on here
205:
Coffeeholic:
44 Tonne Ton:
Can we just clarify something? Which end to you is the back end of the sheep?The end you get Leg of Lamb from.
But the legs are on the bottom, not the front or the back and you would only get 1 pallet on a sheep anyway so it wouldnt really matter what end he said it was on
The legs are at the top if it is a riggwelter
To, the Baa. I need a drink
Not ■■■■■■ up logic at all.
If you have a container on the floor in the corner of a yard, will the door be the front and the back wall the back or does it stay the same as door back and the front wall the front
bubsy06:
Not [zb] up logic at all.
If you have a container on the floor in the corner of a yard, will the door be the front and the back wall the back or does it stay the same as door back and the front wall the front?
I just see it like a shed, you open the door and the stuff near you is in front and stuff at the opposite end of the shed is at the back, thats all, im sure i can easily swap it around its only 2 words aint it.
bubsy06:
I just see it like a shed, you open the door and the stuff near you is in front and stuff at the opposite end of the shed is at the back, thats all, im sure i can easily swap it around its only 2 words aint it.
Can you pull forward in reverse too?
bubsy06:
I just see it like a shed, you open the door and the stuff near you is in front and stuff at the opposite end of the shed is at the back, thats all, im sure i can easily swap it around its only 2 words aint it.
A shed doesn’t have wheels on it and doesn’t spend 99% of its time going forwards, that’s what makes the difference between front and back in this scenario. You’re quite right in that if someone told you to put/get something from the front of the shed you’d expect to find it just inside the main door but we’re not on about sheds here. It’s like arguing with CF.
Ir must be a Welsh thing… however, in Bubsy’s defence, try explaining to an FLT driver who’s loading a multi-drop load, that #1 on your list is the last drop off and therefore goes on the front of the vehicle. Bet you any money you have to explain it twice if not more.
It got so bad at one point, with a warehouseman who just couldn’t get his head round it, that I resorted to giving him a numbered grid on a seperate sheet of paper; even then he screwed it up when he was loading the part pallets on top!
gnasty gnome:
Ir must be a Welsh thing… however, in Bubsy’s defence, try explaining to an FLT driver who’s loading a multi-drop load, that #1 on your list is the last drop off and therefore goes on the front of the vehicle. Bet you any money you have to explain it twice if not more.It got so bad at one point, with a warehouseman who just couldn’t get his head round it, that I resorted to giving him a numbered grid on a seperate sheet of paper; even then he screwed it up when he was loading the part pallets on top!
We did used to draw little pictures on the CMR to indicate where each load was, and we drew something that looked like a cab at the front and doors at the back, it just saved unlacing the wrong curtain, although that was in France, so they probably do it differently again
If you have something at the back of the trailer THE DOORS and you drive down the highway and slam on the brakes as hard as you can what direction will it slide. ?
Just to stir the pot a bit …
which is the front if you have a container on and the doors of the container are facing towards the cab ?
Better still - two containers on and the doors are at each end ■■
No just busby thats got a funny view on it, when you write out a load plan for our draw bar they cannae make heid nor tail of it. You have to draw a diagram of a lorry so they understand.
merc0447:
No just busby thats got a funny view on it, when you write out a load plan for our draw bar they cannae make heid nor tail of it. You have to draw a diagram of a lorry so they understand.
I blame the education system.
I am also wondering if this confusion is the reason behind those blokes who try to slip it in the ‘back door’ when they are being intimate with their female partner and then claim it was a mistake when she objects?
Rob K:
peterm:
Come back carryfast, all is forgiven.
I think I get it.Busby is saying that a 2+3 artic outfit should be loaded with around 23 t gross on the tractor unit axles and 17 t on the trailer axles or at least that’s how the fork lift driver will load it when he’s sorted out which end of the wagon is which.
waynedl:
Santa:
We had a driver in our place came in to load groupage for Ireland. The yard man says, “Open both curtains and pull them to the back.”He backs under the canopy and pulls his curtains right to the front.
Forkie arrives with the first pallet and beeps at the driver who now has his feet up in the cab. “Oy mate,” he says. “You need to pull the curtains back.”
“I did.”
“No mate - they’re at the front.”
“Effin hell - I wish you lot would make your bleedin minds up !!! etc.”
The drive exits the cab and with mucho bad temper drags his (reluctant) curtains to the back and the forkie gets an unexpected ■■■ break while he watches. (He would have helped but…)
True story or aimed at a member on here
True and he was a native Englishman so far as I could tell
bubsy06:
Not [zb] up logic at all.
If you have a container on the floor in the corner of a yard, will the door be the front and the back wall the back or does it stay the same as door back and the front wall the front
About the same logic as used by the short guy here: