Usually the ■■■■ flows downhill and today was no exception, except today I managed to send it back again.
My workload today was unusually quiet,first thing today it was just one job to collect a machine about 20 miles away and return to base.
Our other driver on the lowloader had two jobs today, first one was to the Olympic park at Stratford, then return to base and load a 20t excavator and dumper and take them to Wandsworth. Not the best of days 
Anyway I’d loaded my machine and was heading back when he rings me to tell me not to hang the job out as the 20t had been cancelled and the delivery was now an 8 tonner and the dumper which was a job that I’d be doing. I could almost feel the gloating that he managed to drop the Wandsworth job in my lap.
When he took a machine there before it was a squeeze under a bridge so I asked how low the bridge was, apparently it was 13’6" just high enough to squeeze a 20 tonner under if the cab guards were removed from the roof. I loaded the dumper and got the tape measure out, 13’9" and as the rollbar is fixed I declared it was too high. Ordinarily I’d have taken a spare bod with me to spot me under the bridge or at worst help unload and track the dumper underneath, today no-one was spare in the yard and it was announced that we’d be loading it on the trailer and the other driver taking it as planned.
