So wheres the driver who had to drive to scotland or somewhere or other to do a trailer swap, and ended up bringing an empty one back…thought he might be on here,…funny nontheless.
dieseldog999:
The-Snowman:
ezydriver:
Security womble checked my seal, gave me the thumbs up, then I smashed through the barrier that wasn’t yet raised.Pmsl
Quality+!
ive done that 3 times in 5 years,champing at the bit for the cabbages to give me the all clear,then took the barrier with me.
Was at Teesport Asda Sunday night and guess what…the barrier was broken. Wasn’t your goodself was it? 
truckyboy:
So wheres the driver who had to drive to scotland or somewhere or other to do a trailer swap, and ended up bringing an empty one back…thought he might be on here,…funny nontheless.
Well there is a variation on that.
Two guys working for Russells in pre-mobile days did a trunk down to Lymm but started off about 20 mins or so apart. Think they were both Agency or one was a new starter, anyway they didn’t know each other.
First guy gets down to the services and knows he is doing a trailer swap so awaits a Russells truck. Sure enough 25 mins or so later a Russells truck turns up. Driver A “You the London trunk?” “Yep” “Right oh, just unhitch and I’ll couple up.” The two drivers drop their respective trailers and each couple up to the other trailer take a break and on back to Coatbridge.
On arrival back at Coatbridge they turn up at the traffic office window to be greeted by “We got a right bunch of muppetts here, haven’t we?” The two drivers look at each other “Why, whats wrong?” You were meant to do a trailer swap at Lymm? “Er yes, why, that’s what we did?”
“Yes, but not with each other!”
Priceless.
I was doing a trunk down to junction 38. Sees my trailer so spins round, backs under it, hooks up and off I go.
15 miles from the border, the phone goes.
Turns out ive seen my trailer, spun round and backed under the one next to it.
They had to let me carry on to bring the time sensitive correct trailer back up while an office bod took the correct trailer down. To say I was unpopular was an understatment 
having just passed my test (rigid) I signed up with a agency , and they sent me to local food place . so off I go night run to Brake,s at Grantham. get there ,find out which bay I’m on and slowly but steadily back up with the slightest nudge on the rubber buffers . by this time I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself, so I hand my paperwork to the guy in the warehouse and go back to the cab for a cuppa and a look at the tv on my phone. about 10 mins later theres a knock on the door , “can you open the back doors please driver” it amused the warehouse man any way .
I’m having some great laughs from this thread. Just remembered another one.
At Tilbury Docks, there is a mini roundabout in the main entrance where you can turn right or left onto the service road. I’d only been once before and turned right. On my second visit I had to go right first, drop trailer, then go across the roundabout to the other side of the docks. It was about 3am and I treated the mini roundabout like a mini roundabout and went straight over it. My head nearly went through the roof of the cab and I fair ■■■■ myself. Turns out that it’s a proper lump that you should definitely drive around!!! No damage done, except to my heart and pants!!!
Mistaken trailer numbers. Not me but same company, and “I was there”! We were pulling trailers of Sony TVs to Milan. One driver picked up the wrong trailer in Pompey docks. Should of had STS4034 and got STS4043 or similar. Got tickets and cleared onto boat. Did cursory customs checks at Le Havre, Cluses, and Aosta. Got into customs at Milano Rovigo? Checked through gate ok. Paperwork cleared but on exit the gate pass trailer number was noticed to be different to that on the trailer. So the pass was altered!
Got to the tip and all became apparent. The TVs were all French spec and not for the Italian market. Even worse the paperwork trail meant new T-forms had to be issued to get the load back and it had to go all the way back to the UK. Being a Paris job the trl was being held back in the dock for a late week quickie for someone and hadn’t been missed.
The lad who made the ■■■■ up kept his job, just, but lost his substantial mileage bonuses for ages. Another guy took that light trl back up. The guilty one had to load groupage tiles.
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Delivering steel to Sheffield (ironically).
In my first month or so of driving I was on class 2 agency for about a week and half and on the Friday morning after checking drivers roster picked up usual vehicle I’d been driving. Got to destination and owner of small steel fabrication place next to cement works said he wasn’t expecting it until Monday but would make some space. Unchained and unsheeted the wagon and started to reverse in from a tight angle. Owner was stood in doorway supposedly directing me but couldn’t really see him due to contrast of light. Got stuck on what i thought was a dip so kept trying to reverse. Turns out that I was against the doorframe and he was shouting, but I couldn’t hear him because of the noise from cement works. No real damage but he tells me to strap up and leave. Phone transport office and return. Thought that would be the end of assignment. Show photos and they say don’t worry and send me out on another run with a different vehicle. Find out later that this is what I should have been doing anyway having mis-read the roster by one line.
Anyway on Monday morning, what do I have on my route. The same delivery ( still on wagon). Nervously go down to Sheffield again. On arrival the owner gruffly says “ are you going to get it through doorway this time?” Deliver it almost perfectly. Had a bit of a laugh with owner.
Overall quite a different day…
Morals of story:-
Always double check rota
Don’t assume you will have same vehicle if you are agency.
Don’t try and reverse into a smallish doorway from an angle. Get as straight as possible as soon as possible and take a forward shunt if necessary.
Have a sense of humour, Be able to smooth things over.and don’t stress
Working out of Dagenham a few years back, looked at the deliveries and collections lined up on the desk.
6t dumper collection from Ruislip, yep know that job went there last week and saw it.
Off I pop round to Ruislip and get to site. Both me and the bod on site say at the same time “Where’s my dumper then?”
Turns out it was a delivery note and they wanted another one!
Oops
Working out of Dagenham a few years back, looked at the deliveries and collections lined up on the desk.
6t dumper collection from Ruislip, yep know that job went there last week and saw it.
Off I pop round to Ruislip and get to site. Both me and the bod on site say at the same time “Where’s my dumper then?”
Turns out it was a delivery note and they wanted another one!
Oops
Your’e not alone 8wheels. I used to work with a driver called simple Simon. Among his many adventures (like locking the keys in the truck and going to Rainham in Kent instead of Rainham in Essex),the gaffer gave him a delivery note. A few minutes later he went past the window towards the gate empty. And the gaffer shouting WHERE THE [zb]'s HE GOING!
Heading for Steel, Peach and Tozer in Rotherham with an open top container with scrap in, I swung in left through one of those arches and had a momentary thought, ‘that looks a bit low’.
Still, been here before so must be ok. Got through the entrance no problem but as I emerged the other side there was an enormous bang. Carried on a bit and parked to one side and got out, still mystified.
There were offices above the arch, all the plate glass seemed to be broken and the place was wreathed in steam. Worse, there were half a dozen screaming females running away across the yard.
I’d hit the arch and the steam pipes that ran in front of it but for the life of me couldn’t work out why. Took quite a while to dawn, after much protestations of innocence along the lines of ‘must have resurfaced the road, or something’, then remembered that each time before I’d had a 40 foot flat through there, not a box.
Years ago before phones had photo and pic as standard I had a trailer to pick up. I found it and it was between other trailers 3 deep, easy really reverse between trailers and couple up. I reversed up to trailer and heard the click click, 2 tugs all ok then tried to open the door Couldn’t get out, tried passenger door no chance…pipped horn for what seemed like an eternity then someone appeared, thank god. Did he help, eventually yes but not before shouting every shunter to look and laugh.
That was lesson 1 for ALWAYS THINK OF ESCAPE ROUTE! I did learn and never since put myself in a position I can’t get out of. Everyone laughed to my embarrassment but it was all in good banter.
Taking the unit keys home, then having to drive them back, adding another hour if driving to my knackering day…
…I only did it once.
peirre:
While shunting a trailer full of wheelie bins from the factory to the warehouse, I spun the wagon around in a tight spot and the T bar on the trailer hooked the chain link fence and before I knew it I’d torn 200m+ of chain link fence off its posts and dragged it down the yardId he’s not mention the numerous car wing mirrors that have been destroyed over the years doing urban work
That reminds me of my chainlink episode. I was doing a bit of tight reversing with a wagon and drag, and the n/s corner marker poked through a link. I drove off with 20 odd yards of 6 foot high chain link behind me. When I eventually decided that the frantic flashings by other motorists meant I had a problem, I discovered that it had dragged behing me like a veil! I just disconnected it and threw it on the verge, it was there for months.
Used to be on potatoes on self unloading trailers. New bloke supposed to pick up an empty drive to Hereford, load, and bring back to Grantham. Took a full trailer to Hereford pulled back sheet and had a lovely surprise.
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slowlane:
The-Snowman:
Not my mistake but funny none the less.
A shunter at Tesco Livingston rdc came barrelling over one night and began going off on one about me parking an empty in the area for ones loaded with cages. After hed finished ignoring me telling him I wasnt a mind reader, he stormed off, jumped in his shunt truck, gave it full revs, released the handbrake and shot off.
Unfortunately for him he hadnt put it in reverse and he shot right into the barrier, putting a sizeable dent in his bumper
sorry but if I was you I would have laughed my bxxxxxxs off.