You sod Harry!
Didn’t have one or two either, did about 20 a day thurs and fri. Back in with the dirty.
I think I’ve done it many times, especially when I was getting round wood. You didn’t didn’t get an address just the phone number of the loader driver. He’d give you directions, going increasingly small country lanes was bad enough, but eventually you had to head off into the wood and just hoped you had the right track. 
Personally I always think it’s worse when you head down some tiny little road in a town. Many years ago I got stuck in Accrington, I got into the town early and bought an AtoZ and planned my route, but the streets got smaller and smaller and the turns tighter and tighter.
I decided to get back onto the main road and start again. So took my map showed that the one of the streets would lead back to the main road so I took it only to find it was a Cul De Sac.
I tried to back up and turn round, but at that moment the local busy body turned up. He started to help, Well I say help. some would call it interfere. He wanted to make sure my truck was legal, check all the tax and O licence etc. Any with his help I backed it into a side street no problem now I thought, pull forward and off I go. But I couldn’t get round some of the parked cars. so my new friend knocked on doors to get the owners to move their cars. but we couldn’t find the owner of one of the cars. So my new friend calls the Police to get the owners address, surprisingly the Police wouldn’t give him that info.
Instead they send a copper, but not a local Bobby, No I get a Traffic Copper in the full motorway spec Range Rover.
By the look on the Policeman’s face I don’t think it was the first time him and my assistant had met. But he was okay with me, he knew the factory I was trying to get to and I wasn’t the first truck to get in a pickle trying to find it, the week before it had been a Belgium truck they had got out of some side street.
The car was registered in Nottingham, so we had to knock on doors, the car belonged to somebody staying with his girlfriend, we got it moved and I got a Police ■■■■■■ to the factory.
All too often… and normally when doing odd Agency shifts on an unfamilar job.
Getting yourself out of a pickle is all part of the job, something learnt for next time.
Dont’ forget, without ■■■■-ups there would be little to talk about in the canteen!
hi there
yesterday i went to iceland swindon depo, i honeslty thought i was going straight ahead to a low bridge, but then the road curved to the left.
my vehicle and trialer height was 15’ and the bridge was 14.8’
Silver_Surfer:
The drop was down a country lane with an “unsuitable for heavy vehicles” sign.
That’d be about 30% of my regular drops then. Welcome to the wonderful world of farm deliveries! 
Agree with muckles though, it’s worse in towns.
gnasty gnome:
Silver_Surfer:
The drop was down a country lane with an “unsuitable for heavy vehicles” sign.That’d be about 30% of my regular drops then. Welcome to the wonderful world of farm deliveries!
Agree with muckles though, it’s worse in towns.
Snap, I had one on Anglesey last week, looked easy and ive done a few farms there before. Rang farmer and he says dont come the obvious way go a bit further up main road then turn follow this one then turn 90 right between stone walls just before t junction. All was good till got to right turn, no chance from this direction, but turn round at t junction and from the other way its in, farm was a tight hole as well! But they usually are if there cattle rather than arable.
shuttlespanker:
try turning into this road in the pitch black with an artic1
the place i wanted was about a mile down this road, but, apparently, i should have come in from the other direction
and this was further down the road
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in the bottom right corner of the street view image, there is the overhead view, i had to take the left turn into the side road
Yup I did exactly the same, should have come off 1 junction earlier but the right turn (at the tree) looked a bit nasty so i came off at the same turn off as you following satnav as I had no directions 
). I went in and stopped straight away, took a walk up the road and asked a bloke feeding his chickens if an artic could get up there to the abottoir, he said " Just about but you should have come in the other way". So rather than the reverse out onto the dual carriageway I gave it a go the lane was a bit tight and it took a couple of shunts to get into the farm but I made it 
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Nice skins for sale there at a decent price though, didn’t follow the offer of a shower there as the smell meant I would have wanted another one after I left.
Once had a delivery in St Ives Cornwall, followed the map down through the town only to find at the end near the harbour that I couldnt get round the shops that are in the middle of the road, helpful taxi driver stopped the traffic so I could back out against the traffic flow then told me to hang on the cops will be here in a min to stop the traffic at the top of the town so I could go the wrong way up the one way street to get out, coppers thought it was funny 
told me not to worry about it as its the councils fault for not putting signs up it happens regularily.
Best thing was the taxi driver chucked my delivery in his cab and went and delivered it for me!
Another one in Cornwall was “Can we have the delivery early”
Yes no problem, can I get to you with a truck?
“Oh yes easily”
6am on a winters morning see’s me going down a lane thats gettin narrower all the time until the wheels are literally on the bank each side.
“Oh we thought you were in a van, all our deliverys are in a van!”
yeh try collecting from forests, no postcode or street name, you ring up the forwarder driver and get directions, always up a road you would never think of taking an artic up, gotta say I love the job, alot more interesting than motorway work, for some crazy reason I enjoy getting stuck, it just makes the day more enjoyable
This is one of the better roads
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I’m suprised Mike C hasn’t stuck his old diary up on this one 
billybigrig:
A twist in the tail? - #28 by mike-c - THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE) - Trucknet UKI’m suprised Mike C hasn’t stuck his old diary up on this one
First time i’v seen that thread really enjoyed that he did well to get out for just a £100
I dont think if it had happened to me i would have posted it on here.