SmashedCrabFace:
I’ve noticed that red lights mean nothing to tipper drivers in the dead of night. Not only lights that have just changed to red either, but blatant red lights with queuing traffic waiting. Why bother even slowing down to check if anything’s coming when you can barrel through on the limiter safe in the knowledge that if you hit an innocent motorist obeying the rules, chances are they’ll be reduced to a pile of twisted metal and bone while you might just drop your sandwich or spill your coffee?
Funnily enough one my colleaugues jumped a red light because they “didn’t want to get stuck behind me…”
del trotter:
Overloaded lazy arse tipper drivers who feel it is their duty to dump half the load progressively down their route, just [zb] tighten the tailgate up properly.
And don’t get me started on the muppet plant transport drivers, who feel it is OK to drive along with boulders the size of small cars flying off the bed 'cause they are to lazy to do a quick sweep of the bed.
If fitters checked/tightened the tailgates when they went in for servicing there’d be no problem…I have seen some operators do an alternative which is to get the driver to place sheets of newspaper in the body against the tailgate to stop leakage…one decide to do it whilst parked at the stockpile and nearly got 6ton on his head…
Muckaway:
I have seen some operators do an alternative which is to get the driver to place sheets of newspaper in the body against the tailgate to stop leakage…
I suppose that’s not a bad idea, seems a waste if all you do with the paper is look at the pictures…
pavaroti:
Tipper drivers not cleaning up when loaded. riding my motorbike behind 1 couple of years back, suddenly an almight bang on the visor of my helmet (good job it was shut). A rock had come off the side of the tipper and could of been a nasty accident for me. Have noticed many times since tippers with dirt and rocks where they should’nt be.
Speaking as an ex tipper driver many moons ago my main gripe is the “real truckers bull” you get to hear when on break, in yard, cb etc.
You shalldn’t be on the Site of a Tipper
You shall be in safe Distance behind,or overtake in safe Distance on the next Lane,and not 2 inch from Wheel
My experience on tippers is limited to about a months work I did just after last christmas on a visit home to the UK. The most annoying thing for me would be when your up near max weight and only want another ton on, you tell the shovel driver this and instead of just putting a small amount in the bucket he dives in to the heap, collecting 4 or 5 tons, starts slowing tipping it over the top of the tipper body while I do my best with hand signals to indicate for him to tip it in nice and slowly to get that extra ton and then suddenly because he’s filled the bucket to the brim or more it gets to the point where the whole bloody lot dumps in and suddenly I’m 3 or 4 ton over! When you tell them you only want ONE ton, why the heck do they fill their bucket and attempt to just carefully tip off the required amount. Nine times out of ten nothing will come out and then it’ll all flop out in one 4/5 ton lot.
I really liked tipper work when tramping, but when doing repetative work I hated it. During that one month I did a lot between Hull/Immingham/Goole docks and Drax power station on biomass crap. Boring job made a thousand times worse by the colony of jobsoworths at the powerstation who’d threaten to ban you from site for ■■■■■■■ in the wrong direction or not wearing hi-vis socks or some other pointless piece of health and safety foolishness. No wonder the UK is so economically un-productive when it often seems that the ratio of people employed for the sole purpose of hindering those employed to get a job done are 3 to 1.
JIMBO47:
why do loader drivers think they know to the exact kilo what they dump on ya.and dont like being told the yput on too much!
Altitude’ll know who I’m referring to when I say we’ve a right [zb] shovel driver with an attitude who when I’ve checked my payload with my weighloader and ask for say half a ton, attitude refuses because his shovel weigher says I’m right. Weighbridge asks me to top up I refuse as I’ve asked once and been ignored so bollox to 'em. Im not an od so payload is of no concern to me unless I’m overweight…
Not sure that’s just attitude I think there’s also a mental problem, have you noticed he won’t look at you and wares those very dark goggles, so that you can’t see his eyes.I think it’s only the fact that drivers know they would loose there job, that he hasn’t been dragged out and slapped, it’s a wonder that Eddie didn’t put him in hospital if he was like that with him, as you know Eddie didn’t suffer fools. To add to it he’s not even a good shovel driver, most of the time the loads all on one side, but then I expect that’s done to ■■■■ you off.
Muckaway:
A meeting is being arranged because of the complaints as some drivers have made “official” warnings that he’ll cause a serious accident before long.
Not sure who it was as there were about three of the artics in Gill Mill about four weeks ago, and they were on the cb, one of them said the he’d been loaded so badly a couple of days before, he was unable to tip and they had to get up there and sort it out to make it safe to tip.
Most have a dont care attitude.
Most flout the rules
Most have dodgy vehicles ( broken lights, bad tyres )
Most couldnt care less
Most think theyre proper drivers
Most dont know what a daily walk round check is
Most say theyre ex class 1 drivers, but couldnt really handle a class 1 anyway
And my biggest gripe is bulkers who after leaving the tip, deposits more paper on the highways, than theyre supposed to tip…and i believe its those who should sheet prior to re-loading.
Several owners of tipper firms won’t give a start to artic drivers because they are main road drivers who haven’t got a clue how to reverse or get into a tight place.They reckon that they have had more damage done to lorries by class 1 drivers coming onto tippers thinking that the vehicles are easy after artics…
Dave the Renegade:
Several owners of tipper firms won’t give a start to artic drivers because they are main road drivers who haven’t got a clue how to reverse or get into a tight place.They reckon that they have had more damage done to lorries by class 1 drivers coming onto tippers thinking that the vehicles are easy after artics…
Dave the Renegade:
Several owners of tipper firms won’t give a start to artic drivers because they are main road drivers who haven’t got a clue how to reverse or get into a tight place.They reckon that they have had more damage done to lorries by class 1 drivers coming onto tippers thinking that the vehicles are easy after artics…
+1
+2. When our wage structure was crap, we had several agency drivers of dubious ability. Part of it was we used to have a TM who couldn’t drive a lorry (never held a license) but knew more than his drivers so he hired the agencies as “They’d worked for Tesco”; One liked to remind us how he’d worked on the trollies and ignored my advice to reverse onto the landfill after a weekends’ rain; He got stuck right at my lunch break so I’m afraid he had to wait until I’d finished it before getting him to attach the towing eye (which took him about 10minutes). Before anyone says I should’ve helped him I’d attached the opposite end to the drott but he was such an experienced driver I thought something basic like towing would be second nature to him
(He jacked about 2 days later after getting stuck again and fallingl arse over head in the mud )
truckyboy:
Most have a dont care attitude.
Most flout the rules
Most have dodgy vehicles ( broken lights, bad tyres )
Most couldnt care less
Most think theyre proper drivers
Most dont know what a daily walk round check is
Most say theyre ex class 1 drivers, but couldnt really handle a class 1 anyway
And my biggest gripe is bulkers who after leaving the tip, deposits more paper on the highways, than theyre supposed to tip…and i believe its those who should sheet prior to re-loading.
And the rest of em are really nice
Most tipper drivers have probably reversed further in a straight line on rough ground in a class one than you could manage to keep it together forward peeping out of your frilly pink curtains.
truckyboy:
Most have a dont care attitude.
Most flout the rules
Most have dodgy vehicles ( broken lights, bad tyres )
Most couldnt care less
Most think theyre proper drivers
Most dont know what a daily walk round check is
Most say theyre ex class 1 drivers, but couldnt really handle a class 1 anyway
And my biggest gripe is bulkers who after leaving the tip, deposits more paper on the highways, than theyre supposed to tip…and i believe its those who should sheet prior to re-loading.
And the rest of em are really nice
Most tipper drivers have probably reversed further in a straight line on rough ground in a class one than you could manage to keep it together forward peeping out of your frilly pink curtains.
TWISTLOCKS STICKING OUT OF THE SIDE OF THE TRAILER/BODY!
I used to hate seeing this. We had four on each of our Fruehauf bathtub tailboards, (totally linseed-proof, no leaky sand out of my trailer, son!) one at eye level either side and one either side of the grain-hatch at the base of the tailboard. I had serious twistlock OCD issues, not only did they not stick out, they also had to be aligned with Mecca, or suffin’
Tar gang trying to get every last drop into the pan even though theres about 3 tonne left in it.
“Forward a bit.
Back a bit.
Forward a bit.
Back a bit.
Forward a bit.
Back a bit.
Forward a bit.
Back a bit.
Forward a bit.
Back a bit.
Sod it! Drop down driver! We’ll get you in next time!”
The cry baby site foreman at Raf Brize this morning;
Arrived at main gate at 07.15 for 07.30 start, passes sorted in advance.
Security ask us to go through and down to site as they like to keep the main gate as clear of vehicles as possible for safety and security reasons, fair enough so off 5 of us go as staff on gate thank us as we pass…
As we get loaded knob foreman (who gave 2 of us abuse a few weeks ago) starts ranting at a waiting driver as I pull up and check wheels etc, and then turns and starts with "now this c***'s going to get a bo**ing now" to which I ask what the problem is and foreman begins a tirade of abuse;
Trying to get a word in edgeways I try to explain we were asked/told by security/Raf Police to move to site he argues that it’s nothing to do with them and I’m a c for taking notice of them (I did tell him to say that to the chap with the rifle), to which I get more fs and cs and told he’s a “good mind to pull me out the cab and have the lorry moved off site”…This point I tell him in an equally aggressive manner that "anyone who tries to get me out the cab will get a steelcapped size 9 on his head "
He stormed off and later on learnt he’d cried to our rep I’d been aggressive and threatening and I wasn’t safe to be on site
Firm supported me as I’d reported the last lot of abuse, and put me on a better/easier job
riding my motorbike behind 1 couple of years back, suddenly an almight bang on the visor of my helmet (good job it was shut). A rock had come off the side of the tipper and could of been a nasty accident for me. Have noticed many times since tippers with dirt and rocks where they should’nt be. 
