So today I was making my way around the roundabout at Bignalls Corner, had got off the M25 and going to go down the A1 to Mill Hill.
I had just passed the lights at the turning for South Mimms Services, when I was greeted by a skelly with a 20ft box on with its reversing lights on he had clearly just missed his intended lane onto the M25 toward Dartford, and gone towards Barnet/A1 instead.
I stopped put all the lights on and blocked my lane and the M25 lane so he could complete his maneuver, as in his haste he was starting to straddle 2 lanes as he was on the angle.
Why didnāt he just do another loop of the roundabout?? Or am I missing something?
What things have you seen today? That made you think, plank!?
F-reds:
What things have you seen today? That made you think, plank!?
I saw a car with its mirror hanging off, after I caught it with the corner of the trailer trying to get round a very tight corner in Chelsea today. I was trying to miss the bt van on the corner, the bollards on the inside corner, and happened to be looking in the wrong direction at the time I heard the crunch. I used slightly stronger words than plank though! Even my boss said āstop beating yourself up, ā ā ā ā happens, weāll deal with it, forget it and move onā.
Fortunately there was an old busybody at the bus stop who came running over to tell me that sheād seen me if it, and there was no point in trying to drive off, as she knew what us lorry drivers are likeā¦
Why didnāt he just do another loop of the roundabout?? Or am I missing something?
Coz hes a moronā¦ thats why and know you can see why the general public have a low rate opinion of us driversā¦
End of the day I wouldnāt have stopped, just carried on with my own journeyā¦ Heās ā ā ā ā ā ā upā¦ his problemā¦ Wonder if heās one of these morons that try and reverse up a motorway slip roadā¦
F-reds:
What things have you seen today? That made you think, plank!?
I saw a car with its mirror hanging off, after I caught it with the corner of the trailer trying to get round a very tight corner in Chelsea today. I was trying to miss the bt van on the corner, the bollards on the inside corner, and happened to be looking in the wrong direction at the time I heard the crunch. I used slightly stronger words than plank though! Even my boss said āstop beating yourself up, [zb] happens, weāll deal with it, forget it and move onā.
Fortunately there was an old busybody at the bus stop who came running over to tell me that sheād seen me if it, and there was no point in trying to drive off, as she knew what us lorry drivers are likeā¦
I [zb] hate Londonā¦
Youāre only human. A bit of plastic and glass is replaceable.
Not so much what Iāve seen but what I heard, from my own two lips
I was waiting at Iceland Enfield and struck up a conversation with a banham driver from Norwich,he was telling me about how the firm he works for nurtures chickens from the egg right through to the kill then transportation,this went on for five minutes then stopped,keen to fill the gaps in the conversation I asked," so what you carrying then"? He replied with a straight face,āchickensā.
Shop manager gets ā ā ā ā ā ā off at the speed Iām taking cages/ dollies off trailer ( taking my time as easy too tip dollies over.
So he grabs a dollie of me sets off down tri at one hell of a lick,hits lip of dock leveller and dollie goes over,cabbages etc everywhere ,him in a heap on floor .
And me ,the back door staff thinking what a ā ā ā ā ā ā ā pratt) ,zb off then too lick his wounds( make a supposed urgent phone call)
As did I when I misjudged the width of the truck I was driving. Took the bottom step off the passenger side.
Every single lorry driver without fail, at some point has done some damage to a wagon/inanimate object. The difference, between you and all the muppets, will be if you learn from it.
Guy doing parcel delivery to our yard yesterday, his van had a dent on every panel, more rust than you could shake a stick at, 250000m on the clock, and four bald tyres with the cords hanging out, making each wheel look like one of Chewbaccaās ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā¦
His response after I had said that his motor looked fun to drive?? ābossman is too tight to repair anythingā
Said van would not then start. He had to sit then and wait for a tow!
I always used to think āplankā everytime some numbskull in lane 3 decided 100m before the end of an exit slip that they had to leave at that exit. Funny how rather than tap their rear and spin them into the slip youād always end up accomodating the selfish tawt though !
he had clearly just missed his intended lane onto the M25 toward Dartford, and gone towards Barnet/A1 instead.
