Had to deliver some galv steel on a site this morning, which was basically a field. It was a right turn into the gate, but there was a van parked in another gateway directly opposite.
I weighed it up and decided to swing in the left gateway to get my trailer round the gateposts on the right hand side gateway.
I spoke to the site foreman and asked if he could get the van moved for me.
This guy walked up and said ‘‘It’s my van, what’s the problem’’
I explained, and he looked at me as if I was stupid and said ‘‘Nah you’ll get round mate I’ll watch you’’ I explained that the trailer swing would take the side of his van out, but again …a patronising look.
Anyway, I moved forward with matey at the nearside corner of my cab giving me the ‘‘Yeh, loads of room’’ routine, I turned in right and he suddenly started doing some kind of dance ritual , flapping his arms around and shouting.
I waited until last second … and braked up.
He came to the cab and said ‘‘You are gonna hit my van’’ I just looked surprised at him and said ‘‘No ■■■■ mate’’
So he got in and moved it… after I had reversed back to give him enough room to open his door.
Why do these knobs think they know better than a driver.
You know very well a fool like that doesn’t know one end of a lorry from another, he’s an idiot anyway what else did you expect from him, intelligent thought, common sense, what?
Had that van been owned by one of us ; 1, it wouldn’t have been anywhere near that gateway 2, if a lorry about to turn tight is in the vicinity of any of our car/vans they’d be shifted out the bloody way before you could blink.
Why does good stuff like this always happen where i can’t watch it and snigger…
Get it all the time on tippers Rob, people who will watch you struggle 90% around something, then say “I’ll get it moved.”
Then you get people with no concept of cubic metres to tonnage. Someone will say “bring us 10t of type 1, we need 10m3.” I try to tell them 1m3 of type 1 weighs about 2t so they’ll need a full load. But no, I’m just a driver so I can have no concept of the amount they need. Then they don’t like it that I’m too busy to go back and get them another 10t.
robroy:
So he got in and moved it… after I had reversed back to give him enough room to open his door.
Should have stayed where you were and made him crawl over from the passenger side which is not easy nowadays with these modern vehicles or through the back doors.
robroy:
So he got in and moved it… after I had reversed back to give him enough room to open his door.
Should have stayed where you were and made him crawl over from the passenger side which is not easy nowadays with these modern vehicles or through the back doors.
I find its always the little blokes.
One time back in the day when I had a little rigid (18ton leyland freighter, not ■■■■■) we used to deliver 32’ portacabins to new building sites.
Anyway the landowner had parked his 4×4 in a dubious position and I asked one of the lads to fetch him as there was a risk the tail swing would be close to it.
To cut a long story short the land owner refused saying bigger trucks (artics) had got in fine, and I must be a poor driver. Having no interest in explaining the concepts of tailswing on a rigid I cracked on and deliberately hit his motor.
The landowner went mental and even got quite agresive, it was highly amusing apart from having to fill out the accident report.
Height confuses them too. I had a rigid in Reading doing multi-drop and one of them was a shopping centre. My truck was over the height limit so I phoned the customer to ask what they wanted me to do. Apparently they wanted to argue with me and their argument was that they regularly had artics delivering to them. Obviously this fact had absolutely no relevance to my problem but my boss wasn’t happy because they knew that I couldn’t get in there and that drop should have been on a 7.5tonner. Warehouse cocked it up
Get this sort of thing most days as one of the roads we go down always has parked cars on the near side and the amount of cars who see you coming past these parked cars and stop giving you roughly a car and a half length to squeeze and artic through . You can just do it but it invokes going right up to them locking hard left mounting the kerb and then swinging hard right but usually you driving up to them to go hard left has frightened them to move .
, flapping his arms around and shouting.
… and braked up.
