Radar19:
So you can’t park your own tractor unit on your drive? There used to be a guy that lived near me that used to bring his unit home for the weekend.
You can park it on your drive but you could get grief for it, you are supposed to park at your operating centre.
One previous employer even got a letter from the filth warning him about this requirement. I was spotted parked overnight outside Jewsons in Worcester where I was delivering a part-load of concrete lintels, having made five deliveries earlier that day around the Midlands, and was scheduled to make four further deliveries in North Wales after delivering in Worcester the following day, having loaded in Kent.
I wrote the reply to the young WPC myself, and if I say so myself it was a masterpiece in explaining why goods vehicles do not always necessarily return to their operating centre every night while strongly implying, without actually saying “Why don’t you ■■■■ off and catch some criminals?”
It,s frowned upon because it’s the good old UK. Mr & Mrs Smythe do not want one of those half juggernaut monster things parked in Acacia ave, it would lower the whole tone of the area. Having a common lorry driver being there would be the same as having a family of ‘those that should not be mentioned’ on here in the st. You all know what they think of us, and that is the real basis of it in a nutshell.
If it was a twice the size US style motorhome no probs, that is a status symbol. A tractor unit would never do.
Muckaway:
I watched Hell Drivers earlier and 2 of the Dodge Kews had the same number plate!
1969/70 a certain firm from Stoke (now long gone) had two red eight-wheel ERFs in Croxden Gravel with a similar problem!
Steve
An operator around here did similar with two Super Mastiff 6wheelers. One went for test, passed, and went back a few days later pretending to be it’s twin sister. It failed.
On the talk of Hell Drivers, watch the error on the “driving test” scene. Stanley Bakers’ doing an assessment, his lorry has no fleet number. Part way around the number 13 appears. Soon after, it’s gone again.
And there’s a site scene where the Drott driver is wearing a shirt and tie.
Don’t know about parked on a private drive but there has been a black scania car transporter parked in Solstice services since Christmas eve with the curtains drawn.
puntabrava:
Don’t know about parked on a private drive but there has been a black scania car transporter parked in Solstice services since Christmas eve with the curtains drawn.
Wonder if anybody has actually been and checked the truck!
puntabrava:
Don’t know about parked on a private drive but there has been a black scania car transporter parked in Solstice services since Christmas eve with the curtains drawn.
Wonder if anybody has actually been and checked the truck!
Well I did wonder when I went past today and it was still there.
I’ve seen plenty of trucks parked outside peoples houses, there used to be a guy in the local town who managed to get his unit into the garden of his terrace house, no mean feat it looked hardly big enough for a car.
Whether you get grief or not really depends on how stuck up your neighbours are, I know some places where they get upset if you bring a works van home as they think it lowers the neighborhood and have even asked if there are regulations to ban the practice.
I think the BBC used the truck because they wanted to show the father as a stereotype of a working class male, and as there aren’t any pits left they couldn’t have him coming back covered in coal dust wearing a minors hat, so truck driver it had to be.
Puntabrava, maybe the driver is dead in the cab at Solstice or taken ill.
Is there a phone number on the lorry ?
Or the driver has gone home for Christmas in Europe and left the wagon there.
I will be passing there later and bang the cab door for signs of life.
I park the whole kit and caboodle outside my parents house, they’ve got a space perfectly sized for an artic. Did have the police round a few years back because the local busybody (who doesn’t live near us) reported us but he said there wasn’t anything he could do anyway. We do live in a remote are tho, no near neighbours. We’ve been parking trucks there the 27 years we’ve live there but all Irish or Dutch trucks. It’s one of the perks of this sort of job, no need for a car and still very common in Ireland, you often pass houses with trucks in the drive and the odd one or two with buses!
Unless your lorry is at home every night, surely it’s no different to parking in a layby?
As long as it’s at it’s operating centre so much of the month, I thought that was good enough? This was the reason why every other Friday I’d have to leave my Earthline wagon at their Ogborn base as the depot I worked out of didn’t have an o license (it does now apparently).
toby1234abc:
Puntabrava, maybe the driver is dead in the cab at Solstice or taken ill.
Is there a phone number on the lorry ?
Or the driver has gone home for Christmas in Europe and left the wagon there.
I will be passing there later and bang the cab door for signs of life.
Well it was still there at mid day. If he is dead then there will be no answer, if not you may get a disgruntled Foreign mouthful.
