3 wheeler:
Hey where are the Ex SAS RDC heroes , and the I am only driving this van as a favour Because my unit is broke brigade .
And my group of medically retired early geezers !..who are lovers not fighters anyway !
There needs to be a rethink.
Oh and what group is Connor going in ?, and as a last thought their should be a deviant group head up by you know who !!!
I’m away and just had a go at a gun range on a variety of things, one was an HK mp5 ( I think I got the name right, mil blokes please put me right). Brilliant fun. Place was on a stunning vineyard so after that you could go wine tasting . Isn’t an mp5 what all those sas blokes use when they’re not in rdc waiting rooms?
El Deano:
EB, can you give me a catergory. Had my class 1 a year. Class 2 two years. Been driving 7.5 for years before that. Ex bus driver too. Pull flats mainly, sometimes curtain. But even though I am a relative newbie I can rope and sheet and the first truck I drove was a Ford Cargo.
If you want your own category, how about Needy?
Especially dangerous as while they might appear harmless, they can often suffocate you without you even realising it. Once out for the count this type of driver with his ‘old school’ rope and sheet techniques is able to transport and dispose of his victims in a clandestine fashion due to his many years of VAN driving, knowing spots that most truckers wouldn’t be able to access with their standard prostitute disposal techniques.
8/10 hardness rating…
eagerbeaver:
After consulting with the elders, I have it on good authority that roping and sheeting MUST be done through no less than 24 winters to count as ‘experience’. You must also know how to do a dolly knot in the dark, and light fires under your diesel tank.
In light of this, you are still a newbie. HARDNESS RATING 5/10.
You forgot a most important qualification.
Having to scrape ice off the inside of the windows for numerous nights through several winters like what we used to get when we was tough.
Bonus points for those too young (or not bloody daft enough to have done it) include changing your own flat tyres on the road (not just the wheel but swapped tyre, flap and inner tubes over using the lorries compressor to inflate), and carrying a 9/16th ring spanner and suitable smalley hammer at all times for trailer brake slack adjusters.
Juddian is harder than me. By far, icy windows, yes; adjust brakes, yes; change wheel, yes; but actually change a tyre! Hats off to you, sir.
Freight Dog: booze and guns? what can possibly go wro…
Swapping tyres on rims… any old tart can do that. Try regrooving them with a rusty fork at the same time as ■■■■■■■ on the engine to stop the oil freezing.
peterm:
Swapping tyres on rims… any old tart can do that. Try regrooving them with a rusty fork at the same time as ■■■■■■■ on the engine to stop the oil freezing.
Swapping tyres on split rims with yer bare hands? Now thats a hard man who i’m gonna call sir
Ah I remember the real men who taught me all I knew when double manning back in the day.
Stuck on Shap having to regroove the tyres with their own teeth.
No heater in the truck let alone a night heater so having to stay warm by sharing a greasy sleeping bag, rubbing up and down each other to create a bit of warmth.
No autos them days, I had to sit on his lap and be taught how to handle an Eaton twin splitter.
Pouring down with rain and being forced to rope and sheet in just me undercrackers as there was no means of drying me clothes in the truck. If I was lucky he would dry me off later with his egg stained wife beater.
I asked for a pair of gloves once and such was the taboo in this act that I was branded a ■■■■■ and made to wear a dress for a week. I was lucky compared to a fellow trainee who dared ask for a safety helmet.
Half the things I was forced to do would see off the youngsters of today and they wouldn’t believe the other half.
All this though has made me the men I am today, definitely lovers not fighters.
. Isn’t an mp5 what all those sas blokes use when they’re not in rdc waiting rooms?
, mind you he started work in a tyre workshops so tyre changing is no big deal really.