Things most truckers do before they die, like i managed to overshoot the pin for the first time today and break an airline and crack a wind deflector, somehow managed to not smash the rear lights.
Droped a ejector trailer legs down done suzies drove off with hydraulic pipes atatched and bent frame and exhaust stack.
dropped a trailer on its knees once, what a plonker 
bubsy06:
Things most truckers do before they die, like i managed to overshoot the pin for the first time today and break an airline and crack a wind deflector, somehow managed to not smash the rear lights.
Ive done 2 of the 3 things on the list ie overshoot the pin and break an airline (I think I broke it anyway) and ended up with one of another depots crappy DAF CF units 
Ive broken the electrical line and had to wait for a fitter to come out and repair it, smack bang at a drop in the middle of London
Only managed to rip the curtains of the trailer which was last week
Off-hired a fridge trailer once, had to drop it with the tractor unit at a 45 degree angle. Halfway through, bloke came out and did inspection and gave me the report. Then he wandered off.
I pulled out from under it, but had forgotten to wind the legs down and as I pulled out, my tractor chassis ripped out the entire front corner of the fridge body.
I departed very quietly with my clean inspection report 
Loading a tilt I had to move forward and left the doors down thinking it would be ok to move 10 yards, the unit axle folded them up like trellis fencing
Dropped a bulk tipper and forgot to take the oil pipe off the bottom of the ram, the pipe snapped sprung back and took out the red air line connector, and put a big dent in the back of the cab, the problem was I had been in the game for years, not new at it.
bubsy06:
‘…i managed to overshoot the pin…’
I managed to do that last week when I had relied on the M1 & M2 buttons to be working properly: It turned out that neither was. (Side issues: Are they on a common fuse, etc? How come it worked manually but not in M1/M2 modes? Was I the first to find out? Getting a debrief from the VMU dudes is often like asking to bed their grannies)
I’d manually selected to lower the unit to clear, before reversing under & selecting ‘max up’. I only half noticed the combo not going up before fully realising I’d overshot by about four inches. No damage, phew. I’m now glad to usually go for a quality engagement as I’m not a ‘thwack-it-in-son’ merchant.
I defected the symptom at the end of shift & re-learned that (**)it happens. In future I’ll confirm the selection by actively listening for the air, actively watching it raise in the mirrors and actively feeling for increased resistance as I go back under - and not just assume that it’ll be reet.
drove out from beneath a demount flat with 14t of fertiliser on only to come back the next morning to find the bed was ground level as the legs had sunk into the ■■■■■■■■ overnight , that took some explaning
not me, but while on yard duty supervising transhipment of milk , saw a chap fill the front tank on a twin potter first, then watched it seesaw on the front legs onto it’s nose in slowmotion 
Snapped the Emergency Airline when turning round in a very tight spot.
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not me, but while on yard duty supervising transhipment of milk , saw a chap fill the front tank on a twin potter first, then watched it seesaw on the front legs onto it’s nose in slowmotion
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Yeah I saw that once with a milk tanker when I was on the CO-OP
Happy Keith:
bubsy06:
‘…i managed to overshoot the pin…’I managed to do that last week when I had relied on the M1 & M2 buttons to be working properly: It turned out that neither was. (Side issues: Are they on a common fuse, etc? How come it worked manually but not in M1/M2 modes? Was I the first to find out? Getting a debrief from the VMU dudes is often like asking to bed their grannies)
I’d manually selected to lower the unit to clear, before reversing under & selecting ‘max up’. I only half noticed the combo not going up before fully realising I’d overshot by about four inches. No damage, phew. I’m now glad to usually go for a quality engagement as I’m not a ‘thwack-it-in-son’ merchant.
I defected the symptom at the end of shift & re-learned that (**)it happens. In future I’ll confirm the selection by actively listening for the air, actively watching it raise in the mirrors and actively feeling for increased resistance as I go back under - and not just assume that it’ll be reet.
I thought the memory only remembered the very last setting and reset itself when the ignition was turned off. I have never relied on the memory control and prefer to slide it under gently like Swiss Tony
since failing to apply the parking braking whilst hitching up and writing 2 cars off i haven’t done anything wrong
Oh my god where do I begin!
Wondering why the stationary trailers were moving either side of my unit when stood on the catwalk coupling up Then remembering my trainer’s words of wisdom, “If you have forgotten to put the handbrake “on”, snap the red line a.s.a.p, do not try and climb in the unit!”, fortunately for me it worked and you never do it again 
weewulliewinkie:
dropped a trailer on its knees once, what a plonker
Ive done that
Wheel Nut:
Happy Keith:
bubsy06:
‘…i managed to overshoot the pin…’I managed to do that last week when I had relied on the M1 & M2 buttons to be working properly: It turned out that neither was. (Side issues: Are they on a common fuse, etc? How come it worked manually but not in M1/M2 modes? Was I the first to find out? Getting a debrief from the VMU dudes is often like asking to bed their grannies)
I’d manually selected to lower the unit to clear, before reversing under & selecting ‘max up’. I only half noticed the combo not going up before fully realising I’d overshot by about four inches. No damage, phew. I’m now glad to usually go for a quality engagement as I’m not a ‘thwack-it-in-son’ merchant.
I defected the symptom at the end of shift & re-learned that (**)it happens. In future I’ll confirm the selection by actively listening for the air, actively watching it raise in the mirrors and actively feeling for increased resistance as I go back under - and not just assume that it’ll be reet.
I thought the memory only remembered the very last setting and reset itself when the ignition was turned off. I have never relied on the memory control and prefer to slide it under gently like Swiss Tony
the M1 and M2 buttons are progammeable, and had more than likely not been programmed to anything, so, by pressing them, it will do absolutely nothing, as you found out
they are easy to set up, set to the desired level with the up/down buttons, hold the M1(2) button, then press the stop button whislt holding the M button and it is set, every time you press that button, it will go to that preset level
managed to rip the red line off whilst doing a tight U turn in the middle of Birmingham on a Friday afternoon once, on a brighter note though that was the only time I have ever been on Radio 2
I made my first Boo Boo on the MAN 7.5tonner i was driving today…making a tight turn around…not tight enough…smashed the front offside wind deflector on a set of roadside railings…IN FRONT OF A BUS DRIVER AND LOADS OF GIRLS OFF TO COLLEGE!!!.. Needless to say they were ■■■■■■■ themselves and i was in the footwell 