Drove a flat bed Merc sprinter with matching trailer carrying a car on each. I had swapped trucks in London & was on my way to Germany. The other driver had strapped the vehicles down. Got to Dunkirk area where the A’route ended & the diversion dropped down a steep ramp to a set of lights. Braked to a stop & heard this road smash. The brand new VW van had jumped over the draw bar & buried its self into the rear of a Ford prototype . It was midnight & raining, so carried on with the front wheels of the van hanging off both sides of the drawbar. Turned a corner & the vans headlight disintegrated. Got to Koln to deliver the wrecked Ford @ Fords test track & they were completely unfazed. It was being returned to be scrapped anyway. Got a fork lift to take off the van first & the whole front bumper assembly just fell on the road. This van had only done 300 kms. & had been on loan to Fords test centre at Dunton. I chucked the bumper into the back of the van & repositioned it onto the back of the Merc. Next drop VW’s at Wolfsberg. Drove in parked it face into a hedge & got a clear sig from the gatehouse. But before I could leave I had to go to the office -I thought I had been rumbled but no! they wanted me to transport back to Dunton an American brand new prototype Ford pick-up. I drove it on the back & got out quick. Got back to the yard & there was a 4 page damage report from VW’s.
I guess the moral of the story is that unless anyone is injured ,don’t worry. 
Was on a “dodgy” - (remember them) and some ■■■■ nicked the batteries . 
Done the drop trl on it’s knees (thats what you get for getting distracted by phone calls) fortunately loaded with t bags,as i didn’t pull too far forward the suzies lived, flt was able to lift it up again whilst i wound down the landing gear,lol
Also had a roll away too luckily i manged to stop the unit just before it hit another unit head on, complete with the driver in it reading his paper, and that was by leaning in it and pushing the brake pedal with my hand,lol why i didn’t just pull the airline i dunno,
Both happened shortly after passing my c & e whilst on agcy
Ripped off electrics a few times when jacking trl round in yard ,they get tangled in the curtain ratchets on some trls
Think my most embarresing one was when I had my Scania, was dropping trailer while trying to talk on my mobile, pulled from underneath then heard a thud on the back of the cab, had left all the suzies in, wouldn`t have bothered too much except I was actually at Scania in Nottingham and me mate had come to collect the trailer. 
howatsi:
Wondering why the stationary trailers were moving either side of my unit when stood on the catwalk coupling up
Did this a couple of months ago,after doing the job for 40 years.Managed to whip the red airline off again before we’d moved more than a couple of yards,but far enough for the dock leveller to drop down!
Despite this,a few days ago,managed to pass on some help to a new class 1 driver who was jack knifing into a bay when his trailer brakes came on.He still tried to move despite the trailer riding up on the suspension but not moving.
Turned out his suzzies were all knotted and while jack knifing,the untidy suzzies had caught the collar of the red air line and it had come off.
Moral:keep your suzzies tidy!
shuttlespanker:
Wheel Nut:
Happy Keith:
bubsy06:
‘…i managed to overshoot the pin…’‘…I had relied on the M1 & M2 buttons to be working properly…’
‘…I thought the memory only remembered the very last setting…’
‘…the M1 and M2 buttons are progammeable, and … 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…’
Thanks, chaps …lesson learned: I’d (wrongly) been assuming that the ‘M’ was an abbreviation for maximum: Doh…
dowahdiddyman:
Think my most embarresing one was when I had my Scania, was dropping trailer while trying to talk on my mobile, pulled from underneath then heard a thud on the back of the cab, had left all the suzies in, wouldn`t have bothered too much except I was actually at Scania in Nottingham and me mate had come to collect the trailer.
Did this the other week too mate except I wasn’t on the phone, I pulled into our yard bursting for a ■■■■ so I backed the trailer in to the line jumped out and legged it to the back of me trailer to have a ■■■■, grabbed me numberplate whilst I was there, wound me legs down and then jumped in me cab set off and wham! Ripped both my airlines out blocking up the yard until the garage turned up to replace it it took them about 20 minutes to turn up. The garage in our place is about 500 yards from the trailer park! I wasn’t the most popular person for blocking the yard up on a Friday afternoon. All that just because I did things out of order I’m used too usually I do me suzies legs and numberplate in that order!
Bladder 1. Mark nil!
Happy Keith:
shuttlespanker:
Wheel Nut:
Happy Keith:
bubsy06:
‘…i managed to overshoot the pin…’‘…I had relied on the M1 & M2 buttons to be working properly…’
‘…I thought the memory only remembered the very last setting…’
‘…the M1 and M2 buttons are progammeable, and … 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…’
Thanks for PM Happy Chappy.
You will notice that all three control boxes are similar, there are other types about, like those stupid Scania ones that take a week to deflate or the old Volvo ones with simply a raise and lower function and the default is “ride”
Wheel Nut. full of useless information 
Wheel Nut:
Nice work …many thanks
Keith
While weekended , went out on the town with a few of the lads ,
In the well wee early hours after making it back to the cab with a 
gorgeous blonde bit of totty skirt as accompanist 
,
and then for what seemed about 10 mins 
( was probably more like an hour) – 
trying to get door key to unlock cab door.
All of a sudden the window wound down on my now , non- unlocking cab door, and a voice said :- " Yours is the third on the right ! "
I’d taken a 6t dumper out and swapped it for a 9 tonner that was dead and took ages to single handedly drag out and winc on board, coming out of Southend I decided just to ip into the Shell and top off the tanks, somehing I’d done countless times previously. Forgetting that the 9t dumper stands a good bit taller than the 6 After crashing the canopy I left my details but not before blaming them for their sign being only in metric.
And recently after arriving back from Southend with a 5t tracked machine on, I jumped out of the cab to remove the straps only to stare in horror that they weren’t actually there 
However good old gravity had worked it’s magic and it was exactly where it should have been. Thank ■■■■.
Went to HJ Enthoven in South Darley the ‘wrong’ way (down the bank through the village) . Only those that have visited the site will know what I mean
Wheel Nut:
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
I did somthing similar, but wiped my rear light cluster out, got it repaired and a few weeks later wiped them out again backing onto a bay at an angle and they hit the front of a truck parked next to me.
Picked up the wrong trailer and took it back to the yard to leave with it Monday morning, one of the other drivers starting Sunday went to Yarmouth to pick up his trailer couldn’t find it and asked the boss if it was the one in the yard? It was! the boss took took my truck and met him to swap over trailers I got in Monday and left none the wiser until the driver phoned up to take the ■■■■.
Delivered a brand new fridge trailer to the wrong customer, they even signed for it. Had to go and ask if I could have it back and then deliver to the correct customer who’d been on the phone asking where their new trailer was.