polish driver turns up to a farm in (add which county you want), massivly overweight, the farmer/storeman/whoever saysyou cant tip here, we dont have enough space because your so overloaded, we only wanted 16/18/however many tonnes… so pole/eastern european/whoever drives off to the local tesco/sainsburys/whichever and tips about 10 tonne of wheat/barley/who cares by now in the car park. the whole thing is on cctv and the boss ends up with a huge fine!
i did get told of an essex based bulk company which had an incident simular which is where the myth started from, but i have no idea if there is any truth in it (i very much doubt it…)
true, not myth,peage tickets show time in and time out,so you could be done…
I have seen them use it on The Gumball Rally cross europe ‘Car Rally’, but then you are talking Ferrari’s and Lambo’s clocking 150mph+, not a truck at 56mph.
true, not myth,peage tickets show time in and time out,so you could be done…
I have seen them use it on The Gumball Rally cross europe ‘Car Rally’, but then you are talking Ferrari’s and Lambo’s clocking 150mph+, not a truck at 56mph.
And given that the limit for trucks on the motorway in France is 90 km/ph and trucks are limited to that, or less, it isn’t going to be an issue, unless the limiter has been tampered with, or you are carrying hazardous.
And given that the limit for trucks on the motorway in France is 90 km/ph and trucks are limited to that, or less, it isn’t going to be an issue, unless the limiter has been tampered with, or you are carrying hazardous.
I totally agree, i was just using it as an example of they do use that system, just not nessecarily on trucks.
true, not myth,peage tickets show time in and time out,so you could be done…
I have seen them use it on The Gumball Rally cross europe ‘Car Rally’, but then you are talking Ferrari’s and Lambo’s clocking 150mph+, not a truck at 56mph.
And given that the limit for trucks on the motorway in France is 90 km/ph and trucks are limited to that, or less, it isn’t going to be an issue, unless the limiter has been tampered with, or you are carrying hazardous.
Did say could not can,what they can see with this is if you have clocked of (ie toggle switches hidden behind interior lights or under dashboards…and taken a running break…
true, not myth,peage tickets show time in and time out,so you could be done…
I have seen them use it on The Gumball Rally cross europe ‘Car Rally’, but then you are talking Ferrari’s and Lambo’s clocking 150mph+, not a truck at 56mph.
And given that the limit for trucks on the motorway in France is 90 km/ph and trucks are limited to that, or less, it isn’t going to be an issue, unless the limiter has been tampered with, or you are carrying hazardous.
Did say could not can,what they can see with this is if you have clocked of (ie toggle switches hidden behind interior lights or under dashboards…and taken a running break…
True enough, but for the majority it isn’t going to be an issue.
not saying i did it,but many have,used make me larf on the boat listening to them winge and whine about being stopped at St Omer after being non stop from Macon,
I think that most of the ones that make me laugh are the ones that involve getting tugged and what they did…said…to the gendarmes. I used to think God if I got tugged that often I would have a nervous breakdown. Oh and what about the bribe stories…You know, bottles of whisky in the drivers door pocket, lira in the licence and so on , God I have heard it all on that boat and used to think I had a really boring life as I can actually only really remember about 6 real trouble tugs in years of driving
euromat I met a Belgian tipper driver with a V8 Scania who told me he had a load of cobbles to deliver in Germany on a Friday afternoon. The security told him he was too late & he would have to wait until Monday. He tipped the lot out in front of the works gates & went home.
The same driver was given the ultimatum by his wife." Its me or the truck !!" The answer was ." No problem !" He divorced her… Coffeeholic In the old days when you crossed over to East Germany to transit to Berlin they used to stamp the time you left. My first time I got behind this Dutch 4 wheeler flower truck. He went like the wind. Close to the border I was tugged by a DDR ambush. They checked their watches against when I left the border & were gobsmacked. I was given a written warning & had to sign it. They were amazed at my scribble for a sig. I told them I was a doctor & trucking was just a hobby. They believed me. I suppose they shot people in those days in the Commie Bloc for telling porkies.
polish driver turns up to a farm in (add which county you want), massivly overweight, the farmer/storeman/whoever saysyou cant tip here, we dont have enough space because your so overloaded, we only wanted 16/18/however many tonnes… so pole/eastern european/whoever drives off to the local tesco/sainsburys/whichever and tips about 10 tonne of wheat/barley/who cares by now in the car park. the whole thing is on cctv and the boss ends up with a huge fine!
i did get told of an essex based bulk company which had an incident simular which is where the myth started from, but i have no idea if there is any truth in it (i very much doubt it…)
harry: Coffeeholic In the old days when you crossed over to East Germany to transit to Berlin they used to stamp the time you left.
Yeah, I remember that, but you would have been a brave driver to get any great speed up on those roads. State they were in the would have shaken your fillings loose.
truckyboy:
I got back from my holidays onloy to find every tom…■■■■ and harry had been driving my truck …as you all know …the mirrors …seats etc have to be re- adjusted…which i duly did…however my first day back was a run to sainsburys in haydock…and a return load of bread from wigan …(loaded over night)…not me…i drop the trailer …anyway…i noticed the passenger seat was covered in grease…and i started to make enquiries about how it got there…it turns out that our company had to use a different agency to the one we normally use…as our repair man was walking around the trailers…he noticed a pair of legs protruding from the cat walk…so on closer inspection…he found this female driver (black)…laying on her back across the catwalk…trying to connect the airlines…so he asked her if she had ever connected a fridge trailer before, of course the answer was no!..so he had to tell her that with a fridge…you only part coupled…then put your airlines on …then ram it home…but making sure the trailer brake is on first…now this not only happened to her …but one of her colleagues also…from the same agency…and also black…anyway …they were both smothered in grease…hence the seat marks…which has since been cleaned …makes you wonder…where do they get them from…
Can someone please explain the thinking behind this…am I reading this right or does it smack of racism or am I missing the point …I could be so appologies if I am Its been a long week
WITH the transit route to BERLIN ,you just stayed behind
either a SCHULZE lorry or RHEIN-WEST-FRACHT-KONTOR
where they went fast so did you and when they slowed down the same
again,
truckyboy:
I got back from my holidays onloy to find every tom…■■■■ and harry had been driving my truck …as you all know …the mirrors …seats etc have to be re- adjusted…which i duly did…however my first day back was a run to sainsburys in haydock…and a return load of bread from wigan …(loaded over night)…not me…i drop the trailer …anyway…i noticed the passenger seat was covered in grease…and i started to make enquiries about how it got there…it turns out that our company had to use a different agency to the one we normally use…as our repair man was walking around the trailers…he noticed a pair of legs protruding from the cat walk…so on closer inspection…he found this female driver (black)…laying on her back across the catwalk…trying to connect the airlines…so he asked her if she had ever connected a fridge trailer before, of course the answer was no!..so he had to tell her that with a fridge…you only part coupled…then put your airlines on …then ram it home…but making sure the trailer brake is on first…now this not only happened to her …but one of her colleagues also…from the same agency…and also black…anyway …they were both smothered in grease…hence the seat marks…which has since been cleaned …makes you wonder…where do they get them from…
Can someone please explain the thinking behind this…am I reading this right or does it smack of racism or am I missing the point …I could be so appologies if I am Its been a long week
To be fair i guess you ‘could’ read it that way, there wasnt any real need to say they were black. It doesnt say in the post that they left it in a mess because they were black though.
There are plenty of posts on here that say the same thing though, instead of ‘black’ they say ‘Polish’, ‘Latvian’… ‘insert eastern european country here’
truckyboy:
I got back from my holidays onloy to find every tom…■■■■ and harry had been driving my truck …as you all know …the mirrors …seats etc have to be re- adjusted…which i duly did…however my first day back was a run to sainsburys in haydock…and a return load of bread from wigan …(loaded over night)…not me…i drop the trailer …anyway…i noticed the passenger seat was covered in grease…and i started to make enquiries about how it got there…it turns out that our company had to use a different agency to the one we normally use…as our repair man was walking around the trailers…he noticed a pair of legs protruding from the cat walk…so on closer inspection…he found this female driver (black)…laying on her back across the catwalk…trying to connect the airlines…so he asked her if she had ever connected a fridge trailer before, of course the answer was no!..so he had to tell her that with a fridge…you only part coupled…then put your airlines on …then ram it home…but making sure the trailer brake is on first…now this not only happened to her …but one of her colleagues also…from the same agency…and also black…anyway …they were both smothered in grease…hence the seat marks…which has since been cleaned …makes you wonder…where do they get them from…
Can someone please explain the thinking behind this…am I reading this right or does it smack of racism or am I missing the point …I could be so appologies if I am Its been a long week
To be fair i guess you ‘could’ read it that way, there wasnt any real need to say they were black. It doesnt say in the post that they left it in a mess because they were black though.
There are plenty of posts on here that say the same thing though, instead of ‘black’ they say ‘Polish’, ‘Latvian’… ‘insert eastern european country here’
Yeah I see what you mean mate but if it had been me would he have said a white guy …I am not trying to start a race argument but I still cant see why state it was a BLACK person…might be me been a ■■■■ week but I hate that kind of crap
daneinter:
used to think I had a really boring life as I can actually only really remember about 6 real trouble tugs in years of driving
haha - yep i always loved the “told em to eff right off” brigade, course you did duckie
did have a laugh one saturday night though round the ho-chi-minh trail, 3 of us got a pull and had been speeding earlier somewhere, so me, a lad called geoff goodwin and derek (can’t remember surname, an hilarious brummie who lived in skelmersdale) were put in the back of the van because we flatly protested that none of us had any cash whatsoever to pay a fine
if you remember ever being bollocked in a group at school and trying not to snigger that was pretty much it - they gave in in the end after about an hour, probably cos they were only after coffee money anyway and bade us a fond farewell, reminding us to have a safe journey, or something like that…
