I had a phone call the other day from someone who shall remain nameless, he was driving down the road supergluing something together, at first I thought he was going to tell me that he’d glued his hands to the steering wheel, but no, it was better than that, after sticking whatever had to be stuck he put the glue away & thought no more of it, a while later he had to go down a gear & knocked off the cruise & went to give the throttle a blip (Fuller gearbox) he discovered that he couldn’t move his right leg, it turns out that he had spilt some superglue & it had landed on the floor mat which he put his foot on & glued his trainer to the floor, it was stuck that well that he had to take the mat out & stand on it with both feet & use both hands to rip the trainer off! Luckily he was just dropping a cog & not coming to a red light or line of stationary traffic.
My own act of stupidity was to try & wire in a 24v fan whilst driving through the Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland, I was on my second or third trip in a brand new G reg Merc & being August it was still quite hot so I bought a fan & bolted it in up near the sunroof so it would cool me when I was driving & at night while I was in bed, I was planning to use the radio feed as my power source (Mercs used to have 24v radios) it was an easy enough job to do, if I was stationary, but as I was doing 50mph it became quite difficult, I did it though & felt really pleased with myself as I pushed the radio back in its slot, the radio wouldnt go back in all the way so I used both hands to delicately shove it back in, I heard & felt it click back in & looked out the windscreen again to see a Daf 2800/3300 heading straight for me, I had crossed the center line whilst poncing around with the radio, I swung back in, almost in time, there was a huge bang & I lost my nearside mirrors, how I never hit the Daf head on & killed everyone around me I will never know, bloody lucky & bloody stupid
I wasn’t driving at the time, but was loading. I was on with B**** Haulage in Okehampton and we used to round trip from chichester all the time. The clutch in my fridge wasn’t working right so the battery wasn’t charging. They woke me after a couple hours sleep and asked me to start it. I put 24 volts through the 12 volt by mistake and blew the top off the battery covering everything around with acid.
i refuse to answer that on the grounds it may incriminate me at a later date
but, i did wire in my CB into Big Blue whilst heading Southbound on the A1 just below Weatherby , phoned my other driver to see where he was, he was actually 800 metres behind me
so we chatted on the CB all the way from Weatherby to Mansfield
shuttlespanker:
i refuse to answer that on the grounds it may incriminate me at a later date
but, i did wire in my CB into Big Blue whilst heading Southbound on the A1 just below Weatherby , phoned my other driver to see where he was, he was actually 800 metres behind me
so we chatted on the CB all the way from Weatherby to Mansfield
can just see you now going down the a1 with the cb on the dashboard table, you holding/using a soldering iron while steering with your elbows with the installation manual spread out over the steering wheel
a CB had been fitted in the truck before, all i did was refit one in the same place, all the connections were already there, just needed to be found and new conneections made
mark h:
drove on a switch at about 60+mph, while having no chart in
young vunerable and needed to be home,
i no it wouldnt go down well with vosa etc etc so dnt start with the whiter than white posts
as i no my actions were wrong, i never got caught and wont chance it again incase i do get caught !
when i first started driving trucks i once drove all the way to my first call to only then realise i was in a truck with a paper tacho and not a digi, for some reason i thought i had put my digi card in s
Whilst driving in convoy along the E40 one night was piloting the rear lorry of 3 but mine was approx 2 kph faster than the other two.Regular run, got bored, off with the lights and onto the hardshoulder until ime cab to cab with matey that was in front.
Lights on ,blast of train horn . . . certainly woke him up !!
Suedehead:
Whilst driving in convoy along the E40 one night was piloting the rear lorry of 3 but mine was approx 2 kph faster than the other two.Regular run, got bored, off with the lights and onto the hardshoulder until ime cab to cab with matey that was in front.
Lights on ,blast of train horn . . . certainly woke him up !!
Mine has to be when I tried to adjust a MAN steering wheel on the move and the knob came completley unscrewed. Rather than drive around with a floppy steering column I took out my swiss army knife and totally removed, repaired and reassembled whilst on the cruse heading southbound on the M6. It was my first day and I didn’t want to bring a broken truck back and make a bad impression! I’m not proud but I didn’t have a clue where I was going and was following another driver to the RDC and there was no way I could stop.
Secondly, being in a different truck to normal and re-fueling 400 litres at an ESSO before realising the fuel card was for a TOTAL garage.
many years ago, when I still in the Army, on excercise in Denmark, ( a totally boring experience0 for some reason it was thought a good idea to swop co-drivers between trucks (8 legger Fodens) while on the move.
the co driver would climb out the cab (through the canvas roof hatch) and we would , at full speed pull alongside another Foden and the guys would jump into the load bed of the opposite truck
Looking back now it gives me nightmares of how it could have gone so wrong, thankfully it didnt, but we were young and idiots.
broke me egg yoke whilst cooking breakfast on the bumpy bit of m62 westbound before m6). ruined me breakfast bacon was nice mushrooms excellent tom an beans perfection, nice crispy black pudding ,toast done just so ,tea was nice 1 broken egg yoke so no dips i hate that
Rikki-UK:
many years ago, when I still in the Army, on excercise in Denmark, ( a totally boring experience0 for some reason it was thought a good idea to swop co-drivers between trucks (8 legger Fodens) while on the move.
the co driver would climb out the cab (through the canvas roof hatch) and we would , at full speed pull alongside another Foden and the guys would jump into the load bed of the opposite truck
Looking back now it gives me nightmares of how it could have gone so wrong, thankfully it didn’t, but we were young and idiots.
I remember doing nearly the same with the old AEC knockers, we would drive up against the truck in front and put the hand throttle on get out through the roof climb into the truck in front and he would then go back and get in the other truck, when on out own we used to swap drivers on the move if there was 2 of us, the passenger would come across the engine hump and as the driver got out the door would slip into the seat, the other bloke then went across the front of the truck along the bumper and back into the passenger seat. You have to remember these trucks flat out only did about 30 mph, but it was still madness
Slightly different but as a co driver in Army bedford climbed out through gun hatch in cab, ontop of the canvass roof crawled to the back of vehicle and into the rear above tailgate.Whilst travellin across senybridge training area.
As a civie driver took me jumper of quickly and got it stuck on me head for a brief couple of seconds.Wil never do that again.that was a long 3 seconds.
whilst cooking breakfast on the bumpy bit of m62 westbound before m6). ruined me breakfast bacon was nice mushrooms excellent tom an beans perfection, nice crispy black pudding ,toast done just so ,tea was nice 
