I’d prevent an accident if I could.
Anyone who wouldn’t is a birth canal.
Of course I would alert them, it might only be a bollard today…but it could be a child tomorrow!
andi_cardiff:
Of course I would alert them, it might only be a bollard today…but it could be a child tomorrow!
Gon on son! TOTC Again. We need a hats-off smilie 
Happydaze:
andi_cardiff:
Of course I would alert them, it might only be a bollard today…but it could be a child tomorrow!
Gon on son! TOTC Again. We need a hats-off smilie
My time off will be getting well spent it seems haha!
On reading the post i thought what!!!
you must be joking …but thinking about it this is what i have to say
if you have to ask you must be in the wrong job…this is one of the reasons the job is now totally dkf
wi supposed drivers letting others damage vehicles…what if it was a pram…? same question or would ya get youre camera out?
this happened to me once and i took the lights out on a new trailor …must have been 4 so called drivers watching me do it …bosss was more annoyed wi them when one o them ran in to say they saw me hit a barrier in th yrd…
boss… did you shout to let him know …■■■■1 …no why?..
took the heat from me though…
if you dont warn & help him you would be a right ■■■■
Anybody with an ounce of decency and professionalism would alert the driver and prevent an accident.
SB
Like other have said of course I’d try to warn the other driver of something they may have not seen, and have done on a few occasions.
Only a complete ■■■-hole would sit and watch another driver reverse into something without trying to warn him/her.
I will always warn the other driver.
You will often see me jump out and help a fellow driver that might be struggling. But it amazes me the amount of drivers who are quite happy to sit on their fat arses and laugh at a fellow driver trying to get in somewhere.
This industry is ■■■■■■. It is full of i’m ok so ■■■■ the rest of you lot.
Where i work it amazes me the amount of our own drivers will watch you struggle either with parking or strapping a load. Selfish pricks
I’d always warn them unless they were just about to reverse over Mrs Hitler ( My ex wife) If they did that I’d have to buy them a beer 
Sent from somewhere… Not sure where exactly but I’m probably only a bit lost
Once upon a time when we all had flat trailers and ropes and sheets, if there was 2 or 3 of us loading somewhere, we would all muck in and get loaded, then help each other with the sheets and ropes… once done we would all get on our way to the nearest caff for refreshments or overnight stay. preferably near a pub so we could have a couple of pints and a bit craik with other drivers… I remember even being in the darts team in a Wisbech pub cos we were there so regular. Now if you walk towards another driver you are lucky to even get a grunt… sad times.
groovy greg:
if you where sitting on your break dum de dum de dum, tapping the steering wheel, foot on the clutch revving engine hand on the brake waitng for clock to tick over 45 and you noitce a fellow artic reversing in ur directio., nothing unusual about that, but you then begin to realise the driver hasnt seen or noticed (you presume) the concrete pillar which is chest high, you sit and watch they get closer to it, and it looks very much like his p/s rear of trailer is about to make love to the pillar, the driver oblivious…
would you alert them, flash lights/sound your horn? or would you sit and watch them hit it, get out your cab point and roll on the floor ■■■■■■■ yourself with laughter■■? and say “oh by the way theres a bollard there drive”
just curious
Is this a serious post/question?
If so, your the sort of prick that’s ruined this job that some of us actually enjoy doing and given us the bad reputation from Joe Public that tars us all with the same brush.
Of course you’d warn the driver, whether it’s another truck or a car or bus FFS!
No wonder I get strange looks when I try to help anybody out!
Happydaze:
I’d prevent an accident if I could.
Anyone who wouldn’t is a birth canal.
^this^
Especially the birth canal bit, I like that
Trukkertone:
Once upon a time when we all had flat trailers and ropes and sheets, if there was 2 or 3 of us loading somewhere, we would all muck in and get loaded, then help each other with the sheets and ropes… once done we would all get on our way to the nearest caff for refreshments or overnight stay. preferably near a pub so we could have a couple of pints and a bit craik with other drivers… I remember even being in the darts team in a Wisbech pub cos we were there so regular. Now if you walk towards another driver you are lucky to even get a grunt… sad times.
that’s when i noticed it changing. used to tip Tesco Chepstow with a flat evry morning for around 18 months, pull the sheets off and drag them across the yard, before i’d got them spread out enough to fold there’d always be another driver appear from somewhere to take the other end and help fold them. then gradually i noticed i was becoming a pain, i’d be dragging the sheets and another truck would come round the corner but instead of help they’d be sitting there making it obvious i was in their way!
the travelling community were upto there usual, “can you spare me some diesel” tricks in toddington last week.
they were about to get a victim, driving a flash maserati race truck, when he was kindly warned by a couple of drivers.
the ■■■■■■, sorry, “travellers” didn’t look to chuffed though
I don’t bother waving tachos at passing lorries when Vosa are about; What’s the point when they know who the offenders are?
Never warn a motorcyclist of a speed trap either…
