speaking to eddie ■■■■■■■ driver tonite, one of theirsd got sacked for dropping trailer on its knees. i fukkccin hate stobbart. they should all walk out. company run by ■■■■■
p.s. the driver was brilliant, he hates the ■■■■■ as well 
Looks like the driver of the car could have blundered if he did not take any notice of the sign
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Did the instructor ask the pupil to drive into the pub for a pint
happened tuesday night,
purdy lodge services,
doing changeover straight a frame trailer loaded with paint drops it pulled out unit and parked behind trailer went to get coffee and pay for parking came out to find trailer on one leg had sunk,
got unit back under it only one problem unit does not have skids on it just got the chassis under and no more lifted the suspension to try and put support under the legs to no avail,
two other drivers trying to help get me back under it were at it for about two hours then a driver from galt transport came over and mentions his HIAB plated at 72 ton with in ten mins back under trailer,
if these other drivers are on here you know who you are thanks guys for all the help,
boss phoned on wednesday morning and asked what happened did not even get a bollocking,
now purdy lodge has a world war 2 trench in the main park.
had to many to mention them all but funniest had to be when i was asked to meet a driver in ross to help unload a trailer of wine etc, have a bout 4 pallets left on the front and 2 at the back waighting for the flt totake them off, then pump truck decided to make a run for it , resulting in a very wet floor, 2 pallets and a pump truck in a pile and me giggling in the trailer like a school girl. the warehouseman was not a happy chap thho cus he had 2 sweep it up, still got asked 2 meet drivers overthere to unload for about a 2months after that 
not mine, but a mate of mine had just started on the transporters and he came to a tight t-junction and forgot that the bit above the cab keeps going forward and he wrecked a consevation house. not there any more. john wrecked it. 
On my petrol delivery job three drivers used to come in the same car as they travelled quite a distance so whenever there was a delay they always thought they would be holding the other two up. The answer was to rush and cut as many corners as possible. This started on a Monday morning when all the lorries had to queue up to load.To get first in the queue they had removed the bottom bolt from one of the metal stakes in the depot fence so it could be swung aside and they could squeeze through and get the first three places.
The law at the time was that you had to have a garage employee with you when you unloaded and paperwork had to be filled out as well and this meant a delay if your first drop was local and the garage was shut. To overcome this they had started delivering to some garages when they were shut and leaving the invoice in the letterbox.This was at the risk of being caught by the petroleum officer or the fire brigade.The laws were brought in when unattended deliveries were allowed and a spillage in Bristol resulted in vapour getting into a basement. The pilot light of a boiler ignited the vapour and the explosion destroyed the building and killed eleven people.
The blunder came when one of them was half unloaded at a garage and then realised he was at the wrong place.The obvious thing was to wait for the garage to open but this was lost time so he carried on to the right garage which was also closed and dropped what was left of the load and then came back to the depot to say what had happened.
Both garages came up with the same story that they could not possibly have had as much petrol as they did and the firm could not prove it so it was a nice earner for them. Cant remember how it was settled but we were contractors to the petrol company so I expect our firm covered the loss to keep it all hushed up. To list all the blunders and laws broken on that load it would have to be written on a toilet roll.
I was delivering at 5am to a garage with the owner in attendance and a passing police car stopped and said ,bit early for delivering isn,t it driver. I
suppose he thought there was a fiddle going on so its a good job I never tried the above.
The digger in the background slid into a ditch it was cleaning out in the somerset peat bog. The Scammell was sent to drag it out but sank into the bog itself. I don,t know how they managed to dig it out
not mine but a mates…he was on diversion and decided he knew better so took side road heading back to A1 
ended up reversing 3 miles in artic sweated his bollox off and smoked a whole packet of ■■■■, and it was dark but not too late to have lots of cars on the road took him 2 hours.heeee heeee heeee
not sure if this counts or not, well it must because i made a balls of it. went to leiscter in van, got back to diesel her up. we have 2 pumps one for lorries and one for cars/vans. i put in the lorry one and locked the trigger…yep you got it dont need to explain. funny thing was, the trigger didnt stop when the fuel started ■■■■■■■ out the tank. i got covered in the fukcing stuff. one bag of granuels later I could go home smelling like esso on a bad day 
port talbot based joint motorways had well over 100 trailers.though two (then new) coil liners were identical to look at, and numbered jm119 and 120 respectivley.the instance i refer to went like this, jm119 was loaded with coil for thyssen krupp in duisburg germany and jm120 loaded with coil for austin rover swindon.driver terry tamlyn who did alot of joints continental work opened the back doors in germany to tip and could see on the coil i.d. card the words austin rover,around about the same time trucknet member tony the tiger opened his back doors in swindon and saw german lettering on his coil…ooooops,not either drivers fault they coupled up to the trailers they were told to,straight fom the man in the swivel chair.
regards andrew
aye been there done it mate. flew up wrotham hill, wondered why, opened doors, empty…■■■■…
and as for all thewm clowns that say you should have checked it…go ■■■■ yourself.
o.k 1989 first agency job on an artic had my licence for three months and didn’t know my arse from my elbow, off I go to burtons biscuits in Cwmbran I report to the T.M and he tells me to go to the workshop about a mile away to collect the unit, get to the workshop there she is, bloody great big seddon atki with a twin splitter fitter says have you ever driven one of these before I say no he says no problem I need a trailer from the factory for service I will show you on the way, off we go. I take to the helm on return journey to pick up my trailer from the garage, back onto it tug forward all going well so far jump out wind up the legs connect the susies turn on the taps and yep you guessed it, I hadn’t applied the handbrake and off we go down the incline toward the fuel tank withe the fitter screaming pull the ******* red air line which I eventually did the truck stopped dead and I ended up in a heap tangled up in the susies, this episode had brought all the garage staff outside one of which was lying on his back laughing. When I eventually got going I was treated to a standing ovation from the fitters. I also once took 24 tons of coal to the invoice address instead of the delivery address doh!!! . The Burtons Biscuits factory is still there and the transport is done by D.H.L now I know this because i’m going there tomorrow at 13.30 for a driving assessment.
Had one last week…
I was delivering a used combine harvester from the dealer we do alot of work for, it was getting late, and I was tired, so I extended the trailer, loaded up the combine/header/header trailer, and took the combines wheels off (to make it norrower) and went home. The following morining I checked the load (combine, header, header trailer) and checked the truck and set off on my trip. I finally arrived at this farm in Yorkshire, got down the lane (although it was tight) and parked up. Met the farmer, who said “I will give you a hand”. I said, “OK, if you get the telehandler you can take off and help fit the… (turns looking at trailer)… err”. I had left the Combines wheels at the yard. Had to wait for or rigid to come and deliver them for me… oops.
I also have another one. I was working on general haulage about 5 year back, and arrived at one of our regular sites. I was told to back my trailer into bay, and then hook up our other trailer, which was parked in thier yard next to some other trailers and back it in next to it. At this site we use roller shutter boxes there (so no rear doors to open as they are opened by site staff). As I wend to get the second trailer to shunt in I saw it was a curtainsider, but thought nothing of it. Hooked up/clip/air/electric and legs. I then made my way to the space. The yard is a big one os I lined up before the reverse and backed in. Next thing there was this bang and my truck stopped suddenly. I looked back and saw I was still out so knew I was not in yet. I moved forward and gave it another try and same thing again, bang and stop short. “odd” I thought, so I jumped out and walked back. As I got half way I say the workers having a good laugh and a very damaged Mounty fork lift on the rear of my trailer… Boss was not best impressed.
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Like Mike68, mine happened at Burtons, only it was then called Westons Biscuits. I was on yard duty, and had coupled the appropriate units to trailers full of biscuits, but had missed the pin on one of them. As the driver pulled out, it dropped to its knees. The yard foreman said"Crumbs!"
A lesson learned, and I never, ever did it again.
leaving a numberplate on the trailer i had just dropped in inverness…then realised 3 hours later
gogzy:
leaving a numberplate on the trailer i had just dropped in inverness…then realised 3 hours later
come on you can do better than that.
The curse of the biscuit lives on, went for the aforementioned assessment at burtons biscuits today the scene of my first blunder. Met the T.M nice guy into bikes like me blah blah going well so far out with the assessor check unit, couple up, out for a drive not to bad get back to the yard it’s a bit tight, i only go and clip another trailer BUGGER! only minor cosmetic of all the thousands of times I’ve parked a trailer without a scratch AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
hi its the nig, we had so many senior moments on eurohaul its a job to know wich was best. trevor chapman, " shunter" backed trailor into workshop.it was cold so put door down a bit between cab and trailor, welded up trailor ok trev its done, ducked under door got in truck droveout taking door and welder with him. destroyed door blew main fuse at seb station door nicely folded up on catwalk, hey easy done"“” we used to have extra parking next to jamies on the corner, trev backed in under trailor ran back onto next trailor hitched up to trailor air lines on drove out pulled up at cross roads looked left ah"" 45.28 lowloader through back fence right across the road had to empty yard pull the trailor back through the fence, job done. green sash remember them! stopped at the office in queens terrace, how to get to the yard . ah easy turn left at townsends dockgate go left under iron bridge------ah but he made it with a tilt all the way through, one flat pack tilt good jobyy. good for me and rony rat. double time , to rebuild the tilt up the farm, loverly. one from me in dagenham yard filling up with diesel, ( i think ile adjust the brakes on the unit while i wait) noooo"" as i worked the tank filled making the unit heavier it chugged forward hit the diesel tank pushed all the front in oooops"" good job i was going to piant it anyway, the brakes were ok though ha! one driver took a 20ft to load grain at ipswitch from dagenham, got to ipswitch got out no wheels on the front n/s axle gone!! phoned up aurther. bring it back then, cant no wheels, your wheels are at the heathway dagenham. you got there with no wheels bring it back,we were called by another driver the wheels were at the heathway, by the time we got there the wheels were gone nicked"" butards. well thats lifeboy and thats a soap nuf 4 now by the nig""