Pulled up outside a shop the other day and as I walked across the carpark a car pulled up alongside me and the driver says “sorry to bother you but you’re leaking alot of fluid from your brakes” I was pulling a tri axle flat trailer and the weather was showery so the roads were wet and then dry in places,I looked at him and said are you sure? He says yes,I’ve been a truck driver all my life and when you stopped at the lights back there a load of fluid was leaking from your back axle! He says, you’d want to get them looked at or else all your brake fluid will be gone and you’ll have no brakes 
I actually know the man to see and he did drive trucks all his life and is now retired,I just looked at him and kept a straight face and said,thanks for that I’ll check them out when I get back to the yard 
If he’d never driven a truck I’d understand but christ what on earth made him think there was any sort of fluid in the brakes of a trailer!!! So what has been pointed out to you by a concerned but clueless motorist?
I was once told that the front wheels on my trailer were off the ground and I should get the mechanic to check them out 
Some Time ago was Fluid in the Brakes,like on cars.
The usual one is “eh drive your fridge is chucking out diesel” ( defrost water ) ! I usually say yeh I know but I’ll get it back the yard ! Leaves em agape.
Immigrant:
Some Time ago was Fluid in the Brakes,like on cars.
There was air over hydraulic, not sure about fluid all the way though, lose quite a bit dropping and swapping trailers I think, that’d be costly.
Got flagged down by a car driver one who told me that my chains were dangerously loose on the stillages I was carrying.
I pointed out that they were in fact strapped down tight and the chains that he could see sagging were the lifting ones for the crane.
we worked on Fluid till 1983 if i remember right.
Then they had already a Air-servo which helped pressing the Pedal as like as Clutch got later then.
Steyr 780, then there was a Daf Rigid,Magirus Deutz (German Part of Iveco)
Immigrant:
we worked on Fluid till 1983 if i remember right.
Then they had already a Air-servo which helped pressing the Pedal as like as Clutch got later then.
Steyr 780, then there was a Daf Rigid,Magirus Deutz (German Part of Iveco)
quite possibly on a rigid, but on a tri-axle semi trailer 
Had another driver tell me my brake lights weren’t working on the last 3 roundabouts. I had slowed it with the retarder and blended onto the roundabouts like I was taught to do
Ran the unit a trailer through a wash in Liverpool once and headed of to the boat, only to get a knock on the door while stopped at lights to find a plain clothes police officer holding his warrant card in a bit of a panic asking was I carrying any dangerous chemicals cos my load was ■■■■■■■ out my back doors, he was a bit red faced when I told him it was just water from the wash running down the back doors. I was only carrying frozen pizzas suppose they’d be dangerous if I was to hit someone with one.
i got stopped in coventry as i had just come out of a factory by an old couple in there car and was told…“excuse me driver but someones left the forklift hanging out of the back of your trailer”…(moffett).i replied"them stupid forklift drivers told me they had unloaded me"…they just looked at me and thought we just saved your bacon you dumb driver!
Running down the M6 one day with a combine, had a car pull along side in the middle lane with a family on board. They started peeping the horn and pointing back at the trailer, as it wasn’t far from Corley Services I did the brew gesture and pulled in to see what the problem was. They pulled alongside and the mother dropped her window and she told me there was a pidgeon on the low loader under the combine, and they were worried about it 
. I got out and walked down the trailer to see what the problem was, after locking the doors and keeping a wary eye on this car load of nutters/animal lovers. Sure enough there was a racing pidgeon on the trailer under the combine, hovering up the last few bits of grain that had fallen from the underbelly of the combine, happy as Larry and as stuffed as a pig 
waynedl:
Immigrant:
Some Time ago was Fluid in the Brakes,like on cars.There was air over hydraulic, not sure about fluid all the way though, lose quite a bit dropping and swapping trailers I think, that’d be costly.
Trailers after the war build had Air-pressure Brakes.
Fluid was like on a Car,but as Cars used Vaccum from the Engine Lorries got help from Air-Pressure helping to press the Pedal.
i remember a new driver stopped me in our yard must have been in the 80s and told me he couldnt find the brake fluid…reservior>?after telling him the maggies and leylands were full air.
turned out he was ex army and the truck…s he had drove were air over hydraulic.
turnip:
The usual one is “eh drive your fridge is chucking out diesel” ( defrost water ) ! I usually say yeh I know but I’ll get it back the yard ! Leaves em agape.
You often get the drains on tankers dripping, especially after cleaning out, or with tankers when the insulation is damaged and wet, as the tank is warm it forces condensation out of the bottom. If it is water coming from the drains you can just stick your finger under, taste it and say, yes it’s acid, I will report it Thanks… 
One day when I was a docker we were loading re bars from a coaster from Turkey straight onto flat bed lorries but some were not allowed to get wet, well one day a shower came along so they covered up the hatch and we just stood round chatting for a bit.
Anyway one of the dockers went round the side of a forklift to take a leak, a couple of minutes later a bored lorry driver came over to us for a chat and said did we know our forklift was leaking fluid and he then proceeds to rub his fingers in it and sniff them saying he thinks its coolant. We were wetting ourselves with laughter.
Wheel Nut:
turnip:
The usual one is “eh drive your fridge is chucking out diesel” ( defrost water ) ! I usually say yeh I know but I’ll get it back the yard ! Leaves em agape.You often get the drains on tankers dripping, especially after cleaning out, or with tankers when the insulation is damaged and wet, as the tank is warm it forces condensation out of the bottom. If it is water coming from the drains you can just stick your finger under, taste it and say, yes it’s acid, I will report it Thanks…
dont forget the gases coming out of the top of the tank mate, or is it steam from a hot water wash…
tbh ive been approched by concerned people about 3 times… explain to them that the inside the tank has just been washed out and they are quite surprised tankers are cleaned inside. at least they ahve learnt something new that day…
whilst on a mixer I got to a site and saw what the job was, and asked if they wanted the load wetting up as it was ordered at a stiff slump, so revs on and starting adding extra water, needed a fair bit of water and one of the lads who were going to be laying it shouted to his boss that i had bougt an empty load as none was coming out!
Of course we’ve all heard the one about the gritter driver and the blonde
Think every1 has had the ‘drive I think your lorry is on fire!!’, I was delivering to an Asda store when a young lad come runnin round shouting stop stop move your lorry quick it’s on fire!!! . . . I turned my night heater off and carried on tipping! Lol