Did a load of steel to a building site in West Thurrock on Monday and the area where they had to tip me was a ■■■■■■■ disgrace. Soft ground with rebar all over the shop laying on the floor and stuck up out of the ground.
The Geordie Foreman was bang on saying how ■■■■ it was and that they had complained about it, one of our lads had a puncture the week before and they had a new forklift on the job and had a puncture. I’ve got to Wombourne tonight and noticed I’ve got a 8 nick split on my front N/S tyre and waiting now for a fitter to come out to fit a new tyre. 
Why is it that when building sites are set up they don’t put proper procedures in place for deliveries? I once took a load of steel to a site in Harrogate and I was one of the first deliveries, the site had not even put ■■■■■■■■ down for the trucks coming in so as soon as I got on site I sunk into the ground and had to be pulled out by JCB.
Another time I was delivering to a site in the Brecon Beacons where they were building a gas line all the way down into South Wales and same again had to be pulled onto site with a JCB. And when I had tipped I was going down the hill and the trees was that low the corner of the trailer hit a branch do big it come down and blocked the road. I had to go up to the site and ask them to get a JCB down with some chains to pull this great big duck off branch off the road while tipper trucks and farm tractors were waiting to come up the hill 
The fella said they had asked a tree surgeon to come out and cut the trees back to allow access but he hadn’t bothered coming out.
In my 20 years of driving I can say that nearly every site I have delivered to has not put procedures in place for the size and weight of trucks they’re going to get on site and that includes the Olympic site.
Anyone else on here think the same or have any shot building site stories to tell?
I’m quite lucky that my boss accepts my word if I phone up to say I’m refusing to take the truck onto a site that I don’t like the look of. If the forkie won’t come down to the site entrance to take his pallet off, it doesn’t get delivered. Been caught out too many times, up to the axles in crap and stuck with nowhere to turn round.
when i get to any site i always check it out before entering even if i used it a few times as they are always changing the routes in and out.plus if it does not right ill wait till they sort and let office know.even if they say they can pull me out.because end of the day if u get stuck and they pull u out and rip something off whos going to pay for it.
Just noticed the spelling mistakes and words that don’t make sense on my post. Blame the ■■■■■■■ I Phone spell checker! 
been toe to toe with a few site managers over the state of some of there tipping areas over the years, it’s even easier too cover your backside now with camera phones, take a pic and send it too the boss and let him decide.
What used to annoy me was the assumption that it was acceptable to cause damage to your lorry to get their stuff in or out, but touch a freshly laid kerb, piece of turf etc and they want a kings’ ransom in compensation.
Anything from trees breaking off cb aerials, punctures, digger drivers dropping half a bucket of muck down the side of the lorry, and general scratches and dents it seems that the vehicle owner should just shut up and pay up.
“Considerate Contractors” my arse…
Got the moffet stuck twice…had to pull it out with the unit once, and the unit twice aswell. 
This was on YouTube, drags on a bit but shows some of the problems mentioned.
All the time, as it’s my bread and butter. But thankfully as I have a Manitou, I keep the truck on something stable, and let ol’ tripod go over the soft stuff. Far easier to try and drag out 2.5t, than 32t.
I have always said if I won the lottery and built my own place, the very thing to go in would be a nice wide access and a ring road, round my new “house” capable of having an artic drive round it with ease!
F-reds:
I have always said if I won the lottery and built my own place, the very thing to go in would be a nice wide access and a ring road, round my new “house” capable of having an artic drive round it with ease!
Or a decent site stacker driver that is actually willing to do his job instead of making a game out of seeing just how far he can push you to get the stock where he wants it with the bare minimum of effort by himself…
A common problem with tippers, contractors always tend to build a road out instead of a road in. 
Having said that I think we had far more tyre damage done delivering to foundries (anyone remember them ha ha?) than on construction sites! 
Pete.
What a nightmare that reverse looked like on that video?!
Cotswoldcrunch:
What used to annoy me was the assumption that it was acceptable to cause damage to your lorry to get their stuff in or out, but touch a freshly laid kerb, piece of turf etc and they want a kings’ ransom in compensation.
Anything from trees breaking off cb aerials, punctures, digger drivers dropping half a bucket of muck down the side of the lorry, and general scratches and dents it seems that the vehicle owner should just shut up and pay up.
“Considerate Contractors” my arse…
Ill echo that, people seen to think it’s ok to wade your cab through a tree and scratch the ■■■■ out of it because it’s a work tool, ■■■■■■■■. I always say would you drive your car through that hedge, tree or drive over that pile of crap and bust your tyres. When the reply ‘no obviously I wouldn’t’ comes I just say well there you go then you have it delivered here or get someone else, I’m lucky if I tell the office ill do damage they know it can’t be done and I get told to leave. No one thanks you for getting the lorry in places just to make there life’s easier it’s not worth risking it for them.
Interesting vid’, but what was the beeper that went off in the cab a few times ? The rear steer trailers don’t seem to need a lot of room going round corners.
It says ERF not RAF:
This was on YouTube, drags on a bit but shows some of the problems mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnOBBvqkJsM
I’m sure that housing estate used to be a factory as we used to deliver seats from Tredegar there and that’s the exact same way we went into it. Crabtrees from New Mills has trucks in there. The factory was bang the side of that low bridge and that tight right hand bend was a right ■■■■■■■■ if it had been raining you would really struggle to get around and up the hill plus at winter the leaves off the trees made it a whole lot worse.
Luckily every time I went I never met a truck coming the other way out of the factory. ■■■■ knows what happend if you did as there are no passing spots to let anyone through! 
Used to get sites like that all the time when I was on drawbars, used to enjoy the challenge of getting the lorry and drag in and out without getting stuck or damaging anything 
Forkies always wanting the blocks in the furthest most inaccessible corner used to get my back up, I just put them down where I could and get them to move em after I’ve gone, that’s what they’re there for anyway 
I hate it when they build the houses at the front of the site first so then you have to queeze past badly parked cars and angry residents who don’t want you delivering there
got it in one steve , the old bowaters/harcostar site at disley . i wish i had a pound for every time i’ve been there . it was bad in the wet , especially with 24 ton of paper for the drum factory . cheers , dave
peterm:
Interesting vid’, but what was the beeper that went off in the cab a few times ? The rear steer trailers don’t seem to need a lot of room going round corners.
I think the beeping is the sensor on the passenger side to warn of pedestrians on the n/s of the truck (though it goes off everytime you go past a parked car, fence, crap on a building site etc), he mentions it on one of the other videos.
It’s not a rear steer trailer, it’s a rigid 6 wheeler.
Thanks, yet another ■■■■■■■ distraction ! I thought he mentioned rear steer; thought he wasn’t taking much room going round corners.
peterm:
Thanks, yet another [zb] distraction ! I thought he mentioned rear steer; thought he wasn’t taking much room going round corners.
He did mention rear steer because it’s a 6 wheeler with a rear steer axle !