AndrewG:
Im sure we’ve all had a few, some minor some a little more expensive ones. I reversed a fully freighted tilt into the workshop doors and ripped the complete shutters off the runners, my ins covered it though, apart from some 
, no harm done to anyone.
Tbh though if your company is talking risk assessment retraining bollox over something so minor id be inclined to move on…
Andrew i don’t think you realise quite how Gt Britain has changed since you’ve been gorn, and still we’re flat out in the headlong race to the bottom, and not just in lorry world.
We’ve dumbed everything down to the lowest common denominator, this has ensured that skills, those that are irreplaceable and as few as possible, are at an all time minimum, we’ve gone from a design manufacture production country to a glorified warehouse stuffed to the rafters with Chinese plastic and electronic tat, Indian/Pakistani clothing, and other far eastern and eastern european furniture etc.
Due to the vast profits being made thanks to poverty wages for the workers where stuff is made, and so few ordinary workers being needed, the scale of admin and petty management, helped in no small way due to overlegislation, has seen the ratio of management to workers has changed dramatically, managers really are breeding like rats.
Course they arn’t really needed, half the sods could be got rid of and no bugger would spot the difference.
Up to a point immigration hasn’t helped, i’ve seen with mine own eyes these same managers are happy to recruit people with only pidgin English into jobs that require absolute spot on communication, hence leading to ■■■■ ups of expensive and epic proportion which can cost £thousands to correct in time and replacement costs.
Some of the recruits to jobs, Brit or otherwise really arn’t up to it, and the damage ratio to specialist equipment is staggering due to not really having the aptitude to the job.
Now the company doesn’t sit back and ask itself whats going wrong, and Heaven forbid ask the people at the coal face for their opinion…we’re in suits so we know best…so we dumb the job down and employ some more junior and middle management to make the system apparently foolproof, course handily those further up who cocked it up move further up the greasy pole, kerching, and each of these new managers wants to put their stamp on things to prove just how bloody clever they are and how They should be earmarked for promotion 
So we’ve dumbed the job down instead, thats great so we can recruit any bloody fool to do it, ‘cos you just know fellow managers we could train a monkey to do this job’ (yes i’ve actually heard that before, plus the ‘i can get drivers ten a penny’ ■■■■■■■■), so yes the job attracts, and they willingly employ, those who can manage to bollox up the completely foolproof system even worse.
It’s so utterly demoralising to those who take a pride in their work, those ironically who don’t need any bloody management at all, the job gets dumbed down, those who didn’t need all this bollox in the first place are still the ones carrying the job out day in day out without fail, so you’d think the company would have the sense to let the competent staff (who actually give a flying fig about the job 
) train the new staff on once the ‘trainers’ have done initial induction, yes you might well think that but oh no matey that isn’t going to happen, so we slide another 6 rungs down the ladder to the bottom.
The company by this time appears to have lost sight of whats happening, we get ■■■■ ups still so as the previous dumbing down didn’t work enough, we’d better do some more of the same until it does work, more managers still, more memos, more dumbing down.
Result, well just like in elections when you continually time after time vote for the same bunch who ruined everything, and still expect a different result next time, utter lunacy results.
