charlie one:
I once did a mixed load of glider engines and sky hooks.
Know what you mean, you need to be carefull when you load bags of hens teeth cos they’re much heavier than they look!! 
I also remember being asked what’s the heavier, 20 tons of feathers or 20 tons of lead!! I’m not stupid, everyone knows that lead is heavier than feathers. 
Ross.
I once got a load of dogs for Barking.
And a load of arrows for Bow. 
There are a lot of post hole’s need hauling down this way,also some hurdle seed.
Charlie one, what brewery was you comming out of, I ask this, for I used to see tankers with harp on at some I used to deliver Carlsberg.
Semtex:
Whats the betting that if this was in the PDF it would be full of3663
Brake bros
British/allied bakerys
etc etcI’ve not been doing the job long enough to have some real horror stories but I suppose the closest I came was the Sewage tankers for Gregory. I only got the gig because everyone else on the agency chicked out at the mention of Raw Sewage
To be honest once you got used to the smell (couple of days) the job itself was a doddle…domestic hours too
you have been in the game long enough for at least one horror story !!!
Norman Ingram:
Charlie one, what brewery was you comming out of, I ask this, for I used to see tankers with harp on at some I used to deliver Carlsberg.
Norman I worked out of Harp Lager Alton in .69/70 AS you know it became Bass much later on after my time.Good job.Leyland Octopus No power steering of course.Fifteen shunts to get into Courage on Southwark Brisdge road( Swing that lamp and I will tell you a story).Sorry lads.This has got nothing to do with this thread.I get carried away Regards Charlie
Yes been there many times both places, also Mortlake, Isleworth, Wandsworth, and many more in London.
charlie one:
Norman Ingram:
Charlie one, what brewery was you comming out of, I ask this, for I used to see tankers with harp on at some I used to deliver Carlsberg.Norman I worked out of Harp Lager Alton in .69/70 AS you know it became Bass much later on after my time.Good job.Leyland Octopus No power steering of course.Fifteen shunts to get into Courage on Southwark Brisdge road( Swing that lamp and I will tell you a story).Sorry lads.This has got nothing to do with this thread.I get carried away Regards Charlie
charlie one:
I once did a mixed load of glider engines and sky hooks.Got pulled on the weighbridge at Abingdon and got done for overweight.What a bummer.Regards Charlie
Funnily enough we used to do a lot of aerospace gear as return loads. Usually it was filling for hot air balloons. Though once i was given an overloaded trailer of Budgies that i had to keep stopping and hit the sides with a spanner so i could get the weight down.
Chris Webb:
I once got a load of dogs for Barking.And a load of arrows for Bow.
Chris, while you were down The Smoke did you ever get a load of horns for Tooting 
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did local monday morning then had to load mayonnaisse at erith afternoon for morrisons 9am tuesday. lovely job i thought. so they put these tubs of mayo onto trailer, 3 high on pallet andd the tubs were about the size of a waste paper basket/bin. no shrink wrap. no way could you strap it and i knew it was a bugger of a load. so i asked jolly dave (the biggest c**t you ever met) to put 2 GKNs onto trailer and i’d strap them onto back 2 pallets. can’t do that he said, so i thought well ive asked so ■■■■ you. runs up to pontefract for the night to my wee industrial estate near the haribo factory. stopped parking i lorry park by now. goes down spins round then runs uphill onto wrong side of road, next to battery/exhaust place, clothes already changed after shower on way up, out motor and up the town for a lemonade. woke up next morning, no need to hurry booked 9am. gets out for a ■■■■ and there were folk everywhere…oh hell, i’m bursting so i have to sort of sneak down side of trailer and get the chappie out for a pee. aahhh relief beyond belief. best check load now. got to back of trailer and I could see white stuff dripping out the seals. opened the door and it looked like a load of whales had had an ■■■■ in the back. the place was covered in mayo. i only had about just over half a load on and the whole load had shot back. so before anyone says i should have looked the night before, yes your right, but im glad i didn’t cause that would have fkd my night up anyway there was/is a bus garage at the bottom of theroad and i managed to get the guy to steam clean the trailer out while i threw all the mayo from the burst tubs down the drain. the guy was happy to take the empty tubs. i didnt ask why. 
anyway about anhour later we’ve got the load sort of sorted out and ive given him as much mayo as he wants(sealed tubs) and off to morrisons i trot. story is to them the load is short of a few pallets. get called under canopy, pull sheets and whaaooop, loads of mayo on deck. i forgot about the stuff between the sheets and the chassis.load refused…
r slicker:
any load out of gate 13 rotherham nuff said.
remember them days curnock ■■. hell eh loads of night out and day sleeps waiting to strip out and get the over the top hse. bunch of tossers
we used to load out of j smiths tadcaster with 4-wheel units so we used to put first 2 pallets directly over drive axle. my mate said cross the straps over each other and the load will never move. had reno oh no at the time. you braked and for a split second nothing happened, then brakes would come on. caught a a few of us out that did. anyway 3 of us coming south heading for luvvies cafe southbound just after M62 meets A1. coming to said junction and there was a fair bit of traffic coming onto A1 from 62. So of course car overtaking me pulls in in front of me at entry slip road, realises he’s a ■■■■■ and hits the brakes. so ive braked and ■■■■ alls happened and i can nearly read his chassis number and ive braked even harder, and uv guess it…bang, whole 22 pallets have moved forward ripping the straps out the rails. the last pallets were only half full of beer and the head board was a right old state. mind you only the 4 front pallets actually toppled the rest just slid. whole load had to be restacked!!!
Jimmy M, that was normal occurance for us,I told the management the pallet of can should be band wrapped with cellaphane , but did they listen, “NO”, They put straps inbetween each pallets, they still moved, after hundreds of loads being re-done, then they took my advice and shrinked wrapped them, but of course we are only HGV drivers, we only load several times every day. 
hi norman.yes you are right there. you can’t tell them what to do coz then that makes you more clever than them but we are only drivers. they are the ones with the brains. now this one I could never work out where they were coming from. I loaded an odd number of pallets out of Brackmills a few years ago, and the single pallet went over. so i got in the back of the trailer and stacked all the shot boxes into a neat pile on the floor. anyway I gets called into office and asked why I done that??^%$*■■?mmmmmmmmmmmm what■■? So I said, well I had 3 choices, I could either have done what I did which I thought was right in my eyes, or I could have left the boxes lying in a heap, which would have been wrong, or I could have stacked them all up on the pallet again for them all to fall off again at next roundabout!! he just looked at me said nothing. I walked out shaking my head. mind you that was the same t/m who couldn’t understand how a unit was burning twice as much oil after they put it on nights as well as days!! he pulled the two drivers in and as much as they tried to explain double the mileage double the oil, he just couldn’t see it! and these poeple are allowed to breed! 
Bales of waste paper, did it 18 years ago took me nearly an hour to rope and sheet the ■■■■■■■■■■ things horrible. Also anything involving the use of a drawbar.
mike68:
Bales of waste paper, did it 18 years ago took me nearly an hour to rope and sheet the [zb] things horrible. Also anything involving the use of a drawbar.
I got handed a Daf 75 300 draw bar outfit (A frame turning front axle) loaded with 15 drops London and south coast. I have never reversed one of those ! You’ll have an idea when you get back was the reply. I had to learn to reverse it but I didn’t do it in one trip, it was a good month or so before I got the hang of it. Had that for a few years and then got an artic back and started cutting corners as it never followed you as well as the draw bar.
yes trev, I got landed with one of them after passing my 1. hate the buggers with a vengance even now! bad memories of tying myself in knots with the fukcers. we got one about 8 years ago when i was shunting and had to teach myself how to reverse it. done not too bad but I’d still like to see someone drop a bomb on the whole fukcing lot of them 
jimmy m:
yes trev, I got landed with one of them after passing my 1. hate the buggers with a vengance even now! bad memories of tying myself in knots with the fukcers. we got one about 8 years ago when i was shunting and had to teach myself how to reverse it. done not too bad but I’d still like to see someone drop a bomb on the whole fukcing lot of them
Hi Jimmy,
I got on ok with it after a while, but on a days holiday the TM rang me at home to ask if I would be back the next day. Why ask? “we need the load off the draw bar” The problem turned out to be that he had asked 2 others guys they had told him go forth, he then said it can’t be that hard tried it himself and got it stuck up the corner of the yard round a steel post. They got it back out with a fork truck and left it for me. The next day his opening line was," I never dreamt it was so difficult to reverse that thing" I replied that it never seemed to bother him when he sent me to London with 20 drops on it ! but his next line floored me ! " I don’t pay you enough for driving that" and fair play to the guy next week I got a good rise ! So in a way I got to live with it, I was independant, no arguments over loads and nobody else wanted to drive it
hi trev, well at least it worked out well for you. the 4 or so lads I worked with in Aberdeen were dab hands at reversing them, could put them anywhere!!
My experience with drags was when I was with Mays Motors in the 60s.I did a daily run from Godalming to Histon Cambs.4 sheets and 2 fly sheets! The job entailed backing on your blind side into a hanger.Great! No power steering.So I used to drop the pup and push it in.Went on holiday and when I returned,power steering had been fitted.Result Easy (Well nearly easy).Regards Charlie