Dont know if any of you older drivers remember Bellis and Morcom at Birmingham. Watched a four wheel ERF without power steering trying to back in hampered by a couple of badly parked cars. It took him twenty two shunts to get in. He must have had muscles on his muscles, Me with my power steering made it in two.
I prefer the “unsuitable for wide vehicles” bit on the way in and the “unsuitable for HGVs” route on the way out. Just ahead of where the link is there is a hard-to-see low wall to the left which you can just miss if you tuck the mirror in and just miss the tree to your right. This is done in a 15-tonner OK but not in anything bigger and is usually more overgrown than when the google van went.
Jaguar at Halewood.
Now this looks bigger than it is,but the space you see here between the kerbs is only just the length of the truck and you have to get it as straight as possible because…
the gap either side of the trailer is about two and a half ■■■ papers…
and as we had to open the doors before reversing in because we could only unload from the back,there were quite a few damaged or ripped off door stays.
And we had left hookers and had to reverse in on the blind side!
Or there was this one in Malaga…
where the ramp was offset from the entrance and the only way was to get the unit over without clouting the wall.
Again,blindside.
That picture just shows how some of these factories think, they are frightened to death of contamination yet a 12’ piece of stainless tube could easily sort that out
The Durrans one looks fun mate
I used to do a job in France, we had to carry a minimum of 60metres of delivery hose which meant dragging three pieces of extra hose up the ladders to carry on the catwalk
Collection just south of Huddersfield, n/s mirror in the bushes and overhanging roof on o/s, kink at bottom with big tree trunk you can’t see sticking out. Managed it in one wasn’t as bad as I thought. ■■■■■■ pickup driver said he had trouble getting in and was amazed they asked attics to go down. Only way to got stuff on meant 3 inch overhang both sides.
Jaguar at Halewood.
Now this looks bigger than it is,but the space you see here between the kerbs is only just the length of the truck and you have to get it as straight as possible because…
the gap either side of the trailer is about two and a half ■■■ papers…
and as we had to open the doors before reversing in because we could only unload from the back,there were quite a few damaged or ripped off door stays.
And we had left hookers and had to reverse in on the blind side!
Hi KW,
I thought those three pics looked familiar.
I used to load gearboxes (transaxles) out of those same bays at Halewood many years ago when it was Ford’s.
Our destinations were either:
Saarlouis
Genk
Köln
Düren
or
Karmann Ghia (Rheine,) Osnabrück
The offload points at Ford, Düren were almost a copy of those at Halewood, and defo not much fun with a tilt.