Tight delivery spaces

Not tight as difficult to reverse in, but more difficult to reach delivery points.


Tipping chocolate for Kendal Mint Cake


The people in the houses accept there is not much they can do.


The delivery point is underneath the loading ramp in a cellar


The set is directly below the Fridge van on the ramp

Wheelnut, Who do you drive for ?

James

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.

Marks and Spencer on Alfred Gelder Street. Hull

goo.gl/maps/peHb

goo.gl/maps/DUba

That was always a difficult one, especially before the Clive Sullivan Way opened in Hull and that was the main thoroughfare to the Docks

Dads bit of reversing in one of the industrial estates at Slough.

Hes impressed with it, apparently its the straightest hes ever got it on and in one go. I want to know who did it for him :laughing:

joeg that place is montana bakery in colnbrook its a ■■■■ hole stuff everyware and cars parked all over the place :imp: :imp:

love sponge:
joeg that place is montana bakery in colnbrook its a [zb] hole stuff everyware and cars parked all over the place :imp: :imp:

Dad said its got better since they moved some stuff from the side. But he heard they were having a place built across the road?

Any of you guys had to deliver to pulp friction in Erith? That’s good fun when the yard is full

Anybody done telegraph and Argus Bradford? Blindside gate, road uphill, yard downhill, bay 12ft wide,when in with 40ft could just shut door.

I think this bit of road is the worst I’ve had to go up in a sizeable truck:-

maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=broadhe … 93,0,0.91

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.

Ooh! I think I can beat a few of these…


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.

Durrans at penistone

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not really tight but gota get it right,handrail touches side of building and just had enuf hose to reach silo had to go thru wall

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British Sugar bury st edmunds.

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 :open_mouth:

The Durrans one looks fun mate :stuck_out_tongue:

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 :unamused:

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.

this is a farm up in Llanfair TH, nice and tight :grimacing: :grimacing:

kindle530:
Had a job opening the door here. Leeds.

Is this an optical illusion or are you in some sort of lift?

KW:
Ooh! I think I can beat a few of these…


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. :smiley:

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. :frowning:

grumpybum:

kindle530:
Had a job opening the door here. Leeds.

Is this an optical illusion or are you in some sort of lift?

that would be correct :wink:

shuttlespanker:

grumpybum:

kindle530:
Had a job opening the door here. Leeds.

Is this an optical illusion or are you in some sort of lift?

that would be correct :wink:

that is a truck lift mate in Leeds, quite bizzare but a good bit of kit, apart from not being quite wide enough.