If the lorries on the right are waiting to get on a bay. . why has the ■■■■ in the foreground right,got his frecking headlights on 
Nothing better than trying to reverse with a set of headlamps in your face.
Looks even worse than NFT Daventry.
Normally I wouldn’t have a problem just pulling a trailer off a dock if it benefited me.
However I was asked several years ago to move a trailer from the parking area onto the wash bay in Manchester, the trailer was owned by our German company but had been dropped off by a subcontractor. I should have and do know better but because we become complacent we forget things.
I reversed under this tank trailer and pushed the shunt valve. I moved the trailer in a dog leg no more than 30 yards Z
Unbeknown to me, (because I didn’t check,) there were a couple of brackets welded onto this trailer to hold a generator. These snagged on the chassis of my unit and smashed my tank compressor. I wasn’t particularly blamed for this incident but I felt awful for weeks, it was an inspired idea by our engineers, and no one had thought it could cause a problem, they had forgotten about our 6 wheel chassis as we had the only ones in the UK
Reasons for a check before coupling 
If I was legal to do it and it was a company I has a decent relationship with then yes I’d help them out if they’d square away a disclaimer.
For the average RDC I go to then no
Actrosman:
Knew I had one somewhere!! Not to easy to gain a full perspective but this is the yard from the car park gate…trucks on the left are on the bay, right side are waiting. It’s not a doctored pic or cropped, that’s straight off the iPhone. The 2 motors in the foreground show maximum available room when parked opposite, so you can guess what it’s like when it’s chocka…only the ‘bravest of the brave’ dare venture inside the gate after 6:30. Think I got one somewhere that was taken from ‘upstairs’ and in daylight.
Wherabouts is this ? 
one of those trucks in the yard is from the company I work for.
Anyways, how can someone be “Banned from site” for insisting upon UPHOLDING H&S regulations?
“Sorry bud but without being on your own staff payroll, I’m uninsured in your yard, you are breaking the law by asking me to work “off book”, and also VOSA would be interested to hear why you’re “demanding” (because it comes with threats of ‘banned from site’) that I “work my break” despite the fact that you’re not even my employer.”
Tell the clean high-viz hitlers where to get off, and be done with it.
Remember the old rule - “The cleanliness of the high viz is in inverse proportion to the importance of the individual wearing it.”
Winseer:
Anyways, how can someone be “Banned from site” for insisting upon UPHOLDING H&S regulations?“Sorry bud but without being on your own staff payroll, I’m uninsured in your yard, you are breaking the law by asking me to work “off book”, and also VOSA would be interested to hear why you’re “demanding” (because it comes with threats of ‘banned from site’) that I “work my break” despite the fact that you’re not even my employer.”
Tell the clean high-viz hitlers where to get off, and be done with it.
Remember the old rule - “The cleanliness of the high viz is in inverse proportion to the importance of the individual wearing it.”
clean hight viz hitlers LOL thats tickled me
Lycanthrope:
Actrosman:
Knew I had one somewhere!! Not to easy to gain a full perspective but this is the yard from the car park gate…trucks on the left are on the bay, right side are waiting. It’s not a doctored pic or cropped, that’s straight off the iPhone. The 2 motors in the foreground show maximum available room when parked opposite, so you can guess what it’s like when it’s chocka…only the ‘bravest of the brave’ dare venture inside the gate after 6:30Wherabouts is this ?
If I may direct you over here, viewtopic.php?f=2&t=111091 someone seems to be having a whinge! That’s where I run out of, so unless I can get away on time and therefore return early (I’m on nights) I have that shiz nearly every day! It makes you a God of Gods in the trucking fraternity and someone who should be bowed to!!
Top Tip: even if you have a 8/9/10 booking, get in early (4:30/5ish) if you can and you might get tipped. If you don’t get tipped, at least you’ll have a relatively empty yard as what is in there will normally be going out
Suedehead…they often sit there like that with lights on but it’s more annoying if someone is on bays 9/10/11 with their lights on and I’m trying to back in off the road onto those bays…that reminds me…
Top Tip #2 if you turn up after 6ish, park out on the road and have a wander in…hand your notes in and see what’s where, don’t go flying in as you might find it chockablock and if you end up sat in the middle of the yard, you won’t be to popular with those wanting to get out, plus you might get given a bay number there & then…8/9/10/11 are easiest attacked by backing in off the road. Bay 5 is also an easier one as there is room to move about but a proper ■■■■■ to get out off if it’s busy!
Wheel Nut:
However I was asked several years ago to move a trailer from the parking area onto the wash bay in Manchester, the trailer was owned by our German company but had been dropped off by a subcontractor. I should have and do know better but because we become complacent we forget things.
I reversed under this tank trailer and pushed the shunt valve. I moved the trailer in a dog leg no more than 30 yards ZUnbeknown to me, (because I didn’t check,) there were a couple of brackets welded onto this trailer to hold a generator. These snagged on the chassis of my unit and smashed my tank compressor. I wasn’t particularly blamed for this incident but I felt awful for weeks, it was an inspired idea by our engineers, and no one had thought it could cause a problem, they had forgotten about our 6 wheel chassis as we had the only ones in the UK
Reasons for a check before coupling
Oh aint that so true, when I was working for FM, I was picking up an unacompanied from Ipswich. So I just back straight under without really fully checking, anyway the legs were bent about 6-8 inches backwards at the bottom, and wouldnt wind up. Normaly this would have been put on a tressle but it hadnt and Ive banged straight underneath, and now getting loads off [zb] because as you might expect my TM was backing me fully not, and his reckoning who’s holding the baby is to blame.
Anyway because the Ferry Co didnt want the bill, and the shop steward loved any agro to get his teeth into. The Ferry Co checked the pics from the trailer being booked on at Ostende, that the driver dropping the trailer had entered the Port with the legs nearly on the ground, so he got the bill 
Wheel Nut:
Reasons for a check before coupling
As for favour shunting, that would be a call to the Office and let them sort/charge for it.
Frans Maas used to have depots all over Britain and Europe, and when I was first on for them you could go into any depot get pallets shifted about tidied up or whatever you needed, and like wise anytime they wanted trailer shunted not a problem. But gradually depots started to refuse to handle anything other than cargo due for them, so that was the end favour shunting.
You scratch my back and all that, nowadays its more like stab you in the back 
Were expected to shunt trailers within the yard for the customers whos goods we backhaul, but the majority of trailer belong to the company we pull for.
Others I won`t touch …
Got back late this morning and I had kindly been given bay 6…asked where the crane was to get it in and walked off…and put it on 11! Was one of the quieter days as it happened but they have no idea of allocating bays…1st ones in normally get bunged in the middle (5/6/7) and that pretty much beggars up the yard. 1st in should be on 11, 2nd in on 10, 3rd on 4 & 5th on 7…that keeps the turning area in the middle free then. Poor old Sparks was back & forth for ages…I think they’d put a small van on 7 & he had 6. Jet2 is on 5…I’d’ve got him to go on 6 & Sparks on 5 but hey, I’m not in the office!
