I’d love to know after what happened yesterday. Was down at our place in Wombourne and had pulled off a bay to allow one of our drivers to back onto it and then I was going to reverse back and have a break. So I pulled just around the corner of the warehouse to let our driver on and an agency driver who is working for us was coming the other way ( this ain’t a Pop at agency drivers as we have 3 others who are sound lads and do a good job)
He came to a stop and I put my 2 fingers up to him ( not the v sign by the way!) 
to say " 2 minutes and I’d reverse back what did he do? Just cracked on regardless and mounted a grassed pavement and tried to squeeze past a gap you wouldn’t attempt, his o/s top corner of the trailer caught the sliding roof trailer I had on about halfway down and proceeded to tear a 1 metre section of the roof off the trailer 
I’m blasting my horn calling him a stupid prick and all sorts yet he tried carrying on regardless then realised he couldn’t make it without causing more damage. I got out to take pics and he came up chewing on a lollipop stick as though nothing had happend and came out with, " I guess I’ll take a pic for my prosperity" 
I wonder if the agency who employ him will have the same attitude when they get the bill to repair the roof? 
It would be a bill for a damaged load too if it had rained last night and got inside the trailer.
They get truck drivers from where you, me, and the majority of others (many on here) came from. 
They get absolute unemployable, incompetent, thick, ■■■■ whits from where he, and lately many others unfortunately (also some on here) came from.
Hope that helps…you’re welcome 
Sorry to say, its like it in most industries today, people only doing what they have to do to get by and earn a wage. Work ethics and professionalism has gone out the window, sorry to say quite afew agency drivers have this couldnt give a toss attitude, which gives the small numbers of good ones a bad name.
They get truck drivers from where you, me, and the majority of others (many on here) came from.
They get absolute unemployable, incompetent, thick, ■■■■ whits from where he, and lately many others unfortunately (also some on here) came from.
Hope that helps…you’re welcome
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Yes I’d agree with that thanks Robroy.
I was driving along an unclassified country road just the other day when I met another lorry, I thought we could just about pass, got onto the brakes and was slowing down but was alarmed to notice he wasn’t. He just swerved onto the verge at speed and left an unsightley trench behind him. I try to stay on the road, I wonder how long he’ll get away with that before he meets a verge which won’t support him.
It could easily be argued that the op himself is one of the people in his question.
As he was sat in his cab watching the drama slowly unfold, with predictable results, why not get out and stop it before it happened? And yes, I’ve done just this many times in the past after having the same done to me some while back by an artic-steering muppet from Hull, (aren’t they always ), who scraped down the side of my 3-month old wagon in an otherwise empty York lorry park!
Call me belligerent if you need to, but I will happily bollock anyone who threatens to damage the property in my care.
threewheelsonmywagon:
It could easily be argued that the op himself is one of the people in his question.As he was sat in his cab watching the drama slowly unfold, with predictable results, why not get out and stop it before it happened? And yes, I’ve done just this many times in the past after having the same done to me some while back by an artic-steering muppet from Hull, (aren’t they always
Call me belligerent if you need to, but I will happily bollock anyone who threatens to damage the property in my care.
Not being funny but I was blasting my horn all the while and he could see what he was doing himself. It was though he had the , " ■■■■ it I’m not waiting I need to be off" attitude. I’d gladly get out and tell them if it was a case of them not being able to see say down one side of the unit and trailer or something in the way at the back but this plank had a full view of what was going off in both mirrors.
You could put a ■■■ paper between the building and my trailer so why attempt such a manoeuvre in the first place?
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
You could put a ■■■ paper between the building and my trailer so why attempt such a manoeuvre in the first place?
is that a rolled ■■■ paper or folded … it makes a difference you know
as its been said Steve there are an alarming number of people yes i use the word PEOPLE coming into the industry who are unfortunately using it as a ways to make money and nothing else …
Swampey2418:
Sorry to say, its like it in most industries today, people only doing what they have to do to get by and earn a wage. Work ethics and professionalism has gone out the window, sorry to say quite afew agency drivers have this couldnt give a toss attitude, which gives the small numbers of good ones a bad name.
small numbers of good ones 
It all sadly comes under the general banner “Lack of respect”.
Both for other people and their property.
There are a few polish agency where I work and they’re all spot on. Friendly, helpful, and get on with their jobs. I’m as much against the sheer number of immigrants over here as anyone else but I think the snide comments against them from most other drivers are out of order.
I always thought the golden rule with trucks, is stay on the black. End of. Verges usually collapse under LGV weight. Only time I’ve taken a truck onto grass was tipping seed at a farm. Only place was his grassed field. Thing left big enough trenches but knew there was a few track’ors to pull me out!
i spent a cpl days in my truck bringing back a bulgarian dude who had broken down and was spot on,and if i could get 5 times my normal wage in poland,id be driving around warsaw just now.its not their fault for chasing the dosh,its the goverments fault for giving them the means to do so here…in the 60s all the paddys were in the uk building motorways,in the 70s i was chasing the bucks tramping europe and a few to saudi,in the 80s we were all in germany doing our auf weidershen bit,and in recent years its here come the flipflops over here.to be fair,so what goes round etc.there driving standards in general are basically the subject matter of the o/p though.anything they drive seems to have more hits than the beatles.
In our local paper yesterday polish driver was jailed for supplying a false license to obtain his hgv using his polish license. Turns out he’s been done over here for drink driving and banned. So applied for another one. Salt of the earth
I don’t know Steve but they all must work at your place.
One of yours stopped on hard shoulder Friday afternoon tightening his straps nothing wrong with that accept they were holding the roof on because the driver had pulled the trailer the wrong way through a low bridge.
Not an agencey driver either he had a fresh green uniform on.
Did he defect it?
Bad week for trailers at E Bye Gum Haulage.
dieseldog999:
i spent a cpl days in my truck bringing back a bulgarian dude who had broken down and was spot on,and if i could get 5 times my normal wage in poland,id be driving around warsaw just now.its not their fault for chasing the dosh,its the goverments fault for giving them the means to do so here…in the 60s all the paddys were in the uk building motorways,in the 70s i was chasing the bucks tramping europe and a few to saudi,in the 80s we were all in germany doing our auf weidershen bit,and in recent years its here come the flipflops over here.to be fair,so what goes round etc.there driving standards in general are basically the subject matter of the o/p though.anything they drive seems to have more hits than the beatles.
The driver I’m talking about mate sounds as though he’s from the Plymouth region of Poland
Jack-knife:
I don’t know Steve but they all must work at your place.
One of yours stopped on hard shoulder Friday afternoon tightening his straps nothing wrong with that accept they were holding the roof on because the driver had pulled the trailer the wrong way through a low bridge.
Not an agencey driver either he had a fresh green uniform on.
Did he defect it?
Bad week for trailers at E Bye Gum Haulage.
Yep he tried going under a 13 foot 3 inch bridge with a 14 foot 11 trailer 
Well he told us he had slowed right down before he hit it he was going a bit quicker than slow to cause the damage he did put it that way. He backloaded out of St Austell and decided to park up in Bodmin which is where he hit the bridge I understand.
He rang the old bill who said thankfully it wasn’t a mainline railway bridge he had hit but a steam railway one but it’ll still be a big insurance Bill coming through the post I suspect.
I’m sure he won’t do it again.
Having to pull it all the way back from Bodmin
Least he got an early finish Friday
Or was it for longer?
Agency bloke on our place hit a bridge just off Hangar Lane roundabout 13’3 job in a 14’2 trailer. Wouldn’t be so bad but the exit from the roundabout (first one off the North Circ’) is so ■■■■ tight its a wonder he didn’t take out the signs warning of the impending height and width limits.
He hit the bridge, without stopping to report it. And proceeded to his collection point.
Naturally the folk there said that they couldn’t load a parallelogram, but he said it would be ok, he’d just give it a good old ram or three onto the bay and it’d be as right as rain. It’d square it up no problem.
Needless to say he is no longer driving for us.
Jack-knife:
I’m sure he won’t do it again.
Having to pull it all the way back from Bodmin
Least he got an early finish Friday
Or was it for longer?
I’ve told him next time he hits s bridge to pick the one up Penistone so he’s only got a 5 mile drive back to the yard
He be able to get under that one now no problems.
As long as he hasn’t defected it