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And check your pin too that takes about 1 second, we had a driver stop at Sedgemoor services popped in for some food from the shop came out 10 mins later and his pin was pulled so good job he checked. 
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im shocked another driver would take out the clip and pull the pin on someone else’s trailer,why on earth would they do that? They’d have to be extremely ■■■■■■ off and knowing full well the consequences,I mean what do you have to do to make someone that ■■■■■■ off ?it’s bonkers !
I’m still quite new to this artic lark ( 6 months ) and I do have a little check down the sides of trailer and make sure back doors are ok after a visit to the shop/toilet/pub but must admit on not checking the pin. Obviously I do at start of shift or after a night out etc…I bloody will now
another thing to check after a stop…make sure someone hasn’t written some abuse on your dirty back doors,such as ‘caution-agency driver’
Beggersbanquet:
im shocked another driver would take out the clip and pull the pin on someone else’s trailer,why on earth would they do that? They’d have to be extremely ■■■■■■ off and knowing full well the consequences,I mean what do you have to do to make someone that ■■■■■■ off ?it’s bonkers !
I’m still quite new to this artic lark ( 6 months ) and I do have a little check down the sides of trailer and make sure back doors are ok after a visit to the shop/toilet/pub
It’s not just other lorry drivers who have the opportunity and/or motive (however misguided) to do such things. Bored teenagers would be top of my list of suspects…
I now and again knock agency drivers. But in all fairness, I have never seen an agency bod graffiti on anyone’s vehicle.
They cant read or write.
5 minutes in the loo = 20 illegals in the back of trailer and sat ready waiting for their onward journey.
5 minutes = the loss of valuable goods in transit without you even noticing and = the door/s swinging open.
The latter being cos you failed the basic primary instinct - self preservation. sorry , but its true.
Hope you enjoyed your ■■■ though 
Is the 2 seconds / 10 seconds / 30 seconds difference dependant on the time served of the agency driver? The longer the service the more of a limp they develop?
As for checking for graffiti, a work mate stuck a gay ■■■■ picture on the front of my truck and it stayed there all day. I was wondering why I was getting funny looks at pedestrian crossings and traffic lights 
nodding donkey:
So far we have been given ‘10 minutes’, ’ 3 minutes’, ‘2 minutes’ for a walk around check. Is there a consensus as to which is right? I dont want to look like a dud taking 10 minutes walking around my rig, when 2 minutes would suffice. …
I for one have never seen anyone checking round their truck after leaving it for a few mins, granted i don’t spend as much time as you guys around truck parks etc but i spend half my day on Industrial estates and see plenty of drivers wander off, hop back in the cab and drive away.
Some lads in the warehouse shut the shutter door on a trailer i was taking while it was on a bay,i went all way to southampton from doncaster with[[i ■■■■ dogs off ]]written on the trailer shutter 
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F-reds:
Another poster disappears off into the sunset when they realise they have described their own actions as that of a wuckfit. Oh well.
Nah he / she probably disappeared when they saw the forum was full of keyboard truckers not ones living in the real world.
redboxer850:
Minger:
Wtf?? I was 5 mins going to the loo, why should I check whether a moron had clipped my door?? What is wrong with you?That’s why proper drivers ■■■■ up their wheels, always keep their truck in sight.
A bit like the driver of the lorry I saw today midday. I pulled over in my car behind an artic to take a phone call. Driver in front was having a pee up the side of the trailer. He then made out he was doing a walk round 
. Like Peter Kay’s dance-walk you do to enter and leave the dance floor. the having a pee-no doing a walk round-walk
tango boy:
Minger was you parked on the pumps while you [zb] about■■?
If so justice was servered lol
should have done both doors if he had been doing that
Thanks for the replies and lesson learnt, will definitely check whenever I can’t see my truck in future. Maybe I’m naive to think some other trucker would tamper with the doors/truck,just don’t understand why though. I know it was a trucker because I got unloaded 10minutes beforehand and doors were shut tight, a 7.5 t was in front on me at pumps which meant a little adjustment required for the lorry behind me.This was the only other one on the forecourt when I came back out. So unless it was some random I can only assume it was the same driver who looked like a skinny worzel gummidge Englishman who kindly held the shop door open for me.
I’ve had a door pop open before now. I ended up with a pair of dog clips on a chain between the two doors
Minger:
Thanks for the replies and lesson learnt, will definitely check whenever I can’t see my truck in future. Maybe I’m naive to think some other trucker would tamper with the doors/truck,just don’t understand why though. I know it was a trucker because I got unloaded 10minutes beforehand and doors were shut tight, a 7.5 t was in front on me at pumps which meant a little adjustment required for the lorry behind me.This was the only other one on the forecourt when I came back out. So unless it was some random I can only assume it was the same driver who looked like a skinny worzel gummidge Englishman who kindly held the shop door open for me.
A LOT of firms have upset a LOT of drivers.
These drivers may or may not be in trucks, they could be in their car on their way somewhere and felt like ‘teaching the firm a lesson’…
Some drivers are thick as ■■■■, and don’t realise that it would have been YOU - a fellow driver - that was ■■■■■■ rather than the firm. 
Well done Minger for coming back to reply, and not drop a bomb and run.
MrBigmouth:
Colin_scottish:
Should have checked that when you didnthe walk round before leaving to continue on the journey and then you would have noticed then problem sorted before you get near the road were you lazy and could not be arsed to walk round was it rain and you did not want to get wetSays the man too lazy to bother with punctuation.
Well I will remember to use my full stop and capital letters.I must always be perfect in my typing and punctuation.Checks must be done because the drivers that do it are the biggest ■■■■■■■■■ and hates the job and wants to shaft someone everyday.
nick2008:
I’ve had a door pop open before now. I ended up with a pair of dog clips on a chain between the two doors
i have dog clips chained to my trailers so this can never happen
Its because your company delivers into a place that wants to fetch its own loads or an old driver who’s not been paid .all you can do is ride with the cowboys .there’s so many going out of business its actually affected BMW sales .alls fair in subverting the competition .I’ve had four nails in tyre in a fortnight cos I got a new contract …
Well we’ve blamed agency drivers and foreigners, now it’s my turn
I blame Stobarts 
(never miss an opportunity )
Did anybody see the episode of trucks and trailers ( never miss it btw ) when they showed the public how to drop a trailer and how to pull the pin, how many scrotes got ideas that night, and how many carried it out.
I’ll trump you robroy. A foreign agency driver doing a shift for stobart on tesco. And he cycled to work. All boxes ticked 