I've taken my company car back to the office. It's the first time I've not had a car since I was 17 New (to me) one should be with me by Saturday
Nowt flash as I don't need anything flash................a 12 month old Nissan Juke with 12k on the clock and all the toys, which I got for a very good price
A bit of artic training today. Every other piece of plant machinery I`ve trained on has been easy, this is bloody hard. Forwards is ok but reversing, wow!!! I`ve spent the morning impersonating a very happy dog with a waggy tail This afternoon was better, I can reverse in a straight-ish line and reversing around a corner on the drivers side is ok, but around a corner on the passenger side, well I may as well shut my eyes and use the fecking force!!! Thank god this is just for on site shunting and I won`t be let loose around the general public. These two smilies are how everyone will have seen me and my instructor today Did I say how hard this is.
Something everyone should try, it would help to realise where the blind spots are, you should try reversing on the blind side with a high sided trailer. Steve
This has a heavy duty 20 ft flatbed trailer. The plan is to load it with three big bell pans (40-ish tonnes) and run the whole lot to plant to save wear and tear on the big forklift. I drove this route today and it can all be done in forwards as a big loop, but you have to know how to reverse. Heard on the cab safety camera today Me: (looking out side window) "hey, another lorry is using the same trailer as us!!!" Instructor: (shaking his head) "That is our fecking trailer you dickhead!!!!"
done basically nuthin today.. done nuthin for the last 10 days really... but the fitting kit for the skylift turned up today (only ordered monday night) so i got the 748 high.. its pretty cool. might get the 749 up on it tomorrow and mess about.
You will be fine, you do get used to it lol, can you imagine the fun doing this in a busy high street reversing into a small alley way in London or so with loads of people who ignore the beeping and just keep walking all around the trailer lol
Spent about 5 hours in the back garden continuing the effort to clear it having been left to go wild for 5 or 6 years. Now have a 10 foot high by 20 foot diameter cone of garden stuff ready to burn baby burn. Sadly ran out of stuff to assist in the lighting process so will do that another day. Now sat round at Carole's with a beer and being spoilt rotten. Prawn parcels, cold beef and Yorkshire puddings and stuff that is a surprise. Hope you get to enjoy your evening as much as I'm already enjoying mine. Andy
That sounds a nightmare. That small alley way would be as wide as a motorway after I`d finished crashing into everything. On second thoughts, I don`t think I`d be anywhere near the alley way, I`d be backing through the window of a shop four doors down
I heard a rumour last night - Apparently if you shave your pubes, it makes you at least 1/2 an inch bigger. What a load of bullshit, I did it this afternoon and I'm still only 5ft 3.
