skip lorry drivers have a tough time. They have a huge responsibility to bear when they are driving a skip around on the back of their skip hire van. Skip hire companies have a lot of expense when it comes to running a skip hire company. They have many an overheads to bear, including, petrol, staff, permits, we could be here all day!
This links in with the amazing incident of the skip that ended up on a railway line. They can't be good at everything!
One fine day, I was cursing in my ford mustang when it could not drive an inch further. The problem was an 8 cubic yard builders skip blocking my path. It was now lying across the railway lines. The crazy lorry driver was trying to push it off the tracks himself!
This guy thought he was on The worlds heaviest man tv show or something. He stood no chance whatsoever of moving that skip. It was funny to see him even try! An 8 yard skip is pretty heavy you know.
I wanted to join in the fun, besides anything to slow me down from going work was good in my books! So I heaved and pushed, with all my might. Pretty soon, other drivers stopped to help. We were now 8 men, between us, we pushed the skip back to the right side up and off the track, so that the skip hire lorry could heave it back on to the lorry.
It wasn't all plain sailing though and we actually ended up damaging the lines. If I train came, we knew that it wouldn't be able to pass over the lines safely. I knew a train was due within the next ten minutes or so, there wasn't much time to spare here at all. I checked my timetable again
trying to convince the relevant people that we were not playing a joke, and that a skip had indeed fallen on to the tracks and damaged it was hard work. Finally we got somewhere and managed to help save many lives. The skip hire driver was nearly in tears. he could not believe he had been so stupid. he was in a rush and not securely fastened the skip to the lorry, causing it to fall off when he tried to go over the lines.
mush inconvenience later the the line was fixed, and service resumed as normal. I got a mention in the skip hire magazine and the driver got a disciplinary!
This links in with the amazing incident of the skip that ended up on a railway line. They can't be good at everything!
One fine day, I was cursing in my ford mustang when it could not drive an inch further. The problem was an 8 cubic yard builders skip blocking my path. It was now lying across the railway lines. The crazy lorry driver was trying to push it off the tracks himself!
This guy thought he was on The worlds heaviest man tv show or something. He stood no chance whatsoever of moving that skip. It was funny to see him even try! An 8 yard skip is pretty heavy you know.
I wanted to join in the fun, besides anything to slow me down from going work was good in my books! So I heaved and pushed, with all my might. Pretty soon, other drivers stopped to help. We were now 8 men, between us, we pushed the skip back to the right side up and off the track, so that the skip hire lorry could heave it back on to the lorry.
It wasn't all plain sailing though and we actually ended up damaging the lines. If I train came, we knew that it wouldn't be able to pass over the lines safely. I knew a train was due within the next ten minutes or so, there wasn't much time to spare here at all. I checked my timetable again
trying to convince the relevant people that we were not playing a joke, and that a skip had indeed fallen on to the tracks and damaged it was hard work. Finally we got somewhere and managed to help save many lives. The skip hire driver was nearly in tears. he could not believe he had been so stupid. he was in a rush and not securely fastened the skip to the lorry, causing it to fall off when he tried to go over the lines.
mush inconvenience later the the line was fixed, and service resumed as normal. I got a mention in the skip hire magazine and the driver got a disciplinary!
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