Eddie Stobbart: Trucks and Trailers

Eddie Stobbart: Trucks and Trailers

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Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Friday 6th April 2012
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"The legend that is Mark Dixson" and next week we have "Trailer trauma" rofl

theironduke

6,995 posts

188 months

Friday 6th April 2012
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Laurel Green said:
"The legend that is Mark Dixson" and next week we have "Trailer trauma" rofl
I reckon he forgets his trailer...

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Friday 6th April 2012
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theironduke said:
I reckon he forgets his trailer...
Easily done. hehe

grumpyscot

1,277 posts

192 months

Saturday 7th April 2012
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Can't believe that the woman driver took out a (new to her) trailer with a tail lift, knowing that she didn't know how to operate it, and didn't ask for a demo beforehand. She should never have taken the trailer out without having been trained - after all, she had plenty other "risk assessments" in her hand!

She should have been reprimanded for that omission - or her chargehand should.

mph1977

12,467 posts

168 months

Saturday 7th April 2012
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grumpyscot said:
Can't believe that the woman driver took out a (new to her) trailer with a tail lift, knowing that she didn't know how to operate it, and didn't ask for a demo beforehand. She should never have taken the trailer out without having been trained - after all, she had plenty other "risk assessments" in her hand!

She should have been reprimanded for that omission - or her chargehand should.
and the employer prosecuted for breaching PUWER...

skeeterm5

3,347 posts

188 months

Saturday 7th April 2012
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Given that the show feels like a PR video for the company you have to say fair play to them for letting this bit get past the editing room.

S

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Friday 13th April 2012
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Parp!

Thunderstruck80

108 posts

151 months

Friday 13th April 2012
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Next weeks show.

'mark dixon kills a prostitute'

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Friday 13th April 2012
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Thunderstruck80 said:
Next weeks show.

'mark dixon kills a prostitute'
hehe

Had to laugh at the commentary on reversing onto the ferry; "One slight slip and could end up in the Irish sea".

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Friday 13th April 2012
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Div takes wrong turn and doesn't have to pay tollconfused

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Friday 13th April 2012
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iva cosworth said:
Div takes wrong turn and doesn't have to pay tollconfused
He was very lucky in that he did not have to go through the tunnel, as there was an escape road to the left once past the tollbooth. smile

kdri155

643 posts

151 months

Friday 7th September 2012
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Time to give this topic a bump.

Heads up people new series starts next Friday on Channel 5 at 8pm.

BMR

944 posts

178 months

Friday 7th September 2012
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Must be a co-incidence all the good stuff comes on the TV at this time of the year. Ice Road Truckers started just last night with a new series.

Zad

12,698 posts

236 months

Saturday 8th September 2012
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1st of September is the start of the new Autumn TV schedules.

Fun Bus

17,911 posts

218 months

Saturday 8th September 2012
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Thanks for the heads up on the new series.

As much as I like watching it, it also annoys me. Especially when a routine manoeuvre by a driver is made out to be a matter of life or death.

"One false move and the whole trailer could be totalled!"

No, the driver would probably just rip off some spray suppression which the fitters could replace in five minutes when back in the yard. Perhaps nearly 12 years in the industry has made me look at it all in a very different light.

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Saturday 8th September 2012
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I've been watching Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads and, have to say, 'tis a close run thing when it comes to melodramatics.

Roo

11,503 posts

207 months

Saturday 8th September 2012
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BMR said:
Must be a co-incidence all the good stuff comes on the TV at this time of the year. Ice Road Truckers started just last night with a new series.
IRT has been on for five or six weeks now.

BMR

944 posts

178 months

Saturday 8th September 2012
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Roo said:
IRT has been on for five or six weeks now.
On which channel?

Was on Episode 1 on History the other night.

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Parp...Just starting.

AMv8 dreamer

772 posts

156 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Where`s Fiona?frown