Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)
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DickyC said:
Restrained? Restrained?
Nope, reTrained not reStrained, although if you observed some of my colleagues in action, maybe restrained is a better option.We have one who is licensed on both the reach and counterbalance who we refer to as Wreck it Ralph. He has so far hit the loading bay four times, twice taking out the wooden lintel on the edge and taking great chunks out of it, the brickwork twice leaving great gouges in some of the bricks.
On the reach truck he has flattened half of the racking protectors, and completely demolished one of the racking safety beams.
On top of that, he's taken out 5 of the 7.5 tonners over his time with us, three in one night which was quite amusing and very impressive. Imagine if you will one parked to the left and slightly behind another, he wants the one in the front and decided against moving the other. He ignored advice as 'i know what the f*** i am doing'. Yes he did, he swung the truck round and beautifully took out the windscreen, bumper, mirror, engine cover and light cluster on one of the trucks and the side door, wing mirror, bumper and dry compartment door on the other.
As he was the supervisor at the time, he had to wait for a driver to turn up from our essex depot and so sent us all home at 01.15 as overtime was not sanctioned, when the truck turned up and had been unloaded, they discovered the starter motor was faulty.
"Oh we'll jump start it" said the driver
So being a pair of clever types, they tied a rope around the back of one truck and to the front of the broken one. Crucially, the rope was around the metal support on our truck but neither of them checked where it had been tied on the essex vehicle. Wreck it set off and ripped the grill and one of the lights off the front end.
Oh how we laughed the next night
Edited by slopes on Saturday 25th October 15:18
pad58 said:
The 1275 GT was the bestist eva eva car in the whole universe, eva.
I long for a 1275GT. I turned down a stupidly cheap Downton tuned example around 10 years ago and have been kicking myself ever since.I'm currently getting wrecked on rather good Chateauneuf-du-Pape in the BA lounge at T5. Sooooo looking forward to going home.
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2 out of 3 of our forklift drivers are utterly useless.
One recently speared a tyre whilst swinging round too close,they go into the lorry load area with the forks
angled at maximum up and wonder why the load goes all squiffy.
They both regularly drop stuff by turning too quickly and don't ask about damaging the stock.
The 3rd driver just drives slowly,sensibly and carefully.It's not hard.
One recently speared a tyre whilst swinging round too close,they go into the lorry load area with the forks
angled at maximum up and wonder why the load goes all squiffy.
They both regularly drop stuff by turning too quickly and don't ask about damaging the stock.
The 3rd driver just drives slowly,sensibly and carefully.It's not hard.
ApOrbital said:
Slopes the AITT ITSSAR i have does not run out nor do i have to do any refresh course.
I was only speaking from the point of view of where i work and i can assure you, if you worked for us you wouldn't be allowed to go near one until you had done a refresher with the inhouse trainer 
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