A slightly odd lorry.

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This is a spot-hire 7.5 tonner that turned up at work today:



A fairly normal, boxed 7.5 tonner.

But let's look at the other side:



A curtain-sider.

Box on one side, curtain on the other. Whisky Tango Foxtrot?

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Turn7 said:

Bizarre, but very handy I would say.

Totally and utterly useless in our line of work.

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Turn7 said:

And I mean MULTI drop in a DHL 130 drops/day stylee, not 3/4 kitchens.

Still completely useless for what we do and the way we do it.

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stevenr said:

Well then you need to talk to whoever hired it,no?

"It's all we had left mate."

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GC8 said:

Really? I've only ever been able to load on one side (Easysheet on the NS), and that's never caused a problem.

Surely its only a matter of habit?

And a matter of evenly distributing the load. The kitchens need to be on the side with the curtain, because they're hand-balled off (and we're talking on average around 100 components per stillage). Having them on the other side would mean getting on the back of the lorry and passing them over. A right ball ache.

So, you would end up having all the bulk of the weight along one side of the lorry. I wouldn't fancy driving that with (say) three one tonne kitchens loaded along the same side.

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Justayellowbadge said:

Ye gods, how have I missed the excitement of this forum up till now?

Listen, Captain Sarcasm, if it wasn't for the likes of us lot, how do you think your quail's eggs and tweed underpants would get delivered to Fortnum and Masons?

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It would be like having a four-door saloon with only two doors on one side.

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FloppyRaccoon said:

Cock Womble 7 said:

It would be like having a four-door saloon with only two doors on one side.

Like most 4 door saloons then, no?

Badly worded. I meant it would be like having a saloon with only two doors on one side.