focus kev

there is still plenty ways to get around the taco, but nowt like it used to be, 2 weeks work in one was the normal not that long ago.

dearing5

watching it spotters are just gay, i mean wtf? its a lorry.

that boss looks like a proper faggor, having to have things straight and people browing them selves when he walks in!!

other then that i prefer ice road truckers lol apart from jack jesse, smug cunt.

The Sludge

pretty good tonight tbh, showing the stobart wrc team

6 wagons full of spares go to the rallies , one with 300 sets of wheels, 20 bumpers and 60 body panels alone.. .

focus kev

and they have to graft for there money , but every company has it good and bad points

OldDan

Same with all truckies in motorsport! Can't have em sitting around for 3 days doing nowt once the awnings are up.

nickywarwick

stobarts trucks & trailers might look shiney but alot of them are fooking hanging underneath so to compare them to willie betz etc isnt quiet right as alot of there motors might look rough but are quiet tidy underneath

KSA-Cossie

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Really enjoyed tonights episode

rigdoctor

im a class 1 driver id never work for that cunt in a million years £8 per hour pah and whats with that jobsworth prick off the 1st program with the glasses,did you see the curtains in his cab. NICE TASSLES i bet he paid about 300 quid for them typical no all truka rather spend all week in his cab wanking than being at home with his mrs CUNT

david 100

Did'nt go much on the yard foreman " Slow down, you've been warned " think i would have gone round the yard again and go past him at 56 mph, and the delevery times, only a hour to get to Peterbrough, how the hell can you stick to delevery times with todays traffic.

What did one of the drivers say, i like driving, your your own boss nobody breathing down your neck, like fuck it is, you cant stop for a piss without Stowbarts Hitler wanting to know why your not moving,

I will stick with my boss, we only have 3 Scania's and i dont hear from him from one week to the next.

cossie4i+

iTrader: (15)

Missed last nights

Anybody know if its repeated ?

Steve

Munch

now!

Smiggy

Wouldn't waste my time watching anything to do about Stobart. Absolute shower of cunts the lot of them. Company is trading on it's name, that's the only reason they're still here.

I got out of the industry 2 years ago, just not the same as it was. Far too much emphasis on the legalities now and all the legislation etc, and trying to get money out of folk is near impossible - the supermarkets are the worst, then I would say the cunts at Stobart's. They hold on to the money as long as they can hoping that you'll go pop. Lost count of the amount of times we threatened some of the supermarkets with court action to freeze their accounts until we got our money.

Some of the dodges are legendary tho. We went through a spell of always having our lorries pulled on the M74 to check drivers hours etc. So we used to get our drivers to pull in at Southwaite or Gretna and go for a shower and a shave, then cover themselves in aftershave. When/if they got pulled they would jump out the cab and say "working for the last 3 days solid mate? Naw no me, I'm just on, just picked the motor up at Carlisle" The amount of times this was enough to convince the inspectors was unreal.
We've done alsorts, some you wouldn't believe!! Crazy days.

The nightly fish run out of Scotland to Heathrow was and still is the best tho. Crazy shit goes on there.

scortpower

thats a old story, heard that about 10 years ago when my step dad used to work for them. not sure if it were ever true or not but wouldnt surprise me.
been watching the series just out of interest. that truck dumper looks a great bit of kit! i were more interesting in the engineerin side of it thou. they never showed how they strap them trucks down is what i wanted to know, all they showed were it driving on and off.

wanted to me a trucker since being a kid and travelling europe in a truck every school holiday, would still like a go now but it seems there is no money in it compared to what i do now.
would love a drive of a truck thou

Big G

A lad left our place to go on the fuel from Bramhall, started off at £35k and he's just moved gone onto the Morrisons 4 on 4 off contract, £40k basic plus o/t days available.
These jobs dont come up that often and you know why too.

ajamesc

hows that then! and dont say a magnet lol it may disrupt the signal from the pulse generater to the tacho head but will still show a fault in the engine ecu as the truck knows its moveing because of the signal from the ebs sensors but the tacho says its not!

focus kev

there are a few ways not saying to much on hear as you dont no who is reading it, but if your in the game you will no how !

Big G

Ahhh, the old need to know but even you dont know

focus kev

put it this way there are ways around the new card system

ajamesc

i am in the game lol im a daf technician and i also fit and calibrate tachos and i carnt think of any way of getting round it that wont be very obvious to someone who knows what there doing lol if the truck is moveing and the tacho is not getting a speed signal from the gearbox then it is logging a fault in the ecu as it knows its moveing as it is talking to all the other ecus via the can net work its conected to lol

focus kev

yes i agree with what your saying but beleave me there are ways around it bud

hitchwest

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im a hgv technician too and i do tacho calibrations and i speak to alot of paddy drivers and you would nt believe some of the things they get up to


going back to the comment about stobart trucks being minging underneath yhats the same for all scanias its cos the front is so low down and the shit gets trapped underneath

Tango Ford

Who watched tonight ?

That Debbie "woman" is /was deffo not born a female LOL

Big G

Deffo a SHim, But how far away was the other dude, R2-D2 nekkid

david 100

Me and the Mrs were trying to work out was Debbie a male or female or not sure. I would like the wheels off the horse box on my Volvo.

They were talking about the stow aways in the trailers, we had a driver who had one guy hiding under the trailer , holding onto the air tank with his legs over the second axle, they must be desperate to get here doing that.

The Sludge

i thought it was just me thinking that tbh lol!!!!

I dont know what was funnier/stranger tbh-them in a van with mini me camping around the stobart depots or the driver drummer which his strange sound effects.....

alll very bizarre if you ask me lol

jackocab

How dare u say that about my mum/dad

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

I watched about five minutes of it tonight, fuck me, talk about trying to massivly over-sell the job of driving a truck!! ..

Watching the dull cunt driving the twin rig, describing how difficult it was had me in bits!! " yeah, in a high wind, you have to steer into it to stop being pushed off course"... "yeah, approaching a steep hill, you have to keep as much momentum as possible, then put your foot on the accelerator"!!

Jesus fucking Christ, then there was tranny annie and mini beergunt me, what a pair of fucking freaks!!!

Its hardly the most thrilling series is it? Helicopter rescue etc is watchable as hovering a 15 ton helicopter in a gale, in the pitch black whilst winching a guy onto a pitching and rolling boat is quite skillful and interesting.. A halfwit driving a truck isn't great tv IMHO!

dearing5

ice road truckers is far more exciting and skillful!!

bit bored of stobart tbh.

ajamesc

Driveing a truck isent as easy as it looks mate lol its not the driveing along thats hard its getting round all the twats on the road in there cars that think u dont need any more room then they do when your 10 times the size of them and then theres some of the small place u are meant to get them! have u ever tryed backing a tractor and trailer into a small yard with half that towns traffic looking at u like your a twat in there way because they could get there fiesta in there in 2 seconds!

kosman

fucking right you are me man,if you got a hgv licence you automatically the biggest cunt on the road with uneducated car drivers like above.

focus kev

very true or in a tractor your a bigger cunt !!

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

Not saying it's not a skill, but ffs driving a truck in a straight line and negotiating hills is hardly rocket science is it? and yes I have driven trucks, just laughing at the way the guy was massivly over-bigging up how difficult it was!!