Getting into a mess is part of trucking. How well your get yourself out is what makes a good driver.

I've been at this game for nearly 30 years. Am i perfect ? no will i ever be perfect ? no. My daily aim to get from the start to the end of a shift without doing any damage to my truck myself anything and anyone around me. Have i managed it every time no i haven't Don't beat yourself up over it mate these things happen. The upside you've learnt a lesson and won't do it again

It does not matter how long anyone has been driving HGV's .....You learn something new everyday!!!!

You just need to slow down and check everything twice mate just don’t rush . That advice comes from driving roadtrains in Australia for almost 30 years

That's how you learn mate 👍your doing fine.

Every day is a school day in this line of work lol

Respect to you for letting us know you made a small error. There will always be someone making more than others. As long as you are doing your best then happy days.

Just found your story today, and even though it happened a few weeks back now, don't worry about it too much, these things happen! I once pulled down a steel gate post (with gate and lump of concrete still attached!) with the under run bar of my trailer while making a tight turn into a yard! (A yard which I had driven into many times) Wasn't a beginner driver, should have known better, was literally trying to cut a corner and failed! The yard man wasn't too happy about it, but I pointed out that if it was that easy to pull down, it must have been ready to fall down anyway! Some muttering from him about "bleeping drivers", etc, and to my surprise, never heard any more about it! Went back there much later and a new post and gate was in place, yard man didn't recognise or remember me! Accidents happen in the world of road transport, the main thing is to learn from them and live to fight another day. At least no one was injured, that would have a different story! Thanks for sharing mate!

watching this almost two years since it was put up and am glad that you shared it. You survived and have learned so much through the experience.

Scott, You know what this vid shows????? Your human mate, take a breath, don't beat yourself up over it, it's you're first and won't be your last. Keep doing your best, nobody can ask more. I'm a 60 year old Australian truck driver and have driven this country from top to bottom and East to West, And yes, I've made plenty of mistakes and been caught in others as well, keep up the good work son.

I've hit a warehouse door before with a 44t full weigh lorry when I first started driving..... was nothing left of the door haha

I myself am young driver (20 passed at 19) I know what you mean about getting judged more for smaller mistakes but I see it as just learning, every driver has been through it, it's our turn now dude!! Gotta keep going! 👍

We have all made mistakes and still make the odd one now to this day and I have had my class 1 for 45 years. All down to experience which you learn over time. Keep your chin up!

Don’t beat your self up mate I’m only 19 I make mistakes everyday , you learn something new everyday

Done it a couple of times driving rigid with HIAB. Always happened when reversing before the wagon has fully leveled. Spray suppressor caught under the wheel and ripped the mud guard off. They say you learn from your mistakes but I'm obviously a slow learner. Nice video, safe travels.

Lol I got a rigid stuck down a single track lane. Customer's place was down there, they said to come down, checked it all out on gmaps. Gets steeper and steeper, but I'm still OK to reverse out. Get to a corner, stop, got out and eyeballed it to be sure it didn't get worse further on. Hop back in and try to reverse to get a better angle at it as it was quite tight. Can't reverse, can I? It's winter, and the tyres are on the mud either side of the tarmac. All that happened was the truck kept skidding forwards. Nose touches the hedge, so I stop, got the customer then called the depot. Explained all this and said I'm not going to get through the corner without damage as I can't backup to get the side of the wagon away from the side (stone wall on the inside of the corner...). "Well we can't do anything for you so just crack on and do the best you can". Fair enough, I thought, I just stuck it in low range first and crept round, tearing the door mirror clean off as I go. Halfway round I stop and get out again to eyeball things, get back in, try to move off, wagon doesn't move. This whole time I'm fucking about with the clutch, parking brake etc so I assumed the air was getting a bit low so I just gave it some welly. Still didn't feel right, so get out again, but this time I look up, and see that my tail sweep has gone in the hedge, and a hidden tree stump had wedged itself in the top corner of the box, tearing a 6 foot hole in the curtain. Also the tail light had been ripped off. Phoned the depot again, explained it, asked if they were sure they want me to carry on... "yes" was the answer. Couldn't move, customer comes out with a chainsaw, cuts the tree stump out. By this time, some older guy who said he'd run a haulage firm of 20 years comes out. I told him what I'd done, and that I was a new driver and needed a bit of guidance. "No worries, you're clear now, follow me up to my yard at the top of the hill and I'll get a forklift out to tip you, I know these customers". With no nearside mirror, had to go up a 3m wide narrow track covered in mud from tractors, with camber to the nearside, no nearside mirrors, telegraph poles on the nearside, and it was STEEP. Back end of the truck was stepping out the whole way up, I just left it in a good gear and booted it to keep the speed up. Got up without a hitch, got tipped, van from the company comes out to replace the light and the mirror, I drive home with a torn curtain and a severely dented frame. Went back to the company the next day to have a chat with the boss off my own back to keep them happy, they said it wasn't my fault (even though I'm the driver, not anyone on the phone), agency said the same thing, everyone was happy. It was a shitty old wagon anyway. Lessons learned - check your notes. Guess what I was delivering to a small residential cottage? 2 dumpy bags of bloody gravel. How was I supposed to get that off? Could have abandoned that drop entirely. Also, never believe it when someone says "We get trucks down here all the time"....they're probably thinking of Luton vans. Funnily enough was in a tiny little 12 tonner not long after and refused a delivery due to a sharp corner, customer gets severely pissed that he had to meet me off-site, got all sorts of complaints. You can't win lol.

Thanks mate every ,day's a school day H G.V, 15 years . still have the odd moment. keep on trucking 🚚

Every day is a school day bud, 25 years as a class 1 driver and I learn something new everyday

Years ago, I was driving a Ford Cortina as a minicab. I parked in a pub car park facing a wall that was about 2 feet high. After sitting for about 10 minutes I got a call on the radio for a pick up. I forgot the wall was there as I couldn't see it from the drivers seat. I let off the handbrake and accelerated hard into the wall, creasing both wings and the front valance. I was angry with myself but not exactly a hanging offence!

Oh and another time I rushed out of a yard as I was several hours late, drove 2 minutes down the road, join the A30, TNT 7.5 tonner flashing his lights and beeping his horn at me. Was thinking about it as I went down the slip road. As I join the A30 "Ah....bollocks"......I'd left the tail lift down and the door up xD Swung into a layby to pack all that away before someone spotted it hahaha

i have been a trucker for just over 6 months now and done loads of misstake, i have pulled of a hose with some alcohol based liquid in it with out releasing pressure- ended up smelling like alcohol for a month, i have had to scrap 25 tones of cyanide because of misstake from me, the guy unloading and the one who sent the tankcontainer, i have reversed in to a staircase, sent a coworker to the get the wrong tank, forgotten to close bottom valve (severaltimes), showered in bindings (technicly not my fault but still, and obviously been late several times (mostly cus of my boss making bad planing), still only had one job tho and seams like i will be there a while. shit happens and it is something you just have to exept.

I know this video is 4 years old now, but I had an incident with a forklift, I saw a poorly placed pallet and went up to straighten it out, as I inserted the forks I clipped the middle rail of the pallet, and due to the angle I was trying to sort out, it got shunted off the back rail, and landed on the sprinkler pipe, causing it to rupture and flood that section of the warehouse, a total of £40k damage. I still work for that company, and I still don’t live that down, that was 5 years ago.

I'm happy to see hgv driver share mistakes during the day, WE TEACHING FROM MISTAKES, all other hgv drivers are mistake less and given only TIPS .BIG RESPECT (SA)

Loved listening to you "rambling on". Thanks

I've just started driving buses in August and after 2 million miles of taxi driving I'm starting over with the learning process. Totally different and I'm going through exactly the same as you. Every day is different with a new scenario or situation to deal with. The reason I think you will do well is you are taking on board what you did wrong and learning from it rather than keep doing the same things again. You will go far with your attitude I'm sure, subscribed and all the best 👍

As long as you learn from your mistakes then you will be ok. Due to a faulty fifth wheel my trailer dropped off I was loaded with glass for recycling luckily it didn’t do any damage and I also hit a gas tanker on a single track road my lorry was a right off. Did I learn from my mistakes yes I slowed down and constantly check my lorry and load. Do all your daily checks keep to the speed limit take your brakes and most of all is if you don’t feel well don’t drive. I was a lgv 1 driver for 24 years never did sick always carried on till one day I found out I had a heart problem which I was born with and never knew about I handed in my license and a few months later had major heart surgery and never driven again. The doctors told me that my heart before surgery was ready to burst and I wouldn’t know a thing lights out. So never drive when unwell and if in doubt go to your doctors I was born with this and never knew about it. I’ve had 4 people die in my arms over the years due to rtcs in front of me and it’s awful. So keep on trucking be safe do your daily checks were human we make mistakes but learning from them is the most important thing

introduced my wife into your videos and showed her this one!!!! OOOOO he is so young

Happy new year, just stumbled on this older video of yours,as we say in Ireland,the fella that never made a mistake never learned anything

we had a new guy roll a truck, he keeped his job, mistakes are made and trucks are being paid for.

I was with a mate who did the navigating so we were in France heading back to UK and the route he chose was over the Massif Central, in a Westerly or Northerly direction. Narrow, very high, no barriers, fun city! And that was a 7.5t, I can't imagine that in an Artic! Another time in Germany, the fork lift entered the back of truck raised his forms and the fork lift guiders went up straight through the plasticky roof!

The time to worry is when somebody is injured. The rest is repairable...

Hi Scott been driving 35 years yes I have drop some clangers in my time not perfect dust your self off you go you are right as you are doing good job .

Wow, that was about the most tame trucking story I've ever heard...

We all have little bumps now and again.... if your not sure about any thing... ask.. and take your time...

Shit happens. First month on the road I managed to get the bloody thing stuck in a Devon country lane.

Dont beat yourself mate...we all did daft stuff in our early days...there is a hell of a lot to learn...i have been a trucker for 30 years and still learning...as technology changes etc

It was my 3rd time backing up a double trailer, I was not paying enough attention and I jackknifed my 2nd trailer and hit the wall of the warehouse.

First day on first driving job for an ironmonger, delivered to a building site and was a bit tight to swing the van so I went onto the grass on front of a new house. Didn't know the grass was just laid, sunk like the titanic. Wheels spinning and the woman of the house screaming out her window. Luckily enough the site foreman got the grass fixed and I went on my way. Kept the job for 3 years lol

The 50 YO newbies you mentioned. I'm one of them lol. Passed my class 2 10 days ago.

There's a Difference Being a shunter around the yard to a full day or week behind the wheel is totally different,.. keep fighting on... .. 😊

Sorry to hear what happened Scott. Drive safe matey

Hi Scott look how far you've come, proud of you 🤙🤠

Remember EVERYONE else was once new at it, AND they stuffed up! Half-baked heroes are a penny a pound in the industry always with their opinion of what you did/how good/bad you are for participating. They are the worst guides, and protective of their tiny knowledge. If you strung all your lessons end to end, you could get it all learned in less than a week, but how much did you stress learning it yourself, or dwelling on their opinions. Ignore them and be the change in the industry that transforms it to welcoming and helpful. The best blokes I remember in my work stopped to wish me well, say hello, wind a leg, hand up a strap, or offer some good advice. I try to be like them all the time now, and my crew like me for that, like the culture we've developed on shift, and pass it on, because we're all much happier doing our jobs without the bitches at our backs.

Everyone who works makes mistakes. If you worked in an office the worst mistake would be spilling coffee over your keyboard or an email sent in error. Because you drive a truck the mistakes are more dramatic, but its human nature to make an error once in a while. What was it that George Harrison wrote in his song 'while my guitar gently weeps' ,? He wrote "with every mistake we must surely be learning" a wise man and great musician .

You'll be fine. I drive a class 2, had a couple of knocks since i started, but not for a couple of years now. I have been lucky enough to not damage any cars or anything of great value in my time (aside from the wagon). The loaders cause damage to it weekly though. May go for class 1 eventually, not sure i trust myself driving one though.

As long as your a good worker companies often except mistakes. I made a mistake and they could of sacked me but I got final warning then within a year I made a different mistake but due to problems at home effecting my work but I still excepted it and was expecting to be sacked as had a final warning within a year ago but I ended up getting an extended final written warning so I have great respect for my boss and company, very greatful. Been there almost 14 years.

We all started some time. But one thing most drivers of a certain age will try to stay away from is double deck trailers. Stepframe, lowboy, extenders, triple extenders upto 100ft long no problem . But once a week you will have some drama with deckers.

Dropped a trailer on my truck back of the frame just past the king pin. Did not check the locking mechanism around the pins. We all have those days driving. Just learn from your mistakes and double check all the time. Be safe.

I once reversed up to the bay and didn't notice my container door had blown round destroyed the bay door and frightens the shit out of one of the staff I had been driving 8 years at that point

First night I've driven I went where postcode pointed me. It was tight neighbourhood street, the only way out of it was blind side reverse. Fortunately all went well.

Scott, the same thing is easily done if you un-couple from a weighted trailer and dont bother lowering your air bags on the tractor unit , because you've done it a 1000 times before without any issue. Until this time your un-coupling from a brand new tractor unit and everything is still nice and new and tight, and you rip the mud guards, lights and all off ...........................ouch You learn every time you go out and drive, and you keep learning until one day you decide you have had enough, which in my case is fast approaching :) Class (1) 27 years on nights.................................................................

Mistakes happen, we just need to try and learn from them. Respect on the driving through those narrow streets boyo.

I done something similar. I was in a flatbed truck and i pulled down this little road. Realised that my drop was just round the corner but i had to turn. There wasnt much room so i reversed up a kerb aggressively and ripped the mudguard off. I was sweating trying to refit it while my mobile was constantly ringin in my pocket. I was trackered and they were watchin me just sittin there. In the end i came clean and drove the rest of the shift with a giant mudguard in the passenger side 😂

~20 years ago I saw a 50 tonne front loader reverse into a Ford Transit... That left a mark - one of the loader wheels pretty much ran over the bonnet. Fortunately no-one was inside at the time but the Ford was written off, the plant driver wasn't held to blame as the Transit had been driven into an area where they would stop the loader if people or other vehicles were around, so no banksmen required when the loader was operating. Parked right behind the loader (in his blindspot) and wandered off.

Everyday is a challenge, don't break your self up about it. I have so.... many stories, but the most fondant one is backing down a country lane in the pitch black to unload 24 tonnes on cabling for a solar farm, being reassured that the surface at the end of the lane is strong enough to take the weight of the loaded trailer. Well 6 hours later being towed out by a bulldozer obviously proved the surface wasn't suitable. The mud was at the top of the legs forced into the chassis and the unit and trailer looked like I've been rallying in it. The boss was not to pleased.

We all make the occasional mistake, the trick is to not repeat them. Truck on driver.

I've been a truck driver for 29 years and I can tell you that yes, it is possible to have a blowout at under 5 miles per hour. Sometimes, all it takes is to get to where you are going just before it blows, and then it does blow once you start manoeuvering, especially on a trailer, because of the flexing of the (weakened) sidewall.

I have only just discovered you today, you came up in my recommendations and I have to say, I like you!!

Don’t worry mate, I’ve done the same, pulled the mud guard off on a high kerb whilst reversing, felt a total arse

i hit a low bridge. i had heat exhaution and my mind had gone. no air con, prob 80 degrees in cab. just auto piloted into one of my regular car routes. wouldnt wish the experience on anyone. question myself a lot now

It's alright scott.i knocked someone wall down in reverse when I first was let loose on a class1.it was a country lane very tight and I hit it and knocked it down.😭

I've been at it for thirty years and I'm still learning. Shit happens.

My bad day was few months back. I went Fosters Bakery to collect a load of gluten free bread buns , thousands. Strapped them all in, just going round a roundabout and heared a load of rumbling, opened the back doors and the buns were everywhere , ruined, I didn't close the straps properly , got a final written warning .

I'm that 55 year old that's done all the same stuff mate and I feel just as stupid but it's all in the past. I've run mudgaurds over same as you....got an artic stuck across the road in Portsmouth on the first day on my own and jammed the city centre up...twatted my mates shiny artic with the tail end of my first 26 tonner....and he got me the job lol. Now I just take it in my stride. Join the club dude and just suck it up. 🙄

You aint a proper lorry driver till you hit something. 20 years and im still learning. Dont let things like that get you down.

got it kid it was googles fault but now sorted,my kerfuffle was when i hitched up to my first air suspension unit to a non air trailer back in 1992,i just backed under the trailer and the trailer pin was higher than the 5th wheel and i smashed the units rear lights and put a dent into the fridge,the gaffer was not amused but he just reminded me for a month of my little mishap,your not the first and certainly wont be the last so keep the vids coming kid and give a retired class 1 driver something to do.

In oz we use a lot of truck and trailer combos, I was chaining out ( spreading )some road base cement treated rubble on a worksite in preparation for an assembled bridge move, I've been doing this a while.. The grader operator told me to put the trailer bin higher to start the product out early, I declined, was called a pussy, obviously went higher, let the brakes off, in gear, lurched forward to start the spread, load shifted and trailer fell on its ass, dolly a couple of metres in the, bent drawbar, bent towing eye. Could have been much worse. My point is, tell the operator to fuck off next time and I'll do what I do. Lol. Still gainfully employed.

lil tip its smart to bring some woodenplates with you for under the landinggear so it spreads the wait so it doesnt push into the ground.

Serious story about handbraking an empty artic on the gravel at the services somewhere on the M5, early hours of the morning next to some Eddie Stobart Lads... Parked it perfectly Drive LOL

About 30 years ago when Trailers didn’t have Air Parking Brakes I wound the parking brake on after dropping it on Quay Side at Grimsby Docks after dragging it from Aberdeen, Having a dodgy night out at home ! Went back next morning missed the pin Twatted the headboard trailer went into dock paper reels the lot !went back to yard at immingham picked up my next trailer bound for Great Yarmouth ! About 4hrs later rang in from customers phone telling them I’d tipped , Then the question James where did you drop your trailer this morning? Why in the yard I said ! Bollocks they not only took the shunter but a load as well ! Fortunately for me the shunt motor got nicked in the night so they presume to this day they took trailer as well !!!

Some days its like iv never reversed before lol. we all have off days pal. Best thing to do is crack on with a smile

I've watched a few of your tubes (well bits of them), and had a feeling you hadn't had your licence that long. I'm not knocking you, because we all have to start somewhere. But I've been driving lorries (and that's what they are in this country) for 38 years and I'm still learning. And if you come across a driver who thinks or says he knows it all, "bullshit". We all make mistakes and sometimes really stupid one's, we all have good and bad days sometimes going into weeks, and we all beat ourselves up about it. But usually we don't make the same mistake twice, we learn from it. So crack on, you are not doing anything anyone else hasn't done.

By the looks of it I work for the same company Mate... Accidents will happen mate but the best thing to do is get over it and get on with it and learn from it... I've had my fair share of bumps and I'm still there lol.

Was a bad day from the get go fatigue related im assuming, all leading up to a reverse on my blind side without getting out and looking, it even felt wrong.

Hi, I've been driving buses and coaches for over 40yrs, worst of a few incidents was taking the rear window out of a coach in the first 10mins on the first day of a new job, thought I;d get fired then and there but the gods were with me and I stayed on, told not to do it again. As said every day is a school day.

Nightmare day😬 recognise that road to mcmillians been there many times!

Mistakes happen. If you learn from them, that's what matters.

I’ve had loads of dinks some worst than others. Problem is take your eye off the ball for just one second and that’s when they happen.

first month of driving, car with no abs, hadnt learn how to pump the brakes, straight into a wall skidding, minimal damage (scratches) just slid on wet leaves and didnt know what to do

Spent half the video wondering how you were steering without actually steering 😂 I'm going to sit in a dark room for a while good night

When I passed my class one (month ago) I was trying to hook up and trailer. I had tractor too low and overshoot a kingpin. Didn't hit the trailer with a cab tho. Boss came. Helped me. Still have a job We all make mistakes bro. Dont worry

If you have never done anything wrong, you've never done anything! That's what an old boss said to me back in the days when I drove units. 👍

We all kuf up in this job, I reversed over an area managers car bonnet once blind siding it into a shop delivery. You need to have a thick skin in this job I still get taken piss out of for it now and that was 7 years ago

Stuck in a field last Monday and at to leave the lorry stuck over night 😩😩

GOt a nice channel here, and I'm not a driver or interested in the field really. Just came for the storytelling!

We all make mistakes. You seem to really care about the job though, and are trying to do your best - can't do no more than that so carry on, do things at your own pace and carry on safely :)

Great vid scott, the way i look at it you've learnt from it and this vid has taught new drivers or upcoming drivers something. We all make mistakes, cheers. P.s just subscribed keep em coming

We all make mistakes son. 38 years driving I still make mistakes

Many times I’ve said on a bad day, “why The hell am I doing this job?”

Once dropping a loaded tipper in a yard I worked at, wasn't hooked up and legs were already down, wasn't even fully under the trailer. I get in, forgetting to check whether or not the legs were on the ground, which they weren't. So I drive forward and the kingpin drops straight on top of the batteries (was in a Volvo, batteries located at the rear) At first I was worried because yknow I've just smashed a really expensive truck battery. Boss walks over, "just take it to the garage, put a new battery and cover on" say no more about it. Next shift the driver of the very same lorry did the exact same thing, shit happens!

Great Story, Love it :D got my class 1 training this week and I have a feeling I'm going to be experiencing this :O

plus the day u think u know it all hang ya keys up coz everyday is a learning day 👍👍👍

Over the years I have done a truck full of f... ups. Missed the pin more then once, damaging the back of the truck, or the lights or the pin, forgot about a car parked next to me, ripped curtains, gone north instead of south (before sat navs) and went to wrong addresses, dropped trailers without winding legs down. In my defense most mistakes happened towards the end of the week or end of a very long shift when i was really tired. did you not think of warning the other driver, but shouldn't you leave an inch or two of drop height?

keep up the good work -we have all stuffed up at some point in our career but did you learn from your mistakes ??? i did and I'm still driving lol now I'm at the top of my game! good luck mate

You live n learn mate everyday

If a company banned me for a mistake like this I’d count it as a good thing. Wouldn’t wanna work for a place if they are gonna be arse holes about a simple mistake

They won't ban u pal they can't get folks to do that job anymore. I used to do it .they treat u like shit

Just found you and dropped you a sub! 👍👍👍 I like your videos mate. I've been in the same job which is landscape gardening for 17 years now. Been thinking of a change and doing hgv driving. Here a lot of bad things about the job these days but I suppose you just gotta love what you do

You are funny,I'm from USA. Our trucks are around 86ft. I enjoy your videos.advice you drive a truck your always in a mess

Wherever you're driving looks amazing!