Hell yeah any country! This job is not as easy as It looks!

Thankyou for your respect brother I appreciate it. 🤝

We don't get respect on the road...you try pulling out of a junction, no car drivers will let us out,or to overtake another vehicle on the motorway, cars will sit at the side of us,to stop us pulling out....its just sheer arrogance, and ignorance....

@@Mike_Greentea I can vouch for that as a class1 HGV driver myself. I have been in a similar situation and it doesn't help when you get an audience.

The respect is coming 20 years too late. Used abused blackmailed treated like shit

A lot of silly truckers think they are driving a car when they try roads unsuitable for the size of their vehicle - but maybe it's just to show off how skillful they are at reversing out of a bad situation

@@emr5060 ok , you think trucker IS Silly, , do you Never make a mistake ? You dont now what about your speaking about trucking , if somebody Can help you lol

Well put, the old saying "IF YOU'VE GOT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT!!! "

@@emr5060 Fool..

@@emr5060 not a very fair comment is it... If a road has a tight bend up ahead or house roofs that come into the road you're not going to see that 5 miles back when you're just turning into it are you... Same as driving a long van. There's swing on the rear and you will end up over lane lines at many times. I drive all through Essex, lanes roads, rural country roads that are literally just enough for a car let alone a tractor and trailer. Overhanging branches, power lines etc. You're never going to know that before you go down the road/path and see you can't fit. Reversing something you can't see out of the back of isn't fun, nor easy and many car drivers (like yourself) fail to understand that we need the extra swing, space, stopping time/distance and can't just accelerate like you can.

The guy recording him owns the corner building, I would record it too, trucks don't usually go up there.

I’m a little confused as to how a person, recording from a public place is ‘an idiot’, if anything this actually shows the driver was a skilled driver, and made the correct decision, having gotten into a situation, he controlled his lorry adequately, made a couple attempts and spoke to the drivers in his way for reversing and changing route before doing so, giving him a safe way in order to do this.

@Ed Straker wooow that was so smart Man. Refink all situation because you don't understand mate

@Ed Straker Do you know where it was delivering to or what route their customer(s) or route planner requires them to take? This could be exactly the way they've been told to come by some desk jockey that doesn't have the slightest idea of how much space an artic needs to turn and just because a large van can make it their 60 foot rig shouldn't have any problems who won't take anything the driver has to say about it and can't be argued with if the driver wants to stay employed, until they attempt it and get stuck, but the route planners/transport managers etc are much less disposable than the drivers in the companies eyes so they stay to continue screwing up. They'd probably look at the truck stationary in that piece of road, see that if tight to 1 kerb they have about a metre of space to the other and think 'what's the driver finding so difficult driving up a road with that much space' without any idea how little space that actually is once you start turning even slightly, never mind what others are describing as double 90 degree S bends uphill on slick wet tarmac.

@Ed Straker knob

A common problem in ireland now is the fact that a lot of the warehouses and factories we have to go to were built 30 years ago when lorries were a lot shorter, getting them now with 55ft plus is a pure nightmare sometimes, especially when cars refuse to give you space to manoeuvre safely.

Not always

He got help from two guys there, but I know what u mean.

Definitely, people will help but it’s you who needs to use all your skills to get out of the kind of situation.

welcome to life

Migga

Fair play to your man kindly telling them to move it, then for another muppet to to the very same thing!

@@neilmcdonnell2964 can't tell you many times it's happened to me especially down London and when I was learning the trade miss judged a tight traffic light had to reverse to adjust and pull forward still couldn't quite get so same manoeuvre and cars keep creeping up behind on my blindside peeping at me it's a nightmare 😂

Because the car driver is a fuck wit perhaps

@@neilmcdonnell2964 it's the same bloody muppet. What a fucking single celled organism!!

@@basvanbeers3515 my god that's even worse. Didn't notice till you said that!

The driver could have taken an urban trailer which is alot shorter

You sure? Looks to me like the trailer is heavy and he keeps losing power. Pulling the weight from 0mhp on an incline whilst also turning into the bend is a recipe for disaster, especially for older lorries.

@@yuripuri639 hgv trailers have a tail swing which is wide they take wide berths

@@EddieTruckingAdventures Fine but still looks like he's loosing power and rolling back to me.

@@yuripuri639 depends on the axle configuration and the hp

Richard Haywood Great comment and 100% true. Respect to your old man.

Been there Richard, done that.

I was alright going forward, but my reversing was decidedly dodgy. Went on the till in Tesco, only a £1 an hour less, at the time. Lorry drivers never get the respect, and far too often treated like shite.

Great Comment,very true..p.s the diff lock would have put him straight in to the wall in that situation there 👍

@@johnmagee9687 Single axle drive tractor. There is no differential lock.

So true! 🙂👍

What was wrong with the Leyland bison? And indeed what was the attraction of the Atkinson? I've no prejudice in this matter, just interested / curious.

I think Fred may be joking about his favourite pile of junk ,Gardner engine and David brown gearbox included!!

What in gods name is there to like about an Atkinson. If dont poison you with fumes it'll make you deaf in at least one ear or mabey rattle your bones so much youll fall apart!

real driving there boy💯👌 no clutch, just ease her in... real driving, good old Eaton splitter.... separates the men from the 🤴🤴 kids would panic today, even In an 4 legger basic.... I can't believe they pass on auto wagons, there still about mind you..... what the hell do they do then?

@@thomasburke2683 you dont seem to be getting any answers so let me try to help, an Atkinson is very nice to both look at and listen to from the outside only. Inside its unfit for human habitation. A Leyland Bison on the other hand, now thats a complete heap of shit. Neither the driver nor the owner gets any pleasure out of a Bison. Extremly troublesome driveline, ie propshafts, hub reduction, centre box, leaf springs. Some engine trouble too with the early ones. Dont ever drive either of these not even for a laugh!

Yes exactley what I was thinking.

Far as I can see he recovered really well considering the pressure he was under.

@@dub_dub1504 He did, and quite quickly , plus he was unlikely to have known how that corner pans out, maybe even following sat nav. Should be a sign really... Saying no HGV's. I just drove that corner ten mins ago 🚙 sadly no drama 😂

Sat navs more like.

Do you want your food ,etc Delivered on a horse & cart this year are next???!!!!!?

@@northwalesmod They use artics because you can more on them. deliver in bulk = cheaper items. just as easy to deliver in a 7.5 tonner , you'll just have to deliver 5 of them , for what was one artic delivery , and the items will be more expensive , and 5 times as many trucks on the road. Which it used to be , until artics arrived.

@@northwalesmod : the maximum permitted weight for an articulated vehicle in the early 1960s was 24 tons, its maximum length 33 feet and payload of 15 tons. By 1964 the maximum gross weight of an articulated lorry was raised from to 32 tons on four axles and the maximum axle weight from 9 to 10 tons. In 1968 the length limit was raised to 49 feet.

The mistake here would be to just continue to try drive up the slope. Backing up because going forward isn't working isn't a mistake in my opinion.

With the first words we utter when we get clear being,,, "well I won't be doing that again in a hurry" 🤣

correct

Agreed

In Norway we have very good training for driving on ice and slippery roads, because of our winter climate. In this particular situation I'd disable the TC, enable the diff lock and lock the truck in 2nd gear and spin up the slope.

@@didriknymoen5204 That's the way to do it.

@@didriknymoen5204 One problem with that if it is actually ice and snow you've just completely screwed the next person over by slicking it up. You try to avoid spinning period if you can you want to hit the proper gear and speed combination that momentum will take you up the hill.

@Mick B interesting 👍

Id say he has a bit more than that Mega John!

Planners don't plan routes they just give us destination. They're all wankers lot of em

@@jamesarmstrong8260 It's a requirement for the job.

No use. There are always clueless drivers with every truck engaged in a difficult manoeuvre, and then blame the truck driver if it takes longer because of their own stupidity. If I see something like this I try to stop behind the truck, leaving as much room as possible, but leave enough room and there will always be brainless idiots who overtake you and stop right behind the truck.

So true. Where does all the self-entitlement come from? 🤔

US or Canada big roads just keep driving no challenge boring as hell in Europe almost every day is a challenge and I mean big challenge! Welcome to the old continent, where roads were made for the horse & cart! Oh dear I'm up early got a 4am start going to Wales this morning, should be fun!

billalbion how? You want traction you would lift a tag axle! As this is a mid lift axle you would also do the same, maximises the weight over the drive axles, that’s if you can do this some tractors work on weight and can’t be lifted

@@Scaniam a man with some intelligence would realise that was the point of my comment. A lifting tag axle puts more weight on the drive axle than a mid lift axle. I took it for granted that most experienced hgv men would see that. Obviously not in your case.

A tag axle are brilliant for traction. Can’t fault them in a straight line. But on a bend like that it would be useless. They lift the weight off the steering & the truck just wants to go in a straight line. Believe me I no I’ve been there.

There's a few decent units out there (even cheap Chinese ones now too) that you can put your weight, length, width and even emmisions category (euro 4/5/6) and it'll route you around width restrictions, height restrictions (bridges, powerlines etc) and around London/lez/ulez Very handy. The tom-tom or garmin units are upwards of £200 but the Chinese ones cost considerably less

Google maps is made for normal cars, Street view is made for pedestrians, GPS shows your location on the planet and IOS is a operating system for a phone. It cannot help you decide if a square box fits inside a triangle hole. The driver in this case did put himself in the situation and then proceeded to get himself out of the situation without anyone getting hurt. In the end, a good day for a driver is no one gets killed, everything else just comes from experience.

@@Minuz1 Quote; ".....The driver in this case did put himself in the situation..... - I'm sorry - but this is simply indicative of not planning ahead.

This is 45ft too. 45ft is trailer limit around europe.

Its more the fact there is very little traction. Its a wet uphill bend. Probably with a full load.on.

Are there really these kind of narrow bending uphill roads in NYC?

It would give him less if he dropped the tag axle as it would reduce the load on the drive wheels.

@@Luton-Mick thank you :)

You've no idea where or what youre talking about. Job done!

@@seamusburke9101 36 years of experience I've managed to get out of them sort of situations

@@seamusburke9101 go back to school

As the great Christy Moore (Irish singer/songwriter+) said, "I've never known a situation so bad that the arrival of the gardaí (Irish police) didn't make it worse." Nuff said. 😂🤣😉👍