I just saw...

[AlanW]

There's nothing worse than the sinking feeling you get when you realise you've taken a 45' trailer up a restricted dead end. Especially when you're surrounded by historic buildings.

Oh yes, been there, done that.

The worst for me was doing a delivery in the centre of London with a 44t artic on a Saturday morning. I turned down a side street near to the Blackwall Tunnel, after carefully consulting my A to Z of course, only to discover that there was a very low railway bridge a couple of miles further on. Didn't see it on the map as it was right on the centre bit of the two pages.

To add insult to injury I could see the place that I had to deliver to on the other side of the railway bridge and I only had one pallet to deliver.

So I had to reverse the whole way back and then reverse on my blind side onto back onto the main road.

Thank God that there was a really helpful traffic warden to hand who took pity on my plight. He helped me reverse the whole way and then stopped the traffic while I did my 68 point reverse turn back onto the A13!

Back across the A13 and up the A11 and then come in from the other direction. Then the customer had the cheek to boll*ck me for being late!!

 

[postman]

I saw a poor bloke and a very large van .Looking at the arches at Bolton Abbey.

 

[Night Train]

I remember about 25 years ago watching an artic lorry driving west up to a mini roundabout on the junction of Colveston Cresent and St Marks Rise in London E8. In those days there were no parking restrictions and cars were parked on both sides of the road on all four exits to the mini roundabout.
Map here.
The driver realised that he could not go any further due to all the parking for Ridley Road Market and had to turn around between the parked cars. This meant that he had to go the wrong way around the roundabout, get well over to the right across St Mark's Rise (north) and shunt many times for each 90deg turn until he was facing the other way across St Mark's Rise (south) and then try to get out from between the parked cars again before heading back eastwards.

I reckon he left thousands of miles of tyre rubber on the road as the triple axle trailer wheels moved sideways more then they rolled back or forth.