Skip hire companies are expensive to run. You have to pay for the skip; the people who you ring to hire the skip, the actual lorry driver who drive the skip hire lorries. The permit for various locations, petrol for the skip hire Lorries, and the list goes on. It's also a great responsibility for the skip hire lorry driver to bear when on the road.
This links in with the amazing incident of the skip that ended up on a railway line. They can't be good at everything!
One fine day, I was cursing in my ford mustang when it could not drive an inch further. The problem was an 8 cubic yard builders skip blocking my path. It was now lying across the railway lines. The crazy lorry driver was trying to push it off the tracks himself!
This guy thought he was on The worlds heaviest man tv show or something. He stood no chance whatsoever of moving that skip. It was funny to see him even try! An 8 yard skip is pretty heavy you know.
I wanted to join in the fun, besides anything to slow me down from going work was good in my books! So I heaved and pushed, with all my might. Pretty soon, other drivers stopped to help. We were now 8 men, between us, we pushed the skip back to the right side up and off the track, so that the skip hire lorry could heave it back on to the lorry.
Alas, all was not celebrations yet, for in the process of pushing the skip hire skip of the tracks, we managed to damage the railway lines to such an extent, a train would not be able to successfully pass over. According to the train timetables, a train was en route, due to arrive near the skip hire van in 10 minutes! We had to think fast, or we could have a disaster on our hands!
After phone calls to the relevant people, and much convincing that this was not a hoax, we managed to save the lives of hundreds of people. The skip hire lorry driver was deeply apologetic; he had not secured the skip safely enough, and as he had driven over the lines, the bump had caused the skip hire lorry to jolt the skip off, exactly onto the lines.
The railway line was fixed after much inconvenience and everything resumed back to normal. And I realized that not everyone can be perfect, all the time. - 15485
This links in with the amazing incident of the skip that ended up on a railway line. They can't be good at everything!
One fine day, I was cursing in my ford mustang when it could not drive an inch further. The problem was an 8 cubic yard builders skip blocking my path. It was now lying across the railway lines. The crazy lorry driver was trying to push it off the tracks himself!
This guy thought he was on The worlds heaviest man tv show or something. He stood no chance whatsoever of moving that skip. It was funny to see him even try! An 8 yard skip is pretty heavy you know.
I wanted to join in the fun, besides anything to slow me down from going work was good in my books! So I heaved and pushed, with all my might. Pretty soon, other drivers stopped to help. We were now 8 men, between us, we pushed the skip back to the right side up and off the track, so that the skip hire lorry could heave it back on to the lorry.
Alas, all was not celebrations yet, for in the process of pushing the skip hire skip of the tracks, we managed to damage the railway lines to such an extent, a train would not be able to successfully pass over. According to the train timetables, a train was en route, due to arrive near the skip hire van in 10 minutes! We had to think fast, or we could have a disaster on our hands!
After phone calls to the relevant people, and much convincing that this was not a hoax, we managed to save the lives of hundreds of people. The skip hire lorry driver was deeply apologetic; he had not secured the skip safely enough, and as he had driven over the lines, the bump had caused the skip hire lorry to jolt the skip off, exactly onto the lines.
The railway line was fixed after much inconvenience and everything resumed back to normal. And I realized that not everyone can be perfect, all the time. - 15485
