Love how the driver goes sod this and just jumps in and drives off again at full pelt! I'm a lorry driver and to be fair when you end up in these situations with everyone shouting at you, you feel hopeless. He didn't intend to get stuck and when you're in a unfamiliar area its a nightmare sometimes. Its one of them situations. You feel bad its happened but what the hell else can you do now its happened.
Somehow you know they are plastic? The last time I was there, they were cast iron. I doubt that the Historical Society would allow plastic. But, perhaps you are the chairman of Cymdeithas Hanes Beddgelert? Oh, my appologies, then.
This guy actually dealt with the crowd correctly, well done to him. I'm an Hgv driver and it's a tough job. I understand their anger, but they haven't been in his shoes
Maybe if he read the signs and didn't go where it's signposted not to, there wouldn't be anyone getting annoyed with him? I'd get sick of fixing my house every year too - I'd say she was pretty restrained if that's how often it's crashed into!
It's like if they have to wait 10 seconds to get by or reckon there's not room to get through (after an artic managed it),, they're always on the way to a hospital appointment/funeral/pta meeting.
@@ChrisAndCats Very easily said, chances are he didn't see the signs as the are all buried in hedges as the council's haven't trimmed them back for 18 months.
This is a type of a mistake where my sympathy goes to the driver. Sometimes the roads you have to take are really tricky so one minor miscalculation can land you in big trouble.
I had signs the other day for a bridge >7< but it wasn't clear if it would be on my route from the signage. Anyway, it turned out my route would have taken me over that bridge. So I turned off left but there was a left hand bend with walls each side. Similar sort of thing to this video actually. Anyway, I didn't want to chance it as I knew it was very tight and didn't know what was around the bend, so I had to reverse back down and in to the junction. I plan my routes each morning before leaving, but this job came through mid shift from the transport office. I could have attempted the bridge as it said (expect for buses) so i knew the bridge would be wider than stated. Buses are 6 inches narrower than my truck though and that may have been the difference. And you don't want to get jammed in on a bridge with a line of cars behind. So in conclusion, we drivers don't blindly get ourselves into these situations, we actively try to avoid such occurences. However, the law of averages coupled with the pressure from the customer and transport office doesn't place the odds in our favour.
@@mikeh2006 It's one thing to get into trouble because you tried a dumb U turn and another to be on unfamiliar roads and suddenly realize that all of the roads are bad choices for your truck. I also know that sometimes you have no other road you can take to your destination and that one road has some realöy tricky part that can be especially bad for a beginner. I witnessed the struggles of a full trailer trying to reach its destination at a construction site. Had to get there but the construction site intersection was awfully small for a vehicle of that size so it took a lot of assistance from the other workers with planks, excavators etc. to keeo the trailer's rear tires from falling into a ditch.
@@jokuihmehyyppa yea exactly. Our customers want stuff delivering in the most random places. Sometimes inside buildings, up mountains, railway compounds, underground car parks. All my drops are craned off as my truck has a crane on. So you have to then take into consideration the set up and operation for the crane. Over head cables, trees, cars and to fully extend the legs on both sides requires 17ft.
How does everyone know why he's on that road? Sometimes you get sent do deliver stuff down crap little roads like that in big trucks. It's up to the driver to do the job, he's on his own and nobody gives a toss until something happens then everyone comes out of the woodwork to tell you what a useless Pratt you are.
A lot of Monday Morning Quarterbacks on here. Driving HGV's in this country is hard, tiring, involves working long hours, often away from home and can be bloody stressful. There are loads of 'Unsuitable for HGV's' roads in the UK, and a lot of the ones that are supposedly suitable, aren't really. It's not too difficult to miss the odd sign when you're tired and stressed out. This guy obviously made a mistake, so I suppose all of you lot slagging him off have never made a mistake on the road then? You must be perfect.
@@grahamdavies8924 there is a point of no return in some of these scenarios. Its a drainpipe. What was supposed to happen?. Airlifted out? I drove hgv,s for 25 years. Should we take all trucks off the road for a month and give you all something real to whine about?
Sarcasim on the internet? Wow! Never heard of that before. How old are you sonny? Have your balls dropped yet? Does your mummy know you talk to strangers on the internet about grown up stuff?
@@grahamdavies8924 you think he was just pulling clear and then stopping in a safe place to walk back? An unpleasant tone on the internet? My my what the fuck next? A tweeting prime minister? A tweeting president? Have a nice day.
@@grahamdavies8924 destroyed property? Did you not understand sometimes shit happens with large vehicles. Contrary to popular opinion usually by pricks that have never even sat in a truck a driver has only one pair of eyes and one brain. You miss a vital sign then stuff like this happens. A point of no return. Its a fucking drain pipe. Why doncha come back when you know what the fuck your whining about. Sonny.
Meh, if truck drivers took notice of all the signs telling them they can't go places half the countryside would starve to death and/or grind to a halt from lack of materials. I deliver stuff that won't fit on a smaller vehicle and it goes to places like farms, building sites and blacksmiths all of which are often down small country lanes.
As a HGV driver my self (c+e) for 16 years... I still do make mistakes as we all do as we are human.... but I would love that gobby cow to drive a articulated truck and see how many mistakes she makes... albeit... there would be no truck left... a drain pipe broken is no big deal.. but we all make mistakes...
SamC94 Yes that oh crap moment when you realise you missed a road, then you think i'll chance on a bit further maybe things will work out 😓 you can't turn one of these around very easily.
AT THE END OF THE FUKN DAY....WE ARE THERE TOO FUCKING HELP YOU WITH YOURFREIGHT...WE ADHERE TO THE GUIDELINES...WHERE POSSIBLE...BUT...DO U REALLY WANT TO DRAG FURNITURE...150M...AND THE OWNERS WILL DO ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL TO HELP U...U END UP GOING HOME THAT NIGHT WITH SORE BACK SHOULDERS AND ARMS...I PISS ON UR DRAINPIPE CRY FOR 3 WEEKS OVER IT...IDO CARE ABOUT STRUCTURE...I WAS DELIVERING AUDIO TO A HOUSE ...INREDHILL CANB ...UASK THE YOUNG GIRL...HOW PROFESSIONAL I WAS...MR 10 pallet truck Udriveway..trapped between 2 piers..30 mins it took to get out...10mm...each side...determination my friend...TRY OUR WORK..THE AVERAGE JOE WILL SHIT YOURSELF...IM NOT CARRYING $20 K OF AUDIO...100M ..UP STEEP DRIVEWAY...START LOOKING AFTER US ..WE ARE HUMAN....WE ARE HERE TO HELP U ...ALWAYS START HELPING US FOR A CHANGE....LIKE BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THERE WERE REAL PEOPLE ..NOT THESE CASHED UP HIGH STANDARD FAKES...🇦🇺✌️👇
@@CoherentChimp It was merely sarcasm mate based on what she said. I am a driver and know what it's like to be in this kind of situation and I can 100% guarantee when that poor driver started work that day he didn't set out with the intention of meeting a drama queen and doing £10 worth of damage to a drainpipe. Best advice I ever had was shit happens drive and today it's your turn.
Rata 4U shouldn’t have a house there 😂😂😂 it was there before lorries 😂😂😂 drive a bus that’s a hgv that can be a max load of 44 ton he should of planned his route more carefully before leaving first that’s a 7 1/2 ton weight limit there a defo No no
Keep calm & carry on regardless. It’s no easy thing driving a 44 tonner on a road built for horse & cart. Screaming & shout wont help. Instead work the problem which the driver did by flooring it. Everyone’s a winner!
The junction in question is in the welsh village of Beddgelert and is the junction of 2 'A' Roads. There is (and I have double checked on Google) no alternative route in the near or far vicinity (and Welsh main roads, including Trunk Roads, aren't known for their width and easiest to navigate) or a sign saying 'Unsuitable for HGVs.' It is also a bus route as well. As far as I could tell from the video footage that Lorry is as far over as it could get. I'm guessing the bridge is Listed so there isn't anything which could be done about that.
I did Tesco at Pwhelli a couple of years back. I turned left off the A5 because it was marked as an A road. I had an interesting drive & when I came to that bridge I had to take my time. Trailer was only 38 foot & there was a pub car park, sort of, to swing the arse round. There was a bus stopped on the other side of the river holding back any traffic, which never came. I got round in one, with a couple, maybe one & a half inches to spare. The drop said they don't usually come that way & yours is the biggest yet. I suspected this agency lad ,me, was on a Stobart test run. But I'm glad I came the way I did, along the river. That way I missed the broomstick jockey.
But there is an alternative route, he should never have been on the A4085 from Caernarfon, It is clearly signposted that the road is unsuitable for HGV's, he should have been on the A487 to Porthmadog, there is nothing between Beddgelert and Porthmadog along the A4085 that would require a delivery vehicle this size, the driver used a sat nav instead of a proper map, and ignored the road signs, very lazy, very poor from a professional driver. I didn't need to look on Google maps as I have been climbing the mountains of Snowdonia for 50 years, I know every inch of these roads.
@@urbanastro4701 not necessarily the case. A delivery may have required him to use that road (which is an A road after all). Some companies have multiple drops per trailer. So there are plenty of legitimate reasons why the driver may be down that road. Also the driver may not be local. Additionally I don't think you can fully determine whether a driver is lazy or poor from a 60 second video clip. I do have a HGV paper map and there are no additional instructions or notes on it regarding Beddgelert (excluding the 14'9" Bridge to the south of the village). On the map it looks like an alternative route suitable for a HGV between Porthmadog and Caernarfon. Additionally the turn at Beddgelert can't be any worse than that junction at Rhayader surely?
@@tom201090 There is literally nowhere to deliver on that road, It may be an "A" road but 30 seconds out of Caernarfon and you would know no HGV can get anywhere, even if he didn't turn over the bridge at Beddgelert and carried on up toward the Nant Gwynant pass he would have been stuck as well because even though it also is an "A" road no HGV could negotiate the narrow winding steep pass, there is literally no excuse or reason for an HGV to be anywhere near Beddgelert, like I said I know every inch of these roads, you had a quick look on Google maps, you are just plain wrong on this.
Got to love a good Karen haven't you. I'd have taken the keys and given them to her. In a situation like that a good rule to follow is that unless you are providing a solution you're part of the problem
People honestly don’t know how difficult it is to drive lorries. It’s all well and good this Karen having a pop at him, but look how tight that road is. He probably had to use that road to gain access to wherever he was going. UK roads really aren’t HGV friendly.
She's not a Karen - that's her house. And idiots who are trained to know better keep on crashing into it. That's a famous old Welsh village, a tourist site, completely inappropriate for HGV access. Imagine doing that regularly to Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford Upon Avon.
@@interestedlen8823 I looked on google maps, there are no signs whatsoever leading into the village from where he came, and that road is unbelievably an A road.
I used to do rural deliveries in areas that would make a car driver question the route but I had no other choice or alternative route!! It's easy to say lack of experience however no matter how much experience you have human error can occur........the driver made a mistake and rectified the situation with as little damage as he could!!!
I have a hard enough time driving Merc Sprinters around London, I take my hat off to HGV drivers trying to drive along winding country roads to deliver goods.
Some folk on here criticising the driver haven’t a clue. I’ll invite any of you to come out with me as I deliver to farms throughout Lincolnshire.Some of the roads I have to go down are unreal including weight limited and very narrow uneven what can only be described as tracks. It’s a hard, long stressful day but we do our best and get on with it....
@Pollywog what I’m saying is look at it from both parties… it’s so easy to criticise… of course I have sympathy for that home owner but you should see some of the roads and lanes i have to go down in order for me to achieve my deliveries… it’s a horrible and stressful job at times.. but I get on with it…
@Pollywog in an ideal world your right but unfortunately the roads in the UK especially when you get into rural areas aren’t suitable for hgv’s but we just have to get on with it…. If I’m delivering 10 tonne of animal feed or 10 tonne of chemical in ICB’s it’s just not cost effective to send it in a fleet on smaller vehicles. Like I say it’s easy to critique a driver but if you actually went out and saw what we have to do on a daily basis in order to get food in to shops n supermarkets I think you’d change your opinion…
"Lorry satnav" Ha! We use "lorry satnavs" to delivery shopping in 3.5 tonne vans and they are forever trying to take us down roads barely wide enough for a large car, never mind a lorry.
It always helps if one holds the camera the right way round. It also helps when uploading to yooutube that one checks that the video is rotated the correct way.....
There's a couple of tight passes further on this road to Portmadoc, where you will often meet trucks and coaches, punters in motorhomes of all sizes, motorbikes racing going flat out,tractors, cyclists, odd times the speed camera van. Coaches often jammed in the pass trying to pass each other,the bridge was well negotiated by the truck driver,there's usually herds of people standing on this bridge getting in the way.....
that road isn't a shortcut to anywhere. there are only two signs in an 11 mile stretch warning of inappropriate HGV satnav route, one-sided story, chances are he'd just made a delivery and took the wrong way out
Sorry to say this but he is dressed like he is gan to Marbella on his hols. So you can hardly expect a professional attitude to route planning. Good advert for his company.
Don't understand why he didn't put full left lock on and reverse a few inches to pull the back corner of the trailer away from the building, he would still have had plenty of room to cross the bridge. Seeing some of the other comments though, it does seem as if lorry drivers think they are above everyone else on the roads and can do what they want. This video just shows many of them are not as skilled as they like to think.
There is lots of unsuitable roads for trucks in Wales (United Kingdom) such as this one if you miss the signs or choose to ignore them you may do a lot more damage than damaging a drain pipe. A lucky escape here I think.... Mind you it is TWT Twits With Trucks Lol "Its a joke"
WobblyCaptain clearly the sign isn't big enough. Am a lorry driver and I pass 1000's of signs every weak. Do you think we can read every single sign we pass?
Ive been a class 1 for 17 years and I've never hit a thing! If ur uncertain you get out and check before you go proceed. That's wot a professional driver does! I take pride in my job,yes it's a hard job, away from home 5 to 6 days a week, long hours but that's wot u get paid for! Stress included .
Wonder if he got under the low bridge 13ft 6 i think it is , carries the Heritage narrow gauge railway over it, and that road is crap, I was a coach tour who toured the area every week for 4 years , hated that road as you were stuckif you met another coach, bus or truck on that road
This sometimes happens when your boss sends you to a delivery point where they expect 7.5 t rigid not 44 t arctic.....with 1 pallet or sometimes 1 60 kg carton box. Everybody says stupid driver people on the road and the boss also.....being like a corn in the grindstone.
Good evening from Slovakia 🇸🇰. You are right. This is faulty on Speditor side. Are days when we are send for products which are better for Van driver or companies trading up to 3.5 ton. Let me explain please. If you can load 33 pellets and each is value from UK 🇬🇧 to any EU 🇪🇺 countries ex. 80 to 100 💶. You can go home paid even up to 2000 💶 one way. But driver want to kill Speditor being collector as DPD driver and his card is running out of time. I do love context " can you do something we are a bit behind " want to kill. I do often fight with UK 🇬🇧 roads. No many are in metric and that time you will not even stick a sharp hair into my back bottom part of body 😀😀😀. Lady could calm down. Company I'm sure paid some money 💷 to be fixed again
I just looked on google maps and followed the road right down from Rhyd-Ddu, where there should have been signs to say not suitable for trucks, but I didn't see any signs at all from there all the way down to the bridge in Beddgelert. This however does not mean there are no signs now just that there were none at the time the google car went down through there.
You can bet that the plastic guttering is meant to be iron, if the property is listed definitely. I bet they charge for iron but fit iron effect plastic and trouser the difference. Anyway the trucker should have a hgv sat nav. I have one and I only drive class 2.
possibility the sign to inform the driver of width issues wasn't visible? another possibility is driver chose to ignore sign and push on? whichever it was at the end of the day minor damage caused no real need to get excitable.
I cant believe I'm reading comments on whether the pipe is Plastic or cast !!! FFS it's a pipe, regardless. She's loosing the nut over having her house being rebuilt :) But she'll still want bread, milk, petrol, furniture and whatever else (almost everything on the planet) that travels by truck tomorrow... Yes I agree BAN THE TRUCKS!! Let's see how you lot get on after 2-3 days. Sickens my AZZ
There is video evidence, they have the registration number and lorry company name. Give details to police and also look into getting insurance payment out of company.
The driver is human and has feelings, and trying to put bread and butter on the table. We all make mistakes in life and in hindsight if the driver knew the situation he would about got himself into,he would then done it differently!
Calm doon hen. The company will pay for the repairs. Take it up wae the council, not the driver. He has a job tae do. She probably cant reverse her fiat punto in a parking space and complains about his efforts.
Rather him than me. Some routes need to be taken as they’re our only option to get to where we need to be to complete a delivery, where reversing out of a situation isn’t an option. Unless you are familiar with local roads and know which to avoid we don’t know what we will come up against that may be hidden from view around the next corner, waiting to test our driving abilities to their limits. We are however professional drivers and what decision we make and manoeuvres we do are ultimately our responsibility.
It has probably been asked before but why don't all lorry drivers buy (or the company provide) lorry satnavs rather than car satnavs? Horses for courses.
Why don’t they make the roads wider in the uk? Measurements are from years and years ago. Same has car garages that you have next to your house, if you can get your car in you can’t open the door to get out lol.
without us lorry drivers you dont have fuck all in the shops. if anyone thinks that lorries are easy to drive get in the cab and have a go. someone has ordered something. how are they meant to get the goods?? walk it up to em??
Kevin Williams Amen. Lorry drivers are the blood of a country's economy. I have a lot of respect for you guys and hopefully within the next 5 years I'll be "one of you". Stay safe out there man
"Advisory signing This type of signing consists generally of white on blue signs with legends such as Unsuitable for Heavy Goods Vehicles or with a pictorial representation of an HGV showing a red slash through the vehicle symbol and are to indicate that a road may be generally unsuitable for an HGV. Unsuitable may be due to: limited width due to sharp bend or walls either side of the road steep gradients such that a long or articulated vehicle may struggle to negotiate the hazard The signing is advisory and there is no recourse to the law if an HGV tries to negotiate the road."
Good grief. FINALLY! It's taken this far down the comments before someone has pointed out that the road is legal and that 'unsuitable for HGVs' means 'probably not advisable but legal' If lorries were banned down there there would be a MGW sign, length limit or restriction on tonnage for goods vehicles. Also those complaining about the 'Karen': If their BMW was slightly scratched by a lorry I'm sure they'd either stay indoors thinking, 'Well it's only a bit of filler and paint from Halfords - shouldn't take half an hour' or would be out there with tea and biscuits for the driver seeing if the lorry was damaged. It's the woman's home for God's sake!
Again inexperience and in this case incompetence is to blame and the responsibility lies 100% with the operator, question did the operator give the driver a written planed route or did they ensure he was using professional quality sat nav and not a car sat nav the owner of the property should seek legal advice about taking a civil case against the operator to a civil court, there they would receive much better recompense.
Half the time even when there are signs it’s already too late and there’s no alternative, hats off to the driver for doing a sound job regardless 👍👍
Love how the driver goes sod this and just jumps in and drives off again at full pelt! I'm a lorry driver and to be fair when you end up in these situations with everyone shouting at you, you feel hopeless. He didn't intend to get stuck and when you're in a unfamiliar area its a nightmare sometimes. Its one of them situations. You feel bad its happened but what the hell else can you do now its happened.
Yeah, they all turn up, "everyone knows lorries aren't supposed to use this road.. EVERYONE knows".
@@thegreatdandino118 I have lived here for 29 years now it's the A4085 IT'S A TRUCK ROAD
OMG He has completely destroyed The antique PLASTIC price-less drain pipe :)
Best comment here.
Somehow you know they are plastic? The last time I was there, they were cast iron. I doubt that the Historical Society would allow plastic. But, perhaps you are the chairman of Cymdeithas Hanes Beddgelert? Oh, my appologies, then.
@@grahamdavies8924 It's plastic. If it where cast iron it should have shattered in pieces. You can see clearly it was plastic as the truck pull away.
@@paddymuppy : It is difficult to be sure (0:55). I would expect plastic to flex a great deal more before breaking.
@@grahamdavies8924 UPVC doesn't flex. It behaves exactly like it did in this video.
This guy actually dealt with the crowd correctly, well done to him. I'm an Hgv driver and it's a tough job. I understand their anger, but they haven't been in his shoes
fair comment
Maybe if he read the signs and didn't go where it's signposted not to, there wouldn't be anyone getting annoyed with him? I'd get sick of fixing my house every year too - I'd say she was pretty restrained if that's how often it's crashed into!
It's like if they have to wait 10 seconds to get by or reckon there's not room to get through (after an artic managed it),, they're always on the way to a hospital appointment/funeral/pta meeting.
What's his shoes. Not having the intelligence to buy a TRUCK sat nav instead of a car sat nav
@@ChrisAndCats Very easily said, chances are he didn't see the signs as the are all buried in hedges as the council's haven't trimmed them back for 18 months.
This is a type of a mistake where my sympathy goes to the driver. Sometimes the roads you have to take are really tricky so one minor miscalculation can land you in big trouble.
I had signs the other day for a bridge >7< but it wasn't clear if it would be on my route from the signage. Anyway, it turned out my route would have taken me over that bridge. So I turned off left but there was a left hand bend with walls each side. Similar sort of thing to this video actually.
Anyway, I didn't want to chance it as I knew it was very tight and didn't know what was around the bend, so I had to reverse back down and in to the junction.
I plan my routes each morning before leaving, but this job came through mid shift from the transport office.
I could have attempted the bridge as it said (expect for buses) so i knew the bridge would be wider than stated. Buses are 6 inches narrower than my truck though and that may have been the difference. And you don't want to get jammed in on a bridge with a line of cars behind.
So in conclusion, we drivers don't blindly get ourselves into these situations, we actively try to avoid such occurences. However, the law of averages coupled with the pressure from the customer and transport office doesn't place the odds in our favour.
@@mikeh2006 It's one thing to get into trouble because you tried a dumb U turn and another to be on unfamiliar roads and suddenly realize that all of the roads are bad choices for your truck. I also know that sometimes you have no other road you can take to your destination and that one road has some realöy tricky part that can be especially bad for a beginner. I witnessed the struggles of a full trailer trying to reach its destination at a construction site. Had to get there but the construction site intersection was awfully small for a vehicle of that size so it took a lot of assistance from the other workers with planks, excavators etc. to keeo the trailer's rear tires from falling into a ditch.
@@jokuihmehyyppa yea exactly. Our customers want stuff delivering in the most random places. Sometimes inside buildings, up mountains, railway compounds, underground car parks. All my drops are craned off as my truck has a crane on. So you have to then take into consideration the set up and operation for the crane. Over head cables, trees, cars and to fully extend the legs on both sides requires 17ft.
Is it really that difficult to read road signs and plan your route? The lorry driver is obviously retarded.
How does everyone know why he's on that road? Sometimes you get sent do deliver stuff down crap little roads like that in big trucks. It's up to the driver to do the job, he's on his own and nobody gives a toss until something happens then everyone comes out of the woodwork to tell you what a useless Pratt you are.
A lot of Monday Morning Quarterbacks on here. Driving HGV's in this country is hard, tiring, involves working long hours, often away from home and can be bloody stressful. There are loads of 'Unsuitable for HGV's' roads in the UK, and a lot of the ones that are supposedly suitable, aren't really. It's not too difficult to miss the odd sign when you're tired and stressed out. This guy obviously made a mistake, so I suppose all of you lot slagging him off have never made a mistake on the road then? You must be perfect.
@@grahamdavies8924 explain?
@@grahamdavies8924 there is a point of no return in some of these scenarios. Its a drainpipe. What was supposed to happen?. Airlifted out? I drove hgv,s for 25 years. Should we take all trucks off the road for a month and give you all something real to whine about?
Sarcasim on the internet? Wow! Never heard of that before. How old are you sonny? Have your balls dropped yet? Does your mummy know you talk to strangers on the internet about grown up stuff?
@@grahamdavies8924 you think he was just pulling clear and then stopping in a safe place to walk back? An unpleasant tone on the internet? My my what the fuck next? A tweeting prime minister? A tweeting president? Have a nice day.
@@grahamdavies8924 destroyed property? Did you not understand sometimes shit happens with large vehicles. Contrary to popular opinion usually by pricks that have never even sat in a truck a driver has only one pair of eyes and one brain. You miss a vital sign then stuff like this happens. A point of no return. Its a fucking drain pipe. Why doncha come back when you know what the fuck your whining about. Sonny.
Meh, if truck drivers took notice of all the signs telling them they can't go places half the countryside would starve to death and/or grind to a halt from lack of materials. I deliver stuff that won't fit on a smaller vehicle and it goes to places like farms, building sites and blacksmiths all of which are often down small country lanes.
a) There isn't a Sign b) This is a junction of 2 'A' Roads c) There is no real alternative route - the village is Beggelert in Wales.
Telling the truth 😄 I'm from italy its same here
Some of the roads that we have to drive down are ridiculous!
Everyone loves to slag off us driver's but all want their stuff delivered .Blame the bosses not the drivers not enough support for us.
Well said!
I used to work for TW(a)T Transport,the New Zealand version....the son is an absolute tool!
Haha funny me and a mate used to call them twat too lol. His name didn't start with an A by any chance did it lol.
Nice house...shame about the owner!
English
wtf like you would like a lorry scraping and damaging your house
That's right love .... screaming and shouting will sort it out.
As a HGV driver my self (c+e) for 16 years... I still do make mistakes as we all do as we are human.... but I would love that gobby cow to drive a articulated truck and see how many mistakes she makes... albeit... there would be no truck left... a drain pipe broken is no big deal.. but we all make mistakes...
He said she has her house rebuilt every year, well move it back a bit then 😂
😂
Rebuilt by haulage companies along with the compo
Every year 🤣 that cost millions and millions
What a stupid comment.
@@travelling_stephen may sound stupid to you if you dont understand sarcasm
I can understand the woman's pain but I really feel for the driver, his stress levels must be through the roof
SamC94 Yes that oh crap moment when you realise you missed a road, then you think i'll chance on a bit further maybe things will work out 😓 you can't turn one of these around very easily.
Can you slide the axles on a European trailer?
Cecil Gridley no, all 3 axles are fixed on this trailer...
@@PillSharks Thanks
AT THE END OF THE FUKN DAY....WE ARE THERE TOO FUCKING HELP YOU WITH YOURFREIGHT...WE ADHERE TO THE GUIDELINES...WHERE POSSIBLE...BUT...DO U REALLY WANT TO DRAG FURNITURE...150M...AND THE OWNERS WILL DO ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL TO HELP U...U END UP GOING HOME THAT NIGHT WITH SORE BACK SHOULDERS AND ARMS...I PISS ON UR DRAINPIPE CRY FOR 3 WEEKS OVER IT...IDO CARE ABOUT STRUCTURE...I WAS DELIVERING AUDIO TO A HOUSE ...INREDHILL CANB ...UASK THE YOUNG GIRL...HOW PROFESSIONAL I WAS...MR 10 pallet truck Udriveway..trapped between 2 piers..30 mins it took to get out...10mm...each side...determination my friend...TRY OUR WORK..THE AVERAGE JOE WILL SHIT YOURSELF...IM NOT CARRYING $20 K OF AUDIO...100M ..UP STEEP DRIVEWAY...START LOOKING AFTER US ..WE ARE HUMAN....WE ARE HERE TO HELP U ...ALWAYS START HELPING US FOR A CHANGE....LIKE BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THERE WERE REAL PEOPLE ..NOT THESE CASHED UP HIGH STANDARD FAKES...🇦🇺✌️👇
Beddgelert is such a beautiful place.
Was 🤣🤣
He was committed there..... All he could do was continue.... Been there myself!
What committed or knocking that poor ladies house down? I too have been committed and its not a nice place to be.
@@jch2211 Behave yourself! Knock her house down? 😂 He broke a plastic downpipe! Not the end of the world by a long stretch.
@@CoherentChimp It was merely sarcasm mate based on what she said. I am a driver and know what it's like to be in this kind of situation and I can 100% guarantee when that poor driver started work that day he didn't set out with the intention of meeting a drama queen and doing £10 worth of damage to a drainpipe. Best advice I ever had was shit happens drive and today it's your turn.
Me to charles a few times tbh.
So much for the planning
that sucks. from the driver's seat, you can't see ANYTHING on the back blind corner when you're turning like that.
Hugh Jass 😂😂😂didn’t see the no hgv signs either 😂😂😂
Rata 4U shouldn’t have a house there 😂😂😂 it was there before lorries 😂😂😂 drive a bus that’s a hgv that can be a max load of 44 ton he should of planned his route more carefully before leaving first that’s a 7 1/2 ton weight limit there a defo No no
Would be a wiser way if he come out and actually see blind spot ? I an very new but I would prefer coming out of cabin rather then a blind shot
@Hugh
So? That's why you need a special license...
@@terrywoodward8029 His depot is 150 miles away, do you expect him to know every turn on a route he's probably never been on before?
Keep calm & carry on regardless. It’s no easy thing driving a 44 tonner on a road built for horse & cart. Screaming & shout wont help. Instead work the problem which the driver did by flooring it. Everyone’s a winner!
The junction in question is in the welsh village of Beddgelert and is the junction of 2 'A' Roads. There is (and I have double checked on Google) no alternative route in the near or far vicinity (and Welsh main roads, including Trunk Roads, aren't known for their width and easiest to navigate) or a sign saying 'Unsuitable for HGVs.' It is also a bus route as well. As far as I could tell from the video footage that Lorry is as far over as it could get. I'm guessing the bridge is Listed so there isn't anything which could be done about that.
Keepn busy huh?
I did Tesco at Pwhelli a couple of years back. I turned left off the A5 because it was marked as an A road. I had an interesting drive & when I came to that bridge I had to take my time. Trailer was only 38 foot & there was a pub car park, sort of, to swing the arse round. There was a bus stopped on the other side of the river holding back any traffic, which never came. I got round in one, with a couple, maybe one & a half inches to spare.
The drop said they don't usually come that way & yours is the biggest yet. I suspected this agency lad ,me, was on a Stobart test run. But I'm glad I came the way I did, along the river. That way I missed the broomstick jockey.
But there is an alternative route, he should never have been on the A4085 from Caernarfon, It is clearly signposted that the road is unsuitable for HGV's, he should have been on the A487 to Porthmadog, there is nothing between Beddgelert and Porthmadog along the A4085 that would require a delivery vehicle this size, the driver used a sat nav instead of a proper map, and ignored the road signs, very lazy, very poor from a professional driver. I didn't need to look on Google maps as I have been climbing the mountains of Snowdonia for 50 years, I know every inch of these roads.
@@urbanastro4701 not necessarily the case. A delivery may have required him to use that road (which is an A road after all). Some companies have multiple drops per trailer. So there are plenty of legitimate reasons why the driver may be down that road. Also the driver may not be local. Additionally I don't think you can fully determine whether a driver is lazy or poor from a 60 second video clip. I do have a HGV paper map and there are no additional instructions or notes on it regarding Beddgelert (excluding the 14'9" Bridge to the south of the village). On the map it looks like an alternative route suitable for a HGV between Porthmadog and Caernarfon. Additionally the turn at Beddgelert can't be any worse than that junction at Rhayader surely?
@@tom201090 There is literally nowhere to deliver on that road, It may be an "A" road but 30 seconds out of Caernarfon and you would know no HGV can get anywhere, even if he didn't turn over the bridge at Beddgelert and carried on up toward the Nant Gwynant pass he would have been stuck as well because even though it also is an "A" road no HGV could negotiate the narrow winding steep pass, there is literally no excuse or reason for an HGV to be anywhere near Beddgelert, like I said I know every inch of these roads, you had a quick look on Google maps, you are just plain wrong on this.
I think as a fellow driver we all have these moments at one point or another.
Got to love a good Karen haven't you. I'd have taken the keys and given them to her. In a situation like that a good rule to follow is that unless you are providing a solution you're part of the problem
I guess this lady lives in a perfect world. Guess what lady, this is nothing, little stuff like this happens.
A good decision at a hopeless moment. Gentlemen .. No Woman no cry .. Greetings from a truck driver from Warsaw in Poland
Your women are beautiful but,they always complain!
I think her house is ruining his lorry..
I agree HAHA LOL
+MrUpyourPipe It sucks but when I heard the guy say it happens every year I'd say it's time to move then ;)
Josh Howells lead kindly
Handled it like a boss tbh 😎
People honestly don’t know how difficult it is to drive lorries. It’s all well and good this Karen having a pop at him, but look how tight that road is. He probably had to use that road to gain access to wherever he was going. UK roads really aren’t HGV friendly.
She's not a Karen - that's her house. And idiots who are trained to know better keep on crashing into it. That's a famous old Welsh village, a tourist site, completely inappropriate for HGV access. Imagine doing that regularly to Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford Upon Avon.
@@interestedlen8823 I looked on google maps, there are no signs whatsoever leading into the village from where he came, and that road is unbelievably an A road.
I love how she thinks screaming will make the lorry suddenly disappear
Must always allow for overhang swinging out. The tighter the turn the greater the swing.
When in doubt…flat out!! Well handled driver
co-pilot truck has been a godsend. no more crappy country lanes etc except when someone actually lives down there!
It's buster blood vessel from bad manners.......I didn't know he'd taken to the road, royalties must have run dry lol
Pivot….pivot……pivot😂. When they say rebuilt what they mean is replace the plastic gutter down pipe.
Experience counts for a lot in our job (lorry driving). You’ve either got it or you haven’t. I hope this event goes a long way in helping the driver ?
I used to do rural deliveries in areas that would make a car driver question the route but I had no other choice or alternative route!!
It's easy to say lack of experience however no matter how much experience you have human error can occur........the driver made a mistake and rectified the situation with as little damage as he could!!!
A bit of plastic drain pipe not the end of the world!, nice wee village might visit there one day (in the car:)
There is always one gobby cow making the situation worse
Yep, I mean it's just a building.. It can be fixed, there's no reason to get mad over a tool.
fastasfox your right mate I have my Class 1 coming up. But it does happen with trucks even the rigid I drive there tight places as well
Come on man, it's an old stone cottage with that wall apparently just rebuilt, and this arsehole drives a lorry against it. And she is the owner.
yep
fastasfox read the description, he shouldn't of even been driving the artic in the village in the first place
Thanks for putting this on UA-cam. I won't be buying this house!
He had to move the lorry, just minor damage, can be sorted, it was an accident, he didn’t do it deliberately
I have a hard enough time driving Merc Sprinters around London, I take my hat off to HGV drivers trying to drive along winding country roads to deliver goods.
Nice ice cream parlour round the corner there. 😁
In foreign countries, this happens every day!
Since the basics of foreigners are stupid, there is no way!
From a Japanese perspective
Why did she park her house so damn close to the road in the first place?
When the house was built, this road would've barely been a dirt track.
Oh no!!! Huge problem!!! How will he ever get the lorry unstuck!!!
FULL POWER!!
Ok he's in the wrong but the vehicle had to move to resolve the situation, the damage was done the moment the tail swing commenced..
how can these home owners be so irresponsible. fancy letting their home hit that truck. cant drive anywhere these days!!
Some folk on here criticising the driver haven’t a clue. I’ll invite any of you to come out with me as I deliver to farms throughout Lincolnshire.Some of the roads I have to go down are unreal including weight limited and very narrow uneven what can only be described as tracks. It’s a hard, long stressful day but we do our best and get on with it....
@Pollywog I deliver to 2 farms in Lincolnshire with roads leading to them that are signposted ‘Unsuitable for HGV’s’ 🤷♂️
@Pollywog then have a go at the people placing the orders….
@Pollywog what I’m saying is look at it from both parties… it’s so easy to criticise… of course I have sympathy for that home owner but you should see some of the roads and lanes i have to go down in order for me to achieve my deliveries… it’s a horrible and stressful job at times.. but I get on with it…
@Pollywog in an ideal world your right but unfortunately the roads in the UK especially when you get into rural areas aren’t suitable for hgv’s but we just have to get on with it…. If I’m delivering 10 tonne of animal feed or 10 tonne of chemical in ICB’s it’s just not cost effective to send it in a fleet on smaller vehicles.
Like I say it’s easy to critique a driver but if you actually went out and saw what we have to do on a daily basis in order to get food in to shops n supermarkets I think you’d change your opinion…
"Lorry satnav" Ha!
We use "lorry satnavs" to delivery shopping in 3.5 tonne vans and they are forever trying to take us down roads barely wide enough for a large car, never mind a lorry.
there's a letter 'A' missing from that company name 😂
let me guess A** H**E !
+honours1980 it fell of when hit the house, that driver what a plonker..
honours 1980 , just what I was thinking mate 😁
Huw Jones, TWAT
honours1980 hahhha 😂😂😂😂😂
Not the world's happiest company name initialism on the lorry 😂
It always helps if one holds the camera the right way round.
It also helps when uploading to yooutube that one checks that the video is rotated the correct way.....
At best I’d have rolled down the window and said, oooops sorry about that! I was busy txting the missus.
What a job to drive HGV. Big em' up. It's a nightmare
There's a couple of tight passes further on this road to Portmadoc, where you will often meet trucks and coaches, punters in motorhomes of all sizes, motorbikes racing going flat out,tractors, cyclists, odd times the speed camera van. Coaches often jammed in the pass trying to pass each other,the bridge was well negotiated by the truck driver,there's usually herds of people standing on this bridge getting in the way.....
that road isn't a shortcut to anywhere. there are only two signs in an 11 mile stretch warning of inappropriate HGV satnav route, one-sided story, chances are he'd just made a delivery and took the wrong way out
The driver was very articulate for a mad Scotsman.
Sorry to say this but he is dressed like he is gan to Marbella on his hols. So you can hardly expect a professional attitude to route planning. Good advert for his company.
LeMagnum440 hows he meant to be dressed?
TWT is a company local to me. Its gone bust loads of times, a proper rogue transporting company.
I work at the sister company in England :D
Chris Paul yeah,not far from ystrad maniac,by withy’s estate
Don't understand why he didn't put full left lock on and reverse a few inches to pull the back corner of the trailer away from the building, he would still have had plenty of room to cross the bridge. Seeing some of the other comments though, it does seem as if lorry drivers think they are above everyone else on the roads and can do what they want. This video just shows many of them are not as skilled as they like to think.
There is lots of unsuitable roads for trucks in Wales (United Kingdom) such as this one if you miss the signs or choose to ignore them you may do a lot more damage than damaging a drain pipe. A lucky escape here I think.... Mind you it is TWT Twits With Trucks Lol "Its a joke"
WobblyCaptain clearly the sign isn't big enough. Am a lorry driver and I pass 1000's of signs every weak. Do you think we can read every single sign we pass?
Ive been a class 1 for 17 years and I've never hit a thing! If ur uncertain you get out and check before you go proceed. That's wot a professional driver does! I take pride in my job,yes it's a hard job, away from home 5 to 6 days a week, long hours but that's wot u get paid for! Stress included .
Had that drain pipe not been there no damage, no problem. Why does the bint keep getting it put back up?
Wonder if he got under the low bridge 13ft 6 i think it is , carries the Heritage narrow gauge railway over it, and that road is crap, I was a coach tour who toured the area every week for 4 years , hated that road as you were stuckif you met another coach, bus or truck on that road
Being an hgv driver in uk might be a really pain in the ass
I was around Harlech the other week. The roads are appalling.
Fair play to the driver, he smashed it.
This sometimes happens when your boss sends you to a delivery point where they expect 7.5 t rigid not 44 t arctic.....with 1 pallet or sometimes 1 60 kg carton box. Everybody says stupid driver people on the road and the boss also.....being like a corn in the grindstone.
Good evening from Slovakia 🇸🇰. You are right. This is faulty on Speditor side. Are days when we are send for products which are better for Van driver or companies trading up to 3.5 ton.
Let me explain please.
If you can load 33 pellets and each is value from UK 🇬🇧 to any EU 🇪🇺 countries ex. 80 to 100 💶. You can go home paid even up to 2000 💶 one way. But driver want to kill Speditor being collector as DPD driver and his card is running out of time.
I do love context " can you do something we are a bit behind " want to kill.
I do often fight with UK 🇬🇧 roads. No many are in metric and that time you will not even stick a sharp hair into my back bottom part of body 😀😀😀.
Lady could calm down. Company I'm sure paid some money 💷 to be fixed again
driver can ALWAYS refuse to do the job ;)
Nice truck
I just looked on google maps and followed the road right down from Rhyd-Ddu, where there should have been signs to say not suitable for trucks, but I didn't see any signs at all from there all the way down to the bridge in Beddgelert. This however does not mean there are no signs now just that there were none at the time the google car went down through there.
I'd be reversing straight in to her house after talking to me so nice
Well done HGV driver. Nothing else he can do. Kept his cool and better than leaving it there lol
The lorry needed to be cut in half, and lifted up by a crane. Imagine if that would be YOUR HOUSE!
Is there an A missing from the company logo?
Did he still make the corner?
You can bet that the plastic guttering is meant to be iron, if the property is listed definitely. I bet they charge for iron but fit iron effect plastic and trouser the difference. Anyway the trucker should have a hgv sat nav. I have one and I only drive class 2.
possibility the sign to inform the driver of width issues wasn't visible? another possibility is driver chose to ignore sign and push on? whichever it was at the end of the day minor damage caused no real need to get excitable.
I cant believe I'm reading comments on whether the pipe is Plastic or cast !!! FFS it's a pipe, regardless. She's loosing the nut over having her house being rebuilt :) But she'll still want bread, milk, petrol, furniture and whatever else (almost everything on the planet) that travels by truck tomorrow... Yes I agree BAN THE TRUCKS!! Let's see how you lot get on after 2-3 days. Sickens my AZZ
They didn't have artics as big as that when these houses were built. Just articulated horse & cart.
There is video evidence, they have the registration number and lorry company name. Give details to police and also look into getting insurance payment out of company.
The driver is human and has feelings, and trying to put bread and butter on the table. We all make mistakes in life and in hindsight if the driver knew the situation he would about got himself into,he would then done it differently!
And perhaps if he had an ounce of intelligence he might have noticed the sign at Caeathro roundabout warning of hgv restrictions.
I would have just told the Karen I hope she gets as much yelling everytime she makes a mistake
That drain pipes the goose that lays the golden egg. Everytime it's knocked off its put back at great expense to the transport compay.
just a question to HGV drivers ,is there a sat nav with software for HGV's that tells you the roads are unsuitable for a HGV ?
There is but some don't use it. It's becoming mandatory though for HGV drivers to use HGV sat navs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38775559
How would u feel if it was your house. Leave her alone...
Calm doon hen. The company will pay for the repairs. Take it up wae the council, not the driver. He has a job tae do. She probably cant reverse her fiat punto in a parking space and complains about his efforts.
Why was it 90 degrees out?
I think is not the truck driver fault. Is the house thats is not builded correctly. That house is leaning to the street, like the tower of pisa.😂
Saul Herrera. Built.
Saul Herrera , I think the house was built further back but felt lonely and decided to shift itself even though the road told it not to .
yeah the 300 year old house forgot to make room for the 40 ton truck
Rather him than me. Some routes need to be taken as they’re our only option to get to where we need to be to complete a delivery, where reversing out of a situation isn’t an option. Unless you are familiar with local roads and know which to avoid we don’t know what we will come up against that may be hidden from view around the next corner, waiting to test our driving abilities to their limits. We are however professional drivers and what decision we make and manoeuvres we do are ultimately our responsibility.
Cuts off just before the weak bridge collapses.
First rule of lorry driving. If you hit something,have a look to see if anyone has noticed.If they haven’t,drive off
Another Rich English woman owning a house in Wales
I went across that bridge yesterday, I can emphatically say there are no signs, I was in a artic
Was that hector c broklebank 😂good man hector , you should have just driv on back ta pererheeed!
It has probably been asked before but why don't all lorry drivers buy (or the company provide) lorry satnavs rather than car satnavs? Horses for courses.
Why don’t they make the roads wider in the uk? Measurements are from years and years ago. Same has car garages that you have next to your house, if you can get your car in you can’t open the door to get out lol.
Well your going to have to rebuild it again darlin
without us lorry drivers you dont have fuck all in the shops. if anyone thinks that lorries are easy to drive get in the cab and have a go. someone has ordered something. how are they meant to get the goods?? walk it up to em??
Kevin Williams Amen. Lorry drivers are the blood of a country's economy.
I have a lot of respect for you guys and hopefully within the next 5 years I'll be "one of you". Stay safe out there man
And what brought the materials to build your house. Lorries darling
Fucking doubt it. House has probably been there since before cars or lorries were invented.
Did he manage to get over that little bridge without it collapsing?
Aren’t there enough Cows in Wales.
I see what you did there.
If you look closely at the rear doors of the truck, you can see the invisible letter A between the W & last T!!!...
"Advisory signing
This type of signing consists generally of white on blue signs with legends such as Unsuitable for Heavy Goods Vehicles or with a pictorial representation of an HGV showing a red slash through the vehicle symbol and are to indicate that a road may be generally unsuitable for an HGV.
Unsuitable may be due to:
limited width due to sharp bend or walls either side of the road
steep gradients such that a long or articulated vehicle may struggle to negotiate the hazard
The signing is advisory and there is no recourse to the law if an HGV tries to negotiate the road."
Good grief. FINALLY! It's taken this far down the comments before someone has pointed out that the road is legal and that 'unsuitable for HGVs' means 'probably not advisable but legal' If lorries were banned down there there would be a MGW sign, length limit or restriction on tonnage for goods vehicles. Also those complaining about the 'Karen': If their BMW was slightly scratched by a lorry I'm sure they'd either stay indoors thinking, 'Well it's only a bit of filler and paint from Halfords - shouldn't take half an hour' or would be out there with tea and biscuits for the driver seeing if the lorry was damaged. It's the woman's home for God's sake!
اللهم صل على محمد وال محمد
Again inexperience and in this case incompetence is to blame and the responsibility lies 100% with the operator, question did the operator give the driver a written planed route or did they ensure he was using professional quality sat nav and not a car sat nav the owner of the property should seek legal advice about taking a civil case against the operator to a civil court, there they would receive much better recompense.
I took a drain pipe off someone's house once in 7.5 tonner it was pitch black though and everyone was asleep.