spannermonkey

that's pretty cool company to let you on the panel spanner after all you will be working closely with the winning candidate

My largest independent recovery company has three ladies who work on the recovery  trucks, to be honest two of them are better than the blokes when comes to any challenging recovery jobs.....

Well it was an interesting day. Very shocked that 4 candidates didn't even bother to turn up. Their loss. Those who did turn up were very impressive. Very close call so 2 have been invited for a practical assessment, I've got a feeling both will be offered a place. I am very happy to train either of them as they appear to have a good attitude to the job. 

Damn! That sucks! Salvagable?

Think I've saved it. Time will tell

My bro did his apprenticeship at daf before pakar took it over...good rigs! Their prototype department is cool.

Volvos are the worst trucks I've ever worked on

Aww that sucks mate

Just doing a Volvo full rotator build, well luckily I'm not but it's in our shop, that many issues you wouldn't believe.

Agencies are the worst. Its just a big loophole to not be liable of staff. Corps even pay the agency more per hour than staff. 

"Agencies" I hear you say? My mates wife is a nurse, being short staffed they need agency nurses, but had a genuinely bright idea that goes as follows; "if you work your full week of shifts, you can then work weekends and we'll pay you what an agency would charge us".

She gets the full 400 per shift, that's 800 notes for a weekend! 

Unfortunately there is a real shortage of good drivers at the moment. This has meant the agency driver pool has been flooded by Eastern European drivers that read or speak little if any English. It's cost the company I work for 40k this time. 

hopefully ur better soon and they sort u out sooner

Cheers Mike, be a fair few weeks until I'm sorted. See the surgeon again early next week to find out what they want to do if anything. New bits are on the way and hopefully reveal the new model tomorrow.

nice

What is it you do, manual trade of some sort? 

I had to make some lifestyle changes, sold my track car as it just punished my back (lowered adjustable coilovers, bucket seats, cage, harnesses - essentially not a lot of give) and track days went out the window. Up the excercise routine and play squash once a week (this came later thlugh) to try and keep it all moving. I have a desk job which isn’t great for the back anyway. I turned heavily back to RC’s for a couple of years as a bit of a coping system/distraction as I couldn’t enjoy any of the other hobbies.

Some people resolve after about 6 weeks, I wasn’t one of those, hopefully yours will be a quick recovery although it sounds like you have a few discs shot like me, in some respects, without a ruptured disc you wouldn’t have known that your back has been abused so, at least now you're young enough to make lifestyle changes and do something positive about it. My specialist said that basically things wear out, if you’re a runner you’ll wear you knees out, the more you abuse any joint the more it wears, like a car suspension, if you are on rough terrain with pot holes it’ll wear the shock absorber out faster. Hence why our discs are shot. At the point of rupture it is usually something stupid that triggers it, mine was putting an RC car on the floor, I was rotating as I bent down which is a no no, bend the knees!! I’d always had a strong back so its quite a blow spending three years not being able to do all the things you take for granted, like picking the kids up and carrying them to bed and stuff.

You’ll get there, it’s a question of time, the disc will never be as strong so you need to build up the muscles to compensate and help take the pressure off the discs and excercise better posture and techniques for lifting etc. But this is all cyclical, other times you just need to try and relax and let the muscles relax when they’re all tensed up and try and bring inflammation down through rest, listen to your body and you’ll probably develop a strange sort of stretching regime! Good luck with it, there are many other sufferers out there than you know which gives comfort that you’re not alone

My op was over 20 years ago, one week in hospital on a neuro ward, then three months off work. I had been crippled with lower back pain and sciatica for over two years, luckily I had a very good surgeon and hospital.

Yes lifestyle had to change a lot, I cannot sit for very long, and standing for long period. Although moving around is great.

One of the most important things is being to talk about it.

I'm a truck mechanic by trade. Did about 10 years road side and now I'm a damageless recovery specialist, I also do refurbishment of classic and import trucks between calls. It's all heavy work with stupid long hours up and about. Luckily I have a good amount of muscle tone from the job but the Dr even said the fact I'm a bit top heavy with muscle doesn't help. It's not been a week yet but this is the longest I've been on the sick in 20 years. Just need to learn to be patient.

U a paramedic I take it?

hope it wasn't to bad. 

No Jim Im a HGV mechanic and damage less recovery specialist. Spent over 15 hours on scene as it was one of our own abnormal loads involved. Lots of in vehicle footage to be reviewed but it appears an impatient car driver has forced passed the rear escort vehicle and colided head on with the motorcycle. The car has then been crushed by the first row of trailer axles. 1 fatality and 2 critical. Don't want to add too much detail as next of kin or still being traced.

That sucks. Always the idiots that cause it survive.

Nice choice  just don't add what you've spent on it at the end of the build you will cry  

Thanks for the heads up AJ. Money isn't too much of a problem on this build, landed a massive contract with some big bonuses and after a bit of a health scare I've decided to treat myself.

It's here. Thanks again Craig from DPD. One top bloke.

£329.00 at Wirelessmadness

https://www.wirelessmadness.com/tamiya-1-14-scale-grand-hauler-tractor-truck-unassembled-kit-56344?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6NjNBRDKARIsAFn3NMphSXwewQx8CxnZWOBO6p5-bFngucPivnsuy3WnMLhYO8BIwDDBf5oaAmUjEALw_wcB

Finger is hovering @johninderby need to decide on a trailer as well. Just landed a job refurbishing a Leyland Octopus so looks like funds are sorted.

Anything other than a flatbed trailer does get rather expensive. BTW Wirelessmadness are great to deal with. Top dealer. 

Happy birthday 

Happy birthday. 

happy birthday fella  hope your back gets better soon, have a pint on me  

i really wouldnt mind the buggy version ( vatage ftx) small, light and fast  

been told the qaaunum vandal is a better quality out of the both though

Only poor quality thing that's gone in the bin are front shocks, leaked like an old bucket. Put a spare set of Revo big bores on and doubled up the rear springs. Get jumped hard and beaten. Lives in my work van so no TLC and get run on any surface I think it won't sink into.

How big.

TWSS  

Only small this time, 2x 180 litre bow fronts. She got very cross when the 400 litre came. Lol.

Owww ouch!!!  Sounds like an idiot that doesn't have a clue about what's involved in painting a car or truck. Hopefully you'll get paid full rate for the extra labour.

Just cost him about another grand in paint. He is a good customer hence him getting a polite response. I wouldn't like the bill for this one though. Covering candy green with red is going to take some hours.

The customer is always right so they say. 

Mental, thick as @@$# theives if they had half a brain then you'd be gutted. Ide set a cam up in the window just incase they come as a pack never know with kids of today. Criminals are fearless because it doesn't matter what crime they commit they will be protected and kept safe. Even if their victims didn't get that luxury. Even parents can't punish them the way they need it. 

I saw a 6yr boy punching F out of his mum the other day in tesco 's I couldn't believe it. My mum would have laid me out lol. 

Camera set up and a couple of furry suprises will be sleeping in there for a while. Im still scared of my mum now ! Lol.

Very fortunate to get them back, and my experience is PLOD aren't particularly interested in such things.  

Unfortunately, and as a GP colleague of mine was wont to write on many many case notes it's

N F I.

well done  would imaging you won't hear a peep out you pups tonight 

They are flat out now and have been for the last hour. 

That's  bad, but good luck with the surgery

Thanks, I hope to be back fit before too long.

Hope you have a speedy recovery

Is that a cheeky pun ? Thumbs up indeed. Lol.

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Where there's a blame, there is a claim...

good trug that. whack a brushless system in and enjoy !

pick up some china diff bevels and maybe a couple of spare wishbones, freeprawn are cheap as cheap chips

It will be great for a basher in work van.

Yeah. Fo sho.