32 Tonne truck

[@Jimages_uk]

I spent a number of years doing international removals, and we had to rely on locals doing surveys for routes into properties, and the number of times they sent me into places like this, was unreal. Only once did I really get stuck, I managed to get to the property, but there was nowhere to turn around, which resulted in about a 7 mile reverse. I can't say I was very pleased with that job.

[@raychambers3646]

When you ask locals to do the survey you forget they are walking the route ,not driving a truck ! Just go right at the top mate , turns out to be a no entry !

[@Jimages_uk]

@@raychambers3646 The locals we asked, were in the same business as us, and should have known better

[@raychambers3646]

@@Jimages_uk can't win them all .

[@Sarge084]

I did delivery in a 7.5 tonner, some of the customers were adamant that bigger trucks had been to their properties! On another occasion had some jumped up bitch say "next time you'll think twice about coming down this lane"... If we're delivering to your home madam we won't even give it a thought!

[@andyxox4168]

You could have reversed going to the job and saved yourself hours having to reverse out !

[@moco2802]

As an hgv driver I’ve been in similar situations! I bet your heart rate went back to normal on the road out of there! I ended up in a place like that in the arse end of Devon a few months back. Thought I was going to have a heart attack!! Never again! Great driving tho’

[@wolfstamp3794]

Cheers buddy been on class 1 for a few years now been to some shit places but not as bad as that one

[@richardmessenger9474]

There are places in Devon I wouldn't take a bicycle but you can end up in all sorts of problems when customers say you can get there...😀😀the utter releif when you come out to a proper road is awesome..👍👍the best bit is when a car comes the other way and expect you to just disappear and when they have to reverse they end up going into the hedges either side of the road because they can't reverse...

[@russcattell955i]

In the 80's & 90's I used to drive artics for British Gas in Devon & Cornwall. One of my jobs was delivering gas main to sites. Once in West Cornwall I got to a drop, the little country lane had been bisected by a new trunk road high on an embankment. Had to reverse out several miles.

[@Robhalifax]

Its the most excitement theyve had for years in that village. Still talking about it.

[@yardgrid]

yeah. they'll all be chuffed when their drains are knackered because someone took a shortcut in their 32 tonne truck.

[@pinballdreamer]

@@yardgrid And what makes you think he took a shortcut? I often deliver to farms in my truck, how else do you get to farms except down farm tracks and through farming villages!

[@gail9299]

Like to bet they're pissed off. Bet this happens a fair bit. Sat navs are not reliable in rural areas even for standard cars at times.

[@andrewallan6802]

Condescending git.

[@petergibbs]

Sometime way back I had to make a feed delivery to a dog breeder down a narrow half mile farm track with a tight hard right turn over two concrete farm bridges in the middle. After making the delivery I mentioned I was not looking forward to reversing around the tight turn over the flat concrete bridges. "Why don't you turn there", she said pointing to a dirt area just outside her property. "That's where the fuel lorry turns round when he makes my delivery. He only made one a couple of days ago and he's as big as your lorry and must weigh more with all that fuel on." Dubious I checked the ground. It was solid packed dry earth. baked by the sun. I decided to chance it. Everything was fine until the back wheels went on the last few feet I need before going forward and the rear wheels sunk down a foot and I was stuck. I got out thinking of the phone call to base I was going to have to make. When she said to me. "You know that's just where the fuel truck got stuck the other day.". I could have killed her at that moment. And then she was reluctant to let me use her phone to get help. I'm a lot wiser nowadays.

[@wolfstamp3794]

The people and places we have too deal with

[@Cwizes]

😂😂😂😂

[@davejenkins669]

Good story,shame it never happened though!

[@haydnmorgan508]

@@davejenkins669 joined 6 months ago and you're already chatting shit.

[@tosspot1305]

The reluctantancy of the phone call is truly unbelievable. The arrogance and stupidity of some people is beyond comprehension!

[@peterg6677]

Another easy drop given to you by the routes planner, well done for getting out of that, made it look easy even though I could imagine you were wandering when you were going to get some open road

[@richhughes7450]

This is why I stick to flat bed vans. My boss tried to force me to drive lorries and set a date to go for this course. He did not even ask me! first I knew was when he walked over to my van and put these docs on my seat telling me when and where the course was. I seen them and I took the docs and put them back on his desk. Whatever was he thinking. He should have asked not insisted. Either way, we del down many tight country lanes and roads build for horse and carts. I did and do not want the stress of wondering of I can get there and if I can turn around to get out. Respect to you mate you did well not to blow a gasket

[@bandk2000]

I was so amazed at this I looked up the village with the coordinates on your screen! Well done for getting out of a tight squeeze.

[@wolfstamp3794]

Thank you

[@Sam_Green____4114]

You only had to look at the Shop / Roads signs to see where it was !! DENT Brewery is a big give away !!!

[@24sumo]

Or you can just look at the co-ordinates you muppet

[@Sam_Green____4114]

@@24sumo Or you could like at the Brewery signs muppet !! l mean DENT brewery is such a give away !!

[@haydnmorgan508]

@@Sam_Green____4114 bit slow ain't you champ

[@MrClingclong]

Lorry and bus drivers deserve medals.

[@yardgrid]

thos one deserves a map.

[@pinballdreamer]

Awesome driving and composure pal 👍 I Loved the bit where your Sat Nav said “Turn Right onto Main Street” 😂

[@wolfstamp3794]

Aye main street my arse but after 32 years on the road I now teach at LTS so it paid off lol

[@nigelbevan8449]

Loved the villagers coming out.... "Oooooooo what is it???? IT'S A #@&£§~™© LORRY!!!!!....

[@gradycampbell9933]

as an American that main street is more like main sidewalk the only roads I have ever seen that are that narrow are ones that only get maintained during the summer XD

[@davejohnston5158]

I've seen plenty of drivers that would struggle getting a mini up that road. I thought you were stuck. Well done!

[@stevensonDonnie]

I once got stuck in a small village in Malta and the whole village turned out to back me up and go forward for about two hours till I finally got out of there. The leader of the village came out and said to me “what would you English people do without us Maltese? “. I said “cheers “. As American I found it very funny

[@wolfstamp3794]

🤣

[@along4990]

Nice driving dude bet ur arse was twitching a bit there!

[@peterw4338]

It is sometimes worth parking-up outside the village and walking the route first.

[@christianburch479]

Or parking outside the village and leave it there.

[@kepler186f4]

And now for his next amazing trick, watch him thread a needle blindfolded while free-falling 4500 meters. That was skillfully done with a liberal dose of patience!

[@catweasle5737]

Those streets looked as tight as Port Issac. Well done.

[@tamar5261]

I had to drive a bus which served several villages in my local area, one lane I had to drive the thing down had high hedgerows that were just wider than the bus for around two miles. If I met a tractor it was interesting to say the least. The thing was tho that I drove that bus the whole route of around 20 miles and not one person ever used it. But when the service was cut there was all hell to pay from the locals

[@mymartianhome]

1:55 That "Oh! Sugar! " moment , congrats on getting out without taking the walls with you! Just as well it wasn't a cul de sac.

[@davidmarshall1259]

when the locals look at you as if you're an Alien, you know you shouldn't be driving down that way. done it several times in an Artic, last time was through a private school that took me down a shortcut to my destination. I made it, JUST!! , BUT I KNOW FOR NXT TIME AS YOU WILL.......driving is a lesson learned every single day.

[@GyomeiHimejima89]

Look at you in disgust but they wouldnt uave no products 9n their back or in their homes if it wasnt for us.

[@williamfence566]

As a relatively new pass driver I was once in a village where before proceeding I asked a local is it ok to take this ( 18T) down there , pointing to the narrowing route . Classic answer " you probably can but I wouldn't " . 20 point turn later I was on my way all the round to the drop grateful for that advice. Had a few underpant changing moments since though.

[@sandradent65]

Amazing driving, you deserve a medal

[@jimstelfox6120]

Certainly brightened the locals lives up a bit, last bit of excitement was lady Godiva on that horse of hers

[@briandoyle667]

I had a few nightmares like this. The relief when i got back on a proper road was overwhelming. I would pull over and have a kip

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

As Drayman, I feel your pain brother. Mind you though that's some good driving there mate. I always feel a bit chuffed with myself, at the end of a tough drive like that.

[@fs.pureblood]

They're all phoning the neighbours, come out quick there's a massive lorry in the village.

[@Yokaja]

Manager: How long have you been a truck driver? Him: Yes

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

That was so satisfying to watch! Well done!

[@wolfstamp3794]

Thank you 😊

[@keithfoster6000]

Reminds me of my coaching days in the Yorkshire Dale's, HAWES to Keld or Mucha or over to Ingleton passing through Bolton Abbey gates, not enough room with mirrors extended, never mind meeting another vehicle coming the other way

[@heynosjosh]

This reminds me of delivering beer in Pittsburgh, only the alleys are the whole town.

[@fingzuk]

On tight routes, everyone says "Bin Wagon gets down there", what people don't see is the convex pivvot wheels at the back as Bin Wagons are Rear & Front wheel steer. Regardless; I will stick with my Trunk Runs, just one Run 4 hrs there & 4 back.

[@patkennedy9491]

No one cares mark my old mate..nobody

[@robertwillis4061]

Some councils use special narrow wheelbase bin lorries. They are about 3/4s of the width of a normal bin lorry.

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

@@patkennedy9491: No, only you don't care. Just because you're an ignorant bellend, doesn't mean everyone else is.

[@ttonypayne5077]

That driver is absolutely fantastic WELL DONE MATE.

[@wolfstamp3794]

Cheers

[@peterdarling4208]

too hell with that, I wouldn't have wanted to do that in my 7.5 tonner. Well done

[@wolfstamp3794]

Peter Darling I have to say would not like to go up that way again thank God I'm in class 1 now

[@CHRIS198490]

@@wolfstamp3794 class 1 easy job than class 2?

[@steverowlands338]

Kudos on your driving skills my man👊😎 been in similar situations myself and it don't help when you've got all the village yokels eyeballing you like you've just climbed out of a space ship.....🤣👍

[@ac9110]

Excellent comment. I've been in the same boat and it's not nice. People standing there videoing it, praying for you to get wedged.

[@andrewallan6802]

@@ac9110 strangely enough I didn’t see anyone videoing, just people wondering what was going on…

[@glamill51]

That could have been a Reliant Robin with sound effects for all I know !!

[@ac9110]

Good point. It could have been done up like the Trotter's one, hence the sight seers!

[@esuohdica]

My heart rate went up just watching this!!

[@siatelecomsltdLondon]

Great film footage! 👍👍

[@LesD9]

Despite all the suggestions here, it looks like there ain't no alternative routes. So a good bit of driving there. By the way, I see Dent Railway Station is the highest in England.

[@wolfstamp3794]

Cheers buddy for the comment it was the only way

[@ChristopherWoods]

And then he realised he should have taken the left at the fork... Brave driving for those parts, smoothly done! Hope there's an emergency dram of single malt in a breakglass for completing journeys like that.

[@riggerrogger101]

Imagine if it was a busy summer bank holiday and there were 100 cars trying to drive through the same village 😅

[@wollywotsit]

Is this why I sometimes see bikes strapped to the back of the cab, so the driver can scoot on ahead to take a look?

[@tommo4428]

Wow very skilful driving, I’d struggle getting my moped through there lol

[@Adamlllllllllllljjjljljjjjj]

Everyone looked so happy for the guy😅 I would have too, some serious skill right there👌

[@uberspumer6669]

That looks easy. Back in 1756 I had to deliver 18 tonnes of glucose to a deserted farmhouse in Jersey and when I got there everything had melted

[@andyxox4168]

Wow … how did a farmhouse melt?

[@wildin13]

Jeeze! I'm not pro driver but even i can see how much experience and skill you used there... 1 mistake you'll never forget there, sat navs!! 😂

[@wolfstamp3794]

Cheers buddy I teach HGV/PCV/CPC instructor so not on the road now

[@keithramsay3340]

he says are you supposed to come down here in one of those those there was a sign saying impassable for coaches I'm sure there was a hint in there somewhere if its hard for a coach could be harder for a 32 tonner but well done great driving

[@Dan23_7]

Haha I've delivered round there, is it Dent near sedbergh? I was round there in the floods of December '15 too The fields were lakes Excellent driving skills. I'm guessing you weren't in an artic 😂

[@freedomvigilant1234]

Yes, it is Dent.

[@DonaldTrumpton]

I thought he was about to find the bridge. Unless the bridge has been widened then he’s not going over.

[@Dan23_7]

@@DonaldTrumpton I was up there when the bad floods December 15 happened I was on my to dent and a milk tanker driver said don’t even try. I was driving a sprinter van My main route was Kendal but quite often went out to Sedburgh etc

[@mathewdee1632]

This video almost gave me a panic attack …. Even in just a LWB transit I went down a small village road and hit a part where it just fit a car .. I put the front end in and knew I had to turn back …. I was there for around 10 minutes doing tiny strides in a 50 point turn 😂 I eventually turned around and got out okay but I’ve never had a meltdown like that day since 😂

[@nervo6321]

Good job nobody walked out of their front door...😂

[@comeonengland5312]

Good skills mate and that little place looks luvvly jubbly 👍🏻👍🏻

[@victoriaevelyn3953]

How do you guys do this taking lorries down small narrow roads without crashing I've lived on some of these narrow roads watching as lorries speed up and down the road its madness

[@wolfstamp3794]

It's a challenge but now I teach other people how too I'm a instructor and a RTITB CPC instructor I've loved every minute of the 32 years I've spent on the road

[@simonparker57]

Get the truck to take up the exclusive "gym and swim" offer!

[@seamusblack5876]

What a cosy little place all the houses probably owned by Londoners

[@seanmc6957]

That's great driving fair play 👌

[@tuesdaydelaney4480]

Very good driving mate

[@wolfstamp3794]

Cheers buddy 👍

[@missg3188]

Driving a lorry through the arse end of nowhere.makes u feel alive 🤣🤣🤣

[@wolfstamp3794]

Don't it lol even more so in a class1

[@andyxox4168]

Try moving a +350 ton generator, transformer or turbine to a power plant … now that needs a real survey!

[@johnmurray-hawkins8177]

As a HGV tanker driver I couldn’t watch the whole video as it was giving me an anxiety attack!!!

[@wolfstamp3794]

I had a drip of piss come out at one point 😆 I now teach HGV and CPC so don't have to go places like that anymore lol

[@MrMondo77]

Some driving that m8 👌👌🙀

[@lukecinahgv]

Na I'll pass 😂.

[@glion69]

Luke C in a HGV fuck that..

[@juliusilori]

Damn!!!!.....well done. ..👍

[@martinburke362]

I once went through a place like this in Wales and there was a coach coming the other way!! Uh ohh!!!

[@richardjones2811]

Looks like a village for local people only. They don't half look shocked to see outsiders.

[@andyxox4168]

It’s not diverse enough, they can’t be happy people, send in some migrants to disturb their community and culture!

[@argonaut6386]

I thought HGV sat navs were developed to avoid this exact situation including stoping the idiots going under bridges that are too low

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

Every now and then, they throw you a curv ball, just like this.

[@drews6616]

Nicely done driver 👍.

[@oldtabrough1026]

It would be nice if u can include the side mirrors POV. These streets must be quite creepy at night. Add the fog effects and you will have the opening scene to the An American werewolf in London

[@aali4276]

Excellent driving

[@patkennedy9491]

Based on an in cab video...naive mate.

[@bergeracvandamme]

The scumbags who talk about replacing HGV drivers with self-driving lorries should be forced to watch this on a loop.

[@BSKTSnGraV]

so skilled! amazing job my friend!!! 👌👏👏

[@wolfstamp3794]

Thank you

[@jamesblood6799]

You were really lucky getting out of that one i thought you were going to get stuck big time.

[@gsx1400madboy]

you fookin hero!!!

[@contessa.adella]

Looks like Compo, Clegg and Foggy country😂….guessing Yorkshire by the walls and cottages.

[@fingzuk]

The only thing on my mind would be, how am I going to Reverse 2 miles to undo my Route whilst I was trying to control the Heartbeat in my Throat, I am C+E, but there is no chance I would try that in a C - That was World Class Driving.

[@wolfstamp3794]

Thank you I've been doing c+e for over 2 years now and love every day

[@YobieTheQuestioner]

Wow, that is some close quarters driving there...

[@craigcarew5032]

Great driving

[@Brad-lt6mr]

Makes me feel sick just watching this. I've felt the pain.

[@nigelwhybrow9257]

I lived i an ex horse box lorry 8 years ago and I went to do a job in kent ,I used my phone to give me a route and just at the last mile I get sent down a tiny lane with a railway bridge ,this was off a dual carriageway so NO chance of reversing back onto the road,I put a branch through the front side of the box above the cab,thankfully the bridge was ok ,typically a local person came out to tell me that I shouldn’t really be going down this route to which I agreed ,anyway i had an inch either side to spare ,how I managed it I will never know other than going very slowly and using my mirrors etc

[@kingshallis]

Good old dent 😂 I have been through with a 18 ton 4 wheel women on house just before the sun pub always comes out saying don't hit my house. Once tried to send me in a artic got told you will be right. Needless to say I didn't do it !!!!

[@normanbrunt2053]

Holy cow! Rather you than me mate.

[@julianbuckmaster3725]

That looks like Dent in north yorkshire. you think it's tight with a 32 tonner???? Alan Wilson (of L & W Wilson) took a low loader through there 25 years ago, to get an O & K excavator to a job for the Environment agency, took him 2 hours to get through the village without touching anything

[@lottielove7383]

Plenty of room!!!! get a BUS through there!!!!

[@drivinginluton5745]

but not a coach lol (pause at 0:20)

[@lukemarshall3862]

A bus isn’t 32 tons is it you twat

[@andrewfrost8422]

I drive a large truck, this one is not, clearly not a 32tonne truck. It’s a waste pick up truck, a lot smaller than the impression given, but still very tight.

[@wolfstamp3794]

Andrew Frost I did state that predictive text had put the wrong title at the time 😊

[@rustyaxelrod]

Wow! Pretty stressful… I’d need a swig of something strong to calm my nerves after that (or maybe before, lol).

[@berkshirekatie8069]

Where Is that? Looks a beautiful place. Would make a lovely trip away

[@wolfstamp3794]

It's a place called Dent

[@Velocipedium]

That’s the appropriately named village of Dent, in North Yorkshire

[@Spectans1]

Where is this place? Its lovely.

[@gromit3315]

Dent, a village in Cumbria lies in Dentdale in the Yorkshire Dales. A very pretty and unspoilt village. Absolutely gorgeous!

[@pussinboots1145]

I think it's Trumpton.

[@killamrbxb1151]

Tighter than a flies arse that bud, glad you got through.

[@rachelhughes7070]

Nicely negotiated 🙌😉

[@martinreavey8419]

Dent. Near Sedburgh. South Cumbria. Hope you where not going to Cowgill. The bridge there is tiny. And reversing is impossible.

[@wolfstamp3794]

No was going to a farm too drop a tank off

[@Womblewobble1321]

Driving past all those listed buildings with ease

[@Sunglasses_Ron1]

Looks a nice place, where is it?

[@tigerbray3992]

AS AN EX HGV I DRIVER MY SELF MATE +PHEW} YOU MADE IT ,GREAT BIT OF DRIVING.

[@keswickcaravan]

Whoever organised this transport need to be sacked immediately clearly they cannot do their job - this is outrageous.

[@garethifan1034]

Better speak with the customer who ordered the goods first? Everyone's got an 'opinion' about something today..

[@katiemay8x]

It used to be a horse carrage track and did not want to change it

[@acecolin52]

You were brave, Dent, LA postcode Cumbria. Lancashire I go through there in my T6 and you cringe when a van cones the other way.

[@michaelthwaite3282]

Dent in N Yorkshire. And this is actually the "main" road through the village.

[@malcpaul996]

Not sure the residents will have been impressed. Vibrations from trucks damages houses. I personally think this could have been avoided by turning off the sat nav and getting out one of those old fashioned paper things called maps.

[@1960gal]

Can't watch ...too close for comfort! No, I've gotta see this journey through to the end! Oh hold on! Just seen the part where he reaches the turn by the 'Studio'. Aww ma Gawd, lovely as it is, I'd not like to live there, me thinks. I take my hat off to that Driver 🚚 Couldn't believe there was no oncoming traffic...or is a one-way situation??(watching with it mute).

[@wolfstamp3794]

It's a 2 way street lol

[@1960gal]

@@wolfstamp3794 luck was on his side that day then!

[@Apollo-Tracks]

satnav? no suprise. straight past the sign that says narrow bridge, sharp bends, impassable for coaches. on the lead upto two buildings just wide enough apart for a car in a village that was built before the motor car was a dream... "are you meant to come down here with these"? behave lol

[@TheBoostedDoge]

3:38 " if we smile maybe he'll go away "

[@PHDarren]

04:33 optimistic 60mph national speed limit signs.

[@mmv.undecisive]

this is unreal. The poor driver's stress be hitting an all time high lmaaaaooooooooo

[@thehouseholder5468]

Now it’s possible to choose what type of satnav you need , car truck or camper/ caravan and it will avoid all these places