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.
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 !
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!
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’
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...
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.
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.
@@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!
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
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
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
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
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!
This happened to me in Greece. Rented a VW 12-passenger van for extended family drive while in port in Rhodes. Heading back to the ship at the end of the day, the roads got increasingly narrower, until we got to a spot where we could no longer move forward. Had to figure out how to fold in the mirrors, but still ended up slightly scraping the side of the van. Stressful at the time, but we now look back and laugh.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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 😂
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.....🤣👍
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 😂
@@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
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 !!!!
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 !
@@raychambers3646 The locals we asked, were in the same business as us, and should have known better
@@Jimages_uk can't win them all .
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!
You could have reversed going to the job and saved yourself hours having to reverse out !
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’
Cheers buddy been on class 1 for a few years now been to some shit places but not as bad as that one
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...
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.
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.
The people and places we have too deal with
😂😂😂😂
Good story,shame it never happened though!
@@davejenkins669 joined 6 months ago and you're already chatting shit.
The reluctantancy of the phone call is truly unbelievable. The arrogance and stupidity of some people is beyond comprehension!
Its the most excitement theyve had for years in that village. Still talking about it.
yeah. they'll all be chuffed when their drains are knackered because someone took a shortcut in their 32 tonne truck.
@@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!
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.
Condescending git.
Lorry and bus drivers deserve medals.
thos one deserves a map.
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
Those streets looked as tight as Port Issac. Well done.
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
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
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
🤣
It is sometimes worth parking-up outside the village and walking the route first.
Or parking outside the village and leave it there.
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.
Thank you
You only had to look at the Shop / Roads signs to see where it was !! DENT Brewery is a big give away !!!
Or you can just look at the co-ordinates you muppet
@@24sumo Or you could like at the Brewery signs muppet !! l mean DENT brewery is such a give away !!
@@Sam_Green____4114 bit slow ain't you champ
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!
This happened to me in Greece. Rented a VW 12-passenger van for extended family drive while in port in Rhodes. Heading back to the ship at the end of the day, the roads got increasingly narrower, until we got to a spot where we could no longer move forward. Had to figure out how to fold in the mirrors, but still ended up slightly scraping the side of the van. Stressful at the time, but we now look back and laugh.
I've seen plenty of drivers that would struggle getting a mini up that road. I thought you were stuck. Well done!
Amazing driving, you deserve a medal
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.
Look at you in disgust but they wouldnt uave no products 9n their back or in their homes if it wasnt for us.
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
Certainly brightened the locals lives up a bit, last bit of excitement was lady Godiva on that horse of hers
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.
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.
They're all phoning the neighbours, come out quick there's a massive lorry in the village.
My heart rate went up just watching this!!
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
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.
Cheers buddy for the comment it was the only way
Awesome driving and composure pal 👍 I Loved the bit where your Sat Nav said “Turn Right onto Main Street” 😂
Aye main street my arse but after 32 years on the road I now teach at LTS so it paid off lol
Loved the villagers coming out.... "Oooooooo what is it???? IT'S A #@&£§~™© LORRY!!!!!....
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
This reminds me of delivering beer in Pittsburgh, only the alleys are the whole town.
Nice driving dude bet ur arse was twitching a bit there!
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.
too hell with that, I wouldn't have wanted to do that in my 7.5 tonner. Well done
Peter Darling I have to say would not like to go up that way again thank God I'm in class 1 now
@@wolfstamp3794 class 1 easy job than class 2?
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
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
Wow … how did a farmhouse melt?
Get the truck to take up the exclusive "gym and swim" offer!
What a cosy little place all the houses probably owned by Londoners
Imagine if it was a busy summer bank holiday and there were 100 cars trying to drive through the same village 😅
That was so satisfying to watch! Well done!
Thank you 😊
Everyone looked so happy for the guy😅 I would have too, some serious skill right there👌
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 😂
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?
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.....🤣👍
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.
@@ac9110 strangely enough I didn’t see anyone videoing, just people wondering what was going on…
That driver is absolutely fantastic WELL DONE MATE.
Cheers
Looks like a village for local people only. They don't half look shocked to see outsiders.
It’s not diverse enough, they can’t be happy people, send in some migrants to disturb their community and culture!
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.
No one cares mark my old mate..nobody
Some councils use special narrow wheelbase bin lorries. They are about 3/4s of the width of a normal bin lorry.
@@patkennedy9491: No, only you don't care. Just because you're an ignorant bellend, doesn't mean everyone else is.
Wow, that is some close quarters driving there...
Try moving a +350 ton generator, transformer or turbine to a power plant … now that needs a real survey!
As a HGV tanker driver I couldn’t watch the whole video as it was giving me an anxiety attack!!!
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
The scumbags who talk about replacing HGV drivers with self-driving lorries should be forced to watch this on a loop.
Great film footage! 👍👍
Wow very skilful driving, I’d struggle getting my moped through there lol
Manager: How long have you been a truck driver?
Him: Yes
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.
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
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
It doesn't matter wheather you have a inch or a foot it either fits or it don't.
Double meaning!
Try telling that to a woman.
Good job nobody walked out of their front door...😂
I thought HGV sat navs were developed to avoid this exact situation including stoping the idiots going under bridges that are too low
Every now and then, they throw you a curv ball, just like this.
That's great driving fair play 👌
Damn!!!!.....well done. ..👍
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
That could have been a Reliant Robin with sound effects for all I know !!
Good point. It could have been done up like the Trotter's one, hence the sight seers!
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 😂
Yes, it is Dent.
I thought he was about to find the bridge. Unless the bridge has been widened then he’s not going over.
@@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
I once went through a place like this in Wales and there was a coach coming the other way!! Uh ohh!!!
Good skills mate and that little place looks luvvly jubbly 👍🏻👍🏻
Nicely done driver 👍.
You were really lucky getting out of that one i thought you were going to get stuck big time.
Tighter than a flies arse that bud, glad you got through.
Some driving that m8 👌👌🙀
Looks like Compo, Clegg and Foggy country😂….guessing Yorkshire by the walls and cottages.
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!! 😂
Cheers buddy I teach HGV/PCV/CPC instructor so not on the road now
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 !!!!
Very good driving mate
Cheers buddy 👍
Wow! Pretty stressful… I’d need a swig of something strong to calm my nerves after that (or maybe before, lol).
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
That’s the appropriately named village of Dent, in North Yorkshire
Makes me feel sick just watching this. I've felt the pain.
Dent in N Yorkshire. And this is actually the "main" road through the village.
Driving past all those listed buildings with ease
you fookin hero!!!
That's Dent, Cumbria.
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.
National widening of roads is desperately needed.
Demolish all those old houses?
Plenty of room!!!! get a BUS through there!!!!
but not a coach lol (pause at 0:20)
A bus isn’t 32 tons is it you twat
Excellent driving
Based on an in cab video...naive mate.
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.
Thank you I've been doing c+e for over 2 years now and love every day
I feel for you, I've also been in these situations
that's why I don't use a sat nav in a truck or in the car
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.
Now it’s possible to choose what type of satnav you need , car truck or camper/ caravan and it will avoid all these places
Driving a lorry through the arse end of nowhere.makes u feel alive 🤣🤣🤣
Don't it lol even more so in a class1
This is a small village, but London's getting just as nightmarish in parts !
as a ex trucker i think hes been that way before
Good grief! I would be tempted to get out, leave the truck there and resign. 🤦♂
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
Dent. Near Sedburgh. South Cumbria. Hope you where not going to Cowgill. The bridge there is tiny. And reversing is impossible.
No was going to a farm too drop a tank off
Great driving
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
this is unreal. The poor driver's stress be hitting an all time high lmaaaaooooooooo
so skilled! amazing job my friend!!! 👌👏👏
Thank you
Don’t forget to give at least two metered when passing a cyclist
Nice sarcasm, but on roads like that the cyclist would be gone into the sunset whilst the truck is still juggling around those bends.
I must have the same sat nav as you.
Where Is that?
Looks a beautiful place.
Would make a lovely trip away
It's a place called Dent