Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember a call at work once, with a colleague asking me if I could deliver a 7.5 (911 turbo, 20' box with tail lift) 25 miles away to a customer's site. He was a salesman and had just persuaded them to take a demo - and the demo was part of my hire fleet. Never driven one before .... so in I hops, it needed filling up, filled it up. Drove there mostly up the M11 wondering what the red light on the dash was on for (tacho light) and why the tank was only showing half full (twin tanks). Oh well, you live and learn.

Posh alert!!!

:beer:

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Our Spanish students would like to come on our holiday (1 week at my parents in Devon) rather than stay at their school and move to a different host family. We like them too but I'm not sure if it is a good idea.

How old are these students? If they're minors, then definitely not. Their parents are paying for them to be at the school being taught, so that's what they need to do. If they're young adults, then they can make their own decisions.

bugslet

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I'm now an all girl household since Bill shuffled off to the big kennel in the sky, life's easy!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember a call at work once, with a colleague asking me if I could deliver a 7.5 (911 turbo, 20' box with tail lift) 25 miles away to a customer's site. He was a salesman and had just persuaded them to take a demo - and the demo was part of my hire fleet. Never driven one before .... so in I hops, it needed filling up, filled it up. Drove there mostly up the M11 wondering what the red light on the dash was on for (tacho light) and why the tank was only showing half full (twin tanks). Oh well, you live and learn.

Over-rated those tacho thingamajigs;), ahem. Are you sure it was a 7.5 if it had twin tanks, most unsual as it cuts the weight down - I bet it was an eighteen tonner and they just told you it was a 7.5:D

lostinrates

Much dog excitement here now,

Girls one side of the French windows, boys the other. Doozer dog reminds me of a little kid at school. He's obviously a little home sick, but then his tail gets a waggling and he and kiwi have a play and he's ok.

It's already too warm to take overexcited dogs for a run, which is a shame, a good run would be beneficial and then they could nap. 0h well, never mind.

bugslet

811, class motors - Mercedes, shame they ever stopped production, you can still see the odd one knocking around and they finished making them mid to late 90s.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was just a van to me.... my job was to rent them out and make a profit, which I did. Turned the whole operation round from loss-making to breaking even in 3 weeks, then made a profit. It was an entirely MB fleet, 307s/407s, couple of 307 Lutons, 811 Turbo box with lift, petrol minibus. About 12-15 in total.

Used to have to put them out the front in the morning and park them at the back at night, in a tight yard. Once parked you had to get them all out in turn as they were so tight/close.

Gotta say PN, I don't understand why you are poor.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Gotta say PN, I don't understand why you are poor.

Because she can do the jobs, but she can't sell herself at interview to make people realise what she's capable of.

Hence why she gets particularly fed up when NP talk about rejecting interviewees because they can't answer irrelevant questions.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

Because she can do the jobs, but she can't sell herself at interview to make people realise what she's capable of.

Hence why she gets particularly fed up when NP talk about rejecting interviewees because they can't answer irrelevant questions.

Self employment seems a doozy though.

CKhalvashi

bugslet wrote: »

811, class motors - Mercedes, shame they ever stopped production, you can still see the odd one knocking around and they finished making them mid to late 90s.

I still prefer our W639s and NCV3s

Auto gearboxes, like cars to drive, and in the case of the smaller ones, love being chucked round corners!

On the big stuff front, I prefer our Actros's to the Axors, and at about £1500+VAT a month (7 year HP), they're not actually that much more expensive than the 'lower spec' stuff either.

One thing Merc do really well, is their trucks!

CK

bugslet

You know for a moment, I thought I had wandered onto Trucknet by mistake:rotfl:

Maybe people are worried that PN could out-do them at their own job? ( She probably could out-do me).