Andy S.

Thanks a bunch

Muppet Artic driver decided to turn round using my car as a stop!!!



Not happy at all

Beefy

If only he'd have hit the JCB next to your car it probably wouldnt have done much damage to either.

Andy S.

He hit that as well!!!!

scoobyverysoon

iTrader: (1)

- did it not push yours forward - it could of been a right mess.

Little H

Gutted Andy, must be a DHL thing, another DHL driver hit a colleagues A6 today at work.

DavidS

Couldn't he fit in the rows of empty bays next to you!

Mad Scientist

What a muppet. Hope you gave him a good b0llocking.

Gav

**** Andy that looks worse than i was expecting

ScuuBdoo

what a ********. An empty car park and he still hit your car!

supertouring

Merry ******* christmas!

Gutted for you

kaa273

iTrader: (1)

I feel sorry for you, what a good start to the holiday season for you

51st state

what a ****

what was he thinking
did you ask him how long he'd been in this job
looking at the space around him, i find it puzzleing

where the resident hgv driver, big AL(fwdnutz) see if he can shed any light on this arsholes actions
andy go and get a car on hire of the same performance and take nothing less!!!, 911 etc, that will get the insurance company to pull there finger out, paying hire on a 911

Martin-STI

Gutted for you mate. Are they packing it up for you to send back to Japan to get it mended?

Ok ARB knock sorted, new boot carpet due to knocked that can of oil over in boot.

Has it damaged your rear quarters mate?

Scratch in boot lid sorted to!!!!!!!!!!

Sc00by_Si

Gutted for you Andy - hope you get it sorted OK mate

500

Gutted for you Andy, and know too well how you feel

Like Howard says, get a courtesy car to which you are acustomed too (i.e somthing nice, dont foorget, you NEED AWD because of the snow that you have ariurnd at this timeof year (an x5 courtesy car isnt unheard of, and the 3.0d will do an easy 30 mpg )

How bad is the damage? gutted you will loose your jap dealer badge too?

moneys

iTrader: (5)

Sorry mate it takes a lot for me to lose my rag but i would of dragged him out of his cab and kicked him from one end of the car park to the other

j0nah

Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy, I work for DHL. PM me or call me tomorrow if there is anything I can do.

That is outrageous.
Andy

WarrenSTI

Thought I'd have a look and see what you got!! may be something for your car!!

Didn't expect that sort of something

Absolute ****ing _ _ _ b to the truck driver.

Sorry to hear it mate, hope you can get it sorted ASAP

Shark Man

You try reversing an artic and see how easy it is.

My office gets hit on a monthly basis by them, well until we concreted a steel girder by the corner of the building....I no longer have to rush outside in fear of the roof falling in on me

WarrenSTI

He should had been looking where he was going

"its as simple as that"

and 'No' as I'm not a truck driver I haven't tried reversing one,
I can only presume though that if you are licenced to drive a truck of that size surely you should be able to turn it round in a competent manner, without hitting sationary vehicles or buildings.

killa

iTrader: (7)

Damn I know that you must be very .......... off, how bad is it?
hope you get it sorted, was you inside when it happened?

Andy S.

Sorry no replies last night but it was our Xmas doo last night so I got hammered!! drowning my sorrows!

Car is not as bad as the picture looks the spoiler is ripped the full length of it and the bumper has strange shapes and rips in it! it dragged my car 3ft along the ground and if I had not come out shouting and screaming at the driver it would have dragged it into the JCB.

The car feels realy strange to drive, but not sure if thats me being paranoid I now hve a strange knock/ rattle from the top of the rear shock so will have to take it to Prosport to get it looked at!!

Cheers Andy

supertouring

I would have thought that this would be the same for car drivers - but we know how far from the truth that is

Andy S.

He was not reversing!! he was turning round forwards ie back wheels spinning on the spot! he had no idea that he had hit my car!! he did not feel a thing!

Gav

I really know how you must feel Andy having just been through this myself

Are you going to Prosport today? I'll be down there as i think my car is ready!

Andy S.

Yes will be down about 1.30

fwdnutz

F***kin HELL Andy oh dear only just read this as we have been busy as hell at work as you can imagine! and i have to say i really feel for you! all i can assume is was the driver POLISH/some other cheap labour nationality if he was a truly experienced LGV DRIVER he should have known better than to screw round so close to the parked vehicles,
because as you go forward when you get to almost full swing the trailer actually goes backwards at one point as the unit pulls around it at such an extreme angle, as you say i cannot understand why he didnt try this manoeuvre a bit sooner as he has all them spaces to the right of your car to jack around on! as your picture clearly shows the angle of the cab and the trailer i would say he is a Crap driver he should have known his trailer would kick back! looks like the end of this year is going to be a bad one what with warren getting bumped in car park and now yours they say accidents happen in three`s i do hope the next smacs incident is not a fatality or similar?

All i can suggest Andy is that you have done the right thing taking photo evidence as it clearly shows what a f**k up he has made! i mean that is just embarrassing to say he has a lgv licence.s as i say the trouble is nowadays the firms are employing cheap labour from other eastern European countries and these dickeds are fu**in our jobs up cos they come over and don`t give a toss about our regulations driving to many hours and not enough sleep hence the spate of crashes on our motorways today

i don`t want to go on too much but i heard a story the other week from a colleague where a pole had come to work at tescos depot near me and he was caught workin in the warehouse at night then in the day he was using his brother/cousins licence to drive lgvs for same tescos on Agency,
the only reason they found out was the soft tw*t hit a low bridge in kids grove on the way to a store with a high-sided trailer(****) because he didnt know his heights (f**kin scary when you think about it really) no licence =no insurance! Tesco covered their ***** f**kin quick i can tell you! but just shows what can happen in our EU friendly country(b***OCKS) to MR BLAIR and his cronies.

Andy i would also take measurements of yard etc. and be as detailed as poss when filling in claim form and state that at no time permission was given to U turn in your yard etc. and any signs you have depicting this as a public/car park area to AID IN THE CLAIM TO BE HONEST HE DOES`NT HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON THE PIC SAYS IT ALL! but just in case get as much info as you can even take a pic of point where he screwed around because by rights a truck driver should not have to scrub his tyres to turn around professionally that is just being fefiing lazy hence my suspicions on him being an experienced lgv driver? if you need any advice m8 forget all the windups b4 give me a shout and i will see if i can advise on anything you are unsure about! as this is just not funny!

Andy S.

Alan he was from Manchester born and bread accent and all so definatly not Polish

DHL have admitted responsablity this morning, so a good body shop needs sourcing now!

fwdnutz

hi Andy no probs i know these courier lads are under pressure at this time of year but still a bit dumb of him though!
i have`nt claimed for years but if i remember rightly my insurance wanted two or three quotes to compare with before they did the work and even then i had to claim on my fully comp poilcy which they sorted quite quick i must add and then they recover costs from third party! i also had a courtesy car but i was running a Porsche 944 turbo back then and was hoping for a nice BMW or boxster but i ended up with a year old rover 420 diesel, not quite a Porsche
i know a couple of good body shops around here but i think they are abit out of your way! but may be handy for quote purposes!

Gav

Pete said the bodyshop they used for me have done a fantastic job