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Skip on a Railway,

skip lorry drivers have a tough time. They have a huge responsibility to bear when they are driving a skip around on the back of their skip hire van. Skip hire companies have a lot of expense when it comes to running a skip hire company. They have many an overheads to bear, including, petrol, staff, permits, we could be here all day!
the curious incident of the skip on a railway line, led me to wish I was a superhero.
I was on my way to work, when my ford mustang could not go any further, for ahead of me the road was blocked, not by a fallen tree, but an 8ft skip had fallen off a skip hire lorry, and was lying on its side across the railway lines. The poor skip hire lorry driver was trying to push the skip off the tracks, all by himself.
Have you ever watched the world's heaviest man on TV? Well they can lift things that seem impossible to average people. However this man was not from that TV show, and the sight of him struggling was hilarious.
I decided to stop my car and help. Not much I could do really, but two grown men, trying to push a skip off the tracks, provoked a few more to stop and help, between eight fully grown men, we were able to push the skip off the tracks and get it back on its bottom, so the skip hire vehicle could get it back on the skip! Fantastic I hear you say.
It wasn't all plain sailing though and we actually ended up damaging the lines. If I train came, we knew that it wouldn't be able to pass over the lines safely. I knew a train was due within the next ten minutes or so, there wasn't much time to spare here at all. I checked my timetable again
trying to convince the relevant people that we were not playing a joke, and that a skip had indeed fallen on to the tracks and damaged it was hard work. Finally we got somewhere and managed to help save many lives. The skip hire driver was nearly in tears. he could not believe he had been so stupid. he was in a rush and not securely fastened the skip to the lorry, causing it to fall off when he tried to go over the lines.
mush inconvenience later the the line was fixed, and service resumed as normal. I got a mention in the skip hire magazine and the driver got a disciplinary!

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