A wonderful business to be involved in and, as a simple mixer driver with no responsibilities, a delight to watch, in awe at the total and absolute stuff ups.
The stories could tell.....
As, no doubt could you and anyone evr involved in the business.
I once saw a Turkish crew, lovely blokes, flood a dual carriageway with concrete from 11 trucks, "keep it thin" the shuttering just took off like a rocket, the trucks kept pouring, flat out with full on water, the whole lot of muck went over the hill and straight down onto the first 2 lanes of the main Mannheim - Frankfurt highway.
The Turks got out out of the hole and stood and looked.
Their boss looked at us, there were 6 of us. 30 meters, all gone, mostly rolling down onto the highway.
Our oldest ugliest brokenest fartiestb driver, named Herman, stepped forward.
He drove the oldest truck, no synchro, A/C, power steering and he loved it.
It was his life.
30 beers a day, a bottle of Asbach for dinner.
Never missed a day.
Lovely bloke.
He looked at the Turk.
The Turk looked at him.
Herman produced the delivery notes that had to be signed to prove we'd delivered the muck with the water that THEY"D requested..
The Turk twitched.
Herman pulled a hip flask from front pocket, took a pull and passed it to the Turk who grasped it to his mouth like a lost man in the desert.
Hands were shaken, delivery slips signed, autobahn shut down for 4 days and nights.
We all went home.
The Turkish building crew stole everything they could from the site and headed back to Bodrum from whence they came in their clapped out cars..
All good.
But, an interesting point to note, should you be driving down the autobahn from Frankfurt towards Mannheim about 50 km before Mannheim you really want to get into the outside lane.
The inside lane is a bit rough.