Tip permit!

[Dave Liquorice]

Oh good, not being able to see the trailer is a reason for not being able to reverse it. I've tried to reverse mine and have ended up almost jack knifed. Can't see the trailer at all until it's gone too far.

I know the theory and can reverse a flatbed trolley moderately successfully but trailer is likely to end up not good.

Pragmatic, no point in faffing about cocking up a reverse when it'd be far quicker to unhitch and push.

I pity the arctic drivers that deliver to our local Co-op. Not only is there only just enough space to swing the cab around, they have to get close, less and 12", to a wall higher than ten trailer as the loading bay is to the side. But the ground isn't flat, where the donkey is maneuvering has a steady slope up, a few feet adjacent to the wall is flat but further away also slopes up. Meaning the rear top offside corner of the trailer is somewhat closer to the wall than the trailers rear wheels, until the trailer is almost parallel to the wall.

[Jac Brown]

Problem is that its just not feasible to design the dump so that those who can't back a trailer can dump their rubbish and still have the dump handle the same volume of traffic.

[alan_m]

Many tips restrict access when the large skips are being removed/changed even where there is sufficient space to maneuver the lorry - probably for legitimate safety reasons. Failure of the lifting equipment may be rare but can happen.

[Andy Burns]

They re-designed the local tip a couple of years ago, two separate yards one for trade waste, the other for domestic, the domestic one has a ramp you drive up so you're above the rows of skips on three sides of a large square ... works well, except it's now got shorter hours per day and isn't open 7 days a week.