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Old 23rd October 2013, 17:10
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Well ,Coachman/Snapper2 . in that situation, the old saying must apply `There but for the grace of God go i`. Cheers.
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Old 23rd October 2013, 17:11
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As a bus engineer I often worked anything up to 25 days without a break, coming off late shift at 01.30 and going back to start early shift at 05.30 with just a few hours sleep..... but with a mortgage and bills to pay - extra money earned with overtime was always needed.

The very reason my younger brother chucked the job and became a market trader! He worked on bus maintenance at a Bus Garage in Oxfordshire for a number of years when he left the RN.
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Old 23rd October 2013, 17:16
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Not exactly ripping the roof off, But after unloading a heavy piece of kit under a canopy I did manage to strip the ventilators off the top of the Luton I was using. My boss said (expletives deleted to avoid offending the sensitive!).
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They keep coming . . .

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http://goo.gl/maps/1RSLV is the likely candidate.
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