- “Percy's much too busy to be bothered with the likes of you!”
- ― Oliver, "Oliver's Find", fifth season
Thomas' new trucks.
Troublesome Trucks
Troublesome Trucks are so nicknamed because they can be quite troublesome and love to play tricks. No one - save for Edward, Stepney and Salty - likes them, as they have been the cause of many accidents. Their behaviour could perhaps be best described in the following statement:
- "Every wise engine knows that you cannot trust trucks."
There have, however, been some cases where the trucks and engines are on the same side, like in "Special Attraction" and "The World's Strongest Engine".
Incidents involving the Troublesome Trucks
- Stopping Gordon on a hill (Edward & Gordon/Edward Helps Out)
- Making Thomas go too fast and almost made him crash (Thomas and the Trucks/Trouble for Thomas)
- Making James crash into a field (Thomas and the Breakdown Train/Thomas Saves the Day (Season 1))
- Breaking away from James's train and rolling down Gordon's hill (Troublesome Trucks/Foolish Freight Cars)
- Pushing James into two tar tankers (Dirty Objects/James In A Mess)
- Pushing Percy onto an unsafe quay causing him to slide into the sea. (Percy Takes the Plunge)
- Teasing Diesel by singing a song and teasing him, after refusing to move (Pop Goes the Diesel and Dirty Work (Season 2)/Diesel's Devious Deed)
- Breaking away from Edward and making Duck run into a Barber Shop (A Close Shave/A Close Shave For Duck)
- Pushing Percy through a Brake Van and on to another truck (Percy's Predicament)
- Pushed off a quay by Diesel (Diesel Does It Again)
- Pushing Toby onto a collapsed bridge (Toby's Tightrope)
- Pushing Oliver into a turntable well (Oliver Owns Up)
- Teasing Oliver by singing a song at him after he was pushed down the turntable well, and holding him back, causing S.C.RUFFY to be stretched between them and come apart. (Toad Stands By)
- Burst through some buffers which made Percy push them past some buffers and tumble onto Bulstrode ("Special Attraction")
- Pushing Thomas into a pond after being unable to get their own back on James ("Trust Thomas")
- Making Percy crash into a siding, causing him to get covered in fruit(Percy, James and the Fruitful Day)
- Broke away from the winch, rolled down the hill, and crashed into Peter Sam (Trucks/Rusty Helps Peter Sam)
- Breaking away from the winch again and made an avalanche tumble onto Skarloey (Snow)
- Being pushed by Percy into a mine, causing an avalanche (Put Upon Percy)
- Pushing Toad out of control and into a pond (Busy Going Backwards)
- Pulling Henry too fast and falling into a ravine (Haunted Henry)
- Caused Henry to become derailed and held Diesel back while their brakes were turned on, which caused the coupling to snap and make Diesel fall onto a barge (The World's Strongest Engine)
- Caused Percy and themselves to become derailed and block the road at Bulgy's Bridge (Harvey to the Rescue)
- Caused Arthur to crash into Duck's goods train, causing both engines to get covered in fruit (The Spotless Record)
- Pushed into a duck pond by Emily ("Emily's New Route")
- Pulled Thomas too fast down Gordon's Hill and crashed into Salty ("Fish" (Season 8))
- Broke away from an engine and rolled down a steep hill ("Thomas Saves The Day" (Season 8))
- Made Percy crash into Mavis (Emily Knows Best)
- Pulled Thomas under a coal hopper and caused him to get covered in coal and stopped James From Going anywhere After Teasing about Thomas's dirty trucks and Cranky drops a melon crate on James(Thomas's New Trucks)
- Broke away from Peter Sam and fell off the old iron bridge and into the swampy ravine ("Duncan gets spooked")
- Broke away from Percy and started a chase around the island ("A Surprise for Percy")