I was working for DHL, and we did all sorts, we did coffee sacks from one place to another, and had to be strapped with ratchet straps.
Fast forward to last year, I was doing builders merchants for DHL, and we occasionally helped with the steel lads on a run to Liverpool, and rail lads with sleepers to Durham, anyway strapped up the load of steel to the flatbed, just about to leave and get a phone call saying I can’t take it. No problem, take it back then question why not, apparently I hadn’t been trained to use a flat bed…
Questioned again what training was required, as a few weeks earlier I had taken railway sleepers from Doncaster to Durham, and nobody could answer. Still to this day I don’t have an answer, not that I care, working for a better place now, but baffled the crap outta me.