truckyboy:
i just get on with it…makes the job easier…and gets me out quicker.
The other night my load was ready, along with 2 others, and all our keys were returned to the clerks desk. Normally we’d pick them up and go. But we had to wait for our ■■■■■■ to collect our keys, and he was more than 5 minutes. Then he walked us all back to our cabs. The first one took his keys, pulled off the bay, and all procedures were followed etc, then the second one, then me as I was parked furthest from the office. I wasn’t allowed to carry on walking when the other two drivers were going through the motions, I had to wait for the ■■■■■■ to ■■■■■■ me. In all, it cost me an extra 15 minutes than normal. The load was already 30 minutes late. I’m not sure how you define ‘easier’ and ‘quicker’, because this malarky was neither. The escorts are moaning like hell about these rules as it’s a lot of extra work for them, and drivers are moaning about handing keys over to shut the back doors (but not doing anything about it).