rigsby:
I had the opposite, where I worked for 12 years I would ring in (from a phone box ) , and often got " wer’e pushed can you get back " . I would fiddle back home and got paid night out money in cash .
Those were the days…weekly log sheets pre-dated log books, known to all and sundry as ‘Billys Weekly Liar’
I knew a long deceased fella who once did Tooley St. to Dewsbury on the log book, poor fella didn’t have a penny in his pocket…and he went back on the reverse journey on the thumb. It was a Friday and he was parked until Monday morning (unscheduled).