Class one, 8 drops, 15, hours, nearly killled a motorcyclist before the first drop was off after he came out of nowhere and undertook me after i’d moved over to let a car on to a dual carriageway, as I was moving back over.
Got lane raped on a roundabout by a “3” distribution fridge who knew what he was doing but took a deep breath and let him have it (wasn’t dawdling).
One firm took 2 hours to take one pallet off, tipped a 26 pallet trailer next to me while I was on another bay waiting, they couldn’t decide wether they had actually taken it off or not as the computer said yes, half hour later transpired computer was wrong and it should have been computer says no, they did finally manage to take it off. Another firm took one and a half hours for 2 pallets, not a brain cell between them. Next firm stopped taking deliveries at 2pm? WTF… part timers
Nearly got wiped out in my car on the way home in the road works on the M6 when a truck in lane 2 drifted in to lane 3 as I was overtaking, didn’t bat an eyelid as it takes a fair bit to ruffle me and I can let a fellow trucker off the odd error, till he decided to blow his horn at me as if I was in the wrong, ■■■■■
The people that make me laugh are the ones that screw up then instead of holding their hand up, they try to blame someone else to make themselves look less stupid.
Is it me or is it getting worse…
Give me trunking any day. Don’t know how blokes can do general haulage/multi drop in an artic everyday, I’d go postal by the end of the week & i’m almost horizontal most of the time.
Sounds like you had a total ■■■■■■■ of a day. I pulled a 15 hour run today to do five drops in kent. Amazingly got through Dartford and all the sets of roadworks on the M25 and M1 without any hassle, didnt use the “C” word once today. Which kind of made up for yesterday,
15, hours, nearly killled a motorcyclist before the first drop was off after he came out of nowhere and undertook me after i’d moved over to let a car on to a dual carriageway, as I was moving back over.
Got lane raped on a roundabout by a “3” distribution fridge who knew what he was doing but took a deep breath and let him have it (wasn’t dawdling).
One firm took 2 hours to take one pallet off, tipped a 26 pallet trailer next to me while I was on another bay waiting, they couldn’t decide wether they had actually taken it off or not as the computer said yes, half hour later transpired computer was wrong and it should have been computer says no, they did finally manage to take it off. Another firm took one and a half hours for 2 pallets, not a brain cell between them. Next firm stopped taking deliveries at 2pm? WTF… part timers
ridiculous tip times. Tell 'em they got 30 mins or you leave with it still on.
Nearly got wiped out in my car on the way home in the road works on the M6 when a truck in lane 2 drifted in to lane 3 as I was overtaking, didn’t bat an eyelid as it takes a fair bit to ruffle me and I can let a fellow trucker off the odd error, till he decided to blow his horn at me as if I was in the wrong, [zb].
Interesting. In the Car Drivers Defects thread Tofer just said:
tofer:
darkseeker:
I was getting more and more wound up about high beams and single headlights (which go brighter on a car), and no, it’s not acceptable on a dual or a motorway - it still dazzles people coming the other way! I took to flashing mine once and if that didn’t work I put them on until theirs went off (if at all). But some of the muppets still didn’t get the message, especially merc’s. I just look away now, can’t put owt where there isn’t owt…
What really winds me up now are people in cars who think it’s ok to be behind or alongside me with main beams on! Yes I know there’s a trailer behind me but I’ve still got mirrors!! And then there’s the idiots who seem to think trucks just rumble along the roads on their own, they dip their lights for the car in front of you then put them back on when it’s past- helloo there’s some poor bugger driving this thing!! And why do you need main beams on a dual anyway!? They’re big and bends are signposted and shallow enough to get a car round at 70.
Im ashamed to say that as these ignorant [zb] pass me I veer into their lane now.
Hmm, wonder if I’ll get me wrists slapped for quoting from another thread?
SS I am not for one minute trying to say that you are ignorant or in the wrong. Just it was funny when Tofer had just posted that, and I definately DO NOT agree with what he does, when you posted that a truck driver had done exactly that to you.
Driveroneuk:
ridiculous tip times. Tell 'em they got 30 mins or you leave with it still on.
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Similar happened to me when I first started doing agency work and I was put on a TNT job out of Winsford,not one of the best.
I loaded a full curtain sider with rolls of bubble wrap,less than a ton total,for delivery to B&Q depot at Burton on Trent.
Put on a bay and waited,and waited.Full loads of wheelbarrows and fence panels were being tipped with no waiting,but they were not interested in my bubble wrap.
After 4 hours of making a nuisance of myself it came off,10 minutes to literally kick it off, but I was too late for my backload from Birmingham.
Next day,same again!,but this time when I turned up I said in no uncertain terms that if it was not off in 30 minuted,the lot was going back.
Result!
It pays to make your terms known,you have a job to do whether these jobsworths have or not,I did it before as an o/d and it worked then.
grahamzx6r:
multi drop…no thanks, most i get is 4-5 drops
At one company I regularly work for, I don’t get that many on rigid multi-drop!
When my current stint is over in a couple of months time I’m booked to go back with them on pallets for a few weeks.
Max 3 drops followed by 2 to 3 hours on the sofa (or sun-lounger in the garden if it’s a nice warm sunny day), then a collection round the corner from home. Can’t wait!
Tail-lift does help with drops though. “That’s your swag over there, sign here please.”
@ DriverOne, no I didn’t have my beams on, just pootling along at 50-60mph in the road works on the M6 and this guy just completely lost attention, didn’t seem like that though and he was half in my lane for a good while, I don’t know if he was upset I was overtaking him in lane 3 or was upset that when I saw him entering my lane, I just carried on regardless and didn’t slam on to make allowances for his crap driving. Some people just don’t like being overtaken If there’s nothing behind me in the truck and a fellow is 1 mph faster than me and is overtaking me, i’ll always drop a few clicks off to minimise the time & effort of the manouver to him & inconvenience to cars behind on the motorway.
Only had two drops on today, with no one one trying to kill me or use me as a suicide proxy apart from having to emergency stop in the car on my way home when someone pulled out on me as I was going round a roundabout, I was quite relaxed after a decent day so didn’t bat an eyelid, did spill my coffee and big bag of Mcdonalds though.
Only niggle today was my yellow airline coupling just decided to fall off the air line as when I got back to the yard the end bit was still stuck in the trailer and the susie was looking forlorn. The service line isn’t pressurised on Scanias which is just as well. Rather than pay a fitter £100 call out, I carry spare air lines in case I rip them off (once in ten years, touch wood) of which I had two spare yellows.
Spanners to the fore but the nuts were an absolute bleeder to get off which I thought was par for the course (an hour later with much swearing) applying one of them to the new airline stripped the thread off one of the new ones which showed the nut was fouled, chipped to the local garage for a nut, on like a hot knife through butter after two minutes then I was airborne.
All in all today was a good day, kinda makes up for the crap days, got 7 on tomoorow though but it’s mostly the same drops as the 8 from yesterday so I know the score now.
Thing is if you point out too forthrightly that you’ve only got one pallet on and you could run their depot better than most of the jobsworths at the site, they make you wait even longer, i’m not in a position to throw my weight around…
