Today by my standards has been relatively normal. Got to the depot this morning at 6am. Opened the boot of the beavermobile and grabbed my holdall. After a few seconds my bag seemed to be getting lighter. A quick look backwards revealed a snaking line of beavers truck essentials,it looked like the aftermath of a smash and grab by a desperate drug addict from lidl.
After howls of laughter from 2 other drivers,i got off my hands and knees form collecting my belongings and headed for the transport office. At this point I noticed my bootlace was loose but was too embarrassed from the prior incident to bother with it.
This turned out to be an error as upon shutting the door,my lace got trapped in it and as I stepped forward I nearly fell over. Hastily grabbed the keys to a DAF skyscraper and headed out to the yard. Another driver was just dropping his empty so I hooked up to it. At this point the other driver asked me if I was going back in the office. I replied " yes,why ". He responded " Hand this number plate in for us will you? Some knob left it in Manchester on a trailer Friday afternoon ". I rolled my eyes and said " Probably an agency ■■■! ".
Hope he doesn’t find out its mine. Off to the Wirral to get loaded. Pitched up at my destination and parked up. An old boy walked past and said " wouldn’t park there mate “. Beaver replies " its ok mate,forkies got plenty of room. I used to be one”.
I then walked round the back of my trailer to unfasten the other side and stepped in what I thought was a shallow puddle. When the water arrived at my ankle and poured in to my left boot like it had been torpedoed,i looked over at the old boy. He lit up a roll-up,shook his head and walked off. Eventually got loaded and then cleared off to complete my drops. Lets hope my helmet behaviour starts to leave me soon…
lol you best keep an eye for that ‘■■■’ leaving plates around the country…
And for our sakes I hope ‘your behaviour’ does not change too soon
I learned a good while ago to never judge an ‘elderly’ by his or her cover - you just never know what they may have gotten up to back in the day and you can more often than not learn a good deal from their life experience.
keep em coming, we all love reading em. in fact its the only thing keeping me going on my daily soul destroying 12 hour shifts. I’m doing 84hrs a week, 6 till 6, 7 days at the moment trying to get some cash put by to do the class 1. wouldn’t be so bad but the work has really dried up, in fact I spend most of the day on my phone, on the net. this forum is a lifeline for my sanity your diaries give me a laugh and remind me why I want to go back driving… I found out today that my last day with my employer is 11th September, so let’s see what the gods have in store for me next?
I thought I was bad, least you can put it into a good story
I usually deliver the wrong beer to pubs and have to go back and swap it or forget to give them pump clips (fonts, badges whatever you want to call them) and end up getting bollocked for work having to post them out
One thing I neglected to mention. Sometimes ’ humour ’ is not the best way. Turned up at one of my drops today and was chewing the fat with another driver.
After a while I noticed he had a sort of shuffle,or limp,in his walk. " You better get that stone out of yer shoe " I chuckled.
" Its not a stone " he replied, " Ive got MS ".
A rather meek beaver apologised profusely and made himself scarce.
Only started posting on here a few days ago and already look forward to your daily updates.
You need little things like these to happen in driving jobs IMO to give you something to laugh about while plodding along, and what’s better than laughing at yourself.
cptal:
Only started posting on here a few days ago and already look forward to your daily updates.
You need little things like these to happen in driving jobs IMO to give you something to laugh about while plodding along, and what’s better than laughing at yourself.
Definitely lol only way to keep yourself sane on the roads all day.
