We have a driver who near on knows the hour’s you do and how many
Nights out you have had . Constantly hanging round the yard never seems to go home.
I have even gone in in the mornings and noticed my back door has been opened
Wtf is that all about . In in checks done quick good morning to be polite and gone .
Before I’m back in the yard at the end of the day I make sure all my paperwork is done and bag is ready to put in the car so limit the time sat in the cab to be accousted by other
Drivers wanting to know the ins and outs of your day and week . Get a life
Yeah been at my place 4 years now, still know next to nothing about any of my colleagues. They have a WhatsApp group they all whittle along in but I’ve not joined it. I don’t care that colleague a is in Wales, colleague b is in the North West etc, just what I’m up to is enough for me.
toonsy:
Yeah been at my place 4 years now, still know next to nothing about any of my colleagues. They have a WhatsApp group they all whittle along in but I’ve not joined it. I don’t care that colleague a is in Wales, colleague b is in the North West etc, just what I’m up to is enough for me.
Same here, I’m proud to say I ain’t…‘‘One of the gang’’ 
Got plenty mates of my own thanks.
Anyway, I prefer being a miserable bast. 
I dont know the names of half of the planning desk, let alone the drivers…
Another driver once told me I had damaged a brand new lorry in it`s first week on the road (I had never damaged a vehicle where I was driving then) I just said “Aye, whatever” Drivers are people and people are mostly mentally disturbed in some way, that is why I keep away from other people as much as I can. I have to say this virus thing has not affected my social life in any way.
robroy:
toonsy:
Yeah been at my place 4 years now, still know next to nothing about any of my colleagues. They have a WhatsApp group they all whittle along in but I’ve not joined it. I don’t care that colleague a is in Wales, colleague b is in the North West etc, just what I’m up to is enough for me.Same here, I’m proud to say I ain’t…‘‘One of the gang’’
Got plenty mates of my own thanks.
Anyway, I prefer being a miserable bast.
Tbf i learned the hard way (dont we all!) and got too involved at a former workplace before finding out that actually we weren’t close at all and the camaraderie disappeared when it suited. Naive perhaps…
Since then I’ve made it my aim to have nothing to do with any colleague barring a brief hello how are you kinda thing. I go to work, do my job, earn my sheckles and go home. I can do all of that without ingratiating myself with a bunch of essentially squabbling teenagers dressed up in older skin and clothing.
I do keep in touch with about 2 of them, like minded guys to myself, who see things for what they really are after cutting through the b/s.
The rest I have no desire in discussing prices of light bars, what’s the earliest you start, how many hours they’ve done, how fast they have got their drops off, who is allegedly getting all the best runs, the ‘‘I turned round and said this to him’’ type conversations (which are all complete ■■■■■■■■ anyway, they never answer back) and what a good firm ours is to work for etc etc. 
If someone hasn’t got the balls to say it to my face I couldn’t care less what they think. Too many hard men who wouldn’t win an argument with a paper bag in this industry in reality
switchlogic:
If someone hasn’t got the balls to say it to my face I couldn’t care less what they think. Too many hard men who wouldn’t win an argument with a paper bag in this industry in reality
Empty vessels usually make the loudest noise…
I was beginning to wonder if it was just my place where I worked being unlucky working with bit**es half of them I wouldny tell where a birds nest was. We are salaried so all the same, work wise we can get easy shifts but it’s always the same ones moaning if it isn’t them getting the slack one, had a lad say to me I wonder why I never got that job yet! What the fu#k, yet when they do their happy to think that’s ok. ITS begining to make me not enjoy my job. What gets me is slagging lads off and then best mates ringing each other up! I like to keep too myself but hard to get away from it. Small talk ringing each other up isn’t for me I’d rather have a crack in the yard for 5 mins. Is this the same in other companies?
It’s very odd when I am waiting in a queue to unload at a RDC and a driver will come up to me and say how many pallets he got off , how many are due to come off and name all the places and vagaries of each drop , then I will get a full life story as they must think that I’m Piers Morgan doing a life story of a multi drop pallet man whose pet parrot died when he was 11 years old and his wife needs facial reconstruction surgery.
This may explain why new and younger drivers entering the industry pull their cab curtains as soon as they park up for the night .
What miserable and sad people some drivers are, you,re all moaning about other drivers who you think might be moaning about you, they are probably saying ’ that stuck up **** won,t speak to any body he is probably a bit of a wierdo’. Spending to much time alone is not good for humans, just relax and join in the banter it makes the job far easier.
WaggerWagger888:
What miserable and sad people some drivers are, you,re all moaning about other drivers who you think might be moaning about you, they are probably saying ’ that stuck up **** won,t speak to any body he is probably a bit of a wierdo’. Spending to much time alone is not good for humans, just relax and join in the banter it makes the job far easier.
I love a bit of banter, it’s the ‘Drivercrap’ and b/s that gets on my ■■■■ with many drivers.
WaggerWagger888:
What miserable and sad people some drivers are, you,re all moaning about other drivers who you think might be moaning about you, they are probably saying ’ that stuck up **** won,t speak to any body he is probably a bit of a wierdo’. Spending to much time alone is not good for humans, just relax and join in the banter it makes the job far easier.
I agree banter is the way forward and having a crack but when you have a back stabbing bi*ch pretending to be everyone’s friend and then slagging them off when not there, is this your sort of banter? not for me. Makes me uneasy being around them
Drivers have no recognised career progression, promotion or grades. Except for their mouths, what else do they have to show for themselves? Show me any driver who doesn’t listen to gossip… or relish reading it.
Not looking for career progression.
I’m currently at,where I want to be.
Long may it continue
David H:
Drivers have no recognised career progression, promotion or grades. Except for their mouths, what else do they have to show for themselves? Show me any driver who doesn’t listen to gossip… or relish reading it.
This one.
switchlogic:
David H:
Drivers have no recognised career progression, promotion or grades. Except for their mouths, what else do they have to show for themselves? Show me any driver who doesn’t listen to gossip… or relish reading it.This one.
Gossip? So drivers are like almost everyone else in telling and (sometimes) listening to stories.
Everyone on this site does, don’t they?