The first drop,a car illegaly parked and a bullion van on blocking the junction so i could not reverse down an alley way as that is what the shop assistant requested and he gets big trucks all the time,i felt like saying,“well,you try it then.”
The next 3 shops,were pallets again,but the boxes on each pallet were light enough to be carried by hand so i used the pump truck,and the first shop said i would have to deliver at the rear of the store as they do not accept by the front door,but the ■■■■■■■ the make up counter said this time she would accept her boxes for her make up counter where i had delivered her stuff to,so why drive the truck,get in a queue around the back door for light boxes.
My intention was to leave the truck in the same place to do three shops,so on the next shop,the male on the make up counter went berserk,said no delieveries in the store,and i would have to drive around the back again,he runs off in a fit to get security,after i said you accept the boxes or i take them back,once again they were for the make up counter where i left the goods,i asked the lady to sign for it before the drama queen came back,and hopped it fast out of dodge.
For cities,i hope one day,if they do not have already,is for a large transport hub to be built outside,and smaller electric powered trucks can have all the parking problems,finding an empty unloading bay,so the bigger trucks can offload at the hub all at once,and not driving around for hours trying to park and get a parking ticket.
On this day i saw yellow truck with Smith on the front grill,the driver said it was an electric powered truck built in Newcastle,which keeps the tree huggers happy and the anti lorry brigade happy at the same time,what have your worst city drops been,feel free to have a rant on this thread,i found the traffic wardens to be a good bunch,a pretty 20 year old,told me to move back from the park and ride bus stop,and asked how long i would be,she said i have to be in the ACT and be seen unloading,and not wonder off for a brew while in the bays,they do watch you.
Try a few full stops and capital letters - and breathe…
I worked for Somerfield based at Ross-on-Wye, we used to have briefing notes for each drop using a traffic light system, every day we prayed for a Green or Amber, a Red was just heading for a nightmare.
Anyway after a few weeks and after a few “Green” drops, drivers were raising doubts about the drops and the traffic light system.
It turns out the H&S Rep/Trainer who made the assessment was going out on his morning shift taking the photos and making his notes and grading the drop.
The ■■■■■■■ idiot, never made any allowance for evening shoppers and traffic, I kid you not some places, were an absolute nightmare, you go in for a “Green” and there would be cars parked in the way, pedestrians in front of you.
I went to a place in Longbridge, Turves Green and there was a car in the way, asked who it belonged too ?
It was the managers next door so I asked her to move it, she replied, “■■■■ off I,m sick of you ■■■■■ !!”
LOL, I just smiled and looked at my “Green” notes 
I used to do a drop in middlesborough and the painted loading bay on the street was always full of parked cars. Went and had a look in the windscreen of these cars once and they all had ‘loading bay parking permits’.
You couldnt make it up.
I don’t do city centres.
I leave that to the experts.
I do alot for Sainsburys when they give you a map and photo of where to park at the store there is never any cars,the roads are clear. Other thing is how do they give you a map telling you to go the wrong way up a one way street.
Roymondo:
Try a few full stops and capital letters - and breathe…
Why he is a lorry driver not an English Graduate. Look above and practice what you preach .
Dafman:
Roymondo:
Try a few full stops and capital letters - and breathe…Why he is a lorry driver not an English Graduate. Look above and practice what you preach .
You don’t have to be an English Graduate to punctuate your essay. The basics are taught in every school.
Most drivers on shop deliveries are regulars. It doesn’t take long to learn when and where to go; what time they have their breaks, and to build some kind of rapport with the staff.
on only my second monday as a hgv driver,i was told to load up at masons timber merchants at colwick in nottingham,and then return to the yard and take the paperwork to the boss.
i did as i was told and on looking at the paperwork,the boss informed me it was a 25 drops around west,north and central london.
he then asked if i thought i could do it…"ill give it a go" i replied....what else could i say :question: so bright and early,on tuesday morning i set off. having never visited london before i was thinking "how bad can it be" :unamused: ...every drop was a highstreet hardware store,and to say it was a baptism of fire was an understatement :open_mouth: i was bang in the middle of london,and i was seeing buildings that i had seen on the news :open_mouth: and i dont mind admitting i was feeling a little out of my comfort zone.(massive understatement)
anyway i kept going and around teatime the boss phoned to see how i was getting on,“how many drops have you done” he said…“10” i replied,“top man,just keep plodding on” 
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it took me another day and a half to finish the job,and my boss was so pleased,he gave me the run the next 6 weeks on the trot 
Lol.
I had lots of fun doing wilkos store deliveries, as the biggest culprits for blocking the loading bays where the store managers. Who for some reason where never able to be summoned to move their cars. That was until the day I did a double blindside reverse around the pillars in the underground bays of the Frenchgate centre in doncaster, and found (heard) the familiar crunch of the manageresses car being squashed against the trailer. :smiling_imp: Then there was the back door bay at leigh, where on the 3rd run their that week, the manageress still wouldnt move her car, that was before the roll cage fell off the tailift and landed on the bonnet 
I used to do PC World deliveries. Easiest job I ever had (apart from the couple of weeks I did driving a council bin wagon). Most of them were done using tri-axle trailers with tail lifts but we also had a few 18-tonners on the fleet, mainly for the smaller stores with restricted access. Every day one of the 18-tonners would be delivering to the stores in Tottenham Court Road, Kensington High Street and the Barbican. As there were three rigids, we all had at least one such run each week. All the other drivers whinged and moaned about doing “the London Run” due to the traffic mainly - especially if the deliveries were bigger than usual, resulting in a “double London” run (run out, deliver to one or two stores then return to Northampton to reload and go do the rest of them). We also had a driver’s mate on the London Run (for security - high value load etc) which didn’t suit one or two drivers either. I quite enjoyed it so volunteered to do it every day, much to the relief of the whingers. Which was fine until the run-up to Christmas when the deliveries got bigger so “double London” was a regular occurence. Guess what - some of the other drivers now whinged and moaned that they weren’t getting the hours…
DieselDemon:
Dafman:
Roymondo:
Try a few full stops and capital letters - and breathe…Why he is a lorry driver not an English Graduate. Look above and practice what you preach .
You don’t have to be an English Graduate to punctuate your essay. The basics are taught in every school.
Why have a go at the bloke, it was uncalled for.
Driving in London doesn’t bother me.
Londoners don’t bother me. I might talk like one, but I’m actually from Sussex.
What DOES bother me though are “johnny come latelys” in their 4x4s who think they rule the universe just because they run a drug cartel, a gas & electric cartel (more lucrative as of this week!) or have access to around £38k’s worth of tick in these austere times.
You can bet your last rolo that a 62 plate plonker will park his shiny status symbol right in front of where you want to get to, and show no concern whatsoever for the plight of anyone trying to put stuff on shelves for their own community’s benefit.
Where are those incontinent pigeons when you need them?