BillyHunt:
The-Snowman:
peterm:
Clock on… clock off… who gives a monkeys where they send you between.
If your salaried for 10 hours a day and constantly doing 12-13 you’d soon start giving a monkeys
Well in that case you would be classed as an idiot.
If I was on salary for 10 hours, that’s what they’d get out of me… job or no job. The last mob I worked for (on hourly pay) had a 17, yes seventeen year old planner in the office. Between him and his computer I was going backwards and forwards nearly every day, sometimes passing within a few hundred yards of where I’d been or was going later. Some of the drops stopped receiving as early as 11.45 (Aldi) and others, it’s all over at 2.00. Did I care, did I b888888s. So unless you need to stay because you need the experience, you know what to do.
The-Snowman:
peterm:
Clock on… clock off… who gives a monkeys where they send you between.
If your salaried for 10 hours a day and constantly doing 12-13 you’d soon start giving a monkeys
Never done salaried work for years , hourly pay only is the way , too many greedy transport companies screw you for non paid work otherwise.
Not salaried - hourly pay - BUT, I’m a day driver, and like to get home.
Not timed deliveries, we have 1 firm which has timed deliveries, and they’re never delivered on time anyway, because the daft computer planning doesn’t actually give us enough time to do the jobs and get there on time… Example, I turned up at 5pm, bod behind desk told me I was booked in at 2pm, I said that’s actually pretty good, my paperwork said I was booked in at half 1pm 
Some store deliveries can’t accept after certain hours because of noise complaints etc, my last drop in the 1st post is an example of this, I was there after these hours, shouldn’t have been, didn’t know and just followed the ‘plan’.
Box trailers, pre-loaded, so not so easy to re-route yourself, not that I’d want to anyway, because lots goes wrong everyday, failed deliveries, unplanned nights out etc, and I don’t want the blame.
Brought 2 deliveries back on Thursday so I’d be back in my 15 (14hrs 45 at the gate) I’d had a 1hr delay behind a truck and a 1hr delay for a puncture, but the 1st of the 2 drops I brought back had 1 truck tipping and 1 truck waiting to tip, but even taking all that out, I would still have been 12hr 45 with 2 drops to go + a few extra miles without any delays, not a decent planned route in my experience
I was delivering 4 massive reels of paper to a place in Ponyton the other week. The run sheet said 8am, the program on the work phone said 7am but the guy in goods in said I should been there at 06:30am!
Another good one is telling the office that you are delayed thinking they will let the next drop know that I’m not going to make their timeslot. Get to said drop, forkie says “You’re late drive, should of been here 2 hours ago”. Whats the point of telling the office that I’m running late if you don’t tell the customers?!
Radar19:
Another good one is telling the office that you are delayed thinking they will let the next drop know that I’m not going to make their timeslot. Get to said drop, forkie says “You’re late drive, should of been here 2 hours ago”. Whats the point of telling the office that I’m running late if you don’t tell the customers?!
I never ring my lateness in. I’ve seen the faces of the traffic staff when others do it. My theory is, if they’re that bothered about where I am they can either track me or ring me. Neither of which happen very often.
Some are on the dog and bone every 5 minutes and it just winds the traffic staff up. “There’s a horse on the M6, I’m gonna be late.” Then another 30 drivers ring in with the same problem 
Unless I’m gonna be several hours late then I just don’t bother.
picked a load up out of kings lynn docks one sunday for travis perkins around the north east.
timmed at 8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16. i asked when did i take my break and was told you will fit one in.
delivered the last one at 11.00 on the tuesday.
just do what you can.