gurj254:
Cheers fellas. Will just take it in my stride. And to green456, I don’t complain about other road users and never even honk my horn, so calm down!
So, you don’t complain about other road users, yet if you had a penny for every complaint you made, you’d be a millionaire? Maths not your strong point…?
Have you even got a Maths qualification?
Never went any further than GCE ‘O’ Level. But I’m open to be educated here - How do you make any amount of money (I accept that the “millionaire” stuff was a bit of hyperbole) from a penny per complaint if you don’t complain?
gurj254:
Cheers fellas. Will just take it in my stride. And to green456, I don’t complain about other road users and never even honk my horn, so calm down!
So, you don’t complain about other road users, yet if you had a penny for every complaint you made, you’d be a millionaire? Maths not your strong point…?
Have you even got a Maths qualification?
Never went any further than GCE ‘O’ Level. But I’m open to be educated here - How do you make any amount of money (I accept that the “millionaire” stuff was a bit of hyperbole) from a penny per complaint if you don’t complain?
Bit pedantic, no?
Its a figure of bloody speech FFS.
gurj254:
Today for the first time someone complained about my driving on the complaints line. I know which event this is about and am rather cheesed off how quickly some people complain. I’m on the road everyday and if I were given a penny for every complaint I made about every car driver, I would be a millionaire!
Will the company just take my event of things or will this develop further? (By this I mean disiplinery process…)
Don’t let 'em get to you shag, they ain’t worth your worry or the sweat off your ■■■■■■■■■ by the sounds of your post.
If I make a mistake on the road, no one is more cheesed off about it than me, believe.
Sometimes I can’t even get to sleep as I replay it so much in my head. I perhaps take the craft too seriously, well, in my opinion anyway.
I usually make one minor miscalculation every few days.
Occasionally, say once a month I may get it wrong & get the horn from someone. (Do they seriously think you give a ■■■■ if they blow their horn at you, sod the horn pal, I’ll be doing my own slapping thanks…)
If they sack you for it & you can’t get another job then PM me & I’ll try & sort you if I’m correct & you ain’t a prick. No promises though.
seth 70:
I feel sorry for the drivers of auto dafs,its impossible to pull out of a junction or roundabout without nearly causing a pile up…you can get out and have a pee by the time its made its mind up
well I got dismissed from one job through somebody ringing the 0800 number on the back of the wagon, delivered to a school down a one way road had to take a wide swing to get through the gate mind, went to come out of the school and some prate of a car owner had parked opposite the gate on the other side of the road, no way was I going to be able to get out the correct way (remember one way road) so I put my headlights on, my roof beacons were on and my hazard lights were on and I went 150 yards down the one way road and carried on with my deliveries, gets back to work, dragged into the office, “we’ve had a complaint you about coming out of a one way road the wrong way” now the TM was an ar ole and he was gunning good style, when anybody rings the 0800 number it goes straight to head office and then the passed to the local branch, so the branch has to show they takeing matters seriously hence going down the full disciplinary route, outcome ‘against company policy dismissed’ was there 6 years
Boss had the police round the other week asking about who was driving our 3.5t van.
Someone had made a complaint about dangerous driving.
He only said what was necessary and eventually found out the copper was actually a witness to what happened and did nothing about it at the time as he didn’t personally think it was anything to worry about, but as someone had complained he had to chase it up.
The conversation pretty much ended up with a wink and “make sure you discipline that driver”
Boss rang me up and said, I’m disciplining you ok… Right, done, and hung up!
What actually happened is I was stationary waiting to turn right into our yard, which is on a notorious badly enginered junction where cars fly at you way to fast from the other direction, but you can’t see them until the last minute as its a blind bend further down the road. So I started to pull out, checked my left mirror, looked forward again and there was a Audi hurtling towards me. They stuck the anchors on and skidded into my space I was about to enter in front. Thankfully I was only doing 2mph so I could stop before hitting them. I pulled into our yard an got out to check, but they had driven off, so thought no more of it.
dreamlands2001:
well I got dismissed from one job through somebody ringing the 0800 number on the back of the wagon, delivered to a school down a one way road had to take a wide swing to get through the gate mind, went to come out of the school and some prate of a car owner had parked opposite the gate on the other side of the road, no way was I going to be able to get out the correct way (remember one way road) so I put my headlights on, my roof beacons were on and my hazard lights were on and I went 150 yards down the one way road and carried on with my deliveries, gets back to work, dragged into the office, “we’ve had a complaint you about coming out of a one way road the wrong way” now the TM was an ar ole and he was gunning good style, when anybody rings the 0800 number it goes straight to head office and then the passed to the local branch, so the branch has to show they takeing matters seriously hence going down the full disciplinary route, outcome ‘against company policy dismissed’ was there 6 years
well who would believe it, you mean it was against company policy to go the wrong way down a one way street that’s ridiculous hope you took them to tribunal
dreamlands2001:
well I got dismissed from one job through somebody ringing the 0800 number on the back of the wagon, delivered to a school down a one way road had to take a wide swing to get through the gate mind, went to come out of the school and some prate of a car owner had parked opposite the gate on the other side of the road, no way was I going to be able to get out the correct way (remember one way road) so I put my headlights on, my roof beacons were on and my hazard lights were on and I went 150 yards down the one way road and carried on with my deliveries, gets back to work, dragged into the office, “we’ve had a complaint you about coming out of a one way road the wrong way” now the TM was an ar ole and he was gunning good style, when anybody rings the 0800 number it goes straight to head office and then the passed to the local branch, so the branch has to show they taking matters seriously hence going down the full disciplinary route, outcome ‘against company policy dismissed’ was there 6 years
well who would believe it, you mean it was against company policy to go the wrong way down a one way street that’s ridiculous hope you took them to tribunal
I did object against there decision but it got rejected and was going to go down the tribunal route but had started a new job with better pay and it would have meant taking time off to sort things out so I just moved on from it.
Numbum:
When I drove tankers with the phone number on the back some of the drivers scratched out a number or ripped the end of the sticker off. This was always spotted and the sticker replaced.
I spent a bit of time with a permanent felt tip pen turning a three into an eight. This was never rumbled and no phone calls.
Phil.
gurj254:
Cheers fellas. Will just take it in my stride. And to green456, I don’t complain about other road users and never even honk my horn, so calm down!
So, you don’t complain about other road users, yet if you had a penny for every complaint you made, you’d be a millionaire? Maths not your strong point…?
Have you even got a Maths qualification?
Never went any further than GCE ‘O’ Level. But I’m open to be educated here - How do you make any amount of money (I accept that the “millionaire” stuff was a bit of hyperbole) from a penny per complaint if you don’t complain?
Bit pedantic, no?
Its a figure of bloody speech FFS.
dreamlands2001:
well I got dismissed from one job through somebody ringing the 0800 number on the back of the wagon, delivered to a school down a one way road had to take a wide swing to get through the gate mind, went to come out of the school and some prate of a car owner had parked opposite the gate on the other side of the road, no way was I going to be able to get out the correct way (remember one way road) so I put my headlights on, my roof beacons were on and my hazard lights were on and I went 150 yards down the one way road and carried on with my deliveries, gets back to work, dragged into the office, “we’ve had a complaint you about coming out of a one way road the wrong way” now the TM was an ar ole and he was gunning good style, when anybody rings the 0800 number it goes straight to head office and then the passed to the local branch, so the branch has to show they taking matters seriously hence going down the full disciplinary route, outcome ‘against company policy dismissed’ was there 6 years
well who would believe it, you mean it was against company policy to go the wrong way down a one way street that’s ridiculous hope you took them to tribunal
I did object against there decision but it got rejected and was going to go down the tribunal route but had started a new job with better pay and it would have meant taking time off to sort things out so I just moved on from it.
Better off.
I was doing B&Q home delivery in a 26t rigid (prime mover for wag+drag at night).
Turned into a 1 way cul-de-sac, got to the house, did the delivery, carried on around the 1 way cul-de-sac to find a 6’6 width restriction at the end of it, big kurbs the lot, so had to spin round and go out the wrong way with hazards on, very slow etc.
Sometimes ■■■■ just has to be done.
SteveWalsh:
Always fancied 1 of those stickers on the back of mine saying ‘‘Hows my driving’’… With a premium rate phone number linked to my bank account
Then drive like a T***
LMAO, is there any reason why this wouldn’t work?
I read about a bloke who did set up a premium rate phone-line, and used it when he registered with banks etc. It worked for him, he made money out of it.
A firm I was on started putting the how’s my driving stickers on the trailers. I had my own trailer as I was on a contract with a liveried vehicle, I used to leave my trailer at the loading point at the weekend as my regular Monday job meant I would have to pass the place anyway, so it made sense not to drag it back to the yard.
One of my “mates” thought it would be funny to put a sticker on my trailer, I got something like 7 or 8 complaints the first week! Unbelievably a couple were from other lorry drivers moaning about my speed (limiter was set at 99km/h) the others were nonsense using two lanes to go around small roundabouts, turn left/right etc.
I soon foiled their little plan though, I got a sticker of my own to cover the phone number, I did think about using the number of a Venezuelan ladyboy chat line or similar, but settled for the Samaritans.
I never told my “mates” as I knew one would grass me up to the guvnor, but I never knew which one as typically the grass was a sneaky ■■■■ who never had the balls to say anything face to face.
Run without a rear plate. If your stopped pull the “spare” out of the cab. Not had a speeding ticket in years nor a pen pushing blotter jotter grassing me up.
I heard that if you tell them the plate must’ve fallen off the trailer they can nick you for an insecure load. Unless that’s one of those myths from RDC BS merchants ?
Thunderbird:
Run without a rear plate. If your stopped pull the “spare” out of the cab. Not had a speeding ticket in years nor a pen pushing blotter jotter grassing me up.
I did wonder if the large amount of TNT trailers without number plate on was a “professional reason” thing.
seth 70:
I feel sorry for the drivers of auto dafs,its impossible to pull out of a junction or roundabout without nearly causing a pile up…you can get out and have a pee by the time its made its mind up
seth 70:
I feel sorry for the drivers of auto dafs,its impossible to pull out of a junction or roundabout without nearly causing a pile up…you can get out and have a pee by the time its made its mind up
that’s ridiculous 
