do there seem to be a certain group of drivers at your firm,who always get the “cream” runs?
are you one of them?
would you like to be one of them?
please discuss the “a team” ^^^
If there are any where i work they don’t bother me in the slightest, i get me paperwork get me lorry bugger off and do my job to the best of my ability come back go home, why would i worry about what anyone else is doing, my life is at home with my loved ones not at work.
Far too many unhappy souls worrying themselves into an early grave fretting about what the others are doing.
Some get upset if you look after your lorry, i do anyway as i take a pride in my work, but if it upsets the easily upset do it all the more… 
I was possibly hoping the replies might have been a little more light hearted.
but thanx for your input ian 
if any of the “a team” ask where I`m going,i tell em Edinburgh…that gets tongues wagging 
I do get the odd “peach” though…so can`t complain
There are quite a few rim lickers at our place, it’s pathetic if I’m honest, even a nursery has more maturity than what goes off in the transport office…
iv`e had drivers phone me up to tell me how far to go…when on a cream run.
there has also been a bit of “handbags” towards one driver…who cracked on a bit too much.
those “a teamers” can get very protective 
There are only four of us in our place and we are lucky as the guys all help each other out 
There’s a driver at our place who always gets decent jobs, 1 store or 2 max on a trailer. Then the odd time he gets a 3-4 store run, he runs around telling anyone who’ll listen how he’s sick of being stitched up
I tend to get the “crap” runs but I don’t care my boss has been doing it for 28 years his brothers been doing it since before he had a car licence and I imagine half off the appeal off taking me on 8 years ago was so they didn’t have to do them. It’s all fairly shared though to be fair some things they do I’m not to chuffed with doing when I have to. It’s a bit annoying that I’m the one who keeps a polished up truck but gets sent to the dirtiest places. Does my OCD no favours 
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I couldn’t care less where I’m going as long as I’ve a lorry to drive and fuel to get there and back. I’ve been in a v reg 65 240 all day and it’s a good a lorry as any other. Wheels engine gearbox cab somewhere to sit radio what more do u want
All firms have the Blue Eyed Boys.God forbid if someone gets a new truck and others have been there longer.
One place i worked at they were done by 10 or 11 am on a friday morning.The rest of us roll in late friday night or saturday afternoon and we would feel the heat at the front grille and guess what time they finished.
Trucknet CSI.
It is true about the nursery.Why do some drivers throw the toys out of the pram.
It has been going on since the days of horse and carts, and will go on when we are delivering blue cheps to the moon, the one who gets the Scotch on a Sunday, to the blokes who get all the Spains or Greek work
I’m not going to lie, I have a pretty good rapport with one of the planners where I currently work, but I don’t kiss arse. If I feel something is wrong, be it the way a run is set out, the timings or whatever Ill bring it up.
They know however, that I can do any of the runs no problem, they won’t be getting whining phonecalls, they won’t have to sort out a mess or whatever. I treat everyone with the respect and civility a co-workers diserves. As a result, I often get put on runs I am partial to, mainly because when I am given a week that’s rather ■■■■■■■ I don’t complain, just get on with it. Some would perhaps call me one of the blue eyed lot but I think our definitions are slightly different.
I’m in one of the older units, which is also one of the slower units, my runs are often longer but seeing as we’re not paid by the hour most would see that as a bad thing. I don’t care where anyone else is going, only about where I am going. I take the bad with the good and as a result I sometimes get that back in the form of runs I enjoy.
What amuses me are the guys who shout and swear either in the office or down the phone, the guys who get lost or cause damage, then complain that they are getting the bad work?
Maybe it’s different on hourly pay, or at places where they run different or blunted up units but Ive always worked in every job by the rule that I will treat people decently and they will do the same in return.
I regularly drive for 4 companies and all of them have easy runs. but are fairly evenly dished out amongst the drivers, even to me as an agency driver. That puts a few noses out!!
I have also, on more than occasion, been deliberately held up at one or more of the companies.
Like many, I don’t rim lick, I don’t complain, I get the paperwork and get on with it. It has given me a bit of a reputation as someone who is reliable, and the upside of that is I’m left alone to do the job.
On the down side I probably get more than my fair share of bad runs. Bothered, nope. My efforts are reflected in my pay. I’m always paid more than I actually work and when I queried it with the agency, they said it’s ok, that’s what the company said you worked. Happy days.
I’m guilty of getting the cream, I had a good gaffer in the old days and I was doing a lot of weekend foreigners like airport runs for his mates, driving a minibus round for their pub crawls in fact if he needed a job doing the weekend I was the man.
Looking back as brown nosers go I was right up their with the best of em.
My rewards where as much overtime as I could eat, best runs- in fact I sometimes got to choose my own run (when the other drivers weren’t about).
This cream of the crop status was lost when a new female transport manager arrived and one of my fellow drivers started giving her one- I went to the bottom of the heap quite quickly.
I never worried, I was an agro merchant - if the run was too easy I would get bored so I got all the difficult runs every company I worked for. On the Maroc run the same ones would get the Pompey-Bilbao boat but I would prefer the Dover-Calais crossing. But amazingly there were still drivers that were jealous of me. Never could figure 'em out.
Everywhere I have worked, and on whichever side of the transport desk/window, I am always bemused by drivers poring over what other drivers are doing that day/yesterday/tomorrow/next week etc.
… Just pick your notes up and get gone
GCR2ERF:
Everywhere I have worked, and on whichever side of the transport desk/window, I am always bemused by drivers poring over what other drivers are doing that day/yesterday/tomorrow/next week etc.… Just pick your notes up and get gone
+1
I don’t care where im going, as long as I get my nights out and the hours in. I’ve been offered a new truck while I’ve had the one I’ve got now and said no im happy with what I have and to give it to someone who has been here a while and due a new one. Im not happy if a driver brings a load into the yard and drops it and picks up a scotch and I end up with his Liverpool or something like. We tend to have the same drivers who just drop a trailer and pick one up and go, you wont see them loading the trailers.
It’s happened in the past where you would load a glass for Catrine and bring it back to the yard for someone else to take and you would end up with 3 drops around Brum. If I have loaded it then I should be taking it if I can make the delivery legaly IMO.
Referring to the OP’s title, surely that’s Clapton/Bruce/Baker ? (most folk under 40 can ignore that…)
GCR2ERF:
Referring to the OP’s title, surely that’s Clapton/Bruce/Baker ?
… and let’s not forget (the now late) David Jacobs’ intro/outro as used by Radcliffe & Maconie on Radio 6 records