Driving a cherrypicker I get some wonderful and amazing addresses.
(customer name)
(customer contact number - was a fax and a landline, no mobile available)
3rd gateway from left side near powerlines
B4079
(relevant county)
Notes: Easy to find: Contact Robert 077■■ 4211
Yes, they’d missed the last digits off. Time on site was 5am. Had been driving since 2am. Eventually at 8am rang office to find out customer contact details. Seems customer had driven past me 3 times before deciding I wasn’t there and had left. Hmm
I’ve had addresses where the customer expects me to drive over a 2 ton limit (in a 7.5t) despite it not having “except for access” printed on the sign. No other access.
I used to keep track. Now, I just ignore the crud and try and get on with life…
i had a delivery to OED,Austria.
All OK,Postcode,see in Map,its by Amstetten,
go ther,come the Hill down and can’t see a company.
stop at Postoffice and Woman comes with Map out.
Without asking here showeed she my OED by Wiener Neustadt i just past two hour ago
was by Lederer Interway in 1996
Our work is delivery and collection of rail plant.
Some of the rail accesses are little more than holes in a fence or gates at the back of a housing estate.
We get to know the names through going there a couple of times but what doesn’t help is that we work for 3 or 4 main contractors and they have a habit of giving different addresses for the same place.
The upshot is that you can spend half an hour scouring the A-Z and making half a dozen phone calls to find that the place you want is one you know well but under a different name.
Mind you when I was running over the water you get some crackers just listing:
Company Name (usually mispelt)
Town or city (Usually the nearest large one that could be 20-30km away)
Country (Have been known to be wrong)
It wasn’t to bad if I loaded the trailer because I’d try to get as much info out of the customer as possible even getting them to make a few calls but do a changeover or pick one up from the yard and it could be a nightmare.
neilf:
Our work is delivery and collection of rail plant.
Some of the rail accesses are little more than holes in a fence or gates at the back of a housing estate.
We get to know the names through going there a couple of times but what doesn’t help is that we work for 3 or 4 main contractors and they have a habit of giving different addresses for the same place.
The upshot is that you can spend half an hour scouring the A-Z and making half a dozen phone calls to find that the place you want is one you know well but under a different name.
Mind you when I was running over the water you get some crackers just listing:
Company Name (usually mispelt)
Town or city (Usually the nearest large one that could be 20-30km away)
Country (Have been known to be wrong)
It wasn’t to bad if I loaded the trailer because I’d try to get as much info out of the customer as possible even getting them to make a few calls but do a changeover or pick one up from the yard and it could be a nightmare.
Cheers
neilf
Rail Access is easy, get your firm to get subscribe to Technical Indexes and get access to the NR Website where the Hazard Directory sits, all the access points to the railway are on there, with directions.
People on little farms in the country are often amazed that I manage to find them…I pretend I’m just a ■■■■ hot driver…in reality I just have a Philips Norfolk Atlas (best thing ever if you ask me…so much stuff is marked in them).
