Im with Dozy on this one. Today 3 of us with oversized abnormal loads had a delivery to make in some rural village in Bedfordshire. Didn’t have a street name just the village name and a postcode. The site contact number wouldn’t answer his phone and we caused carnage driving around tight lanes looking for this site. At one point jumping out to fold back car wing mirrors so we could squeeze past.
All easily avoided if office monkeys did the job they are paid to do and put the bloody address on the paperwork!!
msgyorkie:
Im with Dozy on this one. Today 3 of us with oversized abnormal loads had a delivery to make in some rural village in Bedfordshire. Didn’t have a street name just the village name and a postcode. The site contact number wouldn’t answer his phone and we caused carnage driving around tight lanes looking for this site. At one point jumping out to fold back car wing mirrors so we could squeeze past.
All easily avoided if office monkeys did the job they are paid to do and put the bloody address on the paperwork!!
So why didn’t you phone your office?
yeah i,m with dozy on this one too… used to deliver beer/drinks to pubs clubs restaurants ect and they only gave the front door address, sometimes you could struggle to get into a town centre to find out delivery is a different area and not what most of thinking that its just around the back…
Evil8Beezle:
msgyorkie:
Im with Dozy on this one. Today 3 of us with oversized abnormal loads had a delivery to make in some rural village in Bedfordshire. Didn’t have a street name just the village name and a postcode. The site contact number wouldn’t answer his phone and we caused carnage driving around tight lanes looking for this site. At one point jumping out to fold back car wing mirrors so we could squeeze past.
All easily avoided if office monkeys did the job they are paid to do and put the bloody address on the paperwork!!So why didn’t you phone your office?
Because they have exactly the same contact name and number as I. We run the job when the loads are out of the gate. The office are as usefull as Jeremy Corbyn!
I know its fashionable to mock Dozy and I suspect that he is actually a very very good troll but he does have a valid point.
109LWB:
Try delivering to farms.
Post code is 5 miles away the address isLong farm, by the oak tree, arseendofnowehere, England.
When I do farm deliveries I usually find that the postcode is spot on as the farm is the only building around that part of the postcode.
msgyorkie:
Evil8Beezle:
msgyorkie:
Im with Dozy on this one. Today 3 of us with oversized abnormal loads had a delivery to make in some rural village in Bedfordshire. Didn’t have a street name just the village name and a postcode. The site contact number wouldn’t answer his phone and we caused carnage driving around tight lanes looking for this site. At one point jumping out to fold back car wing mirrors so we could squeeze past.
All easily avoided if office monkeys did the job they are paid to do and put the bloody address on the paperwork!!So why didn’t you phone your office?
Because they have exactly the same contact name and number as I. We run the job when the loads are out of the gate. The office are as usefull as Jeremy Corbyn!
I know its fashionable to mock Dozy and I suspect that he is actually a very very good troll but he does have a valid point.
Having not done oversized abnormal loads I’m a bit surprised, as I’d have thought someone at your firm would be checking it’s going to fit.
You learn something new everyday! 
I wonder how dozy will cope when the name on the p.o.d. is different from the name on the sign, because the company changed name years ago… 
the nodding donkey:
I wonder how dozy will cope when the name on the p.o.d. is different from the name on the sign, because the company changed name years ago…
He’s old school so would know every name change
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Got to laugh when I ring a farmer for instruction on where to find his farm, they assume you know the area, no, I don’t, hence the phone call .
The conversation goes like this ;
" Turn left by the old oak tree, go past the row of trees, when you see a house with a blue door, you have gone too far.
Third left by the camp site, farm is two mile down the bridle path .
He will say they get artics down there all the time .
When arrive, he says he didn’t realise it was that big.
I once had the opposite almost.
Blake’s delivered Onken yoghurt, mostly to RDC’s but sometimes to small wholesalers and even to shops. I had a delivery note for an address that was in the middle of a housing estate - drove around a bit looking and eventually found it was a church hall. Obviously the wrong place I thought, but ho hum - I was there anyway so might as well go in and ask. There was no room to park, so I just blocked the road and walked up to find the person it was addressed to.
When they came outside; much hilarity ensued. The delivery address was a kids nursery and the delivery was one tray of yoghurt. Apparently they had written to Onken and asked for some empty pots to use for crafts. Some bright spark at the Onken office sent them a tray of full ones.
msgyorkie:
109LWB:
Try delivering to farms.
Post code is 5 miles away the address isLong farm, by the oak tree, arseendofnowehere, England.
When I do farm deliveries I usually find that the postcode is spot on as the farm is the only building around that part of the postcode.
Don’t have a problem with farms, I use the old Philips County A-Z Street Atlases (most of which are now out of print and on E-bay at ridiculous prices), where 99% of them are marked.
Been to a few properties in the absolute middle of nowhere though, only to find that it’s the bill-payer’s/account-holder’s address and the delivery is for a holiday cottage they own, about 25 mile away, in some other middle of nowhere dung-hole.
I think a few of you need to go and have a lie down in a darkened room and compose yourselfs.
Have you heard yourselfs?
Your in agreement with dozy and your not slating him for once. Are you ill or something lol
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Punch post code into Google Maps satellite view, use common sense to find HGV/commercial vehicle entrance, then street view to confirm.
It’s incredible people are still struggling given the sheer enormity of technology/information available nowadays.
Javiatrix:
Punch post code into Google Maps satellite view, use common sense to find HGV/commercial vehicle entrance, then street view to confirm.It’s incredible people are still struggling given the sheer enormity of technology/information available nowadays.
There a place we deliver to where you look on google and it’s obvious where the service yard is, but when you get there your only allowed to go from the otherside and drive through he car park to get to it, which you’d have no way of knowing from street view. They won’t let you reverse in which means if you’ve not been giving that information that you need come in from the front through the car park then it means you’ve got to go and turn round in a 7.5t limit in a residential street. So even google street view isn’t always reliable! The place needs to give the information on the delivery notes.
Rowley010:
Javiatrix:
Punch post code into Google Maps satellite view, use common sense to find HGV/commercial vehicle entrance, then street view to confirm.It’s incredible people are still struggling given the sheer enormity of technology/information available nowadays.
There a place we deliver to where you look on google and it’s obvious where the service yard is, but when you get there your only allowed to go from the otherside and drive through he car park to get to it, which you’d have no way of knowing from street view. They won’t let you reverse in which means if you’ve not been giving that information that you need come in from the front through the car park then it means you’ve got to go and turn round in a 7.5t limit in a residential street. So even google street view isn’t always reliable! The place needs to give the information on the delivery notes.
If you used a sat-nav on the estate I used to live on you would end up in a hedge. They are only as accurate as the information put into them. Postcodes don’t necessarily pinpoint the location you want.