Hombre:
I think that if you actually care where the bloody mode switch is when fuelling up, paying for it or otherwise you really do need to get a life.
And for the goody two shoes on here I put the mode switch where it suits me - not anyone else.
What he does with the mode switch while on the pumps is of no concern really. Its not me who’s getting done by VOSA. Just don’t jam the pumps up if there is a queue behind him. Common courtesy!!!
No worries mate, I dont fill up in the UK, its far too expensive.
and where it is perfectly acceptable to have a break on the pumps, certainly in Holland as it takes 10 minutes to get three cups of free coffee and a gehaktbal down you.
Does it take so long that some flanders mare following proffers a smakinvermouf instead?
if coffee is offered they come and join you and tell you about their Speciaal Truck
Faave hundwed eytey horses? Wouw dat is a fast car!
Stevie DS:
And they say the DCPC isnt needed!
No wonder Joe Public think we are all a bunch of ignorant dirty scruffy scumbags who ■■■■ in laybys,chuck rubbish everywhere and all fly around speeding and running bent in an industry full of cowboys,the comments on this site prove it.
have you ever thought of relaxation therapy?
Yes its called a 10hr night trunk,drive 4 hours,have a sleep,swap trailers then drive back
RedSquirrel:
Nope, I wouldn’t try to take a sneaky break at the pump since there’s other places you can do that but I don’t see anything wrong with getting yourself a cup of coffee whilst your handing your card over that you can drink whilst filling up, especially when all the other pumps are empty and nobody else is waiting. As for taking a leak in the petrol station toilets, there’s no shortage of posts on this forum from ppl whingeing about truckers ■■■■■■■ elsewhere and just how impatient are drivers becoming that they’ll begrudge a colleague using the toilet at a petrol station which will take only a minute or two at the most? I detect a slight hint of hypocrisy on this thread, would you all sooner the petrol station didn’t sell anything apart from fuel ever■■? Are you all saying you NEVER BUY ANYTHING ELSE from a petrol station whilst filling up■■?
Nothing stopping you taking a leak in the toilets, just don’t do it when your occupying the pump. Same goes for coffee, it’s all time you are tying up a pump when you needn’t be. It might not be busy when you first arrive, but it takes a few seconds for half a dozen trucks to pull in, trust me, every one of those drivers will notice the hi-viz fumbling with the coffee machine and ambling round the shop. Not a care in the world.
It’s just good manners. Can you honestly not see the difference?
Yes, I never buy anything whilst filling up. I fill up, pay, move and park up, and then buy stuff if necessary.
WildGoose:
Nothing stopping you taking a leak in the toilets, just don’t do it when your occupying the pump. Same goes for coffee, it’s all time you are tying up a pump when you needn’t be. It might not be busy when you first arrive, but it takes a few seconds for half a dozen trucks to pull in, trust me, every one of those drivers will notice the hi-viz fumbling with the coffee machine and ambling round the shop. Not a care in the world.
It’s just good manners. Can you honestly not see the difference?
Yes, I never buy anything whilst filling up. I fill up, pay, move and park up, and then buy stuff if necessary.
I don’t say there’s nothing to what you’re saying but there isn’t always a place to park up.
Don’t you think you are being a little OTT with your critisism though? "Slow climb down from cab, fanny about with gloves, fanny about with door, fanny about with keys. " this profession doesn’t turn folk into acrobats. So sometimes the fuel cap is locked and some drivers care enough about hygeine to not want dermatitis from diesel and spreading it all over the inside of thier cabs afterwards. I’m sorry, but I’m just not agile enough to jump out through the window when I go to fill up so I hope that doesn’t cause too much offense.
but I’m just not agile enough to jump out through the window when I go to fill up so I hope that doesn’t cause too much offense
You should follow me through a fuel station, it would likely blow your mind.
I use gloves by the way, I am OCD with having clean hands, it just doesn’t take me very long to get them on. Seen Wallace and Gromit? as he drops through the roof, into his clothes, efficiently to breakfast. That’s me pumping fuel, that is. It’s a time and motion study, par excellence.
As regards all the OTT “fannying about” I was exaggerating for emphasis, it’s a writing technique. Do keep up at the back.
Believe me, as a petrol station muse, at the time it seems every bit as slow and frustrating as I describe. So get a bloomin’ move on
WildGoose:
Seen Wallace and Gromit? as he drops through the roof, into his clothes, efficiently to breakfast. That’s me pumping fuel, that is. It’s a time and motion study, par excellence.
Sounds to me like you’re wearing the wrong trousers. I’ve never seen any cause for stressing myself out over petrol pumps apart from the case I mentioned earlier with the belgian registered truck. He was fast asleep at the wheel so I honked him, he woke up, looked at me bemused, then put his head back down and went back to sleep again. So you don’t buy anything when you fill up? Bully for you, I don’t think it’s at all unusual to see a trucker coming back from paying for his (or her) fuel with a newspaper and a cup of coffee in his hand. It doesn’t bother me because I don’t want to live in a country with so little liberty and tolerance that people feel they have to look over their shoulder all the time to make sure they haven’t upset the wowsers.
No stress expended, believe me. I don’t get paid enough for that. If anything this sort of carry on just gives me the inspiration for my writing.
Bully for you, I don’t think it’s at all unusual to see a trucker coming back from paying for his (or her) fuel with a newspaper and a cup of coffee in his hand. It doesn’t bother me because I don’t want to live in a country with so little liberty and tolerance that people feel they have to look over their shoulder all the time to make sure they haven’t upset the wowsers.
Thats the problem, it isn’t unusual. It’s as normal as ■■■■■■■ all over the floor wherever you feel like or hanging a bag of excrement from a layby tree, because it’s gone on for so long. As I said, the sooner the old breed retire, the better.
You live in that country already, like it or not. We are a nation living in the age of entitlement (see the recent fuel strikes, people filling 25 litre unsuitable containers, depriving others, just because they can). That’s the biggest tragedy. In my naive optimism I like to think that there is an underlying level of selfless good in everybody, how very wrong that assumption is, and a painful lesson to learn.
I just think it’s a shame that we are so full of concern for ourselves, that we rarely stop to the consider the needs of others. Simple as that really.
Luke, i’m waiting patiently for my nuclear powered truck (as long as it isn’t a Scania). So I can leave these mongs to faff around in the fuel stations without me. I don’t drink coffee, read papers, or pee in public toilets. So nuclear power would be my liberation.
WildGoose:
I just think it’s a shame that we are so full of concern for ourselves, that we rarely stop to the consider the needs of others. Simple as that really.
Says he who begrudges waiting for someone who’s so busting to take a leak he can’t walk that far. How you can use the word ■■■■ and preach about consideration for others in the same post is quite frankly beyond me. Talk about stirring up hatred on the internet. It takes a real tough guy to pick on the aged and the disabled. It strikes me as odd that with so many capable people on benefits all these years unwilling to lift a finger to contribute anything to society that theres people around who are so eager to pour scorn on the people who manage to do the same job as they do despite their infirmities. Why can’t some of you just grow up, show a little more respect for your elders and have a little more tolerance for people who have been less fortunate in life than what you possibly have? This thread makes me sick to the stomach.
I wonder if the selfish ignorant lot who like to take a break on the pump would be as accommodating if a car was parked on the pump and the driver doing their shopping.I don’t think so somehow.
This has gone completely OTT now, no-one was complaining about someone using the toilets or getting a coffee whilst paying for fuel, I frequently do that as long as it won’t hold other people up for any longer than necessary and so does practically every other driver I see at service stations.
This thread was about deliberately dragging the job out so you’re sat on a pump long enough to have a break, there’s a difference between inconveniencing people while you do what you need to do and deliberately blocking the pumps until you feel like leaving.
As for the garbage about these problems disappearing when the older drivers retire, all I can say is that you seem to be seeing only what you want to see and ignoring reality, when I see drivers coming out of services with coffee ec’t I don’t see them belonging to any particular age group young or old, I think it’s in your imagination WildGoose.
i agree,the facilities are there to be used.if you havnt the patience to wait 5 mins whilst a take a pee or what ever,then ■■■■ you. i once nipped in northampton services for a packet of rizla,however the woman behind the till had to keep going across to the cafe part to make coffe etc....so a slight delay ensued. on my way out,i was met by a driver marching across the forecourt who demanded to know if the truck in front was mine. when i told him yes,he then demanded to know if i had purchased any fuel as he was waiting for fuel.i told him i hadnt and that i had just bought a packet of rizlas,i then asked if he had a problem with that…he did`nt so that was the end of that.
tachograph:
This has gone completely OTT now, no-one was complaining about someone using the toilets or getting a coffee whilst paying for fuel, I frequently do that as long as it won’t hold other people up for any longer than necessary and so does practically every other driver I see at service stations.
This thread was about deliberately dragging the job out so you’re sat on a pump long enough to have a break, there’s a difference between inconveniencing people while you do what you need to do and deliberately blocking the pumps until you feel like leaving.
As for the garbage about these problems disappearing when the older drivers retire, all I can say is that you seem to be seeing only what you want to see and ignoring reality, when I see drivers coming out of services with coffee ec’t I don’t see them belonging to any particular age group young or old, I think it’s in your imagination WilfGoose.
WilfGoose? Does that mean wouldn’t I like to f… And so on.
WildGoose:
Oooh, I hope this is a trolling effort, because these types really wind me up. There is a guy pulling for JCB who does this at the Shell garage at the top of the A34 every morning, and I am usually queueing behind him to use the ONLY pump.
It is not the behaviour of a gentleman, and hopefully when the old breed retire and move on we will see an end to it.
It takes 2-3 minutes to fill up (assuming you’ve got a fast pump) if you pull your finger out and get on with it. So take your 2-3 minutes, then pull OUT OF THE WAY and have your break. Then you haven’t annoyed anyone or falsified your tacho.
I can’t believe how long some people can make it take, it’s almost an art form. Slow climb down from cab, fanny about with gloves, fanny about with door, fanny about with keys. Waddle over to the kiosk, fanny about with wallet, have a chat with the cashier. Slow waddle back, fanny about with the fuel cap, fanny about with the pump. Go shopping, have a dump, get a coffee, find out the machine doesn’t work, insist the guy fixes the machine, spill coffee climbing back into cab, out with the wipes, adjust seat, adjust mirrors.
It’s enough to make you weep!
How much time do you save? Fill up and move, so the guy behind you (me, often) can do the same.
