Went to a drop at Lidl’s Nursling today for 6am , got to window and lady on desk said this is not booked in till tomorrow FFs
Only 24 hours early
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Did you get tipped ?
A few times I have driven near a drop Saturday morning and parked for the weekend for a Monday 8am delivery.
largebloke1969:
Did you get tipped ?
[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]no still sitting in holding bay waiting for my office to start then phone Barron hood
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Took a CNC mill from Izmir on the west coast of Turkey to somewhere in southern Finland.
When I got to the drop, they were rather surprised to see me and pointed to a big hole in the ground. That was to become the foundation for the building where the mill was going to be set up at.
Nah nah nah, I got you all beat…
I turned up at a bathroom showroom to deliver a tap, nice chrome tap, yesterday, at 07:00.
Nobody there.
Phoned the office and got told they opened at 7:15 
I had to wait wait for 15 whole minutes (In me van)!!!
(I´m laughing me nuts off at the previous posts 
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largebloke1969:
Did you get tipped ?
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I once went someware. Had 8 plts for them. They were only expecting 6 management came out looked said all for you . my paper work says 8 plts .there email booking in said 6 some one had ■■■■■ up. Spent next half hour arguing they said your booked in for 6 so we’re take 6 need rebook other 2 in another day. I said take all 8 they said no. After a million phone calls they took 6 and I went back.with the others 3 days later.
edd1974:
I once went someware. Had 8 plts for them. They were only expecting 6 management came out looked said all for you . my paper work says 8 plts .there email booking in said 6 some one had [zb] up. Spent next half hour arguing they said your booked in for 6 so we’re take 6 need rebook other 2 in another day. I said take all 8 they said no. After a million phone calls they took 6 and I went back.with the others 3 days later.
I had similar at Toolstation in Redditch. Jumped up ■■■■■
My paperwork said ten pallets.
The customer paperwork said ten pallets.
The pallet labels counted through from 1 to 10.
His computer said eight pallets so he refused the lot.
He said it’ll get sorted for later and that I can bring them back then. I said I won’t be back here at all today. Your decision is final, off I went and took their stuff straight back to manufacturer at their request.
Was told to get to Rosslare ferry life or death for 8 o’ clock crossing.
Got there for 7am to be told it was 8PM ferry not am. 
Waited all day…and it was cancelled 
Had to wait another 24 (alternate? …Too easy, don’t ask me why not. )
Some good pubs in Rosslare.
Started a shift at Snodland at 6pm, Took over tractor and trailer all hooked up ready to go at the gate, manager handing me keys, so I didn’t even go into the office upon arrival. Previous driver had run out of hours…
Run was to Lunsford Park, about 400m away down a side street on the opposite side of the roundabout. Took about 3 minutes to get there, having just spent 15 minutes doing the walkaround checks.
So my answer is “arrived at drop 18 minutes into my shift”. 
Back in ye olden days, I was delivering catering equipment from the manufacturer. A lot of our customers were council buildings; old peoples’ homes, schools and the like. I had a delivery addressed to a plumber in Doncaster, but the road was all houses on one side and a field on the other. No phone box in sight, so when I saw some workmen with a JCB in the field, I went over to ask them if they could help.
They looked at my notes and scratched there heads and the light dawned. “Is it for a school,” one said, and when I said “probably,” they both fell about laughing.
They were there digging post holes for a big sign that said there was a school being built there which would open in two years time…
More recently, where I was working, drivers would regularly arrive from Spain or Italy on a Friday with a Monday booking. Usually, the forkies would be sympathetic and tip them, but I saw one guy who, when told to come back on Monday, went sort of nuts; A string of what were probably rude words in his own language and a full-on tantrum - kicking his tyres, shouting at someone on his phone, and generally behaving like a two-year-old. Needless to say, he was still parked in the estate come Monday morning.
Back in 1972 I was doing house removals to the Irish Republic and our first drop was Tallaght, a suburb of Dublin. We arrived on the Tuesday afternoon and could not find the address so we carried on with the other drops.
We returned on the Thursday morning and found some surveyors near the location we were looking for. After a brief conversation with them we had to put the furniture into storage as the house wouldn’t be ready for occupation for some months.
A couple of months later we got a phone call from an irate customer wanting to know where his furniture was?