Not nicked off the load as such, it would be a bit stupid these days as it is covered by my insurance and claims would make the premium go up, but many many years ago a group of us were unloading an aircraft container full of leather jackets and hanging them in a hanging garment trailer ready for delivery. Now there was supposed to be 2000 jackets but it turned out there were 2007 so the 7 extra were shared by the drivers.
There was one sticky moment when at a company night out, a darts match, seven of us turned up wearing the same jacket. Questions were asked but nothing came of it.
BTW I don’t mean seven of us were wearing one jacket, I mean we all had the same style of jacket on before anyone says anything.
Coffeeholic:
Not nicked off the load as such, it would be a bit stupid these days as it is covered by my insurance and claims would make the premium go up, but many many years ago a group of us were unloading an aircraft container full of leather jackets and hanging them in a hanging garment trailer ready for delivery. Now there was supposed to be 2000 jackets but it turned out there were 2007 so the 7 extra were shared by the drivers.
There was one sticky moment when at a company night out, a darts match, seven of us turned up wearing the same jacket. Questions were asked but nothing came of it.
BTW I don’t mean seven of us were wearing one jacket, I mean we all had the same style of jacket on before anyone says anything.
i take it then coffee the 7 jackets that where left all fitted the people in quiestion ■■
Coffeeholic:
Not nicked off the load as such, it would be a bit stupid these days as it is covered by my insurance and claims would make the premium go up, but many many years ago a group of us were unloading an aircraft container full of leather jackets and hanging them in a hanging garment trailer ready for delivery. Now there was supposed to be 2000 jackets but it turned out there were 2007 so the 7 extra were shared by the drivers.
There was one sticky moment when at a company night out, a darts match, seven of us turned up wearing the same jacket. Questions were asked but nothing came of it.
BTW I don’t mean seven of us were wearing one jacket, I mean we all had the same style of jacket on before anyone says anything.
i take it then coffee the 7 jackets that where left all fitted the people in quiestion ■■
Coffeeholic:
Not nicked off the load as such, it would be a bit stupid these days as it is covered by my insurance and claims would make the premium go up, but many many years ago a group of us were unloading an aircraft container full of leather jackets and hanging them in a hanging garment trailer ready for delivery. Now there was supposed to be 2000 jackets but it turned out there were 2007 so the 7 extra were shared by the drivers.
There was one sticky moment when at a company night out, a darts match, seven of us turned up wearing the same jacket. Questions were asked but nothing came of it.
BTW I don’t mean seven of us were wearing one jacket, I mean we all had the same style of jacket on before anyone says anything.
i take it then coffee the 7 jackets that where left all fitted the people in quiestion ■■
Its a bit hard to swipe a 3 ton slab of concrete so Although you used to be able to take a few bottles of lucozade, until someone took a few too many and they noticed
tdriver:
was a lad. It was summer holidays from school and the Barr’s Lemonade Lorry
bringing back memories there…lol wonder what happened to them…
Barr’s have still got a factory in Kirkcaldy. I think they’ve got one over near Glasgow as well.
On the main topic. A few years ago, (not many either) I worked for a company who you could easily describe as ‘a cowboy outfit’. On our W/E away several of us were parked up at a port on the UK south coast, as usual. One of the loads was 26 pallets of dog food, in pouches. On top of that (to make up the weight) was a dozen small pallets of wine,in cases of bottles. The inevitable had happened and the pallets of wine had toppled over. The half a dozen of us who were there were told to “see what you can do with it, to sort it out” . We spent most of Sunday morning (of our day off), handballing the load off, sorting out the broken bottles, repacking the soggy cases into whatever we could find which was suitable and handballing the repacked wine back onto pallets. Naturally we didn’t expect to be paid for this (it would show up in the records that we had been paid for 7 days work in 7 days). We therefore agreed between us, that a case of wine each would cover our wages .
Somebody got greedy, someone else told the boss. We all got a phone call from the boss asking about the wine. The greedy one apparently denied all knowledge and ditched (literally) his haul, planning to go back for it in his car. It had gone , when he did.
On another occasion I was very tempted by a pallet of 17" LCD colour monitors left in the middle of the yard where I was delivering. LCD monitors where the new, latest greatest at the time, and LCD’s where about £1,000 each. There was a pallet of about 20, just sitting there out of sight and camera shot. I only wanted one, but I managed to restrain myself on that occasion .
since i del cars i think someone might notice one missing but the part exs arefair game with management approval as long as you only take bits ieradios spot mats etc
I once got uppity at a drop after they’d signed for the pallet but decided to unload it after their dinner hour. I had a tail lift, so I dropped it right in the middle of their yard. Apparently they got right stroppy with my boss. Why?
£250,000 worth of 'phone cards :mrgreen::mrgreen::shock::lol:.
They were told to go forth and, as they’d been signed for .
Not strictly on topic, but I’d forgot about that and it just sprang to mind. Wonder how many were left when he got back from his lunch .
Some great stories here especially the leather jackets!
I remember when I was working on the computer system for TDG/Courage at Daventry I used to be working with the forklifts in the warehouse. Whenever a delivery of Stella Artois came in from France there were always 2 extra cases on the trailer floor - one for the driver, one for the forky. Sadly it was always 2 extra cases for TDG
Yes done it loads of times, if the situation arose and i could get a clean signature…but i did it for myself…clothes…foodstuffs…etc…thats where the saying comes from fell off the back of a lorry…i dont do it now though cos i dont need it…but i worked for a company a few years ago…we used to deliver to austria and the subbies used to load the export trailers for us…when the vehicles arrived in our depot and the subbies had parted…it was a free for all…and the subbies were either not paid or a claim was made against their own insurance company for a shortage on delivery…although this hardly ever happened to me…but sad nonetheless…i will admit that it is theft whatever way you look at it…
on another instance i loaded out of enfield rolling mills in the sixties…20t copper ingots…got to greenwich to deliver and was told it was a repeat order…i asked them to sign the delivery note to say the order had been duplicated…they just signed for the load, and i was supposed to take it back…the rest they say is history…
have a nice day
it must be 20 years ago now, i had done all my deliveries for lions sweets and had some left. it took me months to eat them, well there was 7 boxes of them. (35 lbs). obviously dont bother with them any more
RMower:
it must be 20 years ago now, i had done all my deliveries for lions sweets and had some left. it took me months to eat them, well there was 7 boxes of them. (35 lbs). obviously dont bother with them any more
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since i del cars i think someone might notice one missing 