falling down

well what a ■■■■■■ ■■■■ week.

Monday

caught in jam caused by 3 car fender bender on a50 making me late for my first drop :unamused: …forky drops 2 pallets of packaging…delaying me further.
boss gives my second job to a day man,who has to drop the trailer and pull out coz he`s running out of time"waiting 3 hours and still not on a bay" :angry: :angry:
I go up solo,and also run out of time,so I kip on the road outside,where I have my curtains slashed during the night :imp:

Tuesday

go back in at 0600…but they wont have it… :cry:
numerous phone calls,and much waiting later,i drop the trailer at a local hauliers yard…borrow one of their trailers,and shoot off to collect my job for the day.
I pull into the collection point,and there are 8 artics in front of me in the queue.i eventually set off,but I`m hoplessly late,which is soon made worse when I hit the back of the jam on the m60.
I arrive at my drop at 1540…but the forky goes home at 3…■■■■ it :smiling_imp:
I can clearly see forkies through the fence :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:
Wednesday

go back in at 0600(like I was told)
“forky dont start until 7" says the yard bloke "but I was told 6" I said "nah its 7 on wenesday”…welsh ■■■■ :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: (no offence to anyone from wales)

Thursday

2 drops and a collection…south wales
drops go well,but when I get to my collection,the forklift truck is bust.
3 and a half hours later,i`m away,and pull into Lincoln farm with just under 15 hours on the clock

today

the plan…tip my load at a local customers place…and then(as I was informed over the phone the night before)ive got a 1200 Donny(extremely time sensitive)and then Im “pencilled” in for a purfleet in the afternoon :open_mouth:

I get back to the office and ask what time Im booked in at purfleet... "1900" "cant do it"
“why”
“out of time at 1915”
I then get a rollicking for starting too early :cry:
I get to my drop in Donny at 1130,after taking a 30 min break at j29…(I told him I wasn’t early :neutral_face:)
I leave Donny at 1400 and after a swap round,im now heading for cowley for a 1700.i get a dream of a run down,and an even better tip,which gives me 42 mins to get parked up. I pull into Cherwell valley with seconds to spare,and press eject. nothing happening...vdu froze up with my card in..wont change modes or ■■■■ all :smiling_imp:

I pay to park,then go to edc with my 9 quid voucher.i fancy fish and chips,but the bloke at the front of the queue has just ordered a banquet for ten…and then there are still 2 more people in front of me.
Im starting to wilt now,so I opt for plan b and head for burger king,growling at children as I walk. I join the back of the queue,which is approx. half a mile long,and try and keep it together. but its no good…as I scan around,through my now blood shot eyes,i see everyone as evil.there are undecisive people at the front,ankle biters(some screaming) everywhere,and worst of all…a couple snogging directly in front of me.
I just cant take any more...and walk out of the building(clenching and unclenching my fists as I do so)....but whats this,I see in front of me…a saviour…greggs,and its virtually empty :sunglasses: I order a slice of pizza and walk back to the truck. once inside I put the kettle on,and pull my supper from the bag...only trouble is,the topping has stuck to the inside,and all Im left with is a piece of red bread :cry: :cry:
I try to pick the cheese off the inside of the bag,but it`s stuck fast,and I give in…a beaten man.

tomorrow

it`s only 2 and a half hours back to the yard from here…surely nothing can go wrong(or annoy me) in that short time…can it :question:

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And i thought I had a bad week last week!

I honestly couldnt even contend with that!

I hope you get back to the yard with no more issues!!

:smiley: good tale to read while I had me supper!

There’s me thinking I had a dog of a week :grimacing:

:laughing: I liked that it cheered me up made me realise my life ain’t really that bad at all

Good luck for next week too :laughing:

Sorry to hear you’ve had a few bad days. That’s the haulage game for you.

  1. Get the planner sacked, he’s cap with an r.

  2. Why are you ejecting your card at night?

Welsh are a bloody pain in the arse when you in rush. Good read!

Good read fella, I always think after a week like that - imagine if that was your first week after passing your test, you’d never come back!!

Oh yeah, mint film!

Driveroneuk:
Why are you ejecting your card at night?

Uh oh, big off-topic discussion/argument about ejecting cards at night coming. I predict at least four pages.

here goes then…

I eject the card in case I have to move

i also eject my card.6 pages to follow why we should not do this,lol. :frowning:

commonrail:
once inside I put the kettle on,and pull my supper from the bag…only trouble is,the topping has stuck to the inside,and all Im left with is a piece of red bread :cry: :cry: I try to pick the cheese off the inside of the bag,but its stuck fast,and I give in…a beaten man.

Ha ha ha! This bit genuinely made me cry with laughter. Red bread really tickled me.

Hilarious, my favourite bit was the pizza let down, classic.

Anorak on, you can just change the mode to rest at night rather than eject, either is fine though. You can’t however leave it on rest over the weekend to show a weekly rest I think which surprised me.

I understand ejecting the card at night in case you need to move it a bit, this will look better on your card but it will still show on the head unit so you’d be best off just doing a printout & writing reason as the former may be construed as not showing an accurate record. I suppose you could blag that some bloke moved it for you.

Had this very thing happen this week, two hours in to a daily rest, was convinced (mistakenly) some bloke was at my diesel tank so drove on for half hour to services & did printout, gonna look minging on the infringement sheet but no toe rag is having my derv, was just about to drop off to sleep as well.

Welsh lads can either be the best in the world or the worst. I mainly only meet the first type.

PMSL!

Michael Douglas is the Don in that film.