peterm:
robroy:
nurglets:
I’ve had phone calls asking why i’m stopped at X point, so I have to explain that after 4.5hrs driving i have no choice, phone calls asking why i’ve left the normal route
Jeeeesus, that would really do my [zb] swede in, push me over the edge 
How tf do you put up with it? 
If somebody is doing that then they have [zb] all to do, other than watch you work…tossers!..they are in a ‘non job’ 
I could not stop myself from immeadiately telling him to go and [zb] himself and leave me to do my job which I can manage perfectly without him sticking his [zb] beak in.
If that failed I would end up getting the boot on return, after succumbing to the urge to rip the little 2at’s head off. 
I’m also tracked btw, but never asked any questions concerning routes or stops, just left completely alone to my own devices, as it should be.
I like robroy… kindred spirits, innit. 
Thing is Peter all this type of ■■■■ poor anti man management stuff in transport today really winds me up.
How tf did it get to the stage when a pro driver is being hounded needlessly in this way. They are taking the power of initiative away from us.
If I see road blocks etc, and assuming I am in a hurry, I will pull off route and take an alternative, …the last thing I would want is some little sh in an office sat on his spotty arse asking me WHY
Some co.s today want robots and ■■■■ Yes men (and they get them 
) working for them today, and I will never understand why grown men put up with this type of crap without any form of resistance.
Maybe it’s me that has done this ■■■■ too long, and that it’s me that is wrong…who knows
If I see road blocks etc, and assuming I am in a hurry, I will pull off route and take an alternative, …the last thing I would want is some little sh in an office sat on his spotty arse asking me WHY
+1
the part you don’t see because you work as a more traditional type if driver like myself is that when your working for one the beancounter brigade,then every job is routed,and risk assessed at every drop.your instructed never to divert,that way Jacob kawalski wont go for a detour and tale the lid off the trailer somewhere,on end up in some wifeys living room…beancounter brain dead jobs have beancounter brain dead drivers…itl never be your fault if your late so long as you follow the given route.(that’s the 1st rule in Tesco along with a million other mind numbing ones)
No it’s not you robroy, I’m just glad I’ve never worked for a transport co’ like that. By the end of my illustrious driving career I’d driven for one man bands, and looking at what you people have thrown at you nowadays over there, I’m glad I’m not there working with you. It was a totally different world when I started in the 60’s… yeah I know, here we go again. But it really was a lot easier on the mind because you were allowed to use it (the mind). We didn’t have DD trailers, but if something was high, we were able to think for ourselves, well most of us were anyway and work it out, and I really think things like satnags have caused plenty of drama’s for those of us that are a bit short changed in the talent dep’t.
I’d best take me pills now before I get too worked up and take a swing at the missus… she’ll bloody slaughter me.
I don’t get any of this…
I come to work to drive a truck. My office give me a job. I go and do the job. I call the office I’m ready for the next job.
If there is a problem, I tell the office. End of problem for me.
Grow a pair of balls…
Any driver who has the keys in his hands is in charge.
Juddian:
We’re tracked, never had a phone call in all the time i’ve been here asking why or where or whatever, used sensibly it means i maybe get one call a week from the company.
We have trackers too, I only ever had one phone call do to with unexpected stopping from this firm, I was in the toilet having an unexpected Crap phone was unexpectedly(because I was chatting to a mate when I pulled up) in my pocket. So whilst washing my hands I rang the office back, and asked what the problem was, he wanted to know if I would still get back for the VBS time, I said “just stopped for the crapper mate” with the noise of the water running and that toilet echo sound, I think my planner thought I was still in the process while on the phone to him, he hurriedly replied “that’s fine” and put the phone down, so I unexpectedly noticed a tea van at this rest stop and had a bacon roll
If I have to go off route, though I’ve never been asked yet why. Whats the problem with telling them the problem. Or as I once did, when heading Felixstowe bound on the A14 at Newmarket, I carried on up the A11 for Norfolk(you can take the boy out Norfolk and all that)saw the exit for the Red Lodge, and first thought “haven’t been there for a while” second thought “■■■■■■ I’m going the wrong the way”, I rang the office, and said “you may notice on tracker, I’m heading for Norfolk” brief explanation and much mirth later, right turn at Barton Mills, and more mirth once I eventually made it back to Felixstowe 