In the early 2000’s I was working for a lesser removal company. I took a loaded trailer to Rome with 8 wooden storage containers on board, pre loaded by the warehouseman. Rocked up at the address started to unload and the client stated she didn’t recognise any of the furniture, though it had been in store for several years. Checked trailer number to find it was the right trailer and breathed a sigh of relief.
Long story short, phoned the office who double checked their files and the wrong containers had been loaded Loaded it all back up, hotfooted it back to the yard, swopped trailers (double checking the containers before leaving the yard!!) straight back out to Rome again! I racked up some hours that month
jdc:
In the early 2000’s I was working for a lesser removal company. I took a loaded trailer to Rome with 8 wooden storage containers on board, pre loaded by the warehouseman. Rocked up at the address started to unload and the client stated she didn’t recognise any of the furniture, though it had been in store for several years. Checked trailer number to find it was the right trailer and breathed a sigh of relief.
Long story short, phoned the office who double checked their files and the wrong containers had been loaded Loaded it all back up, hotfooted it back to the yard, swopped trailers (double checking the containers before leaving the yard!!) straight back out to Rome again! I racked up some hours that month
Had two pallets to deliver to a place in tge Anderson area of Glasgow once. I knew the street but couldn’t remember seein the company there before. Got there and couldn’t find the cuatomer. Few phone calls later, turns out that is their old address I have been given. They moved to Clydebank over 7yrs ago! Could see the mix up if it had only been a few weeks or months since they moved, but 7yrs.
Overheard this when clocking out last Friday, one of our drivers phoned the office saying he couldn’t find where he was delivering to, manager looks on the tracker screen and screams “What the ■■■■ are you doing in Norwich?” driver said something then manager pipes up “it’s NP7■■■ not NR7■■■”
Apparently the driver had put postcode into sat nav without checking address, he was supposed to be in Abergavenny!
I met one o my UK mates (same company) at a Truckstop one night i was doing my peddle run and he was on the us/canada side o things .His drop was b ehind the truckstop.
He had a load o wire rope ( in a van ).he picked up in our yard . Our trailer fleet were mostly 3 # …ie 246 etc but the trailer he picked up was a ocean trailer rental and the number was …say 1234567 …and he was to pick up trailer #123 …
welll 9 in the morning and i was on my 2nd drop when i got a call from my friend he had opened the doors at the drop and found a trailer full o 20 tonnes of bagged flax .
After phonning up yrd he was told we used the last 3# on a ocean trailer .and the trailer he had was …#567…
and he had to get it back to our yrd as it was heading to Texas…only problem was our yrd was in Winnipeg Mb and he was in Swift current Sk…500mls away!!!.
after that 1500ml mistake (wpeg-sc-wpeg -back to sc)we had to open trailer doors and check the load /or check seal #.
jimmy.
went all the way to bangor (wales) having misread the the notes …and the load wouldn’t go fit the vehicle . of course none of the other lads mentioned it
Class2ldn:
Was told of a story at the agency where a driver had been given an artic for parcel force on a run upto Manchester , 3 days later the load still hadn’t arrived. The police were informed but nobody knew where he was. Then the guy rings the agency and starts complaining about how many parcels were in the back lol. Turns out he had been multidropping the parcels all the way to Manchester from London. Funnily enough he didn’t get anymore work lol
Classic. Best one I read. I’m not 100% sure it’s true but I still laughed so much I had tears in my eyes!
Class2ldn:
Was told of a story at the agency where a driver had been given an artic for parcel force on a run upto Manchester , 3 days later the load still hadn’t arrived. The police were informed but nobody knew where he was. Then the guy rings the agency and starts complaining about how many parcels were in the back lol. Turns out he had been multidropping the parcels all the way to Manchester from London. Funnily enough he didn’t get anymore work lol
Classic. Best one I read. I’m not 100% sure it’s true but I still laughed so much I had tears in my eyes!
I would have gave him a fulltime job, ok he is obviously daft as a brush but he sounds like a grafter.
Class2ldn:
Was told of a story at the agency where a driver had been given an artic for parcel force on a run upto Manchester , 3 days later the load still hadn’t arrived. The police were informed but nobody knew where he was. Then the guy rings the agency and starts complaining about how many parcels were in the back lol. Turns out he had been multidropping the parcels all the way to Manchester from London. Funnily enough he didn’t get anymore work lol
Classic. Best one I read. I’m not 100% sure it’s true but I still laughed so much I had tears in my eyes!
I would have gave him a fulltime job, ok he is obviously daft as a brush but he sounds like a grafter.
Ha ha. I never thought of it that way. He’s multi dropping parcels on an Artic. Grafter or what!!
I got to a store and reversed on to a bay. I got out and unloaded 9 cages of milk and then loaded the empty cages on to the back. I go inside to get told there is to much milk. I started to debate it when the lady noticed that i was at the wrong store that i should be at the one just down the road. Well i had to reload the 9 cages and then go down to the next store and make another attempt at delivering them there.
When I drove for Europa Worldwide about 12 years ago we had an agency driver one morning & he was given a load to take to Horwich, and then return to load for another drop. He left Trafford Park at 7am, and when still hadn’t returned by midday the transport manager rang him and asked where he was. The reply was “near Colchester, be in Harwich in 30 mins”. Poor sod had misread the paperwork! Why he didn’t ask for night out allowance etc I do not know.
r slicker:
many moons ago when i worked for a famous london coach comapny we had a driver who had a leeds castle day excursion called in from leeds yorkshire to say he could not find the castle
in the days before sat ~navs their was quite often trucks running around Leeds, Ashford, Gillingham and Rainham in Kent all ment for towns by the same name in other parts of the country
In the early 90’s,before mobile’s were as widely used,my mate worked as a mechanic at a small family run haulage company. They did a fair amount of groupage from Lanarkshire,both up and down the way. One day a truck was running a wee bit behind and to save a bit of time for him decided to send the pick-up to collect 1 pallet from Hamilton,to bring back to the yard,to go on the trailer heading to Aberdeen.
There was no spare drivers in the yard,the gaffer was busy,so they said to one of the mechanics,“go to Hamilton,there is a pallet for Aberdeen,it’s a rush job”. The mechanic duly buggered off with the wee bedford pick-up. 2 hours later-no mechanic. 4 hours later-no mechanic. The truck was sent on it’s way,nobody could understand where this bloody mechanic was. Then the phone goes. It’s the mechanic,who was asked where the ■■■■ he was. He replied,“Aberdeen,I’ve dropped off that pallet,will I just come down the road ?”
yep…went into yard “sit tight I’ve no got anything for you”
10 minutes later “will you take that ballance of that order to :company’s name : I’ll fax paperwork on”
aye no prob says me…I had only ever been to one site for the unnamed company at Helensbrugh…gets there just away to put her on break …
phone gos…
“You at Motherwell yet”
Fantastic thread, had me in stitches the ParcelForce run
I’ve had a Harrogate run for DHL, with a collect for 3 IBC’s, something wasn’t right with the trees banging the top of the cab and deep furrows behind me on the gravel drive, when the trees stopped, in front of me was a stately home type affair and I’m thinking I’m in the doo dah now. As I crunch across the gravel to the huge front doors they duly open with a maid keen to shoo me away, she did however explain I should be dockside at Grimsby. It wasn’t my fault they had only put the invoice address on the paperwork, DHL held the Irish trunk back for me.
Every now and then I get a delivery with just a PO Box number, with the associated postcode for the local sorting office, RM are quite reluctant to take the delivery, usually for multiple pallets, I ring it in and usually take it back, the sender is given the opportunity to pay for a re-delivery when they give the right details .