So those of us who were off over Xmas, how was your first week back and how did it go? Mine went well tbh( apart from the massive detour I had to do yesterday! )and it didn’t take long to get back into things, I actualy enjoyed it.
I even got parked up back in the yard just as the bad winds were starting. One of our lads was parked up in the boarder lay-by at Berwick on Thursday night with a load of 6 metre plastic pipes stacked 3 high about 15 foot 3 on a flat and he was up at 2 am Friday morning thinking he was going to be blown on his side and was ■■■■■■■■ bricks
busy as normal. Heathrow to berlin this week, got in yesterday. back in sunday
Im still workin mine
Dipper_Dave:
Im still workin mine
You having any time of pal? Hate working over Xmas myself.
Ours started off quiet, we are one of the palletline satellite companies & the freight only started to come through tues/wed.
I’m usually on general, Monday & Tuesday scratching around for work, then it picked up for the rest of the week with a nice little Caernarfon/North Wales with a night out on Thursday.
Back to normal on Monday with a Smith & Nephew/Hull on Monday & hopefully a back load to keep me away from the yard Monday night/Tuesday morning.
My daughter was born on Monday night so you could say I spent it in the waiting room.
I’m going back to work Monday, nice easy muck shift to get back in the swing of things. A couple of customers have put muck jobs on hold until I go back, either I’m doing something right or other firms are doing it very wrong.
Monday was of to somewhere around Crewe.
Lots of local drops Tues-Thurs which I don’t mind as they tend to be one big drop and kills time.
Wagon parked up most days bout 13:30. Waiting round yard chewing the fat till 4. Home time
Friday had to go to Warrington.
Wagon parked up at 12:15.
Next week don’t look to busy either
Quiet, not much happening on the sites, All change next week.
I go back to work tomorrow but wont be moving at all for a good few days, dosent bother me though as still get full pay but very boring.
Same as it ended in Dec
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raymundo:
I go back to work tomorrow but wont be moving at all for a good few days, dosent bother me though as still get full pay but very boring.
Agency driver.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Dipper_Dave:
Im still workin mineYou having any time of pal? Hate working over Xmas myself.
Had the usual bank holidays off then in other days over chrimbo. Joy to be on the roads when its quiet though.
Fiinshed now after first proper week but feels like ive been slogging away (well listening to the radio and drinking tea mostly) for 2 weeks… been a long week so will relax now and enkoy a beverage or two whilst waiting for the wife to ravish me later on.
Gear box Feked up on mon again.
Had a Renault Tues/Wed on days.
Had Thurs/Fri off, Paid breakdown moneys.
Mon, Tue easy runs (Glasgow) and a bit of shunting, Wednesday off, Thursday Hull (A66 was a bit breezy), Friday Millom/Skem/Stoke (real slog of a run).
I’ve just started at a new place last week so I was riding shotgun most of the time.
Muckaway:
I’m going back to work Monday, nice easy muck shift to get back in the swing of things. A couple of customers have put muck jobs on hold until I go back, either I’m doing something right or other firms are doing it very wrong.
…or you’re doing it cheap.
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.
Dipper_Dave:
been a long week so will relax now and enkoy a beverage or two whilst waiting for the wife to ravish me later on.
In front of a webcam?
Still waiting to go back to work - really, really bored now, and very scared at being driven everywhere by missus!
Hopefully Monday lunchtime will get the all-clear…
Not the best. Monday was fine, Tuesday bloomin brakes started binding on the trailer. Stopped in layby waited an hour for a fitter to come and winde them off. Got to a local garage just as on of the tires went bang and caught fire due to the heat from the binding brakes. Off for the rest of the week waiting for the garage to repair the trailer. Not good when you’re self employed, especially when you’ve just had 2 weeks off for Christmas.
A great week ,just incase anyone’s interested ,Monday dead start steel to Tate modern ,Tuesday conveyor to oldgate station ,Wednesday sheds to 2 drops East London & cast iron from regents pk to Sheffield ,Thursday plastic pipes to ormskirk & a silo roof Leeds to Matlock ,Friday pumping machine to seaforth dock & conveyor to Peterborough .