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UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Pulled in to do a full load drop and collection. Never been to this particular place before.

Asked where they wanted the lorry and the forkie/warehouse guy pointed and said ‘Over there, please, drive.’

Parked up where indicated, gets out and starts opening the curtains. Opens one side and realises that I can’t see the forkie; look round and see him, in the entrance to the warehouse, sitting on the FL and waiting patiently for me to finish.

Finished opening then nods to forkie who replies, ‘Thank you, drive.’

He finishes one side then, again, waits patiently out of the road while I pull the other curtain.

Once unloaded he politely pulls me to one side and says ‘That’s your load. How do you want them on?’

‘Any idea on weights, mate?’,

‘Yep, drive… …’ he then proceeds to reel off a list of the approximate weights.

When done he proceeds to put all the pallets on, in the order I asked and where asked, without even a by your leave.

All the way through, the Forkie was nice, polite, helpful and a pro; not once did he even touch the trailer! . Common sense and (mutual) respect that you knew what you were doing were the order of the day and there was no unnecessary H&S bovine excrement.

How the h#ll are we supposed to work under these conditions?

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I hope it never catches on.
If everything runs smoothly, everyone is pleasant and respectful of each other, there are no issues or H&S overkill and everyone can just get in, do a job and get out with no issues then what the hell are we all supposed to moan about on the internet?

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The-Snowman:
I hope it never catches on.
If everything runs smoothly, everyone is pleasant and respectful of each other, there are no issues or H&S overkill and everyone can just get in, do a job and get out with no issues then what the hell are we all supposed to moan about on the internet?

Standard of driving. The Roads. Car drivers. Brexit. Tories. Corbyn. Trump. Unions. Juddian’s feet. Europe. China.
(Other subjects for complaint are available)
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That Forkie is clearly deranged as forkies hate drivers :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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blue estate:
That Forkie is clearly deranged as forkies hate drivers :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

^^^^^^^
agency forkie… :slight_smile:

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Win-Stone:

The-Snowman:
I hope it never catches on.
If everything runs smoothly, everyone is pleasant and respectful of each other, there are no issues or H&S overkill and everyone can just get in, do a job and get out with no issues then what the hell are we all supposed to moan about on the internet?

Standard of driving. The Roads. Car drivers. Brexit. Tories. Corbyn. Trump. Unions. Juddian’s feet. Europe. China.
(Other subjects for complaint are available)
:smiley:

Wha?
What’s up with my bleedin plates?
By the way big feet does not (sadly) mean others protruding bits are similarly large :cry:

As for being polite and working together amicably, they the the powers that be don’t want it, a working class at solidarity with each other doesn’t need layers of govt, apparatchiks, the enforcement industry nor hundreds of thousands of pointless managers.

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Win-Stone:

The-Snowman:
I hope it never catches on.
If everything runs smoothly, everyone is pleasant and respectful of each other, there are no issues or H&S overkill and everyone can just get in, do a job and get out with no issues then what the hell are we all supposed to moan about on the internet?

Standard of driving. The Roads. Car drivers. Brexit. Tories. Corbyn. Trump. Unions. Juddian’s feet. Europe. China.
(Other subjects for complaint are available)
:smiley:

Now wait just a cotton picking minute now :exclamation: No need to put Trump on that list as he’s President of the US not UK so don’t see how that effects you lot. You’ve got quite a list to contend with there so that should keep you busy for a while but if in the unlikely event they all start working to your liking then maybe you can have a little moan about our Prez :wink:

Oh, i don’t know what’s to moan about with Juddian’s feet but must be something pretty bad to make the list, iv’e not seen them so will not take a STAND on this. :blush: :blush: :wink:

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blue estate:
That Forkie is clearly deranged as forkies hate drivers :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

As do most gatehouse Hitlers and goods in staff! :imp:

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I hope you have reported him, it’s folks like him who ruin the job, how can anyone expect to get so cynical, miserable and grumpy when there are dangerous fork lift drivers around.

Did you call him Lift?

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SSSSSHHHHHHH don`t tell everybody back at the Depot others might want a run there and then you will have to get to the back of the Q til it comes to your turn again :laughing: :laughing:

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I get very confused , I have chopped back and forth over the years between wharehouse, fabrication , workshop and driving .
Should I have abused myself ?
Does all this conflict between the trades explain why I became so grumpy ?
BTW when on the forks I was even known to rearrange loads for drivers if they asked nicely , I now feel so guilty .

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In my experience most forkies will rearrange for you if ask properly - and make sure you thank them afterwards.

Then they’re more likely to help the next guy.