It must get there to night

[dessy]

Rob K:

dessy:
What does WADR mean Rob?

WADR I think you should quit being so simple.

So helpful as always Rob!

Thank you Coffee!

[gcr2erf]

I volunteered to take an “…urgent, customer goodwill/the contract depends on this…” 20 pallets to Campbells foods at Glasgow (from Mansfield) one teatime, whilst part way through my 14:00 - 22:00 office supervisors shift. No night out gear, apart from a scrounged duvet

Raced there, whilst trying to keep legal, all the time picturing the welcoming, grateful factory staff whose continued employment depended on this heroic mission I was on - not to mention the awards ceremony when back at base… you guessed it…

“What urgent load Jimmy? I’ll just take those 2 pallets there, we’ll tip the rest in the morning…”!!

I was too tired/flabbergasted to object. Still, got a decent breakfast from their canteen in the morning.

Needless to say, that forever cured me of running ragged for some burkes definition of urgent - It’ll get there when it gets there!!

[waddy640]

From my observations anything travelling by road that is urgent has blue lights and a siren.

[whiplash]

We used to pull out of Dublin for a company called Marchmont Packaging,and EVERY load was urgent.Only difference was the temperature,of the urgency! Red hot,must be there etc.,
Bearing in mind we might get loaded in Dublin at 19.00-20.00,down to the port,do customs and get on a boat before 21.45,and deliver to most of Northern England by 6 am the following day,we gave a great service.
The packaging they produced was mainly for the food industry,waxed cartons and the like for chilled and frozen foods.One of the customers was De Roma(■■?) ices in Skelmersdale,get there early ,forklift man(a very genial Scotsman) glad to see you,whip it off(even moving other pallets),and away with you.Happy days.
Until Mark got sent with this delivery.Got loaded late in Dublin,but still got the ferry.Off Holyhead at 01.30,into the cot.Up at 6ish,and down the road.Billy Jeans between Colwyn and Abergele (for the brekkie).Into Skelmersdale around 9.30/10.00.
Now the Scotsman was still as friendly as ever.Just gave Mark a message with three numbers to ring(1)his boss(2)the MD of the forwarder and (3) the MD of the manufacturer of the goods.
Whenthe forwarders checked that he had gotten the boat,production in the ice cream factory was given the go ahead,but…no wrappers!
Substantial quantity of iced cream was destroyed that morning!
Didn`t deter the planks from still insisting every load was urgent.

[drew30]

When I was couriering, we used to do loads of stuff for the MOD, loading out of Telford. Got a call one evening “Do you fancy going to Lossiemouth? it’s a lwb sprinter job, you’re the closest and it’s worth proper money. But it is really urgent”

I accept the job. Load-up, and away up the M6. Around Lancaster it starts to snow. The further north I go the heavier the snow is getting. I ring base and say “it’s snowing like billy fury, it’s gonna take me longer than I thought”. “Ok, we’ll let the customer know, just do the best you can. But you HAVE to get there”

Well it gets to the point where they’re starting to close the snow gates, there’s roads being closed all around me, and I’m starting to get a bit worried.

Anyway, I battled on and eventually get to the RAF base at Lossiemouth, absolutley knackered. I go into the gaurd-house, and there’s a guy there waiting for me. “Thank god for that!” he says “We thought you weren’t going to make it. Follow me”.

So I follow him through the gates and out onto the apron, where there is a Tornado jet parked up. Turns out The plane had a bird strike the previous day and had a broken canopy, but was also due to ship out to Afganistan later that day. I had the new canopy in the back of my van.
Did my bit for queen and country that day

[harry]

used to do line-stoppers to Fords of Genk ,cr*p job. Never got thanked only earache when it didn’t turn out right.

[big_joe]

harry:
Told this one before. Run empty for an urgent load of hanging garment for Swansea. Started in Swansea, arrived Casablanca all out of breath only to be told the load had been cancelled!

Had that one before, BS for someone else is doing it, funny thing that as I saw an identical machine going in the opposite direction on the way over here on the back of someone elses truck

[harry]

When I got to the factory in Casa ,Bill Kings Transconti (DTS) was on the ramp & half loaded.