Their motto will be 8 and out the gate!
Whats the problem with waiting a few hours to load or unload, in my job i’ve sometimes waited for days or even weeks so more days more dollars !! 
raymundo:
Whats the problem with waiting a few hours to load or unload, in my job i’ve sometimes waited for days or even weeks so more days more dollars !!
My record was waiting fifteen days for a back-load. I dread to think what the responses to this thread what have been 20 years ago! 
Robert
Wheel Nut:
xichrisxi:
Arthurhucksake:
If your on days ESL will fetch you back.Chill.
Not super employee dozy,he parks in a lay-by gets the wife to pick him up then hand delivers the wagon keys back to the yard cuz he’s the planners top boy
That sounds highly illegal and costly for both parties
I was in ESL for 11 years, trust me, day / night men get brought back (assuming they need the load) my record was fetched back from Brampton Hut to Stoke after 15hrs, total shift that night was 19hrs (paid) in the end! I don’t know how they still (plenty of mates still there) get away with it.
raymundo:
Whats the problem with waiting a few hours to load or unload, in my job i’ve sometimes waited for days or even weeks so more days more dollars !!
Yeah, what about the good old days at the docks.
Be careful what you wish for, you could end up like me. I watch paint dry every day 
When Dozy eventually retires,his “I don`t believe it” Friday rantings will be missed they are on par with Victor Meldrew.
Just reckoned up after getting back, I’ve booked 57 hours this week.
With waiting for trailer loding, waiting to meet for a changeover, waiting to tip etc…,.(and sat all afternoon Wed in Mercedes dealers 
) I’ve sat on my arse a total of 17 hours over 4 and a half days out of the 57.
None of it my doing, just the way the week has went, but as I said I get paid per hour so no problem at my end.
FAO Mr Dozy, i waited two weeks for a reload, as i was forgotten about, i was an owner driver, after the two weeks, my freight forwarder said, he thought i could do with a holiday .
Exports from the UK to Portugal would be deliveries in the Lisbon area, then the reloads home would all be in the North in Porto.
So i sat on the beach, got my bike out and bar bell weights, went to the cinema , to see films in English with Portuguese sub titles.
The local GNR police became suspicious of why i was parked for so long, next to the beach, they assumed i was waiting for bales of drugs to be washed up on the Atlantic ocean.
It is a cheek, for a shower, used to camp site, with no questions asked .
The reloads in Porto were a pain in the Arris end, agents would lie, and say, only one collection in the mountains, ready in two hours then top up with groupage , with all night messing about to fill the trailer.
The truth was more than one collection , it may take two to three days of running around picking up shoes, textiles, ceramics, marble A frames.
Maybe four or more collections, the shoe factories had girls of about 13 years old making the shoes by hand, and wait there for it to be boxed up and loaded .
Toby what years were you doing Portugal? Can you remember KEC and Samson from Denmark doing the same as you described? Mid to late 90’s I reckon…
Short walk, I remember KEC and Samson, smart fleets, high spec trucks.
As you said, 90,s to mid 90,s.
It was when the Basques kept changing Sunday driving bans, as the French didn’t want trucks running to the border causing chaos.
Do you remember when depending on the what country the truck registration was, you could head home on a truck ban ?
For clearing customs at Irun/Hendaye, it was a weekend on the French beach.
Alverca TIR park in Lisbon, by the stinky river with black sewage, mosquitos the size of flies, always ill there.
Freight agents lying, come back every hour,two days later, clear customs.
The same for TER TIR in Porto.
Coslada Madrid, for Fred’s.