Get up at silly o’clock to pick up a trailer that’s 5 hours to get loaded . Drive 180 miles to get told. Sorry drive no can do.
I still get paid but the amount of wasted time and fuel I’m this job is crazy
That’s transport I’m afraid. One of our drivers was sent a similar distance last christmas on one of our regular runs only to turn up and the company were closed for the day.
One simple phone call or email is all it would’ve took. Not uncommon either.
Never ask or reason why,as long as your getting paid,as many have been told before your ONLY a driver your not paid to think. 
When something goes wrong then at a stroke that changes,you suddenly become a Professional Driver who should have know better and used your initiative or put your experience into practice. 
Took a truck up to Daventry to collect a load; pulled into the yard - brief conversation…
Warehouse chap - why are you here, not expecting one of your wagons in today.
Me - here to collect a load, here’s the paperwork
Warehouse chap - it’s not here Mate, as requested by your Ops guy, we trunked it to your Reading depot two days ago; what depot you from?
Me - Reading…
Turn round and head to nearest butty van!!
Only subbying doing as instructed. And now going back with it. Even crazier
arrived at ceva redditch to pick up to be told nothing for you drive during this conversation another truck pulls in picking up same stuff, nothing for your lot he tells us, this driver says I’d better phone office and get them to turn the 3rd truck round then. 3 trucks booked zilch load.
Well I’m half way back with rejected load. Phoned swmbo to say I will be home for tea and I now have to turn back to drop at 6am. All good fun
Told the 11 year old planner on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that the meat works at Ipswich (Qld) Dinmore actually would be closed on Monday for their show day. Went in Monday at 5.00am, found motor loaded with a drop (nearly a full load) for the meat works so off I went. Couldn’t wait to get there and phone said planner on his mobile while he was still in bed and say, “I don’t like to say I told you so” 
Last Monday, get a run from Widnes to Enfield, London.
“Needs to be there yesterday” type scenario. On I go, get there for 4pm.
“I’m sorry drive, this should have been cancelled”
Happy days, turn round and go park up. Done F/a and got paid for it as well
I loaded a few month ago a load of glass for Sutton Scotney got to the address to be met by a thatch roof cottage ( I’ve got 52 pallets of glass on) lady comes out and says “Are you for us” “Yes love” I reply whilst showing her the paperwork whilst I’m thinking at the back of my mind " There’s been a ■■■■ up here"
She looks at the paperwork and says " Follow me" into said thatch roof cottage where boss man says " I don’t know why they have gave you this address, it’s for our warehouse" " No problem just tell me where it is and I’ll go there with it then, is it near here" I enquire " Err no not really drive, our warehouse is in Wrexham! 
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So I’ve got to drive all the way from Oxfordshire all the way to Wrexham on a Friday when if I had got the correct adress on the paperwork would’ve been on the doorstep the night before
Rang our place to inform them of the ■■■■ up and added the words " Don’t bother trying to find me a backload as I’m coming stright back, I ain’t having my weekend ■■■■■■ through somebody else’s ■■■■ up!" And to be fair the got me stright back.
Going back about 6 year I worked for a outfit that subbies for Asda when it was quiet. One day I went solo from doncaster to Asda Chepstow to collect a empty trl and fetch it back to Doncaster. When arriving back I asked why the reply was its due a service could not believe it
Donnyboy:
Going back about 6 year I worked for a outfit that subbies for Asda when it was quiet. One day I went solo from doncaster to Asda Chepstow to collect a empty trl and fetch it back to Doncaster. When arriving back I asked why the reply was its due a service could not believe it
There weren’t any of their drivers that could do it as they were all tossing it off in lay bys for about 2 and half hour. Laziest work shy drivers ive ever known at Asda. Transport manager once told me a driver did a Morley from Doncaster in his shift and that was it
You can get to Morley from Donny in about 40 mins so what was he doing for the rest of his shift?
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Donnyboy:
Going back about 6 year I worked for a outfit that subbies for Asda when it was quiet. One day I went solo from doncaster to Asda Chepstow to collect a empty trl and fetch it back to Doncaster. When arriving back I asked why the reply was its due a service could not believe itThere weren’t any of their drivers that could do it as they were all tossing it off in lay bys for about 2 and half hour. Laziest work shy drivers ive ever known at Asda. Transport manager once told me a driver did a Morley from Doncaster in his shift and that was it
You can get to Morley from Donny in about 40 mins so what was he doing for the rest of his shift?
There are ■■■■ ups in this game everyday but ASDA have it down to a fine art. When I worked at Washington I got a run to the metro centre Gateshead, 10 mins from the yard, on arrival I was greeted by 7 others from the depot in front of me! I ended up with an hours overtime. Once got a run to Blackpool, checked the unit & found it needed oil, I was told to sit in the canteen & they would send someone else, ended up there all shift.
Or the time a transport manager wanted to prove the job wasn’t that hard, he got a run to queensferry store, rang from Edinburgh for directions as he couldn’t locate it only to be told “err, it’s the store just off the m56, north wales”
Or the driver that went to Lutterworth depot, swapped trailers, headed back to the m1 & turned right instead of left. He rang from south mimms services saying " I think I’ve gone wrong somewhere!" The list is endless.