My first outing on the job

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Hi all,

Well yesterday was my first driving job so here is a breif account of it.

Got to the warehouse at 9am all keen and eager :slight_smile: wandered round for a bit trying to find someone to tell me where i should be, i got told to go and see a bloke at the other end of the warehouse and he will sort me out. Found the bloke in question and told him who I was, his reply was along the lines of
" take your pick of the the 2 motors outside, im not bothered either way ", This is going to be fun i thought !!!

Realising I had no tacho disks, i phoned the agency, " Oh yeah we forgot to give them to you, there is a guy on the way ". So i got myself in to the vehicle and then started to panic :open_mouth: .
A little later a guy from another agency turned up with the tachodiscs for me. As i have always been taught "There is no such thing as a bone question if you don’t know the answer ". So I asked a few questions to which he replied " you have never been out on your own have you " at this point he asked me if i had had an assessment with the ageny i was with to which i said no !!! He was then straight on the phone to his boss, " sorry mate, we cant let you take this out as it is not fair on you, we are getting another driver in " . At this point i was devastated :cry: He then turned round and said come over to our office for a brew and we can get you signed up with us, then we can get you out today with the other driver as the assesor. At this point i was a happy little bunny :smiley:

So after half an hour it was back to the yard to meet the other driver, absouloutley brilliant guy called Ralph, put me at ease staright away !! ten minutes after that we were on the road.

From Trowbridge up the A350 to J17 on the M4, everything was going great. Then on to the M25 off at the A1M and up to the sunshine place known as Welwyn Garden City. Once there we found our destination , the Argos warehouse, I booked in the load, and the guy said " Right mate, bay 2 please " , it was at this point the panic set in again, my first ever drop and i end up with a blindside reverse on to the bay :open_mouth: However 10 minutes and 6 shunts later the trailer was on the bay…IT WAS THE BEST FEELING EVER !

Unfortunatley it then took the nice people at the ware house nearly 3 hours to unload the trailer :imp: Once this was done, we were back on the road and on the way back to Trowbridge.

Finally got home at half ten last night feeling very pleased with myself if some what tired. Got a phone call this morning and am now doing a midnight run to Darlington on Friday :smiley:

Sorry its a long post :slight_smile:

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hi gundril, glad you enjoyed your first day mate, im just surprised your still not at argos waiting to get tipped :smiley:. seems like a nice decent job to be doing for your first time, same as what i had when i passed my class c just doing stire deliveries for woolies loved it. hope to hear more of your trips mate :smiley:

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:smiley: Well done that man :smiley: At least you had the good sense to ask, ask and ask again raher than pretend to know it all and end up in the brown stuff :open_mouth:

Even the very experienced amongst us need to ask questions now and then :blush: :laughing: Seems like you are on with a decent agency if they treat you like that and send you out with a man to learn the crack :smiley:

Good luck to you in your career. You seem to have the correct attitude sorely missing not just in some newbies but many old hands :unamused: . Always get as much info on jobs from the agency as you can. including destination and type of truck so that way you can ask on here for info to help :smiley:

and to echo pete “feels ■■■■ good doesn’t it” :wink:

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I agree with you montana man . its a pity your so narrow minded on other things of interest :laughing:

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You seem to have the correct attitude sorely missing not just in some newbies but many old hands

spot on.

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thanks for the advice folks,

Im not on darlingtom Friday, I have just had a phone call so Im off to Haydock tonight on a trunking run with Tufnells, i will post back with pics tomorrow :smiley:

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Tuffnells draw bar ?

They don’t hang a bout that lot :laughing:

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paul@midway:
Tuffnells draw bar ?

They don’t hang a bout that lot :laughing:

But at least they have shunters who “bay” them for you :blush: :laughing:

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norian by any chance mateâ– â– ?

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Nah, last night was artic out of westbury, but your right about not hanging around at Haydock.

I tipped up just after midnight, and the place was heaving, then 20 minutes late it was all quiet.

Thanks to any of the guys who were up there last night and helped me out with a couple of bone questions :smiley: and your right Montana man they “bayed” it for me as well…bonus !!!

Hi Scott, yep it was Norian on wednesday, and i have 2 runs to Bolton next week, one to Stafford and then an overnight to Darlington on Friday with them.

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Grundril:
and your right Montana man they “bayed” it for me as well…bonus !!!

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

one to Stafford and then an overnight to Darlington on Friday with them.

Argos’s :blush: take a good book especially Darlington :unamused:
Cafeteria at Darligton is well worth a visit though :wink:

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was in Argos Darlington thursday morning for a 3am booking.Got there at 2am out by 3 30am. Home and in bed for 4 30am.

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we trailor drop at all the argos depots so never thre for more than a few mins. :smiley:

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Good Read :smiley:

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Congratulations, Grundril … have you come down off your cloud yet? lol

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lol, Yep, just about :smiley: