I used to deliver to that site when it was Nacanco, (before the services was built…), and wouldn’t have run to Chester for a night out let alone a coffee. Before trackers and mobiles.
I just can’t imagine ringing in with a blowout or breakdown off route…
But then again I have always lived in areas where work is tight, not in the beautiful North…
eagerbeaver:
I will then be driving at a safe, legal speed EVERYWHERE I go next week and drive at a speed appropriate to the road conditions.
You should be doing that anyway, not just when you’re about to get sacked. Again.
Course if I was prone to really lubing up, whilst dothing my cap and assuming the submissive position (showing a bit of tummy), I could say something along the lines of:
“Sorry guv, it’s an honest mistake, from now on I’ll be a model employee, here’s £20 for fuel etc, can I have me old truck back, it will never happen again and stuff”.
I’m now just about to ring my planner and inform him that I have arrived on site 1 hour early (even after a cheeky ■■■ at gloucester services, had to go I was crowning and in stage 5 of the ■■■ window).
Also loading time will be about 2 hours but will ring if it’s going to be longer or when I’m departing.
I’m such a good boy.
Surprising how easy my job is when everyone is kept informed and we work together in harmony demonstrating a proactive / can do attitude etc., won’t tell em about the ■■■ though.
Hmm reading this back one could say I’m brainwashed by the corporate BS.
Oh well don’t bite the hand that feeds you, a little nibble from time to time is acceptable.
Are we at 10 proper pages yet, I’m on tapawank today and showing 21.
eagerbeaver:
Joe Royal- they won’t be ringing me mate until 09.28. That’s when I will be turning my phone back on (as I walk into the office)Stevieboy-that is the route I took, well done; award yourself a badge. What I find funny is that worms are often stuck on hooks as bait.
The people who get upset generally ARE the worms, the folk who quite like their job and need to pay bills (as we all do ), take no notice and get on with it…so Stevie from here on in you shall be known as Stevieworm on here
There are plenty of you today who will have the ■■■■ taken out of you by the planners…that’s because you are weak and feeble worms who will get bollocked by your overweight Mrs if you come home without a job
" The truth shall set you free "
You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better, we all know the reality is you are a moron who will soon be out of a job and back home to your missus who is most likely shotgunning Greggs pasties as I type.
BTW did you behave like this whilst in the military or is that more of your fantasy life.
Hey EB, does this mean you will be removed from that video thingy you was in. ?
albion:
At our place, you’d just ring using the works phone and say, is it ok if I just run a couple of miles out and the answer would be yes. It’s only reasonable to tell someone what you are doing. And if you didn’t, then as we are old school, it would be the almost passing comment along the lines of ‘let us know, would you?’.Conversation over.However, the whole running out to Chester services, I don’t get. I live just up the road from Ineos and some weekends walk the mutts round Aston and loop back through the industrial estate passing Downton’s, so I do know the area. Chester services is out of your way compared to going back to base.
forget who said it now in the 7!
pages, but if drivers do daft things, then it becomes an excuse of putting trackers on.
We started using trackers really early on in the mid 90s as we carry high value kit. Company selling them came and installed it into one vehicle and we told the drivers we were trialling it in that vehicle. Vehicle coming back from south west side of Paris into Calais and then all of a sudden a veer across into Belgium. To get ■■■■.
We are relaxed as a company, but that was really taking the p.
Calais to Veurne about 50mins drive plus 10 mins off route to get ■■■■ and back to Calais equals two hours driving. How much in diesel? I would have taken £100 out of his wages for the diesel, teach him a lesson.Its because of waster’s such as EB that we have trackers and all the stupid rules. And its the same waster’s who do the complaining.
peter s:
Calais to Veurne about 50mins drive plus 10 mins off route to get ■■■■ and back to Calais equals two hours driving. How much in diesel? I would have taken £100 out of his wages for the diesel, teach him a lesson.Its because of waster’s such as EB that we have trackers and all the stupid rules. And its the same waster’s who do the complaining.
I keep saying most of our drivers stay for years. That’s most, this guy wasn’t a most 
Its now 11:20am, is EB back on agency yet?
Radar19:
Its now 11:20am, is EB back on agency yet?
He’s busy filling in all those forms, takes a while to write down all those previous employers 
He maybe can’t update us if he’s left his phones at home again?
albion:
peter s:
Calais to Veurne about 50mins drive plus 10 mins off route to get ■■■■ and back to Calais equals two hours driving. How much in diesel? I would have taken £100 out of his wages for the diesel, teach him a lesson.Its because of waster’s such as EB that we have trackers and all the stupid rules. And its the same waster’s who do the complaining.I keep saying most of our drivers stay for years. That’s most, this guy wasn’t a most
On a side note on trackers. I recently took ill while on the road, I’m a euro tramper. Haven’t been off sick in over 20 years. It was sudden, managed to get pulled over. I new I was in trouble so rang 999. Didn’t know where I was so told them the name of the company as we’re tracked. the ambulance was able to find me thank to the tracker. Still off work 4 weeks later but at my age I’ll be making sure I only take a trailer with a tracker.
happysack:
He maybe can’t update us if he’s left his phones at home again?
lol
peter s:
albion:
peter s:
Calais to Veurne about 50mins drive plus 10 mins off route to get ■■■■ and back to Calais equals two hours driving. How much in diesel? I would have taken £100 out of his wages for the diesel, teach him a lesson.Its because of waster’s such as EB that we have trackers and all the stupid rules. And its the same waster’s who do the complaining.I keep saying most of our drivers stay for years. That’s most, this guy wasn’t a most
On a side note on trackers. I recently took ill while on the road, I’m a euro tramper. Haven’t been off sick in over 20 years. It was sudden, managed to get pulled over. I new I was in trouble so rang 999. Didn’t know where I was so told them the name of the company as we’re tracked. the ambulance was able to find me thank to the tracker. Still off work 4 weeks later but at my age I’ll be making sure I only take a trailer with a tracker.
So they do have their uses! We carry such ‘interesting’ stuff, that it’s not only about the safety of the load, it’s about the safety of the drivers as well. If were to see them going completely off track, then I’d be concerned straightaway.
Hope you recover soon.
peter s:
On a side note on trackers. I recently took ill while on the road, I’m a euro tramper. Haven’t been off sick in over 20 years. It was sudden, managed to get pulled over. I new I was in trouble so rang 999. Didn’t know where I was so told them the name of the company as we’re tracked. the ambulance was able to find me thank to the tracker. Still off work 4 weeks later but at my age I’ll be making sure I only take a trailer with a tracker.
A good example of an ‘In every negative there can be a positive’ scenario, hope you are ok bud.
However, it is like driver facing cameras, none of us believe for one second (despite the bosses best efforts to positive spin/con us, that they, and trackers, are put there for the benefit of the drivers) …but for every 10 drivers who are implicated in a collision for being recorded prior eating a mars bar, sipping his coffee, scratching his arse, or the main one…yawning, (the one they will jump on as fatigue while driving 
) there is one (ok maybe more) that can prove he was looking straight ahead bolt upright…so vindicated.
peter s:
Radar19:
Its now 11:20am, is EB back on agency yet?He’s busy filling in all those forms, takes a while to write down all those previous employers
Why will he? he has said many times he’s not a driver who has to work to pay the mortgage and most pay 1 week out of 4 so he should be ok for a while
Well,well an interesting morning folks! It turns out that more worms have taken the bait than first envisaged
It seems that Downton’s couldn’t wait to tell me that they know all about this thread!!
eagerbeaver:
Well,well an interesting morning folks! It turns out that more worms have taken the bait than first envisagedIt seems that Downton’s couldn’t wait to tell me that they know all about this thread!!
Someone on here will have taken great pleasure in telling them, the sort of driver we all have to endure in every company.
So what’s the verdict then?
Yep, I was hoping to be proven wrong Rob…but you are sadly right. It appears this industry is riddled with cloak and dagger mate.
(pretty boring really!)
So the bottom line is that I will no longer be working for Downton’s (as expected last week and planned for), and will commence with my new employer next week mate
eagerbeaver:
Yep, I was hoping to be proven wrong Rob…but you are sadly right. It appears this industry is riddled with cloak and dagger mate.
(pretty boring really!)So the bottom line is that I will no longer be working for Downton’s (as expected last week and planned for), and will commence with my new employer next week mate
Whod the new employer beaver or are you not goin to say incase the sumbag drivers stuck it in for you in the next adventure.
All good things come to those who wait Brother Colin…
