How do you like your steak drive. 
Do you want some ■■■?
this actually happened at a regular drop of mine. Nice lady too, unfortunately for me she actually said "do you want some eggs?
I backed mine in to the warehouse where it lives at night this afternoon on our early finish and one of our engineers (who are usually home when we finish) shouted" I bet you couldn’t do that in one go again" I told him I do it every night I am back he looked shocked 
My first drop was “we weren’t expecting a delivery”
hello driver,would you like a coffee and then have a shower while we fill your trailer with 2 pallets of lettuce,22 pallets of ciggies,and another 2 of lettuce on the back door so that you cant see them ?.. 
Drift:
I backed mine in to the warehouse where it lives at night this afternoon on our early finish and one of our engineers (who are usually home when we finish) shouted" I bet you couldn’t do that in one go again" I told him I do it every night I am back he looked shocked
It’s easier when it doesn’t bend though 
m1cks:
Drift:
I backed mine in to the warehouse where it lives at night this afternoon on our early finish and one of our engineers (who are usually home when we finish) shouted" I bet you couldn’t do that in one go again" I told him I do it every night I am back he looked shockedIt’s easier when it doesn’t bend though
I’ll disagree there, it’s sometimes easier when it does bend
Dipper_Dave:
I have been known to deliberatley make a right meal of bay manouveres (wrong bay, doors closed, 10 shunts, cab facing the loading ramp etc) so other drivers think i’m agency…
No disrespect mate but agency drivers are better drivers than you think, we drive anything anywhere anytime, they get the bad name because when they go into a new place they don’t know how thinks are done, but the chaps who do that run was ace first time he did that run, really 
We choose to be self employed because we earn more than working for a company that treats you like crap and pays 9.00ph. I understand people like job security 
but we are not all plant pots and bad drivers that work self employed.
sweeper1gg:
Dipper_Dave:
I have been known to deliberatley make a right meal of bay manouveres (wrong bay, doors closed, 10 shunts, cab facing the loading ramp etc) so other drivers think i’m agency…No disrespect mate but agency drivers are better drivers than you think, we drive anything anywhere anytime, they get the bad name because when they go into a new place they don’t know how thinks are done, but the chaps who do that run was ace first time he did that run, really
I agree with you on that one pal,but there is 2 type of agency drivers ,the ones like yourself and the others who are on the agency because they are unemployable and nobody will touch them with a bargepole and give the rest a bad name,companys have to use them because its them or nobody,they have no respect for anything and take the ■■■■ 
seth 70:
sweeper1gg:
Dipper_Dave:
I have been known to deliberatley make a right meal of bay manouveres (wrong bay, doors closed, 10 shunts, cab facing the loading ramp etc) so other drivers think i’m agency…No disrespect mate but agency drivers are better drivers than you think, we drive anything anywhere anytime, they get the bad name because when they go into a new place they don’t know how thinks are done, but the chaps who do that run was ace first time he did that run, really
I agree with you on that one pal,but there is 2 type of agency drivers ,the ones like yourself and the others who are on the agency because they are unemployable and nobody will touch them with a bargepole and give the rest a bad name,companys have to use them because its them or nobody,they have no respect for anything and take the ■■■■
I agree with you there, because i know a couple that just drag a 2hr job into a 4-5 hr job to push up the wage bill, then wonder why they have no work the next week.
One or two of the best drivers we have had were agency bods. But every single one of the tools who routinely break stuff (without telling anyone), fail to arrive (without telling anyone), verbally abuse clients, cause injury to customers’ staff and basically refuse point blank to do the job have been agency…
One came to our place who was given a merc ,he refused to drive it because there was a volvo in the yard ,in the end they gave him the volvo because the trailer needed to go asap,the volvo was a motor that was a regular drivers with all his gear in and it came back in a shocking state,the gaffer just shrugged his shoulders and said what can u do 
Err… tell the pretentious prick to do one. If someone really refuses to drive a truck because of its marque, they should be shot on sight.
F-reds:
Err… tell the pretentious prick to do one. If someone really refuses to drive a truck because of its marque, they should be shot on sight.
Unless its a Renault Premium 
F-reds:
Err… tell the pretentious prick to do one. If someone really refuses to drive a truck because of its marque, they should be shot on sight.
It was him or nobody 
“I hope you’re not in a hurry!”
Whips out the PJ’s, climbs into bunk.
One thing I used to love hearing at a drop was those comments like ‘You’re late’, ‘We aren’t expecting you’, ‘We are on lunch you have to wait an hour’ or ‘There is a queue in front of you of x amount of wagons’.
My reply was always:
‘Ok, sign the paperwork with that excuse and I will trouble you no more.’
9/10 I was tipped within half an hour.
One of my favourites is:
“Not sure how your going to get that in there”.
This usually means a challenge as is followed by me saying: “well it wont be for lack of trying might need to put the kettle on and leave me to it for a while”.
Course when it all goes pear shaped someone usually turns up and says “weve had bigger than that in here drive”.
Who is Mr Biggerthanthat, this elite driver of the biggest truck that can get in anywhere and always seems to have done the delivery just before me. ■■
I laugh when I see “first job please” highlighted on the delivery note and you get there nice and early and they tell me that they where not expecting the flt until the afternoon or if I am picking one up they do not release the flt as they need it the rest of the day
Clunk:
One thing I used to love hearing at a drop was those comments like ‘You’re late’,
I love it when they say that. Like they think it’s all your fault. YOU caused that multiple pile-up on the motorway. You’ve been asleep on the services for 3 hours. You drove over that pice of metal and got a puncture on purpose coz you love sitting on the hard shoulder for hours and hours risking your life.
Knobheads 