Do you get the feeling that at times you are just ■■■■■■■ in the wind?
I am sent my days work by my road foreman (lol) by text message the night before.
The time I start depends on where I am going and the loads I am expected to do.
I get in, do my daily checks, fuel up at the local services and head to my first loading point.
Always early!
If not I am last in the queue of about 11 tippers.
Constantly getting the knife in the back. Being accused of getting everyone more work as I’m doing my work in reasonable time.
Yet, so called work colleagues who accuse me of it, arrive later and drive like absolute idiots.
My job…
Start early Back early. You get another run.
Start later. Get back late. You still get another run
Why hang it out if you’re going to get shafted anyway?
I drive and have my breaks within the law.
Where’s the problem?
continue as you are driver and if your so called colleagues dont like it then they can lump it
You’ll never win in the tipper job. If your early they say your not right in the head. If your late they say you can’t get up in a morning. There not happy unless there moaning. Please yourself that’s the best way. Balls to them !!
You go to work to get paid not to deal with children. ■■■■ em. They’ll grow up one day.
Steve66:
Do you get the feeling that at times you are just ■■■■■■■ in the wind?
I am sent my days work by my road foreman (lol) by text message the night before.
The time I start depends on where I am going and the loads I am expected to do.
I get in, do my daily checks, fuel up at the local services and head to my first loading point.
Always early!
If not I am last in the queue of about 11 tippers.
Constantly getting the knife in the back. Being accused of getting everyone more work as I’m doing my work in reasonable time.
Yet, so called work colleagues who accuse me of it, arrive later and drive like absolute idiots.
My job…
Start early Back early. You get another run.
Start later. Get back late. You still get another run
Why hang it out if you’re going to get shafted anyway?
I drive and have my breaks within the law.
Where’s the problem?
I know the feeling when I do drops in a lorry and get told by other drivers to refuse to do it and take the pallet back. Nope not me I crack on and get it done lol
This applies to thousands of drivers, if you paid some of 'em a grand a week t lie in bed they’d still winge moan about it.
Part of the reason i go in get me paperwork and bugger off, cant be doing listening to their daily depression.
Steve66 aint lying, the same happened when I was there. They want no brainers there because they can’t see the ticket fiddles, hours rules etc.
The classic bit of pettyness was to block my wagon in because I got there first. The “road foreman” (who clearly thinks he’s Red from Helldrivers) likes everyone to follow him-no lie he had a sulk because I’d left the site in Taplow the last of 4 wagons, I got to the tip doing the speed limits and was tipped and going through the wheelwash when Maid Marion and her merry men arrived.
Early bird catches the worm, we had lads who moaned about not getting the work but wouldn’t start until 7 am when the roads were aired! Get up early and crack on with it, unless of course you already know in advance what you were doing for the day in which case you can plan it out and start when it suits you, we worked from load to load and hadn’t a clue where we were going next when we returned to the quarry.
Pete.
Steve66, cheer yourself up with thoughts of her…bucket of wallpaper paste. 
Muckaway:
Steve66, cheer yourself up with thoughts of her…bucket of wallpaper paste.
Thanks for that 
windrush:
Early bird catches the worm, we had lads who moaned about not getting the work but wouldn’t start until 7 am when the roads were aired! Get up early and crack on with it, unless of course you already know in advance what you were doing for the day in which case you can plan it out and start when it suits you, we worked from load to load and hadn’t a clue where we were going next when we returned to the quarry.Pete.
Boss Hogg always knew where everybody was going next Pete, he’d be looking out that weighbridge window with 3 or 4 drivers waiting and saying "I thought Peter Sullivan would be back by now, I’ve got a load of tarmac to Edgbaston for him & before you could blink Sully was there, the other drivers would all get a load of stone to Derby, I bet we get some smart comment back from you about Happy Days though Rob.
Get a friend to stand by the road with a reflective jacket on and holding a domestic hair dryer at them. Give them something else to freak themselves out for the day… 
No point in rushing your nuts off and risking losing your license to fill somebody else’s pockets… The guys I worked with on tippers years ago, couldn’t get their heads around that concept…
1970commer:
Boss Hogg always knew where everybody was going next Pete, he’d be looking out that weighbridge window with 3 or 4 drivers waiting and saying "I thought Peter Sullivan would be back by now, I’ve got a load of tarmac to Edgbaston for him & before you could blink Sully was there, the other drivers would all get a load of stone to Derby, I bet we get some smart comment back from you about Happy Days though Rob.
Smart comment from me Rob, NEVER! 
You know that I’m right though, some moaned and winged about others getting better work but couldn’t be arsed to get out of bed to do it if they were offered it. One OD couldn’t go up Longcliffe dale as “I get vertigo on hills Tom, give me a Warwick instead of that Oldham”" (not joking either 
) and some only travelled North when running back empty from Leamington Spa etc as Buxton was where their map book ran out of roads going North and they got homesick if they lost sight of Nestles chimney. If you did as you were asked there was no problem and you made good money as well. However if you did something wrong then you might as well have stopped at home, life wouldn’t be worth living for a week! Right again aren’t I lad? 
Your spot on about Sully though, you would be sat waiting for a load and his was already in the bin ready for him even though he was still ten miles down the road haha.
Pete.
You wouldn’t want to work where I do then, biggest load of whinging ole women ever
raymundo:
You wouldn’t want to work where I do then, biggest load of whinging ole women ever
Are you sure we don’t work for the same firm then
let em get on with it as long as your staying within the speed limits etc that’s there hardship
If planned right you didn’t need to rush about.
Have a fight in the pub like in the film “hell drivers”
mike68:
Have a fight in the pub like in the film “hell drivers”
They’re aren’t many left to choose from.
I dunno wether some folks just can’t think of anything interesting to talk to you about so just resort to the good old moan.
I left a job once as I couldn’t stand listening to my underlings whinging like a bunch of women.