Forklift drivers and warehouse operatives who think they are God.
They know that they hold the power to get you unloaded and use it.
Some are really nice , but the others, I hate them with a passion.
My pet hate about this industry and to be fair any other would be Health and Safety numpties. Not health and safety in and of itself but rather how people abuse “Heath and Safety” to either give themselves power or invent pointless rules and regulations just for the sake of giving themselves something to do.
“You can’t get out the lorry without a hard hat on, yeah I know nothing’s happening no machinery running or anything but the sky might fall on your head”
It makes a ■■■■ of this industry and every other.
The obsession on sites to use flashing lights- if the groundworkers and builders can’t see an 8w tipper then god knows what the houses will look like when finished. And why are flashing lights those gay little orange light bars and not proper rotating beacons?
Tipper drivers who worry about dusty cabs and dirty lorries. Wrong job my friend.
Wiretwister:
mike68:
Fellow drivers who don’t take pride in their work or themselves and will be heard to say things such as “that’ll do” or when referring to there employers “**** 'em” .Company managers who have no respect, or empathy, for their staff and when referring to those people default to “**** 'em”
Ok can I add ■■■■■■■ managers who think screaming and shouting is the way to get things done.
Curtain slashers or people nicking your diesel.
Forklift drivers who insist on approaching the pallet with the forks pointing downwards.
They firstly dig into the floor,ripping the timber, then the pallet almost unloads itself back into the truck.
…and the loaders who insist on side-shifting so much that the shrink-wrap glues itself together
and rips apart when off-loading.
…and the guy that will load from one side only,and promptly pushes the far pallet through
the far side curtain.
idiot back door staff who say yeah you easy get it round there, in scotland yesterday parked cars facing delivery so said wont swing it round them can you ask them to move i say, he says nowt to do with us hee hee, i say ok no problem im taking it back as am not wasting valueable drive time messin about as takes 4hrs 20 if lucky an i had already started my 2nd 4.5 as traffic, anyway realise your powers lads take it back, he got cars moved pronto just a driver eh take no shhitt, and the job will improve if you take it they will dish it
The fact our industry puts up with the thousands of hours trucks & their drivers spend sat idle in RDC’s every week.
change the system then rob, no other way its elf n safety you see, i was at an rdc last week and 1 box was torn on the pallet it took some goon an hour to get permission to accept it mmmmakes no sense to me either but i got sumthin nice with the hours pay but i did feel terrible guilty
Other drivers,they always seem more interested in what you’ve done[hours,jobs!how much you’ve earn last week) than talking about important things like football,women ,social life etc
My pet hate. Being given a postcode by the customer which doesn’t take you to the delivery point. Just make my life easy and give me your actual address, not a postcode for a town. You don’t half look a knob when you ask a local if they know where such and such company is with the postcode Mk whatever.
2 things i hate are drivers who moan about driving hgv2 when they are class 1,i personally do not give a ■■■■ as long as its a days work,and transport companies who have brand new lorries but with old number plates,for example say a company is called pete smith transport the number plate on a new lorry would read N342 PST,bit like saints transport in colnbrook,just because they have the last three digits with their initials,very sad
my pet hate:
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Security giving it large and talking to you like ■■■■!
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Turn up on time to see lorry on bay. I wait, but due to another driver in a rush he seems to be allowed to push in “Because he knows the guard”
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People flying of the handle when they say to you “Going to be a long wait drive, go and sit back in your lorry” I reply, No problem, how long do you think it will be , customer then cuts in and tells me “You will have to wait so go back to your vehicle” - Simple question, simple answer is all I needed, not a shirty reply!
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Trying to turn a lorry around a tight bend with another lorry being parked in a area signed “NO PARKING” then to be told by security "Don’t why you are finding it hard, we get arctic in here to which I reply "Really, that’s great, but I just want to point out. This is a rigid it is like moving a brick about without hitting anything. the bigger lorries BEND!
Don’t have a problem with security 
Forklift drivers telling me to put my hi-viz on.
Confuses the living daylights out of them when I ask them who they’re talking to.
“Eh?” I usually get
So I just reply with “Well it can be me, because you can’t see me”
Knobbers
Number plate names in the window screen! 
PaulNowak:
Forklift drivers telling me to put my hi-viz on.Confuses the living daylights out of them when I ask them who they’re talking to.
“Eh?” I usually get
So I just reply with “Well it can be me, because you can’t see me”
Knobbers
this comment did make me laugh,dont know why i never thought of it when i am told,very good reply
Agencies they think you work for them when in reality they work for you as your agent taking a percentage of your wages for getting you that work
chester:
Number plate names in the window screen!
Now you started something
Getting told by my assistant manager that i’m too nice on sites!
He said i need to be more of a “see you next tuesday”…
Im new to the industry but that is not the way you have to be with people! 
Standing at the ‘Goods-In’ window like the ‘Invisible Man’
I was waiting and waiting behind a queue of drivers the other day just to hand my keys in after eventually getting on a bay, but we’re all being ignored. Only 1 pallet to tip so it didn’t take too long. The next thing some big mouthed fat git comes out and shouts out the bay I was on, hands over my notes to me and then starts getting smart, laying the rules down on how I’m supposed to hand my keys in when he realises I still have them in my hands… Well what do you think I was trying to do and if I wasn’t being ignored when somebody did make a brief appearance in the office I would have. What an a***hole !!! 