What hugely uneconomical things have you been sent to do this week? Not cockups but stuff that just doesn’t make sense.
I went from Chelmsford - Poole - Tiptree with 30x fence panels on my 8 wheeler.
Not exactly pointless for us as we’d been hired to do it. (By a company with a 7.5t) 
I was sent 114 miles with a 44 ton artic to a store with 1 cage on it!
A fat bloke went to Exeter for nothing! 
bigvern1:
A bloke went to Exeter for nothing!
You don’t know that yet do you?
Not this week, but a week last Monday it went like this:
Halifax to Blaenau FFestiniog with 26t, so far so good.
Then empty to Holmfirth to collect for the Olympics.
Parked up at Alconbury that night, (650 kms later.) then the following morning the load was refused, so took it to St.Ives in Cambridgeshire. Then empty to Coventry to collect for Bury the following day, then it started to go ok.
But the empty mileage was ridiculous.
Ken.
couldnt they just buy the fence panels from b&q
i took one pallet off gas from manchester to bellshill 44 ton artic yet we have rigids couple off yrs ago though still work for same company
Picked up a roll of led about the size of a coke can in a 18t put it in my cab then it got wrapped to a pallet when I got back to warehouse … (the label was bigger than the goods lol)
I am here: maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.620871,-1.284754
20mile trip out of my way for a box of £5 screws , apparently I was passing that way, I kid you not …I rang to double check that a mistake had not been made but was told the customer was desperate and spends a lot of money, there was a hardware store 3 miles away …
jessicas dad:
couldnt they just buy the fence panels from b&q
They were solid metal site hoarding panels that the already owned. However if they’d sold them down there and not spent nearly £600 bringing them back to a storage yard they would be a good way towards some in decent condition and not fit for scrap.
mucker85:
bigvern1:
A bloke went to Exeter for nothing!You don’t know that yet do you?
Not the interview chap…The agency screwing me over earlier in the week.
Yesterday from wakey to notts (normal part of run), then to Oakham with a 450 x 600mm radiator (stock order) then to Hinckley with a gas fire that Notts/West mids branches could supply. I reckoned 26 litres of fuel for those 2 drops to make less than a tenner. Then this morning I got told off for leaving truck idling for 5 minutes 
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I was sent from Bristol to Ebbw Vale in a double deck trailer to collect one sack of post
Chelmsford - Northampton - Wisbech last week…empty 
Steed007:
I was sent 114 miles with a 44 ton artic to a store with 1 cage on it!
And then you probably started crying in the office because you are overworked and tired and feared for the safety of
all around you.
happysack:
Steed007:
I was sent 114 miles with a 44 ton artic to a store with 1 cage on it!
And then you probably started crying in the office because you are overworked and tired and feared for the safety of
all around you. And the waste of fuel that could safeguard 1000’s of jobs.
Fixed that for you! 
When working for MRS got sent from east Kilbride to Winchester with one pallet of flat chocolate cartons in an artic
I am here: tapatalk.com/map.php?ctatlx
It’s not theirs anymore,
This is our England now.
Paaaaarrrrrrttttttttyyyyyyyy
Can’t remember which was which now but one was my 2nd drop and the other was my 3rd drop and I was driving an artic .
bigvern1:
happysack:
Steed007:
I was sent 114 miles with a 44 ton artic to a store with 1 cage on it!And then you probably started crying in the office because you are overworked and tired and feared for the safety of
all around you. And the waste of fuel that could safeguard 1000’s of jobs.Fixed that for you!
I don’t think steed would be too concerned about that
Not so much a pointless load more of a pointless journey caused by H&S ■■■■■■■■.
A few weeks ago I was sent to a site about 40 miles from depot and all I was there to do was stick the hiab up in the air over a cabin so our fitter had somewhere to attatch a safety line while he done a repair. He did’nt even need to go on the roof.
