Taken from Pollock:
Copy of an email we received this morning - nice start to the week
Last night (sunday) at around 5 pm i was driving back home to south wales after a weekend away in manchester , i was driving along the a449 when the tyre on my car burst , there wasnt a layby anywhere near so i had to park on the side of the dual carriageway with half the car still in the road , it was dark and cars and trucks continued to go past at speed , i quickly tried to contact my parents to see if they had breakdown cover, i was unable to contact either of them , after 10 minutes of cars and trucks flying past and not slowing one of your pollock trucks saw what was happening and the driver quickly parked directly behind me to protect us from the traffic , i had my 4 year old niece with me who was very scared and crying , the driver made sure i was alright and told me to stay in the car and keep warm while he changed the tyre. the boot was full of luggage but he unpacked it and had the wheel changed in less than ten minutes, he packed all the stuff away and then went to his cab and came back with a toy monkey which was in his windscreen, this made me niece instantly smile and the crying stopped. I can not tell you how grateful i am to the driver , not a single other person gave me the time of day let alone stop and help, he truely was a gentleman and if more people were as curtious as he was then the roads would have a lot less accidents . he never did tell me his name but his number plate was xxxxxxx .
Good to see there’s still some good uns out there. I once changed a wheel for a rather fit looking female on an industrial site in Swansea once and she gave me some chocolate in return.
Nice to see this post…it shows there are people that care…the truck driving community was like that yrs ago when i started out…a lot wouldnt stop now just pip at you and get the ■■■■■■■ sighn.
i would stop if there was time with slowing safely and stopping safely. I would hate that to be me stuck in the car with kids. Or even for the fact being the little kiddie siitting there. Good on the driver. Pulled out all the stops to make a little family safe.
Well done Mr. Driver; he does deserve a recognition of some sort.
One of the reason why so few drivers stop to help these days, personal safety apart, is, imho, driving on limiter, day or night, fog or bright. So you can see flashing amber from miles away but by the time you are close enough to recognize what’s going on there’s no time and room to stop (safely).
Well done to the driver. I know of some companies who, on receipt of an email like that, would have stopped the time out of the driver’s wages!
It always amazes me that women, who are most vulnerable in these situations, never bother to find out how to change a tyre.
When I first met the lady who is now my wife she was driving long distances every week.
I bought her proper tools: decent socket, and a long breaker bar; and showed her how to change a wheel. Then I made her do it so I could be sure that she could.
a company i worked for (public service buses) would probably dock your wages, discipline you for doing something not within your duties, and then sack you becuase you aren’t a certified fitter and have no authority to change a wheel.
stuartrobbie:
a company i worked for ( Govt roads agency) would probably dock your wages, discipline you for doing something not within your duties, and then sack you becuase you aren’t a certified fitter and have no authority to change a wheel.
Efa where I worked
But it was a passing recovery driver who reported us for assisting a woman in heavy rain with 2 toddlers under 30 months old with her.
Cheggy:
I would have been sacked for putting the truck in jeopardy and wasting company hours… Sad but true
I remember the case of a driver who was sacked after a lady motorist wrote a letter of thanks to his employer, Bevitts of Willenhall, (anybody remember the white & red Bedfords ?) for the same thing!!" sad but true" it made the national press at the time,what happened to Brevitts?
You know the police are advised not to help change a wheel on a car it’s only because there worried they might get sued if they have a crash after fitting it
shytalk:
This driver did what he thought best…these that say my gaffer would sack me …id say grow a pair mate it could be his kids or parents next time.
No bull, I WOULD get sacked, so if I “grew a pair” then who’s going to feed my kids?
Don’t diss me because of the shortcomings of my employer mate.
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