newmercman:
I have a story about running legal that I find quite amusing, we got a new transport manager who insisted we could do the job legally and he wanted legal tachos off of us or else we were out the door, he and I had already clashed after I defected my lorry for a dodgy tyre before Xmas and found the same tyre on it when I returned to work in the new year. He told me to take a UK shunter to load my trailer at Perkins Engines in Peterborough, it was a 280 MAN that had no high split on the 13spd Fuller and I turned around and brought it back to the yard and told him I wasn’t going to Peterborough in it. I had a very nice, nearly new left ■■■■■■ 142, so I wasn’t happy about taking the old dog of a shunter out in the first place, but the lack of a splitter made my already bad mood worse. He got in my face and told me to take the MAN or I was finished and started giving it the big un in front of the boss man who went mad and told the TM to behave and get my lorry sorted Pronto or he would be the one that was finished, after that I was on his hit list.So the running legal thing started, so we all did it as requested, as also requested we phoned in in the middle of the day each day, except when we shipped into Calais late Sunday night, we carried on until we had done a 9hr day, rather than park up and leave in the morning, so the middle of the day was now 3am, so that’s when we phoned in. Of course the office was closed then, so we phoned the TM at home, there were three of us running together, so the first one called at 3am and when the phone was answered by the half asleep TM my mate told him where he was and that everything was going ok and that was that, theTM didn’t quite know what to say and put the phone down, so we gave it 15mins or so, just enough time for him to nod off again and the next one called, this time the TM wasn’t happy and asked my mate WTF was going on, so he told him that as we were running legal now we had to run nights in order to get to Italy for clearance Tuesday morning and we would be sleeping while tge office was open. He was not amused. This time we gave it a good half an hour before I called in, just to make sure he would be back asleep and my call would wake him up again, he was screaming blue murder down the phone at me!
Next night we done the same, he asked the first one to call if we were still running together and if we were then one call would be enough, obviously he was told that no, we had split up, so he sighed and put the phone down 15mins later the next one called in and he answered on the first ring,trying to beat us at our little game, so I never bothered phoning in, imagining him sat up waiting by the phone all night for my call. On the Tuesday after clearing and tipping we had to ring in for our reloads and we had all split up by then, so when I called and asked the office girl to put me through to theTM she put me through to the boss man himself who told me to behave and stop tormenting the TM, I said I was only doing what he told me to do and he just laughed and told me to ignore him, it was his firm and he made the rules and we were to carry on as we had done before. I don’t think I ever had a conversation with the TM again until he left some time later, he hated my guts lol
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Don’t you just love those that have no idea what is entailed in your work, yet still insist on telling how to do what you are doing, and insist the way you’re doing it is wrong 
