Just arrived on site to pick up my load. The place has very tight security and they’re very keen on health and safety. I get out my cab and walk over to the security hatch wearing a black jacket. The bloated, jobsworth security ape inside asks me if I’ve got a high-vis. “Yes” I reply. “Where is it?” he asks. Bit of stupid question but I politely answered “it’s in my cab”. “Okay” says the gorilla.
So I climb back into my vehicle and wait for him to lift the barrier. Nothing happens. I look over towards the primate and he’s signalling for me to put my high-vis on before he’ll lift the barrier. At this point I had a decision to make. Do I obey King Kong’s orders and put my jacket on like a good little boy or do I get back out and explain to him that I don’t wear a high-vis while driving because - A: all I can see is my reflection in the windscreen and B: I’ll look like a ■■■.
I chose to swallow my pride and do what the silverback wanted. Fair enough, he’s the big man on site and has the awesome power to lift and raise the barrier at the entrance whenever he wants to, I like coming here so I didn’t want to rock the boat and get banned.
I park up next to all the other wagons waiting and was about to tuck into my sarnies when I see another driver arrive at the gate. He gets out wearing all black like some kind of ninja burglar. This will be interesting I thought. The driver starts walking back to his vehicle, and the gate lifts up before he’s even inside and he drives in without his high-vis. Then another wagon turns up and the same happens again. This made me a little angry and I was thinking about going back and asking the knuckle dragger what his game is. I’m not afraid of confronting this chimp but I am afraid of getting banned from the site because I dared to question his almighty authority.
This kind of thing wouldn’t normally bother me but I’ve got a cold and a sore throat and I can’t enjoy a nice cigarette so I’m a little irritable this evening.
What would you do? I really don’t want to get banned but it’s wound me up and I can’t settle. I’m constantly looking at the other drivers coming in to see if they’re wearing their high-vis like some curtain twitching nosy old lady and it’s ruining my night.
On the way out, take off your hiviz and sneak up and tie his shoe laces together 
mate let it go over your head, blokes most proberbly let the others through without a hitch so he can crack one off after being so authoritve with you.
more than likely tells his mates down the pub his claim to fame was he knocked back a driver whos on eddie stobarts trucks and trailers for not wearing his hi viz, meanwhile his wifes at home in a drunken vodka stupor contemplating either murder or suicide!..
Cheers. I managed to get some nicotine rich smoke past my throat and into my lungs so I’ve calmed down a bit now.
Wheelnut, I would sneak in and tie his shoelaces together but he seems like the kind of bloke who avoids footwear so he can hold a banana with his foot and peel it with both hands.
Next time I come here, I’m going to refuse to wear my high-vis when driving on site on the grounds of health and safety because I can’t see past my reflection and see how far he takes it.
just pay him a compliment before he says anything, that will totally throw him!.. 
The way i see it,Just do your job and show the bloke some respect. If he s got rules so what. We all have to make a living. Rules are usually set in place by someone who has never stepped foot on a shop floor so in my opinion make for an easy life and do what they say. You will usually get tipped quicker in the long run.
mr lordi:
The way i see it,Just do your job and show the bloke some respect. If he s got rules so what. We all have to make a living. Rules are usually set in place by someone who has never stepped foot on a shop floor so in my opinion make for an easy life and do what they say. You will usually get tipped quicker in the long run.
What happened to earning respect or at least being polite, most of these jumped up gate men are just obnoxious prats, yes some drivers can be too, but they are not going past the precious barrier because they want to.
Some of them are great, they ask you what you are carrying or where you have come from and give you a bay or tell you to park somewhere and grab a coffee.
The others just want to make life as difficult as possible and seem to take great pleasure from it.
mr lordi:
The way i see it,Just do your job and show the bloke some respect. If he s got rules so what. We all have to make a living. Rules are usually set in place by someone who has never stepped foot on a shop floor so in my opinion make for an easy life and do what they say. You will usually get tipped quicker in the long run.
You didn’t read my post. The ape made me put a high-vis on to drive into the site. Five minutes later he let two other drivers drive in with no high-vis. What kind of rule is that? The guy was just being a ■■■■, probably because I’m much younger and better looking than him. I find it very hard to respect someone that looks and acts like they escaped from the zoo.
Yea, the Uk is full of Jobsworth’s, next time, turn up with just a high Viz on and nothing else 
JLS Driver SOS:
Yea, the Uk is full of Jobsworth’s, next time, turn up with just a high Viz on and nothing else
You would have to have steelies with that sir!
Wheel Nut:
mr lordi:
The way i see it,Just do your job and show the bloke some respect. If he s got rules so what. We all have to make a living. Rules are usually set in place by someone who has never stepped foot on a shop floor so in my opinion make for an easy life and do what they say. You will usually get tipped quicker in the long run.What happened to earning respect or at least being polite, most of these jumped up gate men are just obnoxious prats, yes some drivers can be too, but they are not going past the precious barrier because they want to.
Some of them are great, they ask you what you are carrying or where you have come from and give you a bay or tell you to park somewhere and grab a coffee.
The others just want to make life as difficult as possible and seem to take great pleasure from it.
Agree with all that Malc.
In my younger days I would have had a full scale argument with him about it which most likely would’ve resulted in a call to my office to ban me from site for daring to challenge them. These days I can’t be arsed with the hassle and for the most part enjoy the quiet life when driving so I’d have just put it on, mumbled some abuse to myself and just got on with it. Saying that, the BIG-I-AM wench on the gate at Kuehne & Nagel at Foston the other week really wound me up when she ordered me to put me hi-viz on whilst I sat in the cab booking in. I was this >.< close to having an argument with her about her attitude and the way she was speaking to me but after pausing for a few seconds and giving her the ‘Rob K is seriously unimpressed’ stare, I managed to keep my mouth shut and do as ordered. 
I just thought about her sad life in her little hut on minimum wage doing a job she probably hates whilst I am doing a job I enjoy and am likely earning just about double what she is, so yeah have your little power trip moment if it makes you feel good for a while. 
know one who started and pulled off.
After Accident Form was done for running over the Barrier drove he too close to Intercom post,turned too early and post with intercom fell,which gave another accident rapport.
but now its working quiet well since
It’s worst your stoped at the gate to be told you need your steelies on and hi viz and a hard hat before you enter you pull up to loading bay and fork lift driver speeds out with no high viz and Reebok classics
Well they are Reebok classics after all, cool over H&S
Wheel Nut:
JLS Driver SOS:
Yea, the Uk is full of Jobsworth’s, next time, turn up with just a high Viz on and nothing elseYou would have to have steelies with that sir!
Only if you’ve got a 12 inch to boast about as it’s one per foot okay I will get my coat
[What happened to earning respect or at least being polite, most of these jumped up gate men are just obnoxious prats, yes some drivers can be too, but they are not going past the precious barrier because they want to.
Some of them are great, they ask you what you are carrying or where you have come from and give you a bay or tell you to park somewhere and grab a coffee.
The others just want to make life as difficult as possible and seem to take great pleasure from it.
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so true
Rob K:
I just thought about her sad life in her little hut on minimum wage doing a job she probably hates whilst I am doing a job I enjoy and am likely earning just about double what she is, so yeah have your little power trip moment if it makes you feel good for a while.
My thoughts, and no matter how hard they try to be obnoxious, if you continue to be pleasant and courteous back it confuses/annoys them even more than anything 
Like when i go into the Superquinn RDC in Dublin,im there twice a month,same gaffer on gate,wearing my hi viz,and in huge writing on my truck is company name, and he asks,name of company and have i got a hi viz,even though a blind man couldnt miss both right in front of him,also ask about steel toe boots,he says how do i know they are steel toe boots,i say come out here and stand on them so,he doesnt want to walk that far, and i just kick his hut quite hard to show im not sore on impact due to the safety of my steel toed boots,the first time i went there he asked,do you know where to go i said,no first time here,and he cracks up as if i got a crystal ball along with the paper work,eventually explains where to go,i thank him and he roars after me5mph speed limit on site,and out roars one of their own wagons,reving flat out and throwing it gears like Lewis Hamilton on his last lap,and waves and smiles to the driver.