Last night i was queuing to get derv in my car at the local tesco’s petrol station. on turning off the main road into the forecourt every pump had at least 5 cars waiting so you can imagine the lines of queues. Anyway, me being a creature of habit decided to use my usual pump on the far left, so joined the queue. 2 cars fuelled up and we moved up as you do. moving forward in the queue slowly awaiting my turn on the pump, i drove over the yellow hatched area where the tankers unload which says no parking, no problem i thinks, im not parking i’m queueing So sitting there waiting for matey filling his car so the two in front of me can move up…you get the picture? Guess who turns up■■? THE TANKER DRIVER!!!
I see headlights in my mirrors and think i saw a headlight flash, then me thinks, nah. Anyway said tanker driver starts to flash his headlights over and over and over again. So i turned my car off got out went to his cab and asked, “WHAT!” He then starts, you need to move thats where i tip, it says on the floor no parking! to which i replied i’m not parked im in a queue waiting to get on the pump! to which he replies you shouldnt be there! Fair enough i thought and we heatedly exchanged ideas of what we thought of each other, loudly i might add. Anyway he called me a P**** i called him a P**** etc told him tough he was going to have to wait etc etc etc. In the end i told him to F off and got back in my car. HE DID WAIT cos he had no option. I think he might of had a bad day and decided when he saw me, enough was enough. I can understand where he was coming from but i also think he was well out of order in the way he conducted himself during the course of carrying out his job. He should have read the situation for what it was, a busy forcourt, where he was going to have to wait. IMO he’s lucky it was me and not someone who would report him for swearing at a member of the public.
so you thought you would go and cry about it on a forum instead!
So you park in a yellow hatch area, abuse the driver and come on here saying he was having a bad day 
Yellow hatch means stay clear…Queuing or not. Not rocket science is it? 
it,s a wonder that none of the parents came over & said can you please take this somewhere else…think of the children. 
lee mc67:
Last night i was queuing to get derv in my car at the local tesco’s petrol station. on turning off the main road into the forecourt every pump had at least 5 cars waiting so you can imagine the lines of queues. Anyway, me being a creature of habit decided to use my usual pump on the far left, so joined the queue. 2 cars fuelled up and we moved up as you do. moving forward in the queue slowly awaiting my turn on the pump, i drove over the yellow hatched area where the tankers unload which says no parking, no problem i thinks, im not parking i’m queueing So sitting there waiting for matey filling his car so the two in front of me can move up…you get the picture? Guess who turns up■■? THE TANKER DRIVER!!!
I see headlights in my mirrors and think i saw a headlight flash, then me thinks, nah. Anyway said tanker driver starts to flash his headlights over and over and over again. So i turned my car off got out went to his cab and asked, “WHAT!” He then starts, you need to move thats where i tip, it says on the floor no parking! to which i replied i’m not parked im in a queue waiting to get on the pump! to which he replies you shouldnt be there! Fair enough i thought and we heatedly exchanged ideas of what we thought of each other, loudly i might add. Anyway he called me a P**** i called him a P**** etc told him tough he was going to have to wait etc etc etc. In the end i told him to F off and got back in my car. HE DID WAIT cos he had no option. I think he might of had a bad day and decided when he saw me, enough was enough. I can understand where he was coming from but i also think he was well out of order in the way he conducted himself during the course of carrying out his job. He should have read the situation for what it was, a busy forcourt, where he was going to have to wait. IMO he’s lucky it was me and not someone who would report him for swearing at a member of the public.
I suppose you are one of those drivers that stops on yellow box junctions claiming you are only queueing, not parking
Has this Thread been posted for a bet?
Can’t wait for the thread about a tanker driver running out of hours, cos some idiot parked on his loading bay, bloody car drivers
ok ok, was waiting for this.
1st this is what this furum is for,ie to post posts regardless of whether you agree with the content or not. crying or whinging we all do it at some point, some people even whinge about the whingers
2nd No, i dont block box junctions out on the road but i’ve seen other drivers that do.
3rd the hatched area in the garage forcourt doesn’t come under the same regulations as puplic highway’s.
4th if the driver was running out of time then he needs lessons in managing it.
I take it not one of you commenters have ever stopped in this area?
5th what have your employers told you about engaging the puplic?
your obviously stupid!
jessicas dad:
So you park in a yellow hatch area, abuse the driver and come on here saying he was having a bad day
Didn’t say parked, if i was parked i would have shopping, i was waiting in lin 
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The reason the forecourt was so busy was because they had no fuel and were probably waiting for a delivery 
Of course you were out of order, the tanker driver is at work, you were not!
lee mc67:
ok ok, was waiting for this.
1st this is what this furum is for,ie to post posts regardless of whether you agree with the content or not. crying or whinging we all do it at some point, some people even whinge about the whingers
2nd No, i dont block box junctions out on the road but i’ve seen other drivers that do.
3rd the hatched area in the garage forcourt doesn’t come under the same regulations as puplic highway’s.
4th if the driver was running out of time then he needs lessons in managing it.
I take it not one of you commenters have ever stopped in this area?
5th what have your employers told you about engaging the puplic?
your obviously
I may stupid but I do not get involved in arguments with other drivers. If someone does something silly then so be it, why get stressed about it. My health is more important.
Well I dis-agree, if I may.
The tanker driver should be more patient and wait for his turn to move into position. I suggest all those who say hang back from the hatched area and leave a gap, should try that yourselves on a busy forecourt. Youd never get to a pump. Theyd be coming in front of you from all directions.
The customer comes first.
Tanker drivers should know that. Sat there on his fat overpaid arrs flashing his lights is out of order.
I just hope none of the poor children heard any of the intemperate language thats all.
lee mc67:
ok ok, was waiting for this.
1st this is what this furum is for,ie to post posts regardless of whether you agree with the content or not. crying or whinging we all do it at some point, some people even whinge about the whingers
2nd No, i dont block box junctions out on the road but i’ve seen other drivers that do.
3rd the hatched area in the garage forcourt doesn’t come under the same regulations as puplic highway’s.
4th if the driver was running out of time then he needs lessons in managing it.
I take it not one of you commenters have ever stopped in this area?
5th what have your employers told you about engaging the puplic?
your obviously
people in glass houses 
lee mc67:
I take it not one of you commenters have ever stopped in this area?
What’s that got to do with the price of fish?
Those that did stop in that area probably had the common sense (and good manners ) to have not made a song and dance about simply moving out of the way for a guy who was correctly going about his legitimate job.
FYI, the tanker driver doesn’t need to improve his time management skills, because they have planners doing that for them.
However, the planners don’t normally expect their driver to find some intractable in a car who refuses to move off from an area reserved for… err, … hmm, … that’s right, it’s especially reserved for tanker deliveries.
Now imagine how monumentally stupid you’d have looked if the pump ran out of fuel whilst YOU were blocking the delivery and steadfastly refusing to move■■?
Actually Lee, your post says far more about you than it does about the tanker driver, however, it’s backfired on you because it was an awfully bad shot at blaming somebody other than the blameworthy.
lee mc67:
Anyway, me being a creature of habit decided to use my usual pump on the far left, so joined the queue.
You can get treatment for OCD.
cheekymonkey:
Well I dis-agree, if I may.
Of course you may.
cheekymonkey:
The tanker driver should be more patient and wait for his turn to move into position.
This may come as a surprise, but I didn’t see any mention of a queue of tankers that all needed to get to the delivery point, so why would the tanker driver need to queue?
The tanker driver simply needed to get into position to do his delivery, he wasn’t anything to do with the queue for the pumps.
You may not know this, but in the situation Lee described, the tanker driver would have been completely within his rights (and standard safety procedure) to have taken the load back to the depot.
I guess that you then could blame the tanker driver for the forecourt running out of fuel though.
cheekymonkey:
I suggest all those who say hang back from the hatched area and leave a gap, should try that yourselves on a busy forecourt. Youd never get to a pump. Theyd be coming in front of you from all directions.
The customer comes first.
OK, fair enough, but once that’s gone on for a while, the forecourt will eventually run out of fuel, but hey, you could then blame the tanker driver.
Sometimes, forecourts temporarily close for safety reasons whilst a delivery is made, but that can inconvenience the customers a bit, so they try to stay open. However, this relies on cooperation that’s not always forthcoming from selfish and inconsiderate customers.
In the situation described, all that was needed was some cooperation.
dieseldave:
cheekymonkey:
Well I dis-agree, if I may.Of course you may.
cheekymonkey:
The tanker driver should be more patient and wait for his turn to move into position.This may come as a surprise, but I didn’t see any mention of a queue of tankers that all needed to get to the delivery point, so why would the tanker driver need to queue?
You may not know this, but in the situation Lee described, the tanker driver would have been completely within his rights (and standard safety procedure) to have taken the load back to the depot.
cheekymonkey:
I suggest all those who say hang back from the hatched area and leave a gap, should try that yourselves on a busy forecourt. Youd never get to a pump. Theyd be coming in front of you from all directions.
The customer comes first.OK, fair enough, but once that’s gone on for a while, the forecourt will eventually run out of fuel, but hey, you could then blame the tanker driver.
Sometimes, forecourts temporarily close for safety reasons whilst a delivery is made, but that can inconvenience the customers a bit, so they try to stay open. However, this relies on cooperation that’s not always forthcoming from selfish and inconsiderate customers.
This would involve using commonsense, a commodity in short supply these days.
Hiya…as you know i do a bit at stanlow (not on tankers) god thoses poor lads don’t have a minute to
spare. the routers have them running round like nutters. there all stressed out. one day i was parked by
the main gate to get a permit to entre a area the gateman was screeming move move let him passed you
he dose’nt have time to stand around…I’d give the tanker job a miss…
John
lee mc67:
…4th if the driver was running out of time then he needs lessons in managing it.
He was wrong;