Harry Monk:
If you go to McCains with potatoes they chip and fry some before they will tip you and they will reject the load if the chips don’t turn the right shade of gold.
That is how they test the cooking oil too Harry, at least at KTC Edibles in Wednesbury they let you eat the chips 
went to one place, i was “told”, not asked, to cut the seal off the back doors 
i refused 
after about an hour, they cut the seal off, it was a bolt seal and all they could find was a junior hacksaw
they then “told” me to get in the back and unload it for them, i said, just give me a knock when you have done
after another hour or so, they refused the load because the “didn’t know how to tip it”
Quality thread…
I have a small contribution.
I was delivering two pallets of woodshavings to a pet shop in Alfriston, she told me to go and wait near the green barn, I don`t do waiting for anybody, never have.
I drove down there and gave it 1 minute and turned around ready to drive away…The stuck up ■■■■■ was still yacking to another stuck up ■■■■■ 
I drove slowly by the shop and she asked me where I was going, I told her I had another drop down the road and would come back when she was ready…Not only did she help me unload, but she made me a cup of tea as well… 
It gets terribly lonely in the countryside…
Also a woman complained when I advised her to get a sign put on her gates informing anyone of her address, thus making it easier to find her stables, she remonstrated with much vigour and told me it was no business of mine…She soon changed her tune once I threatened to drive off without dropping…
I love ‘turning’ powerful women…
Loaded in Liverpool early am to go to Soton, got ‘Your late!’ yes only by five minutes, told to go away and rebook, went back, then was ‘your early’. boss pulled me out and left it a couple of days, waited till their boss got on the horn to see what was going on and gave him a rocket. Still i had paperwork date and time signed so nowt they could do. 
john-sussex:
Loaded in Liverpool early am to go to Soton, got ‘Your late!’ yes only by five minutes, told to go away and rebook, went back, then was ‘your early’. boss pulled me out and left it a couple of days, waited till their boss got on the horn to see what was going on and gave him a rocket. Still i had paperwork date and time signed so nowt they could do.
we get that regular 
whenevcer i get that, i just reply
“this box has come half way round the world, and you are complaining that it’s x minutes late!”
this is swiftly followed by them saying “stick it on that bay there driver”
Yes i miss the boxes, lost count of the number of times it was late, oh we didn’t know you were coming or didn’t you know that was cancelled! 
shuttlespanker:
“this box has come half way round the world, and you are complaining that it’s x minutes late!”
Good answer.
Years ago when i was on the home delivery parcels, one saturday morning i tapped the door, middle aged lady answered, ‘Parcel for you love, sign here please’.
‘Thank you, but i’m not signing for it’
Why?
Because it’s the Sabbath
Pardon?
I can’t sign for anything on the Sabbath. Can’t you just leave it?
Um, no not really. I’ll come back next week
Ok she says
So it went back on the van.
Bloody religion.
I had a delivery to Lucas in Gillingham when they were still open in the late 80’s, just a small box of bolts, so I took them into the goods in and gave them to the store man, he told me “I can’t sign for them until 8 O’clock” (it was 7.30)as I don’t start work till then, fair enough I say, take the box back off him and go back to the truck and throw the box into the middle of the load, then tip a load of Steal beams over it. any way at 8 O’clock I go in and give him the paper work and he signs it, thanks mate I say, where’s the box he says, so I tell him. and explain it’s not my job to unload the truck. Well I’m not unloading that mate, it’s in the middle of your load say he, so I say no problem, I have a signature for it, it’s your problem now, but I can drop it off on my way home and I left.
They needed the bolts and called my transport manager, who called me, after explaining what happened he asked me if I wanted some overtime…why not says me, 10 minutes later he called me back and said don’t get to Lucas until about 6.30 that night, No problem, so I get there then and the store man, spitting biscuits is waiting for me, (box is still in the middle of the truck) there you go mate says me.
His boss made him wait for me to get these much needed bolts.
I can’t do jobsworths, If he had to unload it at the start I would have waited, but the fact that I took the goods to him and he wouldn’t sign got my back up
newmercman:
Tesco at Crick used to refuse hi-cube containers for being too high, when I had my own motors I used to take every one I could, pick them up from Purfleet, take them to my yard in Barking, send the driver out on another job & wait a couple of hours before ringing the shipping line with the news of the refusal & getting instructions to bring it back to the dock, a nice little 560 quid round trip rate for 10 miles actual work, ding dong
Mark, It`s people like you doing things like that, that give us South London boys a bad name!!! 
Had to go to Keyline in Cowbridge with one quick lift of timber.Followed an artic with sand on into yard and then watched the two forklift drivers promptly disappear!! Undid my straps, waited an hour then rang the yard, they told to take it back. Wouldn,t be so bad but I was working for a sister company!Manager of Keyline was apparently desperate for what I had on. He had to wait a week for it.
Harry Monk:
If McCains knocked them back we used to take them to Marks and Spencer but I have had a bulker-load on all week trying to get rid of the same load of dodgy spuds before finally taking them to the Romney Marsh for pigfeed.
Or, pull out, swap trailers with another driver and he’d take them in without a problem. Maybe QC just didin’t like me…
Best excuse I had to not tip recently was…
Load off the train in Brimingham, monday 15th December 8am. Run to West Bromwich for an 07.20 tip.
Weighbridge parked me up while they looked into it, cos the 0720 was already in the bay.
Then they tell me to come back on the correct day according to the call-off email they showed me. Monday 5th Jan 2009 at 0720 hrs. 
Back to Railhead and remove load, Paid for two loads and never lifted a finger.
I love jobs like that.
Santa’s golden rule No 3:
Anyone rejecting my delivery has to give me their name or I go find a supervisor. I have lost count of the times that some berk in goods in has changed his tune when told it is him that the ■■■ will fall on.
took a load of frozen burgers to a place in north london a few months back and got there 10 minutes after my slot. asked if they were refusing it and they said they woud take it if they were -15’, he stuck the probe in and refused it because it only went to -14.9’.
i said give me the probe and it will be at -15’ stuck it next to the fridge grill for 5 seconds and hey presto -15’c and a load unloaded.
pedantic ■■■■■■■■
newmercman:
Tesco at Crick used to refuse hi-cube containers for being too high, when I had my own motors I used to take every one I could, pick them up from Purfleet, take them to my yard in Barking, send the driver out on another job & wait a couple of hours before ringing the shipping line with the news of the refusal & getting instructions to bring it back to the dock, a nice little 560 quid round trip rate for 10 miles actual work, ding dong
That is quality! Respect to you for that one, I’m impressed .
jonob:
tesco at crick once refused me as they had “no room”
I thought it was only me crick used to do that to Once took the same load in to crick 3 nights in a row,each time told “no room”,by the end of the week they suddenly discovered they were nil stock and rang up begging for it
cheeky monkey:
jonob:
tesco at crick once refused me as they had “no room”
I thought it was only me crick used to do that to
Next time you go there say that, this is the third night in a row and you ask for it .
You mite get lucky
Del
Not really an excuse to tip but at one place they used to do a disappearing act when I turned up with copper tubing (all handball) that is till I parked right at the far end of the yard, put it on the taillift (one of these one piece thigys that tilts) and tilted it down so all the copper ended up in a heap, went to office got my tickets signed and away I went. Strange that now I never have a problem tipping there 
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went to a big printers in midsummer norton with a load of flat packed boxes on 16 pallets, had a 10 am tip,pulled in yard and backs into tipping bay at 09.50.
told by bod there that they had no forklift driver till 3 in the afternoon.
i was hopping by then. had to be in cardiff by 13.00 to load. so i looked up and said where do you want it? the look of disbelief as i pressed the button on the walking floor and the whole lot started to move towards the rear of the trailer was great soon found me a fork lift lol
peteandbrenda:
went to a big printers in midsummer norton with a load of flat packed boxes on 16 pallets, had a 10 am tip,pulled in yard and backs into tipping bay at 09.50.
told by bod there that they had no forklift driver till 3 in the afternoon.
i was hopping by then. had to be in cardiff by 13.00 to load. so i looked up and said where do you want it? the look of disbelief as i pressed the button on the walking floor and the whole lot started to move towards the rear of the trailer was great soon found me a fork lift lol
I would love to have a walking floor for when I get knocked back, especially with a load of wine
peteandbrenda:
went to a big printers in midsummer norton with a load of flat packed boxes on 16 pallets, had a 10 am tip,pulled in yard and backs into tipping bay at 09.50.
told by bod there that they had no forklift driver till 3 in the afternoon.
i was hopping by then. had to be in cardiff by 13.00 to load. so i looked up and said where do you want it? the look of disbelief as i pressed the button on the walking floor and the whole lot started to move towards the rear of the trailer was great soon found me a fork lift lol
i swa someone else do that
thing was, he carried on until the full 26 pallet load was on the floor, the guy who told him to “F off and come back later” came running accross to tell him what bay to go on as he started the floor moving only to be told to “F off until he had finished on the grounds of H+S”