Driving work has been a bit hit and miss for me recently, I’ve been doing lots of building work so it’s not been a problem. Anyhow, I’ve been doing some warehouse work and I’m amazed at some driver’s attitudes.
Our goods in is pretty on the ball. You need to be booked in, no booking reference no tip. We have time allocated slots from 06.00 to 18.00.
Yet drivers turn up hours or even days early and late and expect to be tipped. No one waits for more than hour. If you’re booked in at 11.30 and you pull in our yard at 11.25 you’ll almost certainly be tipped straight away.
This morning we had a container booked in for 06.00 and we get 3 hours to tip it, most containers are hand ball. We have lads ready to start unloading. Today’s driver arrived at 06.45 as he’d been parked outside the wrong gate. It never occured to him to come inside and ask and where he was parked we couldn’t see him.
straight away started with attitude even though it was his fault.
Today’s isn’t an isolated event. Drives regularly turn up hours after they should. Fair enough, somewhere else has given them grief and made them late. Not their fault but it sure aint mine either so some drivers need to chill and lose the attitude. I do my best to get you in and out quick but come on, lads help me out.
Tin hat on for a flaming.
Know what you mean it’s just some drivers are under so much pressure to tip it mess,s with their heads and they get stressed out before they even begin, my advice is to these drivers is spend just one day not rushing and see how much better you feel…
The only way to deal with a delivery driver who behaves badly is to report them to their bosses and/or ban them from the site
It’s the office bods job to worry about late deliveries, not the drivers. Why drivers get so stressed about it I’ll never know.
Drivers getting stressed leads to a myacardial infarction.All that worry coupled with lack of exercise, poor diet, obesity and sat down for 15 hours a day.
maga:
It’s the office bods job to worry about late deliveries, not the drivers. Why drivers get so stressed about it I’ll never know.
Totally agree
But when a delivery is on time and goods in man looks at you like you’ve just rogered his mother, I think the driver has a right to be wound up. If a goods in man doesn’t like deliveries then jack the job in and do something else.
Maybe some drivers have issues at home.Problems with their partner and they take it out at work.Financial problems and debt.
Many sites now have a list of banned drivers.I wonder how they got banned and how long for.On general the ones i meet cause no bother.
Another reason.maybe lack of quality sleep or disturbed sleep.
Muckaway:
But when a delivery is on time and goods in man looks at you like you’ve just rogered his mother, I think the driver has a right to be wound up. If a goods in man doesn’t like deliveries then jack the job in and do something else.
Doing pallet multi-drop, I’ve seen most things but luckily I very rarely get wound up by the eye rolling, theatrical sighing, glancing at watches, head shaking etc etc.
But - one day I had to do a drop at a specialist shop on a corner at traffic lights with a county show going on just down the road when I got moaned at good and proper. I had to park right down the street and drag the pallet up on the trucks.
So they got both barrels. I told them that if they didn’t have deliveries they wouldn’t have anything to sell and the business would fold and they then would be jobless.
Never done it before nor since but on that 31 C in the shade day, well I just had an off moment.
Meet the grumpy ones occasionally but to be honest I just ignore their attitude and keep cheerful 
Oh yes, nearly forgot - I really do consider myself sooooo lucky being tipped 
Or the same old lines of what took you so long.
You are late or too early.
Forklift drivers have gone home.We will tip you in the morning but no parking near our premises for insurance and health and safety reasons.
The normal driver that does this run is always here at such a time.Where have you been.Asleep in the layby.?
I don’t mind waiting I’m paid hourly but what gets on my ■■■■ is when a customer wants you there at 8am they phone at 7am to make sure your on your way then you get there and you get, “sorry drive were not quite ready for it well have to get x ammount off cars moved you need to be over there but you can’t get there yet etc etc” I just smile sweetly but in my head I’m ■■■■■■■ cursing the little ■■■■■■■■■
Karl86:
I don’t mind waiting I’m paid hourly but what gets on my ■■■■ is when a customer wants you there at 8am they phone at 7am to make sure your on your way then you get there and you get, “sorry drive were not quite ready for it well have to get x ammount off cars moved you need to be over there but you can’t get there yet etc etc” I just smile sweetly but in my head I’m [zb] cursing the little [zb].
On the tippers I’ve had “can you deliver a load of pea shingle to xyz builders? They’re desperate.” I get there only to get “wait 2mins while we find somewhere to tip it” which turns into 10 or 15 minutes because “we don’t know where to put it.” I would make a radical suggestion of tipping it on the remains of the last load or possibly something silly like next to the trench with a load of pipes ready to be lowered in.
All interesting comments, funnily enough my boss has no back ground in transport either, but drivers turn up late and mouth off, rolling of eyes or muttering and generally showing discontent at us. It’s not my fault you’re late mate so ease off with the mouth.
It’s easy here, you turn up on time, you’ll get tipped on time. Turn up at 10.00 when you’re booked in at half 3 and you’ll wait. And yes there may be a dozen vehicles unloaded who arrived after you but they did what you didn’t and turned up on time.
I do my best to arrive at a delivery either early or on time, I don’t kind waiting although I can get a little bit bothered on my last ‘card’ when I’m on 10 hrs duty and just want to get home, however I’m never rude with the office staff/forkie at a tip, it just makes things worse for yourself.
If I’m late, it’s not my problem and is up to the office to sort that out with the customer, my job is to get it there safely and in the same condition it left in.
mick.mh2racing:
Driving work has been a bit hit and miss for me recently, I’ve been doing lots of building work so it’s not been a problem. Anyhow, I’ve been doing some warehouse work and I’m amazed at some driver’s attitudes.
Our goods in is pretty on the ball. You need to be booked in, no booking reference no tip. We have time allocated slots from 06.00 to 18.00.
Yet drivers turn up hours or even days early and late and expect to be tipped. No one waits for more than hour. If you’re booked in at 11.30 and you pull in our yard at 11.25 you’ll almost certainly be tipped straight away.
This morning we had a container booked in for 06.00 and we get 3 hours to tip it, most containers are hand ball. We have lads ready to start unloading. Today’s driver arrived at 06.45 as he’d been parked outside the wrong gate. It never occured to him to come inside and ask and where he was parked we couldn’t see him.
straight away started with attitude even though it was his fault.
Today’s isn’t an isolated event. Drives regularly turn up hours after they should. Fair enough, somewhere else has given them grief and made them late. Not their fault but it sure aint mine either so some drivers need to chill and lose the attitude. I do my best to get you in and out quick but come on, lads help me out.
Tin hat on for a flaming.
If your a driver you know the issues we have but after a few times in a warehouse your already behaving like they do,lecturing us how to behave :roll.
Being arsey never got anyone anywhere…
dozy:
mick.mh2racing:
Driving work has been a bit hit and miss for me recently, I’ve been doing lots of building work so it’s not been a problem. Anyhow, I’ve been doing some warehouse work and I’m amazed at some driver’s attitudes.
Our goods in is pretty on the ball. You need to be booked in, no booking reference no tip. We have time allocated slots from 06.00 to 18.00.
Yet drivers turn up hours or even days early and late and expect to be tipped. No one waits for more than hour. If you’re booked in at 11.30 and you pull in our yard at 11.25 you’ll almost certainly be tipped straight away.
This morning we had a container booked in for 06.00 and we get 3 hours to tip it, most containers are hand ball. We have lads ready to start unloading. Today’s driver arrived at 06.45 as he’d been parked outside the wrong gate. It never occured to him to come inside and ask and where he was parked we couldn’t see him.
straight away started with attitude even though it was his fault.
Today’s isn’t an isolated event. Drives regularly turn up hours after they should. Fair enough, somewhere else has given them grief and made them late. Not their fault but it sure aint mine either so some drivers need to chill and lose the attitude. I do my best to get you in and out quick but come on, lads help me out.
Tin hat on for a flaming.If your a driver you know the issues we have but after a few times in a warehouse your already behaving like they do,lecturing us how to behave :roll.
TBH mate, I’m not seeing anything approaching a lecture in that post.
What I do see is a poster explaining a side of the story that we don’t often see, so I think the points made are quite fair and useful because the ‘attitude’ test applies to some people a bit more than it does to others no matter whether they drive an FLT or a road vehicle.
Silver_Surfer:
Being arsey never got anyone anywhere…
MANNERS MAKETH MAN! 
please and thank you cost nothing BUT if people treat me like an idiot 
I do act like an idiot 
one arrow on the beak normally brings them back to earth!
I love it when you turn up late - no fault of your own - and they say “you’re late, we’re not tipping you” so you turn to drive out of the gate and they come running and saying “ok, we’ll tip you this once”…
Makes no bloody difference to me if I’m driving an empty truck or 1 with 25t in the back, I’m not the 1 doing the work, take it, don’t take it, couldn’t care less really
Fatboy slimslow:
Silver_Surfer:
Being arsey never got anyone anywhere…MANNERS MAKETH MAN!
+1
I got to a collection, late, a little while back & the Forkie was moaning like mad at me (I’d only been given the job a few minutes before, so I got their ASAP)
Then he moaned because I wasn’t far enough back for his liking, so I stormed back to the cab with this Numpty chasing me telling me that it would be ok, I just told him ‘F’ it you can have it right in the doorway, then proceeded to reverse the trailer inside his precious warehouse leaving him very little room to manoeuvre.
When we’d finished loading, he apologised to me for being an Arse earlier.
Viking 1, Numpty 0. Ha !