Well noted, sir. Your suggestion received, and the redundancy cheque is in the post!
Franglais:
Well noted, sir. Your suggestion received, and the redundancy cheque is in the post!
You’re quite right,I love it when my lot give me runs like that,totally chilled day out for me.
Been sent out in the sticks in an artic for doc packs before. Also been sent out with 1 delivery of a single curtain rail in a artic before would of used the car but it didn’t fit.
Did 30 miles each way for 2 tins of beans and some eggs once at brakes, all the schools part of one big contract.
Eagerbeavers done a 40 mile round trip with 1 cup of coffee…
Possibly part of a contract…those pallets MUST get there or big fines. So much so that even though that load will be running at a loss, the bigger picture will avoid hefty fines and give the company more chance of being reconsidered when contract is up for renewal.
I’m only guessing that’s possible reason for sending it like that.
I’ve heard of 1pallet going from the north east to Swindon before and back nearly all the way empty for the same reason I’ve just suggested. The cost in fines to the various companies of not getting that pallet there made it cost significantly less money to send an artic with 1 pallet all that way and back again empty.
Wish I had that. First drop was two pallets of flat pack furniture for SCS in Appleton then second drop was an industrial drier for somewhere in Widnes which apparently weighed 1.2t but the weight plate on the machine said 5t. Suffice to say they couldn’t offload it 
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Third up was two pallets of steel banding near Burtonwood, then a garden centre nearby to drop a display stand and finally two pallets of cellophane for a packing plant.
Then from Warrington to Wallasey to a heavy lifting yard to get rid of that machine even though it was miles back on myself. Then three hours home. A decent day turned into a 13hr one…
Edit. Also noted all delivery points were stupidly tight for an artic. Mentioned this to planner and he said “Yeah I planned it for a 26t but sent you instead”
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Franglais:
Well noted, sir. Your suggestion received, and the redundancy cheque is in the post!
My regular lorry is one of the rigids I mentioned. It was being driven by an agency driver today, as were several others on the fleet - no danger of redundancy any time soon 
toonsy:
A decent day turned into a 13hr one…
Would it really be rubbing it in too much to mention that I started at 0730 and was out the gate and on my way home by 1300 - on POETS day as well!
I had similar once on one of the big (now in trouble) high street retailers, 4 hour on the limiter journey one way and back empty, all for 4 pallets that could have fitted in a transit, i asked the question if the depot had a load to come back, wouldn’t be surprised if there was an empty artic coming up for the various transfers near enough daily…suggestion met with rabbits in headlights looks from the box tickers behind the desk
Still if the client’s stupid enough to let donkey led logistics mobs ■■■■ their fuel up the wall, pray carry on.
Roymondo:
toonsy:
A decent day turned into a 13hr one…Would it really be rubbing it in too much to mention that I started at 0730 and was out the gate and on my way home by 1300 - on POETS day as well!
Yes 
Nah in all seriousness I’ve had a reasonable week so can’t complain at one day that wasn’t even that tough it just didn’t fall my way. Sods law says it was a Friday it would happen.
Juddian:
I had similar once on one of the big (now in trouble) high street retailers, 4 hour on the limiter journey one way and back empty, all for 4 pallets that could have fitted in a transit, i asked the question if the depot had a load to come back, wouldn’t be surprised if there was an empty artic coming up for the various transfers near enough daily…suggestion met with rabbits in headlights looks from the box tickers behind the deskStill if the client’s stupid enough to let donkey led logistics mobs ■■■■ their fuel up the wall, pray carry on.
I find my company does this quite often. There’s a place in Peterborough we do six trailer swaps at daily. They’re dedicated in so much that three drivers do two runs there and back each. In fact I’ve got one such shift Monday bit its a fairly chilled day and trailers often leave with empty space on them. Very rare goods are to the back door.
So the other day I was in Essex and got asked to nip up.to this place to pick up two pallets to bring back to my yard. I suggested rather than me deviating by some 100 or so miles that they put the two pallets on one of the six daily collections but got a silence followed by a “could you do it”
I would have got a 13 there, a 15 is taking the mick
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We had 2 stand trailers in a company in Eastern the France, we lifted them each day, I picked one up like that with two drops, Portsmouth and Southampton but shipped into Poole
A few years ago I took 1 Pallet in a Trailer up to Edinburgh from Skelmersdale !
That’s nowt.
Years ago on RM I would run The Glasgow special.
Pick up trailer empty , run C Richards trailer change and back . 3rd night the Scott took my number and would ring me, in 12 weeks I only had 1 trailer with anything on it and he had the same
Contracted runs for a certain world wide sporting championship .
Two vans per day 5 days per week .
Sometimes nothing or the smallest was a jiffy bag .
We have run from the bottom of Italy to the top of Sweden empty in a rigid to collect an oversize pallet that only weighed 250kg and delivered it to southern Spain.
Urgent is urgent and they do pay well .
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I have often had empty trailer from London to Birmingham, to be given an empty to bring back,
I once said, ‘how about I just keep the one I’ve got, to save me winding the legs down’ ,
‘Ok - that’s a good idea’
Wheel Nut:
We had 2 stand trailers in a company in Eastern the France, we lifted them each day, I picked one up like that with two drops, Portsmouth and Southampton but shipped into Poole
Yeah but that could be down to availability for you on the ferry… and price