The Sarge:
I once dragged a chopsy 18 year old traffic clerk through the hatch, funniest thing ever, me on one side dragging him by his collar, and three inside dragging him back by his boots Never did go back there…
That reminds me. Did any Viamaster drivers ever drag Mark through the office window? When I was working there I reckon every Viamaster driver I spoke to said they’d done it at some point but it was strange how there were never any witnesses to said events…
Just a myth, Mark Ingle was too big to pull through the (small) office window, far easier to walk in the office through the doors and thump him! Personally I never had a problem with Mark and he knew how to run the traffice office.
By the way he is now working at Shipley Transport Bradford and he took some of the drivers with him!
The Sarge:
I once dragged a chopsy 18 year old traffic clerk through the hatch, funniest thing ever, me on one side dragging him by his collar, and three inside dragging him back by his boots Never did go back there…
That reminds me. Did any Viamaster drivers ever drag Mark through the office window? When I was working there I reckon every Viamaster driver I spoke to said they’d done it at some point but it was strange how there were never any witnesses to said events…
Just a myth, Mark Ingle was too big to pull through the (small) office window, far easier to walk in the office through the doors and thump him! Personally I never had a problem with Mark and he knew how to run the traffice office.
By the way he is now working at Shipley Transport Bradford and he took some of the drivers with him!
I wasn’t at VM long enough to really get a ‘feel’ for him but the way he spoke to you sometimes was not on and I know there were a good number of drivers there who said the same. As for being good at his job I would have to disagree based on the journeys he had me doing. It was a common occurence to have you running back empty to Leeds from Glasgow, Aberdeen, London etc.
I know he went to Shipley. According to a couple of VM drivers the other night he was head hunted by them ( ) and is on £60k a year with them .
Apparently VM move to Whitwood at the end of the year and a load of their drivers based Brighouse/Halifax way are taking redundancy due to the distance.
cv68:
I have been doing a run from palletways lichfield to p.w Nijmegen holland and i must admit the dutch are very polite. It make a change from doing the likes of bestways cash and carry who i thing are the worst people i have come a cross
You have not been to ambient goods in at Morrisons Wakefield then!
They still hold the record, in my book, as the most ignorant people I have had the misfortune to meet. I normally have no problems at RDC’s. I am polite and civil to their staff and I have always been treated in a similar manner.
I agree with that and I haven’t been there for ten years. I’ve never come across anything like them since.
Wheel Nut:
If it is good enough for the NHS and Dartford tunnel staff to have a poster, why don’t we carry one in our document folder.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking. I can hold my own, in a head to head without losing my rag and resorting to profanities. I find it sport to engage some obnoxious prick on a goods in window until he cracks
This normally results in him getting his back up and it is a bonus if I can make more than one crack. By now the office girls or receptionists are normally smiling. I then either walk out or go to sit in my cab, it is amazing how quickly a major problem can be sorted out just to get you away
I have only had to resort to asking for the head Charang once, and that resulted in a written apology.
In some instances it is the employees of the organisation that need to read this sign.
toby1234abc:
And the smell of body odour,in an emergency,you can use the disabled loos,to wash the private bits,and dry with the loo paper,or with the air blower.
Can anyone else visualise Toby with his nuts spread out on the fold away hand rail using the low slung hand dryer?
Thanks for that image Wheelnut, Ive now got to clean the screen and keyboard, Coke doesnt half leave sticky marks when you spray it everywhere
David Hathaway Transport in Yate. The drivers & warehouse staff are great but the tw*ts in the office are a right bunch of to**ers.
You wait at the window and they just ignore you. I was stood there for 20 minutes once and with me was one of their best customers who I knew and was chatting to. He said to me “they even ignore us and we spend millions with them”.
I don’t go to the window now. I just pull in the yard and wait for them to come to me. It works cos after pulling out so many times without the load they always come up to me now.
I must admit the boss tends to send others round there now cos he know’s I might just pull out without the stuff if I decide I don’t want to wait!
I’d nominate the 2 rude and ignorant girls in the office of freshlinc in spalding.
when i entered the first girl didn’t even have the decency to look at me just starting talking to me in polish and as i don’t speak polish i kept silent, after 3 attempts to get me to respond she eventually looked at me and when i said good evening she said “oh you are english”
Have to agree with you Welshboyinspain they are ignorant and no sense I sat on bay on Saturday night got loaded and went to the office to be told I had 9 pallets to get next door, when you pushing time going off and on bays all adds up. I reared up and refused and the 9 pallets where brought around to me.
caledoniandream:
Got official warned for that, the woman across the road complained that my camera was running during the night that I parked my truck there.
The police pointed out that it was pointing over “private” premises, and even when I showed there was no recording, they where not interested.
Even not when I explained that the woman had a face as a Welders Bench and an backside as a bus, so I would never film the woman in my wildest dreams.
They also pointed out that I should have the truck marked up that: “There is CCTV in operation”
And if the evidence of a criminal offence was received with illegal practices, it would never stand up.
I’m not sure the police always know what they’re talking about when it comes to taking photographs or video in a public place: urban75.org/photos/photograp … e-law.html
If the camera was pointing into private property, it would be illegal but if recording or facing a public area ie the street or motorway then no offence is being committed, if there was then the likes of road wars and all the other fly on the wall footage wouldn’t be possible without everyone who was being filmed giving their consent,
Some of your plod seem to be under the illusion that it is a crime to film them or take photos of them, but they are wrong if they are in a public place or on your property, there is a video about it on you tube somewhere , by a guy who started filming the plod outside his home, they got sent away with a flea in their ear, after they radioed in and they got told that it wasn’t an offence , but only after they tried to pick an argument with the guy first in a bid to get him for breech of the piece or for swearing in a public place ect , but as he told em he wasn’t bitting , quite comical to watch really, just goes to show that most of them ain’t got a clue on what is the law
tommy t:
If the camera was pointing into private property, it would be illegal
How does Google get away with their street view then? They must have photographed nearly every private property in the country and have published the results on the internet for all to see.
Once went to a nice Asian gentleman at my last job where they used to export vehicles.They use to load us up with used truck spares through the roof of a 20 ft open top container and 9 times out of 10 you was always over weight
He was the most arrogant man I have ever known if my life always move forward driver back driver over a bit driver you know the sort . This one Monday two of us were going there and the other driver never turned up after waiting for around 2 hours of him ranting and moaning the other vehicle turned up only to be driven by my Boss
who ( I be carefull here as he on here at times lol) was never the best at PR or PC and was a bit lol lively his self
Well Joe Dackey starts you should have been here at 0.800 drive why says boss what did I miss then Joe then goes into one to which boss replys when i turn that key in the morning i decide whats going on and what i earn drops the trailer in the yard tells Joe to ■■■■ himself needless to say we never done that job again The other Lyn at LCS Rainham sounded like she cleared her throat with broken glass to must of been a job requirement
anyone been into ball packaging wrexham???dealt with the jobsworth called mike in the office…he has serious issues with truck drivers…im sure on his first day of school as he walked along the road in his new uniform a lorry went passed a puddle and soaked him…from that day onwards it was his purpose in life to be one miserable ■■■■■■■■ attitude towards the drivers is unbelievable and even the lads on the forks say they dont know how a driver hasnt dragged him through the hatch
Sorry to resurrect an old post, but I really need to add Norbert Dressingtable Heathrow to this list.
The guy on the gate is great. No problems there.
Get to the transport office and stand at the window and they all glance up then carry on with their work. Look around for a bell to ring. Don’t find one. Stand about for a bit longer. After 5 minutes knock on the window. Bloke closest to the window looks up and I hold up paperwork. He sighs like I’ve just ■■■■■■ up his day and approaches and says ‘Yes?’ Explain I have a single pallet to unload and he starts asking “how big is the pallet, am I in a transit or 7.5t, artic?”, “A rigid” I reply. “You better go to bay three then” he says.
Dock up, go back to hand my keys in. Wait another 5 minutes for someone else to ask me what is it I want (original rude bloke is busy watching something on his phone) and explain everything again. Wait in lorry for 20 mins and nothing happens whilst my pallets are defrosting. Docking light doesn’t go red. Go back in to transport office and there is a Dutch lorry driver getting the same treatment. Something wrong with her strawberries apparently. Original rude man exclaims “FFS I dont have time for this” and shoves paperwork back at her. Non Norbert drivers standing about exchange embarrassed smiles. Another bloke waiting gets same treatment. Asks me what he needs to do to get booked in and tipped. I tell him to just stand about until one of them can be arsed to get up ‘process’ him.
Then, in walks a brick ■■■■ house skinhead tattooed monster and he gets sorted in 30 seconds.
I’ve no problem with having to wait to get tipped, but surely it’s just as easy to be polite as it is to be deliberately rude.
Most offices I go into I often don’t wait for them to notice me, and when I do get their attention I’d be along the lines of ‘Hi, I’ve got a/some pallet(s) of xyz, chilled stuff, where do you want the truck put to offload it?’ and if they’re grumpy about it, so be it. I often write the arrival time on top of the paperwork and sometimes ask for their name. Often queried why but I say the company needs to know what time I arrived and who I spoke to. Makes it a bit more personal to them
Saratoga:
Most offices I go into I often don’t wait for them to notice me, and when I do get their attention I’d be along the lines of ‘Hi, I’ve got a/some pallet(s) of xyz, chilled stuff, where do you want the truck put to offload it?’ and if they’re grumpy about it, so be it. I often write the arrival time on top of the paperwork and sometimes ask for their name. Often queried why but I say the company needs to know what time I arrived and who I spoke to. Makes it a bit more personal to them
Doesn’t always work though
Thanks, Saratoga, going to try that approach next time. Funny how asking for a name changes things.
Through this forum i would like to out the sour, miserable transport office staff that we all come across every day and to encourage all drivers to do the same on this site.
Truck driving involves long hours on your own on busy roads, the last thing you want is to arrive at the distribution hub and come face to face with a rude, arrogant pig headed moron who hasn’t go the decency to even acknowledge you in a civil manner.
Well i have stopped putting up with it and challenge these people immediately if there manner to me is less than civil. If we in these industry are seen to be professional then we deserve to be treated as so.
I will now out two such morons that work together at the transport office at Morrison’s Swindon depot, they are often on late shift and together have an IQ of a chimp (or less). There rudeness to drivers is astonishing and seeing the drivers in front of me take this incensed me. These people are basically cowards who hide behind authority who when i challenged their behaviour first tried to threaten and denigrate me.
Don’t loss your temper with these people, calmly take their names, and ask them who their superior is and their phone number. Make sure they see you writing this down, note the time and give them your details.
I phoned, i wrote and had a written apology, the next time i saw these two (and any other transport office staff) they treated me with respect.
I think most blokes are so scared about losing their jobs that they will put up with quite a lot of bad behaviour either that or they think if they react then the person dishing it out will make the tip a nightmare for them.
You’re right in that if you aren’t going to put up with it, the way to react is to keep calm and call them on their attitude. If you kick off and lose your temper with them, it’s seldom the way to go.
The chap with the south african accent controlling the goods in at Morrisons, Kettering in the day time is a top chap, actually runs the ambient goods in very efficiently, loads of room there in the holding area and a model of how RDC’s should be laid out rather than trying to cram in everyone like sardines. He keeps the wheels turning nicely, someone who cares about doing a good job and a credit to the site although he was taking the ■■■■ out of one of the drivers for not filling his details out on the goods in form which was fair enough really.
Spending most of my career as an agency driver and the other times knowing that if I got fired I would be back at work the following Monday, I never took any of it.
I’d let those having an obvious bad day off the hook but to those who were just plain ignorant, they got short shrift. Those who were downright abusive usually found their boss having a word with them and humbled apology having to be made after I’ve walked round to reception and got to speak to the general manager. When you put across the point that you’ve got there as fast as you can, you’ve not said a word to the guy before they’ve started ripping into you, that you don’t get paid to put up with that kind of abuse and you’re all for pulling out with the load it tends to get results. Being on agency when you tell them you don’t actually work for said haulage company and will lose absolutely no sleep in returning the load they’re desperate for then it works even better.
I found with some of the places noted for being ■■■■■■■■■ that the company I was driving for was quite happy for me to pull out with the load because they were as sick of the grief as the drivers were.
If it is good enough for the NHS and Dartford tunnel staff to have a poster, why don’t we carry one in our document folder.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking. I can hold my own, in a head to head without losing my rag and resorting to profanities. I find it sport to engage some obnoxious prick on a goods in window until he cracks
This normally results in him getting his back up and it is a bonus if I can make more than one crack. By now the office girls or receptionists are normally smiling. I then either walk out or go to sit in my cab, it is amazing how quickly a major problem can be sorted out just to get you away
I have only had to resort to asking for the head Charang once, and that resulted in a written apology.
Never did go back there…
) and is on £60k a year with them 
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