Even with the encouraging remarks of someone who had the luxury of being an owner driver and all the doors to best quality work that opened during the 1980’s recessions ( including the luxury of having the capital to meet the O licence requiement and buy and run the truck before getting the first payments coming in ).Obviously of that age he’d know about that economic meltdown.
The things I have forgotten about luxury, 
Tin Bath
Knife
Cardboard Box
Aye 
that guy should have said his wife was in hospital,bleve that would have worked . Youd think he would have a raft of excuses that worked ,ready for just this type of situation by now
You are all missing the point he’d be doing men out of work his job is to get the load there and back in a safe manner years ago I worked as a subbie for kellogs went netto got told had to tip my self kellogs siad no so I sat there for 24 hours on pay and netto tipped me not out of laziness but netto would be using me to keep there costs down
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You are all missing the point he’d be doing men out of work his job is to get the load there and back in a safe manner years ago I worked as a subbie for kellogs went netto got told had to tip my self kellogs siad no so I sat there for 24 hours on pay and netto tipped me not out of laziness but netto would be using me to keep there costs downSent from my SM-N976B using Tapatalk
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Harry Monk:
Was just wondering what thoughts were on this.We had a container turn up at our yard on a Friday afternoon a week or so ago. Our goods-in staff checked his paperwork and said “You’re not booked in until five o’clock”. This was about two o’clock.
He said “Can’t you do me any earlier, I told the wife I’d take her out tonight, I’ve got to get back to Carlisle”.
So we said “No, we’ve only got one bay and there’s a container on it now which is all handball, that will take us about three hours”.
So he said “Can’t you do anything, I’ve got to get home, I’m desperate, the wife will kill me blah blah blah”.
So eventually our guy said “OK, we can tip you outside the gate but you’ll have to pallet trolley the stuff to the rear”.
As this he was outraged. He said “I don’t do that, I don’t touch the load”. He was genuinely angry at the suggestion.
So we basically said “Well, ■■■■■■■■ to you then, we’ll tip you when we’ve done the other one”. Only in a slightly more diplomatic way. And he ended up getting on the bay around five o’ clock.
So was our goods-in guy out-of-order for making this suggestion? I mean, I get the concept of container loads being no-touch but if you want to be tipped three hours before your booking time is it unreasonable to suggest that you have to be a bit flexible about it and help yourself a bit?
The goods in bloke was well in order and the driver well out of imo. The driver asked for a favour and was being obliged, from my reading of your post all he had to do was get the goods to the back of the container.
Regardless whether it was containers or trailers I’d help out if it was a smallish delivery place, or a place that had a sound crew or if I wanted to get away quick. The only places I would refuse is places that I’d know would be only using me as cheap labour or places that would leave drivers waiting for no proper reasons.
Nicely summed up.
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You are all missing the point he’d be doing men out of work his job is to get the load there and back in a safe manner years ago I worked as a subbie for kellogs went netto got told had to tip my self kellogs siad no so I sat there for 24 hours on pay and netto tipped me not out of laziness but netto would be using me to keep there costs downSent from my SM-N976B using Tapatalk
It sure is a good thing that sort of nonsense was nipped in the bud………… 
Where I used to work we had quite a few containers delivered every week. They would get some agency labour to help unload them as they were mostly handball. The yard crew were pretty helpful most of the time.
One Friday afternoon I was in the yard watching them unloading a container when a guy rolled in with a box on the back. The Yardman zoomed over and had a look at his paperwork. “Sorry mate, you are not booked in 'till Monday,” he says.
The driver goes ballistic, mostly in Italian, I think. Shouting and stomping around while on the phone to his boss. He was even kicking his truck. Eventually, he roared off, nearly clipping the gate on the way out.
We were standing in a small group watching the performance and the Yardman said, “He only had half a load and these guys are nearly done,” he says. “If he hadn’t made such a fuss, we would have tipped him.”
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You are all missing the point he’d be doing men out of work his job is to get the load there and back in a safe manner years ago I worked as a subbie for kellogs went netto got told had to tip my self kellogs siad no so I sat there for 24 hours on pay and netto tipped me not out of laziness but netto would be using me to keep there costs downSent from my SM-N976B using Tapatalk
It sure is a good thing that sort of nonsense was nipped in the bud…………
It sounds like the sort of crap the drivers at P&O Roadtanks and their various non de plumes used to come out with, shortly before it went ■■■■ up and was sold off.
Wheel Nut:
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You are all missing the point he’d be doing men out of work his job is to get the load there and back in a safe manner years ago I worked as a subbie for kellogs went netto got told had to tip my self kellogs siad no so I sat there for 24 hours on pay and netto tipped me not out of laziness but netto would be using me to keep there costs downSent from my SM-N976B using Tapatalk
It sure is a good thing that sort of nonsense was nipped in the bud…………
It sounds like the sort of crap the drivers at P&O Roadtanks and their various non de plumes used to come out with, shortly before it went ■■■■ up and was sold off.
If I had a pound for every time some hero claimed he refused to tip himself at Lidl and the boss backed him up so they tipped it I’d be able to buy a car to replace the one in the scrapyard