What is the difference between the planners office and a porcupine?
I know my answer.
What is yours 
well one is full of pricks
scrotumscratcher:
well one is full of pricks
And the other is a nocturnal rodent
I know we all give planners stick. But I’m currently sat in a clients yard. They have 10 trucks sat down south and they need them to get back up to an East coast port for tomorrow. There ringing everyone they can think off to try to get loads to get people back
scrotumscratcher:
well one is full of pricks
No they’re both full of pricks…
Geoffo:
scrotumscratcher:
well one is full of pricksNo they’re both full of pricks…
No ones full of pricks and the other gives you pricks.
One has pricks on the outside, the other has hard working staff on the inside.
Surely the question should be…
What’s the difference between a Hypodermic Syringe and Swedish Blue’s lorry??
philgor:
I know we all give planners stick. But I’m currently sat in a clients yard. They have 10 trucks sat down south and they need them to get back up to an East coast port for tomorrow. There ringing everyone they can think off to try to get loads to get people back
If anything that shows a distinct lack of planning. To have 10 trucks in the same area and nothing pre organised for returns is them failing badly at their job.
m1cks:
philgor:
I know we all give planners stick. But I’m currently sat in a clients yard. They have 10 trucks sat down south and they need them to get back up to an East coast port for tomorrow. There ringing everyone they can think off to try to get loads to get people backIf anything that shows a distinct lack of planning. To have 10 trucks in the same area and nothing pre organised for returns is them failing badly at their job.
Umm unless you know the full story you can’t comment.
The loads have to go South whether you have Return loads or not?
Depends how much notice they had to get them to the North East…
They may have had to give 10 other loads to other areas back…
The best thing about my job is all our work is round trip work, so we don’t often get sat about with nothing to do. It’s not uncommon to tip Ashford and reload Milton Keynes for example. We just go to the next job. The biggest downfall I found with my planners when I’ve done general, is the obsession with getting back to the yard. I’ve sat 18 hours for a load because it’s 5 miles from home, instead of doing one halfway down with no hold ups, and either getting another load home from there, or running back empty
Darkside:
m1cks:
philgor:
I know we all give planners stick. But I’m currently sat in a clients yard. They have 10 trucks sat down south and they need them to get back up to an East coast port for tomorrow. There ringing everyone they can think off to try to get loads to get people backIf anything that shows a distinct lack of planning. To have 10 trucks in the same area and nothing pre organised for returns is them failing badly at their job.
Umm unless you know the full story you can’t comment.
The loads have to go South whether you have Return loads or not?
Depends how much notice they had to get them to the North East…
They may have had to give 10 other loads to other areas back…
Not sure where they are but they were looking for boxes out of Tilbury, Purfleet, Felixstowe etc with drop offs en route or near Immingham.