MTFU and get on with the job, no doubt they’ll give you a nice easy day as she won’t be wanting to be out for 15hrs with you. Just remind her before hand that she needs to bring a flask & a packed lunch as you won’t be able to stop off randomly en-route to pick up food. Also suggest she buys a shewee & some femfresh beforehand as random toilet stops may not be possible
Show her a good time ,knight of the road stuff,then you will both enjoy it - kinda like a show biz thing they do for kids. The fact is she may spot with her newbie eyes hidden problems that the management can resolve? Take a look at Undercover Boss progs. They end up with higher salary ,dream holiday,and a new house!
Anyway, the consensus on here is to put your best foot forward and man up.
Take the opportunity to actually show an office bod what the job entails and if tasty enjoy the eye candy. Just remember by the time she has walked back to the office she will have forgotten everything and will be as big a pain in the ■■■■ as every other all wise and all knowing tm.
PaulNowak:
‘…Get her on the bunk and slip her a length…’
Hmmm …a shame about running day-cabs
While out on the road point out the disadvantages & limitations of driving a truck, and also the amusing things in cars that people do that can be seen from 6ft up
Take her dogging on your 45, although don’t tell her this until you pass her a ■■■■■■■■ and put on your gimp mask.
Go to a weigh bridge. Women never like scales.
Clunk:
Go to a weigh bridge. Women never like scales.
Tea nearly went all over the laptop thank you
nick2008:
Clunk:
Go to a weigh bridge. Women never like scales.Tea nearly went all over the laptop thank you
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Clunk:
Go to a weigh bridge. Women never like scales.
Then tell her she’s overweight!
I used to take my exwife with me and you would be suprised how many drivers have never seen a woman before ,she was a nitemare for sitting with her legs on the dash with her feet against the windscreen ,she was good for making coffee on the go,THATS IT.
peirre:
‘…MTFU and … remind her before hand that she needs to bring a flask & a packed lunch … suggest she buys a shewee & some femfresh beforehand as random toilet stops may not be possible…’
Unless I’m off-track and/or a stroppy pedant, that would make me a ■■■■■■■■ inappropriate, tree-huggy ‘Manager of a Manager’ within a scary big company that has declared ambition, shedfulls of industrial clout allied with ‘professionalism’
Mindful of that, my reflected position is that I am/was:
1. Wanting to stay safely working alone and remain mildly defensive over it becoming compromised
1a. Aware that I’m likely unable to change the world because I know what I enjoy doing; I know what I don’t want to do (and enjoy giving up bothering) & I know the difference between them both: It’s why I drive a lorry FFS
2. Identifying hypocrisy at the company coalface that I want to both professionally avoid and perpetuate
3. Unwilling to alienate myself from much-liked colleagues
4. Enjoying life ‘guilt-free’ with a fairly paid wedge
5. Not wanting to provide ammunition for an individual with a proven, unreasonably judgemental background
6. Suggesting that the Transport Training bods get a grip of their arena (as they get paid extra for via a cushy 8.30 till 4.30 hr day) - by professionally identifying both her specific needs as well as company generic needs & then cracking-on by delivering them by sensitively negotiated & properly managed means
You sound dangerously close to becoming management material ,Keith ?
Jesus wept - how old are you lot? It is just possible that she isn’t interested in having any ■■■■■■ contact with the OP. She might, just might, be doing what we all say we want - an office bod seeing the job first hand.
Would it really be the end of the world to to be a gentleman, stop as and when required for toilet/food breaks, and use the time to show just how many obstacles get put in our way. If she needs to stop for a break - stop. If you then can’t get a delivery done, then she will see how tight the timings are.
Use it to your advantage. Making her feel uncomfortable will take far more of your energy, and make it a miserable day, and you will lose her attention to get any concerns heard.
Grasp the opportunity!
Gb I agree the ■■■■■■ innuendo is probably out of order, & maybe suggesting the shewee was out of order, but she may need to understand that sometime the planning times are a little tight, with little time for side trips, & stopping off. Which is why I said it would be a good idea for her to bring a packed lunch & thermos.
Having recently been in the position of having a non driving ride along in the passenger seat (male), he failed to grasp the concept of "we cant stop here & there" when it suited him wasn
t realistic.
It soon began to annoy me when every 15-30 mins the cry went out, varying from:
can we stop for a ■■■?
Oh look theres a gregg
s bakery, I could murder a pasty … even though hed eaten more food then I carry for a 15hr shift already :unamused: Drop me at the butty box on the ind est while you go do the delivery & I
ll grab a cuppa . … he reappeared with a cuppa and a breakfast in a bap sandwich
Geesh I need a pish /crap quick … probably due to the stuff hed had 30 mins before. Bearing in mind he
d had a pee while at the butty box, & scoffing the food probably gave him food poisoning.
Then the ultimate annoyance, when he was ringing his kids up & chatting to them (that wasnt the problem) but shoving the phone across the cab & under my ear & telling me to speak to them while I
m pootling down the M65 was.
Needless to say the run took 2hrs longer than planned, with arrangements req`d for the last customer to remain open while we got there
Grumpy bum has got it spot on.
I feel your pain HK i really do !! i regularly have to transport my semi retired bosses to our other plant so they can have a look round at whats going on …speed limit ,no p…ing off other road users ,legal weights takes the fun out o tipper work.
only good thing is a fixed passenger seat (no air) .
chicane:
Grumpy bum has got it spot on.
Too right, people on here really should grow up a little
When the average truck driver resembles Humpty Dumpty rather than an Adonis.
The ladies shouldn’t have anything to fear
Have same probs as pirre with ride alongs.
The office bod forgets that I only stop for fuel, to deliver,
I have great bladder routine. And often do 5 hours between pee stops.
Food comes in a red bag from wife, coffe from flask.
Think the old view that we all stop at every burger van for food and brews needs knocking on the head.
And maybe the lack of toilets would be sorted if our big boss’ s got involved and got local councils to look at provision for us.
Fed up with peeing on wheels and hitting boots!