I currently do multi drop to homes and businesses etc, and today I pull up at this address and it’s on a slight bend. No problem so I pull over as close to hedges as possible, drivers can still see around the bend. So I get the tail lift out and get in the back, now this is my last drop so I’m right up the front end of the truck. Next thing there’s this ■■■■ in a golf, obviously on the school run, has pulled in behind my lorry to allow oncoming car to pass, and while he’s waiting he’s shouting up at me that this is a stupid place to park, and he then called me a[zb]! ,
Well I’d had enough then so I offer him out and March back towards him, and then he drives off of course, wot an absolute [zb] , soon ■■■■■■■ disappeared, couldn’t get out and say it could he!
Calling me a [zb] just for doing my job, I ain’t having that! If I ever get a delivery for you we’ll see what happens.
Could you not have accidentally on purpose let the pallet fall from your tail lift onto the bonnet of his car to at least give him something worthwhile to moan about?[emoji12]
I currently do multi drop to homes and businesses etc, and today I pull up at this address and it’s on a slight bend. No problem so I pull over as close to hedges as possible, drivers can still see around the bend. So I get the tail lift out and get in the back, now this is my last drop so I’m right up the front end of the truck. Next thing there’s this [zb] in a golf, obviously on the school run, has pulled in behind my lorry to allow oncoming car to pass, and while he’s waiting he’s shouting up at me that this is a stupid place to park, and he then called me a[zb]! ,
Well I’d had enough then so I offer him out and March back towards him, and then he drives off of course, wot an absolute [zb] , soon [zb] disappeared, couldn’t get out and say it could he!
Calling me a [zb] just for doing my job, I ain’t having that! If I ever get a delivery for you we’ll see what happens.
And breathe!
Don’t sweat stuff like that. Try blowing them a kiss next time, it winds them up a treat and won’t land you in the trouble that offering them out will eventually.
Not saying you were parked in a bad or dangerous place DB but you do get some that do not take other peoples safety into consideration when parking to deliver.
You see them all the time parked on double yellows or on zig zags at a crossing or completely blocking a pavement or on the brow of a hill all with their hazards flashing…DOH.
Seems some forget parking rules and do exactly what suits them.
albion1971:
Not saying you were parked in a bad or dangerous place DB but you do get some that do not take other peoples safety into consideration when parking to deliver.
You see them all the time parked on double yellows or on zig zags at a crossing or completely blocking a pavement or on the brow of a hill all with their hazards flashing…DOH.
Seems some forget parking rules and do exactly what suits them.
Wait for it…
Albion, for your post to have any relevance to this scenario, the driver of the car would have to be constantly coming across badly parked trucks, to the point where this blokes parking was the last straw. This isn’t very likely is it? If people are parking badly all over the shop, as you suggest, but this car driver generally doesn’t come across them, (he’d have to be constantly driving everywhere in the country) what you are saying is immaterial.
The OP just seems to show what an inconsiderate bell end the car driver was rather than any reflection on the truck driver’s parking.
Your post comes across as yet another excuse to bash others in comparison to your own beloved driving standards, irrespective of whether it is relevant to the original post.
I sometimes wonder when random members of the public “have a go” at us drivers during deliveries…
(1) They think the driver is foreign, and cannot understand the insults, only hurled to make them look big in the eyes of any bystanders.
(2) They think the driver is actually employed, and works for as company - and won’t answer back, from fear of losing their jobs…
(3) They think the driver is a timid soul, on account of any short stature or advanced years. (The average age of a driver is 53 after all!)
(4) The driver is after a bit of compensation - so picks the biggest, ugliest, most aggressive looking Bosnian self-employed Hulk he can find - and duly gets a serious kicking.
Park on the inside of a bend you deserve all you get because you massively reduce the visibility round the bend. Parking on the outside of the bend, not really an issue.
Depends on circumstances at the place where you are. The next place to stop could be 200 yards up the road, or the road might be full of twists and turns. It’s ok if you can get up a driveway or something but if there’s nowhere else, what are you supposed to do. Maybe the car driver was simply pig ignorant and has never actually done any work outside of an office and doesn’t understand that you don’t want to be struggling to deliver something, maybe something heavy or awkward from bloody miles away. If said idiot in car was able to get away before the driver got to him, there couldn’t have been that much of a problem could there ?
Conor:
Park on the inside of a bend you deserve all you get because you massively reduce the visibility round the bend. Parking on the outside of the bend, not really an issue.
Occupational hazard, at any given time we are in someone’s way. Diffusing the situation early with a simple apology can help stress levels
Due to my condition I’m not allowed to get excited but onetime someone ■■■■■■ me off so much that I memorized their registration put their plates on my car which was a similar colour and drove through 3 sets of speed cameras.
Never found out what happened though.
Top tip don’t do this to the wife.
[In case any old bill are reading, I’m making this up honest]
Something similar actually happened to me about 20 years ago, parked outside a shop doing a delivery and a car drove straight down the road and into the corner of my tail lift. Car totalled with roof ripped off it but thankfully no one hurt. Police called and being a small country village the copper knew the car driver. That tried everything to get me to admit liability saying I was parked badly. No double yellows or parking restrictions etc but copper said I hadn’t given any consideration to my parking so therefore I was at fault.
He actually said to me that since I was working for a big company they could afford to fix the car. After about an hour they eventually gave up and told me I had to produce my insurance details at the station later that day and he was booking me for my parking and causing the accident and would speak to me later at the station.
What he didn’t know was that my uncle was a traffic cop of over 20 years standing so I phoned uncle before I went to statio and explained what had happened. When I turned up to produce my insurance etc the copper denied he’d tried to get me to admit liability and to forget the whole thing.
Found out afterwards that my uncle had phoned the copper and had a few words with him about his actions. I had been smart enough to get witnesses and take photos which backed my claim that the car driver had hit me.
A profesional driver parks his 'lorry" (citation needed) on a bend in the road.
Which in turn causes a hindrance to other road users.
A random road user tries to educate said proffesional driver the recklessness and selfish action on parking a “lorry” on a bend.
So the profesional driver tries to engage the other road user into a fistfight.
I have just one question your Honour to put forward to the accused (the OP)
Would you have safely parked up there on the exact same spot during your driving examination, if your were asked to park up when safe to do so?
eagerbeaver:
My Mum told me at the time that it was an ’ exotic ’ fruit Dave.
That’s why I got so worked up about it, nobody had special things in our street.
What made it worse, some splattered on my new Dunlop blue flashes.
Worse still when I found out it was just bloody strawberry.
Wounder, I feel your pain mate.
Similar happened to me in my formative years. Dad had got me rum and raisin and I felt all grown up but mum being vindictive (long story, 3 years therapy etc) broke the news it was mint choc chip after I said I liked it.
Tantrum ensued with me slamming the lot on the floor then crying about my I’ll thought out actions and having a right paddy (apologies to our Irish viewers).
What happened next was a public thrashing only acceptable in the 70’s and me being dragged off by my earlobe to spend a few hours on the naughty step with only the voices for company.
To this day I can’t face mint choc chip ice-cream without a tear rolling down me cheek.
Anyway back to topic, please park more considerately and think of the children.
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, soon ■■■■■■■ disappeared, couldn’t get out and say it could he!
