What are your worst cases?
I’m sat at a site waiting for customer because The phone number on the ticket is missing the last digit. The number office just gave me isn’t in use ffs.
i get it all the time doing generators theres hardly a single time when the paperworks correct
usually its one of the following once or twice ive had 4 out of the 6
no pole number of the transformer
no substation number
no post code
no road name,
no site contact phone number
wrong digit in phone number
Not all our customers are in when we deliver so a lot of time its drop it ata convenient place, annoying when you drop a few ton bags at number 18 as the ticket states when actually it was ment to be number 81, of course no phone numbers ever given.
My best story is the time I was delivering to a concession at Birmingham Airport. I delivered to the Terminal quite often so I made sure i had a contact phone number before I left the office.
At Terminal 2 I backed on the bay and phoned the contact. He said he would be down shortly so I dragged the pallet off and sat on it for a while.
After ten minutes or so I phoned again. A girls answers and says that the bod is on his way. 
Another ten minutes and I phone again. The original bod says he can’t find me. I notice the Liverpudlian accent and I explain, in words of one sylable exactly where I was. He says that he was there and I wasn’t… 
Turned out that the guy I was talking to was in John Lennon… 
But should you have been at John Lennon? The usual one we get is the paperwork stating deliver to one place but you actually go somewhere else.
Once had a delivery note with the address " Camberley" It was early in the morning, nobody in the offices, it was for the MOD so could have been any one of a number of places near camberley. I did offer to pick a door at random and anounce they had won a years supply of field rations, but was told that was not a good idea!
I had a delivery one time to a ship repair company in Brest, I went to the address on the note and being Saturday there was no one in, the guy from the cafe next door saw me wandering about and said that he normally takes their goods if they are shut, so he signs and I wave goodbye, I was about 60 mile from Calais when the phone rings and I discover that the goods should have been delivered to a ship in the harbour and not the shipping company itself, the ship was due to sail on the Sunday and these parts were needed for an engine repair, there was no mention of this on the CMR, another driver went to collect from the cafe later that day to take it to the ship but the cafe was closed. Apparently the ship was delayed by three days all told, they tried to blame me but I had the paperwork as evidence. 
Muckaway:
What are your worst cases?
I’m sat at a site waiting for customer because The phone number on the ticket is missing the last digit.
surely a maximum of 10 attempts of trial and error would solve this one?
When i used to do paint deliveries sometimes we used to just get the site name and be expected to know where it was,
hell one day i got this on my delivery note
Cala Homes
Edinburgh
I just used to laugh at some of the {zb} addresses, my boss at the time was second to none so no need to go mental at anyone plus i had to load my van myself so got to look at every delivery note before i left.
When i was doing recovery work,one day I got a broken down Fiesta van-brand new,on trade plates with the alternater actually fallen off. The trade plater gave me the delivery notes–BT Aberdeen,then got out the truck at the next exit to head back south,leaving me with a broken,brand new van to deliver.
On the way up to Aberdeen,from the central belt,i tried to get a phone number for BT Aberdeen from directory asslstance as it was then–no joy. BT couldn’t give me a number for BT-go figure!
On arrival in Aberdeen at about 4.30 in the afternoon,looking for the BT garage which probably shut at 5,I started to look for the garage then saw a BT 7.5 tonner,did a U-turn(on Union street) and followed him. This strategy had a fifty-fifty chance of success,luckily he was going back to base and itook it to the right place-thank ■■■■ fot that.
Many years ago when I worked as a relief driver for Express Catering Foods we regularly had a delivery for The pure Lard Company, London. That was all that was on the delivery note. Fortunately, it was a regular drop & the usual driver showed me where it was.
Here’s a 100% true one for you, and a good one at that.
Handed a set of delivery notes from the bod in the office and told “Watch out for the guy here, he’s a right stress-head, took him 10 minutes to read out the address to me in his funny accent, right posh git”
Delivery address:
“H.A. Rodds - Gnatsbridge”
Took me about 10 minutes to work it out at the time.
Worst one I ever had.
Grange Storage
West Yorkshire.
And that was it. This was in the mid 90’s before everything was on the internet and you could access it from your phone.
When working with Bardon, there’s a full time job working out what the delivery notes actually means. Luckily by now it’s usually the same customers and we have actual contact numbers, so we can cut through the crap.
Best one was a note that simply read “10 miles north of Gretna”. I don’t know how far it actually was, but was well over an hours driving!
kevin0410:
Muckaway:
What are your worst cases?
I’m sat at a site waiting for customer because The phone number on the ticket is missing the last digit.surely a maximum of 10 attempts of trial and error would solve this one?
Yes but it turned out it wasn’t the end digit missing.
Best one I’ve had: The farm, Carrmarthen
i loaded 26 pallets of booze in Northampton once, the dleivery address was
Spot
and that was it
When i used to do straw for the local farmers, there was some good ones,now bear in mind im a townie who moved to glos when i was 18 from guildford, pls collect the straw from, down the road… turn left onto the track, aftera few fields theres a big oak tree turn right into the field, through to the next field, around the headland and you should see the loader then…I didnt even know what an oak tree looked like and took me a few times to work out what headland was… good fun though…
During the lime season some farmers expect us to know where the barley-field is; My crop producing knowledge is limited so once they’ve harvested it and ploughed it over I’m buggered.
Builders merchant work can be a PITA for this; often on a site you get a plot number which is totally different from the house number.
Our lot are buggers for putting a different delivery address at the bottom of the note in print so small you need a bloody magnifying glass never mind Poundland reading glasses!