Useless Info on Delivery Notes

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You still get the occasional midlands/north driver coming down to London, thinking that NE5 is a district in London near Islington!

N,NE,E,SE,S,SW,W,NW
North London, Newcastle,East London, SouthEast London, Sheffield, Southwest London, West London, NorthWest London.

WC,EC,NC,SC
West City, East City, North Carolina, South Carolina!

Points of the compass doesn’t work for postcodes! :confused:

01632 dialling code is supposed to be mickey mouse like Joe Bloggs Transport and American numbers with 555 in them. :astonished:

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My office people thinks that all diactric signs in foreign place names are only for fun, so when they rewrite the paperwork they ignore them.

They weren’t too happy when I went to Merignac instead of Mérignac as the original paperwork required :wink:

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Best one I had was

Planned arrival time at first drop: 0700
Planned arrival time at second drop: 0730
Planned arrival time at third drop: 0745
etc… carrying on for the rest of the day

…and in the “comments” field for the first drop: “No deliveries before 0900”. :unamused:

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gnasty gnome:
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…

I’m back at Jewson next Monday & Tuesday. With A-Z and no Sat Nav, it’s gonna be fun…

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nickb67:

gnasty gnome:
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…

I’m back at Jewson next Monday & Tuesday. With A-Z and no Sat Nav, it’s gonna be fun…

dont they have the scanner/sat nav thingy in the truck? last time i worked at jewsons they did but tbh other than being useful by texting folk to let them know i was on the way to them as soon as it got wet it stopped working.

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gogzy:
…dont they have the scanner/sat nav thingy in the truck?..

Haven’t been there since last June on a 52 Merc and there was nowt like that then. New all dancing super fandango 11-plate MAN there now, so I suppose we’ll soon find out.
Mind you, with it being remote, I’m taking bets on how many times the system shuts down whenever somebody’s next door neighbour tries to unlock their car!

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all delivery’s made to the nearest hard standing.

just back it down there. bob will tell you when to stop, he’s the one with his neck sticking out of the [zb]. :laughing:

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While doing timer I was sent to load at a new place. Alan will give you directions…I think Alan thought I had a knowledge of an area is never been to…turn left, turn right blah blah blah, take second left after the pub, blah blah.

After an hour I was stumped, phoned Alan…i’m lost, can’t find the pub.

well its not a pub anymore, it is a house but it used to be a pub years ago.

Thanks Alan, I’ll try and turn round and retrace my steps and look for a house, then turn round again to head back for the turning that is 'after’the pub.

I much preferred jobs I knew!

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Ahh the pub that doesn’t exist anymore!

That’s a big problem with using Googleearth to look down the street, find the depot right where you thought it was, and when you get there in real life, it’s now a ■■■■■ parkup site, and the business has moved to the other side of the same town, so no one outside the area ever realised it moved!

I don’t do satnav, but on asking TM for a location of somewhere new to me, I was given a satnav printout for Farnborough, complete with Postcode …

I turned up at the very dead end of a large housing estate that turned out to be 300m from the depot I wanted - but though a cyclepath though the large hedge seperating the industrial estate from the housing estate!

I had to drive 6 miles to go back, and along the road into the industrial estate proper. :frowning: