i hate going to r b organics at yaxley shortest time i ever been sat waiting there to tip is 29 hrs, also hate vion country foods at inglston edinburgh (formerly grampian country foods) was there last week and sat 9 hours waiting to be tipped
it has to be london for me. but its getting easier…just treat london as a noughts and crosses board and pick your main roads that you know (2 up and down(east and westof centre) and 2 across (north and south of centre)), get to near where you want to go and head off from there. its getting easier now!
every theatre we go there (or so it seems) the font of house is on a wide open road but the dock door is a pain in the bum, its usually down some small pokey alleyway and blindside it in.
i dont like doing london for a monday morning get in and mentioned it to the office as a passing comment as its an occupational hazard and havent got a monday get in this week in london. i had one today at the royal college of music, got a get out at richmond tonight and then another get in tomorrow morning at 6 at the dominion theatre…fell on deaf ears springs to mind!!! or are they trying to tell me something
good for practising reversing though!
I hate anywhere in Shrewsbury Shrops. Too many 7.5t lorry watches coupled with low bridges make it a nightmare.
My drop on thursday. just before a 13’6 bridge turned right under a 13’9 bridge to find site entrance shut. Re routed to find front entrance, warnings of an 11’ bridge about the same distance down the road I had to go Tried to ring the site
to see which side of the bridge the entrance was but couldn’t get a reply till half 4
had to leave delivery till friday
■■■■■■ up my early finish on Friday
Enfield Iceland, thier transport department puts even the most unplesant, unhelpful traffic wardens, or even the VI, in a better light.
Tescos rdc at kilne farm, Milton keynes ( not sure if its still open)on a dark rainy morning and getting the pleasure of backing on a bay between another 2 artics.
Anyone thats been there will know what i mean, no guide lines, stacks of GKN pallets along the fence right where you want to put your unit & just enough room between the bays, oh what joy that places was
TNT (Wellingborough) they’ve got all the urgency of a pregnant snail.
Tesco Kiln Farm?
Still open but still not changed at all
Pat
Makro Meridian Buisness Park Leicester. Once you’r in you can’t get out because of parking arrangments (I’m sure they do it that way to keep you there).
TDG Bardon Hill Coalville. Apathetic bunch of idiots .
Pipe Lane Yard Works Newbold. Great bunch of people. [zb] place to get into as the lane to get down there’s about a mile and a half long, just wider than your wagon and there’s a ditch either side
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Small one. Deal is that you get to say “scrap” and “scrapyard” so long as I don’t spend all weekend taking [zb] out…L.
WORK
Dan a.k.a Boo:
What’s the worst place you go to to deliver? What sends a shudder down your spine when told you are going to a certain place?
For me, it has to be the one way system in Kingston,Surrey,or the Magic Roundabout in Swindon,Wiltshire. Can’t think of any more but I’m sure there are hundreds of places like this!
Let us know your thoughts!Dan.
P.S: Just remembered…The Paris ring road!!!
Rochester and all points east from here, not only is it a boring drive (flat and straight for 270 miles but the streets of Rochester are crime ridden, dirty and tight when you have a 53 ft trailer behind you. I sat waiting for a reload there recently and saw on TV that the crime rate is well down this year with ONLY !!! 49 murders so far.
What’s the worst place you go to to deliver?
Our shop in Neath. You drive into a dead end off a one way street. To get in you have to negotiate 2 tight 90 bends and a tight right. The parked cars are usually in the loading area opposite the tight right and are often parked 1 foot or more from the kerb with blue badge vehicles right up to the corner on a regular basis.
Getting out is a reverse back onto the one way road with the queue reluctant to wait and a nice street lamp right on the kerb edge with a fierce camber tilting the trailer top close to the lamp.
That and the shop staff are the laziest toe rags as far as pulling cages in or out.
Southampton. All of it.
London has got to be the worst place to drive in the country!
You can follow the road signs for a few miles then arrive at the next major junction to find no signs!!!
Very poor road, idiot drivers, poor parking and hidden entrances.
What a wonderful world we live in!
Russ