None of us mind being asked or giving information, info in a two way street is good…mind you the banned phone calls unless it suits tends to grate…its the whiney sarky not quite fully broken voice form the idiot who thinks he’s being clever or trying to outdo or amuse other equally boring half wits in the same office by being as obnoxious as they can to the scum of the earth low life lorry driver its their misfortune to have to deal with every day.
Don’t work for DHL Tradeteam on the pub runs then. Phone going all day asking when your getting to (Insert pub name) and half the time you have already been to the pub they are asking for the ETA.
Office: "When are you getting to pub A?
Driver: “Left their 30mins ago and at pub B now”
Office: “Thats ok then, the pub phoned 1hr ago asking when you would be there”
Driver: “Your an idiot”
I get occasional calls. Not a problem because other drivers might be heading to same job so it saves us getting in each others way, or if they think we can swap a load so it gets tipped that night etc. The office haven’t got a tracker on me so I don’t mind in the least.
We have a customer who’s son has ADHD. Ignorant ■■■■■■■ who thinks we must sit around waiting for him to ring, and he gets wound up if we aren’t on site when he wants us. He doesn’t say “hello” or any kind of greeting when he rings, just “I want 10 ton of type 1 to (wherever) by 10o clock tomorrow and then muck out all day you wi me?” I love being too busy as he can’t comprehend not getting his way, according to his colleagues he gets all bent out of shape and messes up the levels etc.
Whenever I’m asked the question “Where have you been?” I like to reply
“The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive”
It usually gets a response of “eh?”
happysack:
I’m waiting for the resident hard men to come on saying that they were called up so they went back to the yard and rammed the phone right down the bosses neck. …
Yeah, I’d do that and then pull it out of his arse, then I’d grab it and shove it down his neck again
One place I worked, all the drivers would reply with ‘can’t talk now, driving.’ and the TM would accept this and wait till you got back to speak to you.
Last place I worked I found out very early that my tracker did not work. I noticed on the screen one day that my motor was listed as being parked at its previous depot for 3 years. So I used to say ‘Look at the tracker’ and I don’t think they wanted to tell me the tracker didn’t work so generally accepted that.
I blocked my old supervisor on my i phone, he asked if id changed my number and i told him, its my phone so i dont have to answer it for work. Not a happy bunny. Then tries to backdoor me by ringing me on other peoples phones, not a very brainy boy everyone got blocked!
antogoof:
Then tries to backdoor me
Ì’d be looking for a new job mate.
Simple and great fun, divert annoying numbers to the police, any take away or even better somewhere far away and when asked just play (as we already know we are) daft and say you’ll look into it.
Calls cease rapidly!
antogoof:
I blocked my old supervisor on my i phone, he asked if id changed my number and i told him, its my phone so i dont have to answer it for work. Not a happy bunny. Then tries to backdoor me by ringing me on other peoples phones, not a very brainy boy everyone got blocked!
every phone should have this feature its great. but normally I will just say where I am if they don’t like it tough ■■■■ it takes what it takes to do the job in my opinion.
robroy:
antogoof:
Then tries to backdoor me
Ì’d be looking for a new job mate.
That was when i was van driving on multidrop, had 2 jobs since, dont miss the little ■■■■ either!
ROG:
Easy answer = check the GPS !!
Ahh… But what happens if you park in laybys under pylons and put tape over the driver-facing cameras?
My last planner used to phone me and ask were a was.The answer he would get was were are you since you are watching me .The phone would get hung up.
In my last job we had a new tracking system installed, I fgit phone call from the TM fuming, and asking why I had been at my last drop for almost two hours. I politely asked him to turn around, then give him a good old wave as I drove past his office window!
antogoof:
robroy:
antogoof:
Then tries to backdoor me
Ì’d be looking for a new job mate.
That was when i was van driving on multidrop, had 2 jobs since, dont miss the little [zb] either!
Yeh ok, but I was referring to him wanting to …‘backdoor’ you
Ah just forget it.
I know mate, i know what it means in your twisted mind ha ha!
I don’t mind the " where are you ? " or " when do you think you will get to xxxxxx " .
I just answer with something like " sat nav says 3:19pm "
What annoys a little is when I get questioned about a route I took.
example …
Transport : Why did you go down the A1 and A 46 coming back from Doncaster and not the M1.
Me : To avoid 20 miles of roadworks between 32 and 28, and the M1 being closed at junction 27.
Transport : ahhh … mmmm …ahhhh… Isn’t the other way a lot longer.
Me : takes 15 minutes more than going the M1 way, if the M1 has no roadworks and no delays.
Transport : aahhh…mmmm…oh… I didn’t realise that.
Me : Okay, bye then…
click.
Myself and the other drivers always used to get “Not chasing you up, but how long before your back?”. Which always made us laugh as it is chasing us up lol. Never used to bother us, as it only meant he was making sure our loads were ready for us when we got back to load for the next day. He only asks me every now and then now, in case I’m back the same time as one our synthite tankers, so as to whether to tranship his load into mine? Or for him to discharge straight into one of our storage tanks if I’m running late.
Once got a call from a puzzled planner asking why I was in Aberdeen.
‘Not me! I’m in Glasgow.’
‘Are you sure? Cos I’m looking at the tracker screen and it says you’re in Aberdeen’
‘Definatly not me. I can 100% assure you I’m in Glasgow.’
‘Ok then.’ still sounding unconvinced, then hangs up.
Turns out they never took the tracker out of my old truck when it went back to Hill Hire the previous week. He was following whoever had hired the truck after us.[emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]