Message for William Hocking. Please will you only employ drivers who can see! Our little community is blocked in this morning, with no alternative exit, because one of your idiot drivers has ignored a 4ft x 2ft sign saying that his delivery point is 300 yards further on, and also a normal “no HGV” sign. We have a man with a hospital appointment, a lady with a plane to catch and various others who cannot get to work. When my neighbour rang your office he met with verbal abuse.
I know that in the great scheme of things this is a not a major problem, but it is for us! Oh, aside from missing the signs, the fact that the lane dropped 1:4 into a 8ft wide bridge should also have given him a clue, shouldn’t it?
What a plonker! 
emmerson2:
Message for William Hocking. Please will you only employ drivers who can see! Our little community is blocked in this morning, with no alternative exit, because one of your idiot drivers has ignored a 4ft x 2ft sign saying that his delivery point is 300 yards further on, and also a normal “no HGV” sign. We have a man with a hospital appointment, a lady with a plane to catch and various others who cannot get to work. When my neighbour rang your office he met with verbal abuse.
I know that in the great scheme of things this is a not a major problem, but it is for us! Oh, aside from missing the signs, the fact that the lane dropped 1:4 into a 8ft wide bridge should also have given him a clue, shouldn’t it?
What a plonker!
Photos please or it didn’t happen 
emmerson2:
Message for William Hocking. Please will you only employ drivers who can see! Our little community is blocked in this morning, with no alternative exit, because one of your idiot drivers has ignored a 4ft x 2ft sign saying that his delivery point is 300 yards further on, and also a normal “no HGV” sign. We have a man with a hospital appointment, a lady with a plane to catch and various others who cannot get to work. When my neighbour rang your office he met with verbal abuse.
I know that in the great scheme of things this is a not a major problem, but it is for us! Oh, aside from missing the signs, the fact that the lane dropped 1:4 into a 8ft wide bridge should also have given him a clue, shouldn’t it?
What a plonker!
Bore off, the world doesn’t revolve around you and your “little community”.
bald bloke:
emmerson2:
Message for William Hocking. Please will you only employ drivers who can see! Our little community is blocked in this morning, with no alternative exit, because one of your idiot drivers has ignored a 4ft x 2ft sign saying that his delivery point is 300 yards further on, and also a normal “no HGV” sign. We have a man with a hospital appointment, a lady with a plane to catch and various others who cannot get to work. When my neighbour rang your office he met with verbal abuse.
I know that in the great scheme of things this is a not a major problem, but it is for us! Oh, aside from missing the signs, the fact that the lane dropped 1:4 into a 8ft wide bridge should also have given him a clue, shouldn’t it?
What a plonker!Photos please or it didn’t happen
+1^^^^^^^^
emmerson2:
Message for William Hocking. Please will you only employ drivers who can see! Our little community is blocked in this morning, with no alternative exit, because one of your idiot drivers has ignored a 4ft x 2ft sign saying that his delivery point is 300 yards further on, and also a normal “no HGV” sign. We have a man with a hospital appointment, a lady with a plane to catch and various others who cannot get to work. When my neighbour rang your office he met with verbal abuse.
I know that in the great scheme of things this is a not a major problem, but it is for us! Oh, aside from missing the signs, the fact that the lane dropped 1:4 into a 8ft wide bridge should also have given him a clue, shouldn’t it?
What a plonker!
Can you put me in touch with the woman with the plane? I need a quarter of an inch took off my kitchen door.
Frustrating as it is, people make mistakes. You will have made some in your life. A little tolerance in life goes a long way to solving the problem.
albion:
Frustrating as it is, people make mistakes. You will have made some in your life. A little tolerance in life goes a long way to solving the problem.
You could view it as a dry run for a No Deal Brexit. The only way in or out blocked by freight.
It’s good to hear that the transport office backing the driver up instead of trying to please the extremely busy “community”. I’m sure the driver was just trying to annoy you all because that’s all we’re good at.
Hope you have a good day.
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Having been in transport all my working life, I accept all that has been said, and yes, I’ve made a lot of mistakes. It is, for you, a very small matter.
But will you still feel the same when you’re stuck for three hours because of someone else’s error?
Actually, this one wasn’t too bad: the last one took seven hours to shift.
Just another slave to his sat-nav with no common sense.
Oh the wails from drivers if they had lost a day’s pay through being unable to get to work because of some similar incident.
We aren’t privy to either side of the conversation but if the company did react as claimed then this is clearly unacceptable. I am sure that for example Blogg’s Biscuits who have paid for the vehicle to carry their advertising would be most unimpressed by such a reaction. Hopefully the ‘blind’ driver on the spot has been more contrite and tried to smooth things over.
“I’m sorry I can only apologise on behalf of the company” isn’t hard is it?
Could of been same driver who blocked me in a job once
emmerson2:
Message for William Hocking. Please will you only employ drivers who can see! Our little community is blocked in this morning, with no alternative exit, because one of your idiot drivers has ignored a 4ft x 2ft sign saying that his delivery point is 300 yards further on, and also a normal “no HGV” sign. We have a man with a hospital appointment, a lady with a plane to catch and various others who cannot get to work. When my neighbour rang your office he met with verbal abuse.
I know that in the great scheme of things this is a not a major problem, but it is for us! Oh, aside from missing the signs, the fact that the lane dropped 1:4 into a 8ft wide bridge should also have given him a clue, shouldn’t it?
What a plonker!
So what are you telling us for? What do you expect anybody here to do about it? If you want to rant, try the local paper, I’m sure there will be plenty more in your “little community” who will be “outraged” by the inconvenience visited on them this morning. Perhaps you could all write one together.
If you’ve been in transport all your working life, you should know:
A) Things go wrong sometimes.
B) Where to direct a complaint.
C) Moaning gets you nowhere.
Have a nice day.
cav551:
Oh the wails from drivers if they had lost a day’s pay through being unable to get to work because of some similar incident.We aren’t privy to either side of the conversation but if the company did react as claimed then this is clearly unacceptable. I am sure that for example Blogg’s Biscuits who have paid for the vehicle to carry their advertising would be most unimpressed by such a reaction. Hopefully the ‘blind’ driver on the spot has been more contrite and tried to smooth things over.
“I’m sorry I can only apologise on behalf of the company” isn’t hard is it?
Not hard at all, especially as it’s impossible to impart something as abstract as the feelings of a company.
It’s Serious Hockin’ – with no ‘G’!
Cosmic:
It’s Serious Hockin’ – with no ‘G’!
Surely you mean Serious Blockin’…I’ll get me coat
Punchy Dan:
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Could of been same driver who blocked me in a job once
Blimey talk about being led up the garden path !! 
I totally agree with original post id be tempted but in a complaint . and want compensation for delayd flights loss of a days wages due to can’t get out.
As way I’m reading it. A wagon follows his sat nav gets to with in yards of his destination. There’s a huge sign deliveries this way. Yet he ignores the sign turns down the dead end culdesac with a weak /width restricted bridge. Wagon gets stuck gets . Huge recovery operation underway. Residents in culedasc can’t get out.
Look we all know things happen we get lost etc…but come on there’s a huge sign on the turning saying this way
Maybe this is relevant, even though it was a long time ago:
The director of a Devon-based haulage business claims lorry drivers are “the best users of the road – cyclists are the worst." But in 2001, more than 20 of his firm’s drivers were fined after admitting falsifying tachograph records and ignoring rules on working hours.
Bill Hocking, who runs Barnstaple-based William C Hockin Transport, made his comments about cyclists in an interview with the North Devon Journal.
Punchy Dan:
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Could of been same driver who blocked me in a job once
Lovely Foden Tipper by the way!!