Minger:
2 places for me stick out; first is Sainsbury at Stoke. It’s the atmosphere in the waiting room, very depressing
Now funnily enough I’ve been adamant all day I’ve got a 4pm tip here this afternoon which I was dreading but turns out it’s Screwfix not Sainsbury’s. Minor win lol
Any delivery that starts with the words “Can you just do us a wee favour?” is usually going to turn out to be pretty bad
steviespain:
I know I´m not a “Real” driver but I´ll share this anywayWorst tip for me is pulling up outside a 3 bed semi, cars parked both sides of to road, 16:30. 8 cubic metres of concrete to drop.
Old guy wanders along the drive, ■■■ in mouth, wheelbarrow in hand.
Has a coughing fit…
“Right driver, mek it nice and wet”
Me: “Anyone else here”?
NEarly dead bloke: “Nay lad, just thee and me. We can handle it. Give it plenty o´watter” coff coff
Me: " Oh FFS!"
150 barrowloads later…
Old nearly dead guy who promised his grand-daughter that yes, he could indeed take delivery of, and lay, 18 tonnes of concrete in 2 hours is sat watching, smoking and coughing and offering unneeded advice while I finish up his [zb] [zb] of a slab with his cardboard effin wheelbarrow.
Anything to do with the building trade is usually a nightmare.Worst for me was on agency doing scaffolding and shuttering deliveries.When I arrived on my first job doing it the instruction went along the lines of manhandle all the bleedin massive great long planks of wood and poles to the other side of the site with no help and place/put/stack them exactly where they tell me after eventually staggering there with it all.My answer went along the lines I’ll chuck it all off here and the rest is what you employ site labourers for and the agency don’t ( or at least I thought didn’t ) employ me to do that job.To which his reply was I’m the guvnor when you’re on this site and you do what I tell you to do.My biggest regret to this day is not,at that point, saying fine then taking the lot back to the yard then giving the guvnor back the keys to the truck and telling the agency to do one and walking away instead of being an absolute naive mug.Which is obviously why the zb agency scumbags put me on the job among other similar zb work and me taking too long to realise it before eventually telling them to shove it. 
I hear ya.
A new job is always a tricky phase innit?
A bit of age and experience behind you and that is exactly what you would have done.
Him: “I´m the boss on this site and what I say goes”
You: “I´m the boss of my working day, and this is me going”
He would have soon found enough bods to unload you.
ezydriver:
Bibby’s in corby used to let you stay in the cab. Now they’ve got a crappy little portakabin with about 6 plastic chairs - coffee machine and bog not exactly close by either.
■■■■!, I used to spend hours in that place !, the longest was 9 hours 8 minutes, that average was four hours on a bay asleep or reading book/ipad/phone.
and is that grizzly large ugly woman still on the goods in??
Twoninety88:
ezydriver:
Bibby’s in corby used to let you stay in the cab. Now they’ve got a crappy little portakabin with about 6 plastic chairs - coffee machine and bog not exactly close by either.■■■■!, I used to spend hours in that place !, the longest was 9 hours 8 minutes, that average was four hours on a bay asleep or reading book/ipad/phone.
and is that grizzly large ugly woman still on the goods in??
Not as far as I know. It all seems to be run by Polish lads now.
Franglais:
Rowley010:
toonsy:
Supermarket RDC type places obviouslyBuilding sites.
Anywhere where you’re supposed to know all their silly rules.
Anywhere with a FLT driver that has god syndrome.
Anywhere with a security guard that has god syndrome.
Anywhere where you need to interact with a shunter sat on his Terberg throne who has god syndrome.
Basically most places
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Yeah all true.
But its Friday, weve all managed to keep our noses above the mire, just, so Happy Days!Mods! Please put a block on this thread so any Newbies can`t see it. They might find their future too depressing.
Reading this forum I understood long time ago that it will not be Disneyland…
Nine out of ten farms in Shropshire.
Ones where you get there, get parked in a suitable place to load/unload, and then get told to go to the compound.
Overly ambitious recycling sites on too small premises with optimistically sited weighbridges.
steviespain:
I know I´m not a “Real” driver but I´ll share this anywayWorst tip for me is pulling up outside a 3 bed semi, cars parked both sides of to road, 16:30. 8 cubic metres of concrete to drop.
Old guy wanders along the drive, ■■■ in mouth, wheelbarrow in hand.
Has a coughing fit…
“Right driver, mek it nice and wet”
Me: “Anyone else here”?
NEarly dead bloke: “Nay lad, just thee and me. We can handle it. Give it plenty o´watter” coff coff
Me: " Oh FFS!"
150 barrowloads later…
Old nearly dead guy who promised his grand-daughter that yes, he could indeed take delivery of, and lay, 18 tonnes of concrete in 2 hours is sat watching, smoking and coughing and offering unneeded advice while I finish up his [zb] [zb] of a slab with his cardboard effin wheelbarrow.
nope …I fell for this once when I first started on mixers after that its a call to the office its going to be a while (they go ok time starts now,they charge hr rate when this happens) I get my deckchair and sit at back in the shade with the control lead and watch. also extra water they signed for as well before adding as the driveway is now cracked boo hooo must have been a bad load want there money back.
JIMBO47:
steviespain:
I know I´m not a “Real” driver but I´ll share this anywayWorst tip for me is pulling up outside a 3 bed semi, cars parked both sides of to road, 16:30. 8 cubic metres of concrete to drop.
Old guy wanders along the drive, ■■■ in mouth, wheelbarrow in hand.
Has a coughing fit…
“Right driver, mek it nice and wet”
Me: “Anyone else here”?
NEarly dead bloke: “Nay lad, just thee and me. We can handle it. Give it plenty o´watter” coff coff
Me: " Oh FFS!"
150 barrowloads later…
Old nearly dead guy who promised his grand-daughter that yes, he could indeed take delivery of, and lay, 18 tonnes of concrete in 2 hours is sat watching, smoking and coughing and offering unneeded advice while I finish up his [zb] [zb] of a slab with his cardboard effin wheelbarrow.nope …I fell for this once when I first started on mixers after that its a call to the office its going to be a while (they go ok time starts now,they charge hr rate when this happens) I get my deckchair and sit at back in the shade with the control lead and watch. also extra water they signed for as well before adding as the driveway is now cracked boo hooo must have been a bad load want there money back.
Haha reminds me of my tipper days. Rock up outside a house with 20 tonnes of asphalt on a hot summer day to be greated by 2 geezers and 2 wheelbarrows. Open the tailboard for them to rake into said barrows. As I start to wander back to the cab for a can of cold coke I get asked “where the hell are you going, you are meant to be helping on the barrows”
Dream on was my reply and wake me up when you are done… Cheeky gits!!
steviespain:
I hear ya.
A new job is always a tricky phase innit?
A bit of age and experience behind you and that is exactly what you would have done.
Him: “I´m the boss on this site and what I say goes”
You: “I´m the boss of my working day, and this is me going”
He would have soon found enough bods to unload you.
I don’t think it was about having people there to actually unload/load anything off/on the truck and I wasn’t that bothered about having to get involved with that anyway.It was more like a case of a site labourer employment regime based on using mug drivers like me to do their actual site labouring work and the guvnor and the agency being happy for drivers to have the ■■■■ taken in that regard as part of the job and their cut.Also found a similar situation when working for a large building supplies job.IE a few zb local building materials delivery runs which was bad enough,but much of the day being used as a yard labourer.I’d guess we’re talking about the lowest dregs of the industry and which realistically only agencies can provide for because there’s no way that anyone would choose to take the job.Leaving me with the conclusion that the main reason for agencies is to provide desperate employers,involved with zb work, with a supply of equally naive mug drivers like me at the time,who don’t know any better and who believe that accepting whatever zb work is thrown at them,will eventually lead to better things which is total bollox.
When the reality is that they’ll just be taken for a mug by the agencies and their customers and exploited in jobs,which at best should be described as first and foremost building supplies labourer,with an HGV licence. 
msgyorkie:
Haha reminds me of my tipper days. Rock up outside a house with 20 tonnes of asphalt on a hot summer day to be greated by 2 geezers and 2 wheelbarrows. Open the tailboard for them to rake into said barrows. As I start to wander back to the cab for a can of cold coke I get asked “where the hell are you going, you are meant to be helping on the barrows”
Dream on was my reply and wake me up when you are done… Cheeky gits!!
For any over naive newbies out there that’s the correct answer. 
Carryfast:
msgyorkie:
Haha reminds me of my tipper days. Rock up outside a house with 20 tonnes of asphalt on a hot summer day to be greated by 2 geezers and 2 wheelbarrows. Open the tailboard for them to rake into said barrows. As I start to wander back to the cab for a can of cold coke I get asked “where the hell are you going, you are meant to be helping on the barrows”
Dream on was my reply and wake me up when you are done… Cheeky gits!!For any over naive newbies out there that’s the correct answer.
What with Risk Assesments and insurance these days I would have thought that this scenaro woule be long gone!
msgyorkie:
Carryfast:
msgyorkie:
Haha reminds me of my tipper days. Rock up outside a house with 20 tonnes of asphalt on a hot summer day to be greated by 2 geezers and 2 wheelbarrows. Open the tailboard for them to rake into said barrows. As I start to wander back to the cab for a can of cold coke I get asked “where the hell are you going, you are meant to be helping on the barrows”
Dream on was my reply and wake me up when you are done… Cheeky gits!!For any over naive newbies out there that’s the correct answer.
What with Risk Assesments and insurance these days I would have thought that this scenaro woule be long gone!
Just 2 months back I posted about a job ad I´d seen.
“concrete mixer driver, must be prepared to help client barrow concrete when required”
msgyorkie:
Carryfast:
msgyorkie:
Haha reminds me of my tipper days. Rock up outside a house with 20 tonnes of asphalt on a hot summer day to be greated by 2 geezers and 2 wheelbarrows. Open the tailboard for them to rake into said barrows. As I start to wander back to the cab for a can of cold coke I get asked “where the hell are you going, you are meant to be helping on the barrows”
Dream on was my reply and wake me up when you are done… Cheeky gits!!For any over naive newbies out there that’s the correct answer.
What with Risk Assesments and insurance these days I would have thought that this scenaro woule be long gone!
I used to enjoy assisting the lads, several of the drivers did it as well. We were never asked to do it though, purely voluntary! Rake asphalt out of the truck into barrows for them and do some shovelling. Passed the time of day and got me some exercise as well, (you don’ t get much of that on tippers apart from sheeting and even that got taken away with stupid rollover sheets), plus have a brew and a natter with them. One gang from Coventry would always drop me a fiver for helping them if they were a man short, you got to know their names and worked together as a team. Paid for daywork as well, couldn’t go wrong. My mate was an OD for Tarmac in the seventies and he used to drive the roller at times for one of the Derby based gangs! 
Great days, long gone alas and probably something no longer allowed. 
Pete.
On containers years ago with a 20 foot box on a short skelly trailer. Rolled up to a a personal effects job on a new housing estate and Mr Ex Regimental Sergernt Major type character comes out and says he want it on his freshly laid tarmac drive.
After a bit of confusion, Mr Ex RSM thought he had bought the container and I would crane it off like I had craned it on in somewhere in the the other side of the world!
Errrrrrr no!
Anyway he breaks the seal after numerous trips to B&Q to get blades for a his junior hacksaw and inside is… The living room furniture all set out like it was in some far away country.
Container needs emptying so, chop chop, says matey boy! Nope nope says Beanie! That’s your job, pal!
No young man, you will do as I say, after all I am the paying customer.
No ya not mate, Maersk are and they will charge you demurrage after three hours and you’ve had two now so, chop chop!
Moved on years later to a fork lift truck dealer. Went to a job in Ilkeston and the salesboy has promised the customer “don’t worry our driver will lift it over that step!”
My instructions were to drop a 3 tonne fork truck off and wait for it!. No problems there!
Anyway the customer says I’ve got to use the 3 tonne truck to lift another fork truck over a step! Hmmmm.
The customer shows me the “step”, it’s a 12 foot high mezzanine floor!
Nahh mate! That isn’t happening! See that big lorry over there?
Yeah!
Well I drive that to here for you to lift that up there!
Next thing the salesboy is on the phone.
When I explain about how it that HE and the customer foreman will be both out of a job in the next five minutes if he’s going to order me to lift a fork lift with another fork lift, I’m being asked to leave the yard!
beanie:
When I explain about how it that HE and the customer foreman will be both out of a job in the next five minutes if he’s going to order me to lift a fork lift with another fork lift, I’m being asked to leave the yard!
So this wasn’t you then…?
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