Glad i got out of there at 8am this morning then…hope you get out ok mate
Cheers mate it’s a mess here mines stuck diagonal across the lorry park where I got stuck halfway through trying to reverse back. Feel for the day driver next to me got no stuff with him and the hotel is closed after the fire. Does anyone know if I can upload photos from an iPhone?
Ex Haulier:
I often wonder if there is a forum where people who use to make televisions moan that all there jobs have gone to china ?.
There’s plenty on forums about the 500 jobs which went last week at Cadbury’s Keynsham plant when the factory re-located to Poland, ditto the 250 jobs at Twining’s Tea etc.
PaulWeller:
Glad i got out of there at 8am this morning then…hope you get out ok mate
Cheers mate it’s a mess here mines stuck diagonal across the lorry park where I got stuck halfway through trying to reverse back. Feel for the day driver next to me got no stuff with him and the hotel is closed after the fire. Does anyone know if I can upload photos from an iPhone?
Yes, but you have to upload them to photobucket or similar, then post the link on here.
Harry Monk:
Ex Haulier:
I often wonder if there is a forum where people who use to make televisions moan that all there jobs have gone to china ?.There’s plenty on forums about the 500 jobs which went last week at Cadbury’s Keynsham plant when the factory re-located to Poland, ditto the 250 jobs at Twining’s Tea etc.
That’s what you get when you trust Americans. Krafty (zb)
lee g you are so right there is a lot of the fun going of here i love the ones that while there out driving they will find someone breaking the law by doing the smallest thing, then bring it up on here have some of them nothing else better.
DadsRetired:
Lee G:
it just boils my ■■■■ that some folk are just looking for an excuse to do [zb] all all day but expect decent wages for it! some need to try being in the forces. while we were down the gulf in 2003 we were working defence watches for 6 weeks at a time with 3 days alongside (to restock and maintain equipment so it wasnt 3 days off either) between each stint of them, in defence watches you work 5’s and 7’s rotational or 8’s (5 hours on watch, 5 hours off, 7 hours on watch, 7 hours off - or 8 hours on 8 off straight through) but in your off watch they might have fire exercises or real incidents and you cant just say youyre not doing it!Ah yes, the good old defence watches.
Wouldnt get the kids doing em nowadays, got to be something about H & S that they can get the forces on. Oh no, in the forces you dont get WTD or overtime.
88 hours one week, 96 hours the next ( thats on 8 on 8 off). Exactly the same money as if I were on 2 months leave.
Nowadays? Oh but I might not get home to see my neighbours dog or have a beer down the pub.
Some people need to get a life.
And breathe.
PS Lee, you a stoker or Comms?
Hands to dinner…ROs to lunch!!! lol
If you dont know what that means? You werent there. 
DadsRetired:
PS Lee, you a stoker or Comms?
neither, i was a member of teh white mafia, stores! or the proper title just before i left “Logistics (Supply Chain)”