Pulled into a yard today to unload.
Got out of the can and went for a wander to find someone. Got 5 pages and heard a yelling from the other side of the pretty large yard.
Some fat goon came wobbling up to me at an asthmatic snails pace and proceeds to yell at me. Convo went pretty much like this,…
Goon: why aren’t you wearing a high vis in the yard?
Me: how did you know I wasn’t wearing one, when you were so far away?
Goon: I saw you…
Me: you saw me?
Goon: yes of course,I ain’t blind…
Me: so if you could see me from the other side of the yard, why do I need to wear a high vis for you to see me?
Goon: what?
Me:you could see me without high vis, so why do I need high vis?
Goon: flumps off muttering something about ■■■■■■■■■■
109LWB:
Pulled into a yard today to unload.
Got out of the can and went for a wander to find someone. Got 5 pages and heard a yelling from the other side of the pretty large yard.
Some fat goon came wobbling up to me at an asthmatic snails pace and proceeds to yell at me. Convo went pretty much like this,…
Goon: why aren’t you wearing a high vis in the yard?
Me: how did you know I wasn’t wearing one, when you were so far away?
Goon: I saw you…
Me: you saw me?
Goon: yes of course,I ain’t blind…
Me: so if you could see me from the other side of the yard, why do I need to wear a high vis for you to see me?
Goon: what?
Me:you could see me without high vis, so why do I need high vis?
Goon: flumps off muttering something about [zb].
I couldn’t give a arse, never have to go back there. Treat me like a moron, you’ll get treated like one right back.
All it takes is an “excuse me could you put a high vis on please”. Rather than yelling at me from the other side of the yard and talking to me like a piece of dog crap.
Manners cost nothing.
I should add I’m not delivering I’m picking up specialist items not your generic run of the mill truck stuff so if anyone is going to do the dicking about it will be me, and I’ve told the boss to charge them Extra on top. Win win really.
109LWB:
I couldn’t give a arse, never have to go back there. Treat me like a moron, you’ll get treated like one right back.
All it takes is an “excuse me could you put a high vis on please”. Rather than yelling at me from the other side of the yard and talking to me like a piece of dog crap.
Manners cost nothing.
I should add I’m not delivering I’m picking up specialist items not your generic run of the mill truck stuff so if anyone is going to do the dicking about it will be me, and I’ve told the boss to charge them Extra on top. Win win really.
Maybe they had an incident in their yard and he was worried
Maybe common sense costs nothing too seeing as 99.9% of yards requre you to wear an hi viz when out n about so he was probably ■■■■■■ off with another angry truck driver who doesn’t comply
On a similar but unrelated note, I awoke from my slumber this morning and having completed my normal morning rituals and having packed away my apparatus from the night before, drew back my curtains to see a fellow driver climb into his cab and proceed to put his hi viz vest on before driving off.
After a brief WTF moment I tooted my horn which wasn’t very impressive as air was low and gave a shrug to enquire what they where doing. I was greeted with nothing more than a friendly wave as he whizzed past.
109LWB:
Pulled into a yard today to unload.
Got out of the can and went for a wander to find someone. Got 5 pages and heard a yelling from the other side of the pretty large yard.
Some fat goon came wobbling up to me at an asthmatic snails pace and proceeds to yell at me. Convo went pretty much like this,…
Goon: why aren’t you wearing a high vis in the yard?
Me: how did you know I wasn’t wearing one, when you were so far away?
Goon: I saw you…
Me: you saw me?
Goon: yes of course,I ain’t blind…
Me: so if you could see me from the other side of the yard, why do I need to wear a high vis for you to see me?
Goon: what?
Me:you could see me without high vis, so why do I need high vis?
Goon: flumps off muttering something about [zb].
109LWB:
I couldn’t give a arse, never have to go back there. Treat me like a moron, you’ll get treated like one right back.
All it takes is an “excuse me could you put a high vis on please”. Rather than yelling at me from the other side of the yard and talking to me like a piece of dog crap.
Manners cost nothing.
I should add I’m not delivering I’m picking up specialist items not your generic run of the mill truck stuff so if anyone is going to do the dicking about it will be me, and I’ve told the boss to charge them Extra on top. Win win really.
Spot on…Why I am banned from 95% of customers, yet I still do 2 or 3 days a week.
I will not roll over, I will apply my common sense and all the senses that the human body has developed to keep me alive over thousands of years, mans vanity knows no bounds and many do not understand when I try to educate them…Darwin was soooooo right.
With that story, did you really think you were going to get a sympathetic ear? If you’d have said I had this fat goon shouting across the yard at me today, all because I’d not got my high viz on before I left the cab. You’d have got 99% of replies along the lines of “take no notice of the idiot” or “I’d have told him to do one”. But you come across all Bruce Lee, with a story akin to fighting them in the trenches, it was only going to go one way.
OVLOV JAY:
With that story, did you really think you were going to get a sympathetic ear? If you’d have said I had this fat goon shouting across the yard at me today, all because I’d not got my high viz on before I left the cab. You’d have got 99% of replies along the lines of “take no notice of the idiot” or “I’d have told him to do one”. But you come across all Bruce Lee, with a story akin to fighting them in the trenches, it was only going to go one way.
This wasn’t an Rdc type yard, it was a backwater rough as the dogs with crap all over the place type yard where some bloke fixes busses when he can be arsed to turn up.
There were no signs on entry to the yard advising of thier H&S policy or demanding high vis be warn (we don’t expect high vis to be earn in our yard, it’s waste of time, if you can’t see someone without it on, you shouldnt be be driving… 90% of my customers do not require it, hence why I don’t automaticly put it on.
Although goon was warning a high vis, it was more black than yellow, but he also had open toe sandles on… Thier H&S must be really strict.
This wasn’t an Rdc type yard, it was a backwater rough as the dogs with crap all over the place type yard where some bloke fixes busses when he can be arsed to turn up.
There were no signs on entry to the yard advising of thier H&S policy or demanding high vis be warn (we don’t expect high vis to be earn in our yard, it’s waste of time, if you can’t see someone without it on, you shouldnt be be driving… 90% of my customers do not require it, hence why I don’t automaticly put it on.
Although goon was warning a high vis, it was more black than yellow, but he also had open toe sandles on… Thier H&S must be really strict.
109LWB:
I couldn’t give a arse, never have to go back there. Treat me like a moron, you’ll get treated like one right back.
All it takes is an “excuse me could you put a high vis on please”. Rather than yelling at me from the other side of the yard and talking to me like a piece of dog crap.
Manners cost nothing.
I should add I’m not delivering I’m picking up specialist items not your generic run of the mill truck stuff so if anyone is going to do the dicking about it will be me, and I’ve told the boss to charge them Extra on top. Win win really.
Spot on…Why I am banned from 95% of customers, yet I still do 2 or 3 days a week.
I will not roll over, I will apply my common sense and all the senses that the human body has developed to keep me alive over thousands of years, mans vanity knows no bounds and many do not understand when I try to educate them…Darwin was soooooo right.
I used to be like this, a cantankerous arse, until I grew up and realised being moaned at or getting into arguments everywhere you go doesn’t make for a particularly restful life and wasnt worth it. You’re in their yard, I don’t think them expecting you to wear a hi viz is particularly unreasonable.
That said I agree with previous poster, this sounds like an RDC story I’ve heard a million times!
109LWB:
Pulled into a yard today to unload.
Got out of the can and went for a wander to find someone. Got 5 pages and heard a yelling from the other side of the pretty large yard.
Some fat goon came wobbling up to me at an asthmatic snails pace and proceeds to yell at me. Convo went pretty much like this,…
Goon: why aren’t you wearing a high vis in the yard?
Me: how did you know I wasn’t wearing one, when you were so far away?
Goon: I saw you…
Me: you saw me?
Goon: yes of course,I ain’t blind…
Me: so if you could see me from the other side of the yard, why do I need to wear a high vis for you to see me?
Goon: what?
Me:you could see me without high vis, so why do I need high vis?
Goon: flumps off muttering something about [zb].
