Load out of Tilbury to Cranswick Foods, Preston, Lancashire the office had on the paperwork, should have been Preston, East Yorkshire!!
Luckily when I stopped for a break on the A14 I checked and spotted the error!
billybigrig:
chester1:
Picked a box up out of Felixstowe in the early 90s for delivery in Norwich got me A-Z out found the street got there and it’s a tiny little side road so walked up n down it a cpl of time no firms down there so called the office to get a phone number or some guidance turns out some one had left the TH out of northwichFunnily enough, about 25 years ago in Northwich, a driver stopped me and asked for an industrial estate I had not heard of. When I looked at his notes he should of been in Norwich.
This happened to me in reverse last year. French guy who spoke no English sauntered over to me in Thetford and shoved his delivery paperwork under my nose. Sure enough, he wanted Northwich, but had misread. Serves him right for not learning a proper language. 
Pointed out his faux pas (see what i just did there?), gave him a few directions and left him to enjoy his unplanned overnight rest.
unless I was on nights out I would say no chance of getting them there today
An old boy from my home town told me about the time he went from Durham to Harwich. Address was written down on his paperwork, couldn’t find the address, found a payphone to ring office for some more details.What the hell are you doing in Harwich, IT’S HORWICH!
No end of times I`ve been frustrated with delivery addresses where the store front is on a pedestrian precinct, trying to find the delivery point is somewhat annoying
I live a few minutes walk from the newish Tesco store in West Bromwich,which to be fair,has a superb goods in yard,they don’t come much easier.
Yesterday afternoon,strolled over to get a few things,and saw a Tesco artic driving through the car park …clearly his first time there 
I tried to attract his attention to put him right,but he wouldn’t acknowledge me…probably thought that I was just a pee taker 
Fortunately,the car park was pretty empty,so getting turned around wasn’t too difficult.
In fairness,he must have been a decent driver,'cos the car access drive to the car park is really tricky even in a car,there’s an evil 180 degree bend in it to slow you down for the ANPR camera that charges you for parking,I struggle in my Focus 
Google Maps and Street View, before I go anywhere I haven’t been before.
Worked so far ( touches wood)
What’s the longest distance you have been out from your delivery point due to the wrong address being given or on the paperwork?
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Early eighties…Newcastle ( Under Lyme on paperwork)
Upon Tyne in reality ! Ooops.
We get a few foreigners plus a few brits running around Kent with wrong towns with Ashford, Gillingham but the best one is Leeds
I remember going to a food place in ■■■■■■■ when I was driving for Reed Boardall, I followed my satnav off of the M6 and started worrying about the size of the roads, especially when I got to a really narrow bridge…
Anyway, just round the corner I met another fridge artic and we managed to squeeze past each other and had a laugh with each and I said to the other driver thank zb I’m heading in the right direction and he said along the lines of yep what a zb to get to!!!
After another few miles the satnav said to turn right and it didn’t look right (single track road and tight right 90 degree bends) so I stopped short of the turning and got out and a local was walking past and asked if I was lost, and I always have the paperwork in my hand in situations like this so I asked if this was the right place and he said yes it’s at the top of that road
As luck would have it one of the companies puddle jumpers came past at the same time and told me to follow him up, zb me it was proper tight and you wouldn’t think to take artics up there with the centuries old thatched cottages overhanging the corners of the road
Found out when I got there that I should phone up before going up the road to find out if another artic is coming back down because if you don’t and meet another artic one of you is getting craned out, that’s how bad the road is
^ ah the infamous Sedburgh! I got sent there on my 2nd day on my own as a class 1 driver, definate baptism of fire! 2hrs of arse clenching driving going down them roads. From what I was told them 2 cottages have been trashed multi pul times! JML food service if I remember rightly, they run a fleet of dinky 7.5t and expect artics in.
wakey_jack:
^ ah the infamous Sedburgh! I got sent there on my 2nd day on my own as a class 1 driver, definate baptism of fire! 2hrs of arse clenching driving going down them roads. From what I was told them 2 cottages have been trashed multi pul times! JML food service if I remember rightly, they run a fleet of dinky 7.5t and expect artics in.
That’s the place, absolutely horrible and a local told the cottages have been hit many times and he watched me going round the bends with a camera ready
All for half a pallet of frozen peas!
Not me but another driver.
Saw an artic outside my house, which is an extremely rare occurrence, I’m talking maybe 1 or 2 a year on our road.
Go out to see if he’s lost, he’s trying to get to the lion barn industrial estate in needham market.
Trouble is, needham market is surrounded by 8 foot high railway bridges aside from 2 ways in, one of which is a 7.5T limit and its enforced really strictly.
Where my house is you can just about see the industrial estate, so I guess he was trying to think of yet another route to try without getting stuck on our tiny country bumpkin roads.
The guy had no map, no sat nav or anything and had obviously come across every different low bridge whilst trying to get there.
The guy was foreign and couldn’t understand me very well. I tried explaining that he needed to get on the A14, go the wrong way for 1 junction then come in the long way. He couldn’t understand my logic at all and I could see he was working himself up so in the end I jumped in my car and told him to follow me. When we got there he jumped out and said “ALL OF MY THANKS, I HAD NO ■■■■■■■ IDEA WHERE YOU WERE TRYING TO MAKE ME DRIVE!”
Good deed for the day done, he appreciated it and I’d like to think someone would do the same for me one day!
wakey_jack:
All for half a pallet of frozen peas!
I think I had 4/5 pallets on, not really worth the effort 
I’m not looking forward to delivering to some stores in London. I had one drop this week that was underneath a shopping center in Manchester, that was rather unnerving.
steelgoon:
Google Maps and Street View, before I go anywhere I haven’t been before.Worked so far ( touches wood)
This, and if it doesn’t look right ring the delivery address up. Still got cocked up in Barrow on Humber though, couldn’t believe the place I was looking for was down the track it was.
Radar19:
I’m not looking forward to delivering to some stores in London. I had one drop this week that was underneath a shopping center in Manchester, that was rather unnerving.
You will be fine, just don’t go into London, if you will soon need a break, there ain’t many places to have one !!
steelgoon:
Radar19:
I’m not looking forward to delivering to some stores in London. I had one drop this week that was underneath a shopping center in Manchester, that was rather unnerving.You will be fine, just don’t go into London, if you will soon need a break, there ain’t many places to have one !!
There is a drop in Croydon that I’m told is a real pain. Its in a underground loading bay, surrounding by pillars leaving very little room to not to screw up. Not looking forward to that one.
It’s the underground car parks where I would sneak breaks in. I worked in the very centre for just over a year 5 days a week and I found after a few days it wasn’t that bad really.
I 've had an inept Hanson tipper driver tip up 20 tonnes of hot tarmac at an industrial address with no-one there - what was he thinking?? It would stay hot until we came along the next day and collected it??
Needless to say, we didn’t see him again.