Before departure always(!)check you delivery point on Google SteetView, and on Google Satellite images. If the place seems too small, make a call to your planner,or call the customer.
I’ve heard a driver who is turned up at a local Sainsbury’s store with 26 pallets of CocaCola. My cousin noticed him, but he didn’t belive that the small store where they are won’t needed 26 pallets of Coke, and of course, the load was scheduled to the nearby Sainsbury’s RDC.Than he struggled to turn the artic around the small yard, with a full load on it…
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
JML indeed, although there’s a few spots like that up and down the lake district, some are interesting in our 3.5 Tonners!
Google maps is ace, saves me loads of hassle as most of my delivery addresses are invoice addresses!!
I always call the contact number on my paperwork as I can never trust the paperwork…
Hiya yes it has happenend to me. on this occasion i was just outside of Rocester on a break. knock knock this forigner asked for directions for this place giving me the paper work…before sat nav days…i look and see Rochester on his notes…as you know the poor sod had come past his drop almost 4 hours earlier and had to
go back…now that was painful.
John
hiya imagine what it was like before we had post codes phones or sat nav…mind you any corner shop knew
every factory and person in a mile radius. not anymore with the indian comunity taking over. i stopped outside
Hull one time to buy a street map {about 1973} this lady asked where i wanted, she soon give me a dozen lefts and rights with a roundabout thrown in and i was their…brilliant
john
N0rbert:
I’ve heard a driver who is turned up at a local Sainsbury’s store with 26 pallets of CocaCola.
Than he struggled to turn the artic around the small yard, with a full load on it…
Radar19:
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.
If that is the drop underneath the Whitgift Centre, as you go in, get right over to the left and make sure you use all the room and take your time. You can see the scrape marks on the walls where others have come unstuck. I haven’t been down there for a long time. The place was built in the late 60’s when most deliveries were done on rigids.
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
JMP Foodservice. You’re meant to ring at the top of the lane, near the graveyard. I wss waiting there one day with an artic behind when one of the “just one pallet” mob drove straight past. JMP made him reverse back up, bet that was a bum clencher.
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
JML indeed, although there’s a few spots like that up and down the lake district, some are interesting in our 3.5 Tonners!
Yes that A684 gets interesting the further you go toward the town of Hawes 18t weight limits (weak narrow bridges) apparently, then there’s Bedale on the A1 side another nice town for artics to negotiate
“You shouldn’t be on here” guy told me on the Warburton bridge near Lymm,bridge 3.5t limit…me in a 7.5t …oops!
At least I had the 20p toll money ready,was a few years ago,mind…
Dr Dave:
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.
Why was it delivered the day before you wanted it?
Google maps is ace, saves me loads of hassle as most of my delivery addresses are invoice addresses!!
I always call the contact number on my paperwork as I can never trust the paperwork…
our office staff have a habit of getting the address wrong phone number wrong or just lack of both completely!!
I know a driver that had a fax memo for his reload instructions.
There were five different addresses on the fax.
He chose what he assumed to be the correct address.
It was a 200 mile drive and in the wrong place for the reload.
The wasted fuel was docked from the wages.
His argument was the lorry has a tracker and it could have been stolen or hijacked but nobody rang to say where are you going ?
Years ago when I worked for ferrymasters, I gave a northampton subbie a collection from an ici plant for delivery in sweden , he was supposed to drop the trailer at middlesbrough dock for the ferry (m’brough on the collection note).
rang me from marlborough in wiltshire saying he couldn’t find the ferrymaster depot, missed the boat.
lesson learned for me, make sure they know where they’re supposed to go
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 [zb] 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!
Back in '73, I think it was, a Hungarian artic was stopped outside my flat in the Preston side of Blackburn - he was there a while so I went over and he showed me his paperwork. It was for a carpet machinery manufacturer on the other side of town which was hidden in the cobbled back streets. He didn’t speak one word of English, so I did the only thing there was to do - hopped in my car and took him there. His ear to ear grin said it all. Those days, a Hungarian truck was unheard of, quite a rarity and no, he didn’t have a big “sunny” logo on the back
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.
I once went to brilon in Germany with 2 worktops from Chesterfield in a sprinter van only to find when I got there they had been shipped from there and were meant to go to hull!
