21 st Jan 2009

Missed a day , so here is what I did. I had a 8.30 start yesterday and went out in a 7.5 t to drop a few pallets in Northampton @ blacks the 7.5 t is the skankiest one in the fleet , a real turd. No way to tie your doors open so when you have to back onto the bays they keep swinging open, , I dropped them and sped back to base. I pulled into the yard and the other drivers had decided to start burning all the old pallets, it was stinking the whole yard out and covered everyone with the smell of smoke. I went out in my normal wagon then, the 18 tonne and collected loads of wood for the vans to deliver. Went home around 3.30 pm and was told to come in @ 10 am to do the odd collections. Change of plan and told to drive the other 7.5 t to Harrods in hounslow to drop 5 pallets for 8 am . I hate going out in other wagons but it was a decent drive and was heading back in good time. Then the tracker went off and i was sent over to collect from Leicester and take some of it to Welingborough and some to Corby, When i got to the collection I had to wait 20 minutes while the warehouse were on break. It turns out that the load was 265 boxes going to monsoon , all handball , then another 69 boxes going to corby , handball again. The customer asked me what order I was doing the drops in , I asked him what he thought as I had never been to this customer before , He said Corby then Wellingborough, We loaded corby on the end and then I set off.
my boss rings asking what is taking me so long ? The wellingborough is booked in @ 2.30 pm
I explained that the customer hadn't mentioned anything about the time . I had to go in the back when i got onto the bay and move them all around again. Why cant the office just explain what we are doing , it would make a lot of difference , They don't think we are capable of thinking for ourselves .
I got to Corby and then eventually got home around 7 pm. The Corby drop was trouble free but It meant I had been out over 13 hours ,

I get a message on the tracker on the way back saying Wellingborough tomorrow 8.30 am tomorrow.