I had a few food drops for a cash & carry near Heathrow and although it was only a small load, I knew it would take a while, so I thought it best to get in as early as possible.
The Halfords at Redditch is a strange place. When you arrive they give you a gate pass, that’s handed in at the drivers window, a tiny Perspex lean to, on the side of a concrete building.
A sign warns you not to bang on the window but to wait until someone comes to help you.
When you get onto a bay, you go back in to the warehouse and wait by that bay until the person in charge of it comes over to you.
Every bay has someone specific to unload it.
If your bay operator is due a lunch break, then you too have a lunch break.
Bay 2 could be sitting next to an empty bay and saying “he’ll be back in a minute drive “ or “tea break Drive”.
Lucky for me at 7.30 they were not due a tea break, so It didnt take that long and I was out in minutes.
I was going to arrive at the M25 just as the rush hour started so I decided to take my break on the M40 and get in a little later to avoid the Jams.
I arrived at the Cash & Carry for 10 am and sat watching lorry’s getting unloaded until 12, before they took my two pallets off.
I was ok waiting because I only had one more drop, it was in Market Harborough and would be a drag to get over to through all the market towns on a Friday.
I was going the right way when this was happening. Home.
These two had been like this for about 8 miles, no one giving way.I was at that last drop when I got a message to collect in Leicester on the way back in.
I remembered last Friday sitting at the mustard factory until 5 pm, well this Friday I was standing in the back of an ever-expanding truck at the pickled onion factory humping 500 k pallets into place. 14 in all.
I finished at a slightly more respectful time of 4 pm but still didn’t finish unloading back at the yard until 6 .
Ill have a weekend to recover and then lets see what Monday brings.
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