'Who Killed Bill '

I spotted this car on the M5 . It was a lovely looking beetle in black.




Wednesday was another drop of furniture in Gloucester and it was at the back of a tiny shop in a tiny street.

It was hard work but the people were really nice and made the work pass fairly fast, A good job because some of those solid oak tables and wardrobes were bloody heavy.

As I left Gloucester I found a line of polish trucks parked up with the most honest business name I have ever seen . It is what it's all about after all .

I parked up at Corely services on the way back to base and was back to my old habits ..............
ADR spotting..

Everything was going OK with the new job and I was getting a little bit carried away with all the back on the road stuff.
I was brought crashing down to earth in the afternoon and it was one of the big national companies as usual that burst my bubble.

I was asked to pick up six pallets from a massive bathroom company in Nuneaton on the way back home from Gloucester and pulled into the yard not knowing where to go and what to expect.


I should of expected to have been treated like shit because that is what always happens to us drivers and it usually actual piece's of shit that do it.

While I was busy romanticising about the new job and the freedom of the road and all that I forgot all about Forklift truck drivers.

I pressed an intercom and they told me I needed the other end. I pressed the other button and eventually the doors opened and I was in the warehouse.

It was full of sad looking blokes in hi viz vests not looking at you, but looking through you.

"I've come to collect 6 mixed pallets" I said. "Where for"? I didn't know because it had come through on the cab computer.

Then they spent 30 minutes convincing every other department there was a collection and it made me wonder did this company actually ask for a collection or have I just turned up here for a laugh?

I eventually get them to agree to let me take their six pallets away and I need to get loaded.

I ask the fork lift driver where he wants to load me and he laughed!

Now this place has bays and two loading areas under the canopy and I thought I was entitled to either ask, or be told where to position my vehicle, but old forkie face wants to snigger and laugh.

He didn't just laugh he also said "You obviously not been here before" . What a pointless thing to say.

What if I hadn't? just use your manners or decency and be polite. Then he makes me wait while he has a smoke outside on the forklift.

I opened up the curtains and waited for forkie face to load it.

He never spoke again and I was reminded that this is what lorry driving is all about, not the open road but sad miserable people with nothing to offer and nothing to give but a scowl and a snigger.

Thursday was a better day but a long one . I had another furniture load to take. This time it was 8 tonne of oak tables to Thetford.

Smooth loading and smooth tipping because all I had to do was drop it on the bay and then wait until it was empty.

I collected 14 pallets of fish bowls on the way home and it took a while because I had to divert through Norwich to pick them up so I didn't get back until 8 pm.

I was taking my 45 minute and watching the AA rescue this vanI heard on the radio on the way back that David Carradine was found dead in a closet today. He was one of my favourite actors from his Kung Fu days and then later in Kill Bill . sad news .


I was nearly home and i'm just glad I missed the "slow Walkers" else I might of run out of driving hours.