Disgraceful treatment

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All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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I've never have the (dis)pleasure of delivering to Amazon but I've read and heard plenty of stories about it and the stty conditions you have to endure in some places are luxury in comparison to Amazon. The chap that said you'd give them 30 mins then pull out and refuse to go back, well, you would quickly find yourself having the contract removed and given to someone else. Wild Intl tried that trick with Tesco many years ago (albeit under slightly different circumstances) and that was the end of them.

I used to hate doing Lidl and Aldi with a passion due to the self-offloading rule, but to be honest now I'm getting on a bit I find that I'd much rather be kept busy doing something like that than being forced to sit in a Tesco waiting room for 4 hours watching News 24 and SkySports repeats every 5 mins. Most of the staff in Aldi and Lidl RDCs are pretty sound too if you're right enough with them, which is more than can be said for my experiences with Netto. mad Thank God that those fkers finally got their comeuppance and no longer exist. mad

philthy

4,689 posts

239 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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All that jazz said:
hehehehehehehehehehe

If I'd got a pound for every time I've heard that story I could've retired decades ago. hehe I see the most up-to-date version now involves cans of spray paint instead of sticks of chalk! hehe

Were you in Zeebrugge on 6 March 87 too? hehe
The tale was related to me by the gaffer and driver concerned. I had no reason to doubt them, but you appear to know better. wink

Not sure I get the Zeebrugge disaster reference, have I missed another classic tale of yore?

Panda76

2,569 posts

149 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Yes massively.
There is a lot of bullst stories bragged by err bull stters.
One of those is being on the TT ferry.Or if it wasn't for being messed around at {insert elaborate story here} they would have been on it and because of elaborate story just missed it.


All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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@ Panda, that's the one! hehe

philthy said:
The tale was related to me by the gaffer and driver concerned. I had no reason to doubt them, but you appear to know better. wink
Will give you the benefit of the doubt this time seeing as you've apparently not heard it before, but I'll bet my house that no such incident took place. Rarely a week goes by without someone trotting out that story on one of the trucker forums or in an RDC waiting room.

philthy said:
Not sure I get the Zeebrugge disaster reference, have I missed another classic tale of yore?
Poor choice of wording on my part as I was in a rush when I wrote. Perhaps I should've said "did you arrive late in Zeebrugge on 6 March 87 too?" hehe

A friendly word of advice - don't ever mention to other drivers/RDC waiting rooms/trucker forums about being booked on the Herald or arriving late at Zeebrugge, and certainly don't mention RDCs/running out of hours/police/cones/chalk/spray paint unless you enjoy having large amounts of piss taken out of you. I say that with good intent, not mocking you. smile

And watch out for those VOSA officials too! I hear they're handing out FPNs if you've got more than half a turn left on your landing legs! hehe

hehe

Edited by All that jazz on Friday 17th August 07:27

philthy

4,689 posts

239 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Just goes to show you, 20 years in the game, and not heard one of those!

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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philthy said:
Just goes to show you, 20 years in the game, and not heard one of those!
hehe You live and learn! tongue out

Humper

946 posts

161 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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philthy said:
Just goes to show you, 20 years in the game, and not heard one of those!
Ive got an old Harley with an inscription on the inside of the petrol cap.... wink

englisharcher

1,607 posts

163 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Humper said:
Ive got an old Harley with an inscription on the inside of the petrol cap.... wink
I thought it should be under the seat

Humper

946 posts

161 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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englisharcher said:
I thought it should be under the seat
smile

smifffymoto

4,527 posts

204 months

Saturday 18th August 2012
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Working for Irlams,delivered to T&S stores by the side of the M65 at Blackburn with a full load of Coke.I was 30 mins late,usually not a problem but they didn't have enough time to tip me before the Ciggy delivery arrived( if you remember,they totalley shut the warehouse for this deliverey).
I sat,sat and sat some more.Others came and went,I still sat .
James Irlam and Son,the only firm that will let you wait 12 hours to tip.
Chelford- Blackburn,tip,return empty.........15 hours,it was this tip that started my love of Wilbur Smith books.

leggly

1,780 posts

210 months

Saturday 18th August 2012
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smifffymoto said:
Working for Irlams,delivered to T&S stores by the side of the M65 at Blackburn with a full load of Coke.I was 30 mins late,usually not a problem but they didn't have enough time to tip me before the Ciggy delivery arrived( if you remember,they totalley shut the warehouse for this deliverey).
I sat,sat and sat some more.Others came and went,I still sat .
James Irlam and Son,the only firm that will let you wait 12 hours to tip.
Chelford- Blackburn,tip,return empty.........15 hours,it was this tip that started my love of Wilbur Smith books.
It took me 15 hours to do two tips at Frigo in Portbury from Gloucester once.rofl I love working for Royal Mail and their run to time policythumbup

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

248 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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Stuck in a lovely branch of Lidls today for eight and a half hours. Was such a nice experience.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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ZR1cliff said:
Stuck in a lovely branch of Lidls today for eight and a half hours. Was such a nice experience.
Refused to tip yourself?

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

248 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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All that jazz said:
Refused to tip yourself?
On the contrary, always get stuck in. Had a double stacked ECS fridge and had to wait an hour plus till they cleared some room for me. Then I needed a double stacker fork truck and couldn't find a key. Then I needed more room. Followed by a four hour plus wait for my paperwork.

Couple of other drivers had the same problem.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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ZR1cliff said:
On the contrary, always get stuck in. Had a double stacked ECS fridge and had to wait an hour plus till they cleared some room for me. Then I needed a double stacker fork truck and couldn't find a key. Then I needed more room. Followed by a four hour plus wait for my paperwork.

Couple of other drivers had the same problem.
ECS short sea or deep sea? We never touched boxes at all, even at RDCs. It was back it on a bay then 5 hours kip on the bunk while their warehouse monkeys emptied it.

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

248 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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Not sure what you mean by Deep sea. All I know is it was full of food from mainland Europe.

I struggle to get my head around why it takes so long. Go to somewhere like costco and you're in and out easily within a couple of hours. Lidls on the other hand and you wait so long, you nearly lose the will to live.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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ZR1cliff said:
Not sure what you mean by Deep sea. All I know is it was full of food from mainland Europe.

I struggle to get my head around whay it takes so long. Go to somewhere like costco and you're in and out easily within a couple of hours. Lidls on the other hand and you wait so long, you nearly use the will to live.
Short sea and deep sea are what it says on the tin really. Short sea usually to/from Ireland or the continent, deep sea usually means other continents such as US/Can/Asia/Africa etc. I've only done deep sea boxes and we never touched the load, EVER. But I know someone on for a shipping line that do short sea boxes and he has to get in the back and tip it. Just wondered if that was the same craic with your crowd. At least yours sounds like it was on pallets! Could've been worse and you could've been handballing it all out!

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

248 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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Ours are mainly short sea, foodstuffs from Europe. 33 pallets per level. Takes a while to shift a double stacker. The problem arises when you're the second ECS load that morning. That run out of room for you.

47p2

1,502 posts

160 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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All this talk of waiting to tip and the time wasted at the depots got me thinking of the quickest load I ever picked up.

I arrived at Stewart's Cream Of The Barley warehouse in Dundee and was told to back the container up to the loading bay.
12 minutes later I was told to draw forward so that they could close the doors and seal them. I was then told their record was 10 minutes 48 seconds to load a 40' container.
If only more companies had the enthusiasm and speed of these boys we might not be in such financial turmoil today

Justin Cyder

12,624 posts

148 months

Thursday 27th September 2012
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One from the other side of the fence. Last week, we did 25 or so loads of dvd's in to Tesco Daventry. One missed the slot when the Police shut the M1 for a lorry fire, so we took it back for the night & I did the rebook the next morning.

I phoned Daventry goods in & got told I had to phone Tesco central bookings. I did this & was put in a queue...for 35 minutes.

I thought sod this and called back tried another option to ask if anyone was actually in. Got told they were, but they're busy. Called again, went on hold again, this time for 25 minutes. Eventually got through & ended up talking to some guy with an attitude. I had the notes in front of me, but when I couldn't tell him what his number or that reference was, he told me the supplier had to rebook it.

I don't mind that I couldn't make the booking, what pisses me off is wasting an hour of my day only to get some phone monkey huffing & puffing down the phone at me presumably because he's full of regret at not trying harder at school & ending up in a crappy Tesco call centre.

You want to tell them to fk off & poke it, but of course...you can't. I hate Tesco.