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My first ever trucking job on my own. how did it go?

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muddyjames:
Ruddy appauling is how it went.  :cry:

 It is my first and VERY last. My task was to go to Leicester from Banbury, pick up some croissants and then get down to Ocado in Hatfield by 9:30pm. Well, that didnt happen.
I got so lost around Leicester that another driver had to find me and show me the way to the place we needed to be. Going around Leicester I ended up in 2tonne weight limit zones. They had times of when it is enforcable and not but so much writing I couldnt see the times and the signs were half way down a road with no warning of it coming up. If I had got caught I would have been in so much pooh. I have a nasty feeling a red light camera got me too. I passed the lights on green and just as I went through they went to orange and the trailer passed them in red and I think I saw a flash. The company was down small roads that I wouldnt have believed sat nav anyway and not gone down them. Then the bread had all fallen over and needed a forklift to open the back door. 90 trays of bread ruined and the other driver very kindly helped pick it all back up. We spent 1hr 30 there doing that. I gave him a tenner to say thanks. I did hear him say on the phone that 2 different typs of trays had ben placed around each other and I didnt stand a chance, but even so. Still doesnt look good. He could have just sat in his lorry and said "your problem" but he didnt. I was supposed to be in Hatfield for 9:30, got there at 1:15am. By the time I had unloaded and re loaded I didnt leave there until 3am and got back to the yard at 5am JUST inside tacho time I think but not working time directive rules. Then I had to unload the lorry again and park it up and refuel etc. Before I set off they said I should be back by midnight. When I left Hatfield I was asked how many trays I had unloaded and taken back. When I said I had no idea and didnt know I was supposed to have been counting them the woman through a hissy fit. Oh, And I couldnt find Ocado in Hatfield either and very nearly got caught by pc plod using a phone whilst driving. I was putting it onto loud speaker at a set of traffic lights as he cam up the side of me. I HATED doing it but it was the only way to get guided in AGAIN. I got given no directions on how to get to either place, just a map with an arrow on which bared no resemblence of where I needed to be. Nobody told me the lorry had sat nav with these places programmed in either and so there was me using my sat nav which obviously thinks I am a car and can go do down any road no matter how narrow. So I ended up 6 hours late and some VERY wee weeed off managers at the bakery. I dont think they will be having me back. I wont be going back either. I have come back with more oil and grease on me than a car mechanic and very disgruntled. Driving the lorry I loved and didnt hit 1 kerb. If I could pick a lorry up just before a motorway and drop it of on a slip road I wil do that.
The search for a new career will start now. I am looking at last nights experience as it is a tick in the ambition box and done it, but now it is time to re focus on what to do for a living.

I have just phoned the boss at the agency to say dont use me again and take me off thier books and he had heard it wasn't a good night. ah well, time to move on. a very expensive thing to happen but ho hum.

Saffy:
police force are recruiting

muddyjames:
I keep thinking the police and fire bregade. I am not sure I have the right mind for police as I couldnt handle the little ejits at work. It could toughen me up though and make me a better person.

adafish:
stick with it fella, we all have our bad days...ya gotta start somewhere..

Saffy:

--- Quote from: muddyjames on March 22, 2010, 17:26:02 ---I keep thinking the police and fire bregade. I am not sure I have the right mind for police as I couldnt handle the little ejits at work. It could toughen me up though and make me a better person.

--- End quote ---

no not fire service, no not that.... I wouldn't like to think you're a fireman somewhere (driving around looking for the fire), Jesus no.

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