The grumpy thread

[sierraman]

I’m going to sound like a right busy twat with this but the local Evri driver has a S-Max, I thought ‘I bet that’s done some miles’ , checked it and it’s actually got no MOT, it’s been out for 3 months. Do they not give a shit these outfits? Basically allowing people to be operating on their behalf with a likely unroadworthy vehicle. 

[Pieman]

On 17/12/2023 at 22:08, Unlucky Alf said:

is it me or is there an increase in ‘Up the Arse Audi’s*’ that are on the roads?  Most of them seem to be these big fuck off size Audi’s, although not exclusively, that delight in forcing people to go faster by driving up their Arse, or just seem to drive that way and have no concept of leaving a gap.

 

*trademark

Their attitude is "I'm in a bigger and more prestigious car than you so I am automatically more important, get the fuck out of my way."

[sierraman]

13 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Their attitude is "I'm in a bigger and more prestigious car than you so I am automatically more important, get the fuck out of my way."

A lady I work with says ‘they see the four rings and they get out of your way’ 😂

If anything it just makes me adopt a snails pace, they can either back off and we’ll go at the flow of traffic or I’ll just slow right the hell down. 

[Popsicle]

47 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I’m going to sound like a right busy twat with this but the local Evri driver has a S-Max, I thought ‘I bet that’s done some miles’ , checked it and it’s actually got no MOT, it’s been out for 3 months. Do they not give a shit these outfits? Basically allowing people to be operating on their behalf with a likely unroadworthy vehicle. 

The delivery companies really don't give a shit, as long as somebody turns up and delivers the parcels, they could be driving virtually anything.

I'm sure Evri would have checked the courier was above board when they started, but they will very rarely check if they are still legit further down the line. A lot of the couriers will also subcon the work onto somebody else, while taking a cut, its a pretty brutal, work for a pittance industry.

[Zelandeth]

24 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

The delivery companies really don't give a shit, as long as somebody turns up and delivers the parcels, they could be driving virtually anything.

I'm sure Evri would have checked the courier was above board when they started, but they will very rarely check if they are still legit further down the line. A lot of the couriers will also subcon the work onto somebody else, while taking a cut, its a pretty brutal, work for a pittance industry.

The one we usually see here has a clapped out Focus with no rear bumper. Hasn't had a test since 2016 and tax for a year or two before that.  Was showing as uninsured when I checked too.

They couldn't give a damn as it's "the responsibility of the driver to ensure their vehicle is legal.". 

[sierraman]

Corporate responsibility in 2023...

[Popsicle]

49 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Corporate responsibility in 2023...

Is passed down the line to the self employed below minimum wage subby.

 

55 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

The one we usually see here has a clapped out Focus with no rear bumper. Hasn't had a test since 2016 and tax for a year or two before that.  Was showing as uninsured when I checked too.

They couldn't give a damn as it's "the responsibility of the driver to ensure their vehicle is legal.". 

They do tend to be covered on the courier companies carriage of goods for hire reward policy, the excess on these policies tend to be in the thousands.

I'm sure if something goes amiss then the policy wouldn't pay up, the subby will probably be working a few weeks or more in hand so any costs would be deducted from any income due.

[sierraman]

God help you if one of these fuckers runs into you.

[dozeydustman]

Courier drivers have to have business cover on their insurance. We have plenty of staff at work who use their own car(s) for visiting sites or customers and they have to show they are covered and take a driving assessment in their own vehicle.

If Evri et al actually bothered to check their couriers were running their vehicles legally I reckon at least half their drivers would be out of a job.

Audiwankers is not just limited to the four rings of doom round my way. Pretty much anything German tends to be driven like a twat round here.

[Floatylight]

10 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Courier drivers have to have business cover on their insurance. We have plenty of staff at work who use their own car(s) for visiting sites or customers and they have to show they are covered and take a driving assessment in their own vehicle.

If Evri et al actually bothered to check their couriers were running their vehicles legally I reckon at least half their drivers would be out of a job.

Audiwankers is not just limited to the four rings of doom round my way. Pretty much anything German tends to be driven like a twat round here.

At work we have a system where we have to submit evidence & allow checks to be carried out.

If you don't sort before tax/mot/ insurance renewal you get an email inmediately withdrawing your authorisation to drive until resolved...

[sierraman]

58 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Courier drivers have to have business cover on their insurance. We have plenty of staff at work who use their own car(s) for visiting sites or customers and they have to show they are covered and take a driving assessment in their own vehicle.

If Evri et al actually bothered to check their couriers were running their vehicles legally I reckon at least half their drivers would be out of a job.

Audiwankers is not just limited to the four rings of doom round my way. Pretty much anything German tends to be driven like a twat round here.

I get that people are trying to earn a living but you can’t expect the law to accommodate you. 

[Popsicle]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

Courier drivers have to have business cover on their insurance. We have plenty of staff at work who use their own car(s) for visiting sites or customers and they have to show they are covered and take a driving assessment in their own vehicle.

If Evri et al actually bothered to check their couriers were running their vehicles legally I reckon at least half their drivers would be out of a job.

Audiwankers is not just limited to the four rings of doom round my way. Pretty much anything German tends to be driven like a twat round here.

What you say about checking the legalities of drivers is true, ignorance is bliss, if they checked them regularly their business model would collapse.

Business cover is not courier cover. Courier insurance is for the carriage of goods for hire or reward, business cover is for site visiting/carrying your own business goods/stuff about.

Then there are different types of carriage of goods levels depending on what you deliver or how many deliveries you make a day.

I'm a owner driver same day courier, my policy is worded 'Use for Social Domestic & Pleasure Purposes and for the business of the Insured including use for the carriage of goods for hire and reward'.

On top of that I have goods in transit cover, to cover the goods I'm carrying. Then there is public liability cover, in case I damage something or hurt somebody. Then there is employee liability cover as I'm classed as an employee of my own company.

I doubt that many same day multidroppers in their own vehicles are covered correctly, same goes for food delivery guys.

[cobblers]

A bloke from openreach or whatever came to our house at 8am to fiddle with the phone socket to make the internet work. According to my wife who was home at the time, he was a very pleasant bloke apart from the fact that he stank to high heaven and then asked to use our downstairs loo and left our house smelling like unwashed genitals. 

ten hours later, I've just walked through the door and our house still stinks like pickled testicles. It's fuckin lousy!

[sierraman]

14 minutes ago, cobblers said:

A bloke from openreach or whatever came to our house at 8am to fiddle with the phone socket to make the internet work. According to my wife who was home at the time, he was a very pleasant bloke apart from the fact that he stank to high heaven and then asked to use our downstairs loo and left our house smelling like unwashed genitals. 

ten hours later, I've just walked through the door and our house still stinks like pickled testicles. It's fuckin lousy!

How bad must it be that he leaves a trail? I’m surprised his work haven’t pulled him up on it, imagine being on a job with him cooped up in a cupboard in a telephone exchange having to crouch down near him. 🤮

[Rust Collector]

11 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I’m surprised his work haven’t pulled him up on it

They’re on the case, but they’re just waiting on the civil engineering team to come down and remove his pants with a kango.

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

God help THEM if one of these fuckers runs into you.

 

[Markeh]

Clearly I must have the exception to the rule with my Evri driver, as the lass who delivers round my way appears to be driving a fairly smart looking and apparently completely legal newer Meriva.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yep evri etc don't give a shit not their problem past the parcel insurance win win for them.

As for takeaway deliveries lol most don't even have a licence one dealer we new 10ish years ago had one near him & was sick of them constantly wanting to give peanuts for tradeins one even asked to be  put on his insurance! & Was genuinely perplexed/annoyed when told it doesn't work like.

[timolloyd]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

A bloke from openreach or whatever came to our house at 8am to fiddle with the phone socket to make the internet work. According to my wife who was home at the time, he was a very pleasant bloke apart from the fact that he stank to high heaven and then asked to use our downstairs loo and left our house smelling like unwashed genitals. 

ten hours later, I've just walked through the door and our house still stinks like pickled testicles. It's fuckin lousy!

Had exactly the same with Openreach just last week! Nice bloke but crikey, the smell…

[loserone]

Better than our openreach bloke, waited in all day and no show

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 17/12/2023 at 00:37, Pieman said:

Recently I was being constantly tailgated in the Jazz by a bloke in (inevitably) an Audi, so when we came up to a junction and it was clear ahead I got fed up, booted it and left him quite a way behind.  I think he was very surprised at how quickly the Jazz took off!

my crewmate did this to a bwm in his Jizz sport (the 1.5 130bhp one) his new hybrid one can do similar if needed😁

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Markeh said:

Clearly I must have the exception to the rule with my Evri driver, as the lass who delivers round my way appears to be driving a fairly smart looking and apparently completely legal newer Meriva.

Ours has been the same for a couple of years now . Same woman , newish van . Before that it was a variety of people in private cars, including a 17 year old ( friend of my son), in his mum’s car.

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Better than our openreach bloke, waited in all day and no show

Imagine that, waiting in all day and Dirty Dick not even turning up!

[RoverFolkUs]

On the subject of courier insurance, I think a lot of self employed, zero hour contract workers using their own car, or whatever category they fall under, will come unstuck one day as they believe they are insured when they may not be

I believe evri offer "bolt on" insurance but a lot of the time this is contents insurance only for the parcels! So if they have an accident and they have a normal SDCP policy then they are snookered

I think in those cases, tax/MOT is the least of their worries

I'm more on about the people doing it as a sideline using their own car. Those who have a car/van dedicated to it with it being more or less their full time income probably have it all above board

[Popsicle]

23 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I'm more on about the people doing it as a sideline using their own car. Those who have a car/van dedicated to it with it being more or less their full time income probably have it all above board

You'd be surprised, the two companies I do the bulk of my work for are really on the ball, they both email me for an update of my insurance policies every year when they are due for renewal. No probs my end, just email them the PDF back.

I was talking to the transport manager at one of the firms earlier this year and was very surprised to hear that a few subbys didn't have the correct type of insurance, they had been altering SD&P policies with PDF editors. It had got so bad that they were forwarding the insurance details to there own insurers who looked into how correct the policies are. The sharp compliance checking all came about due to £250k of computer equipment being delivered that disappeared and a mis-placed £900k airplane door! The door was found but the computer equipment was never found to my knowledge.

[sierraman]

It makes you wonder why the Police don’t come down hard on these people. It’s an easy arrest surely waiting outside McDonalds at pretty much any given time and pull all these doing the deliveries to check the insurance. 

[ProgRocker]

On 15/12/2023 at 23:27, RoverFolkUs said:

TLDR; PRINTERS ARE FUCKING SHIT!! I've got 5, none of them worked properly to start with, I've got two working for now but three destined for the skip 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I have a Canon Printer that I bought 13 years ago. Works fine but I have keep my old very slow Windows 10 PC because it's not compatible with the current PC that run Windows 11. 

I could buy a new printer that is compatible with 11 but I use the printer so infrequently these days that it seems like a waste of money and effort. Might be better to send whatever attachment I need to print off to my work email and print it off there. I have an issue with clutter at home so I don't want 2 printers, never mind 5 of them!

[beko1987]

52 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

I have a Canon Printer that I bought 13 years ago. Works fine but I have keep my old very slow Windows 10 PC because it's not compatible with the current PC that run Windows 11. 

I could buy a new printer that is compatible with 11 but I use the printer so infrequently these days that it seems like a waste of money and effort. Might be better to send whatever attachment I need to print off to my work email and print it off there. I have an issue with clutter at home so I don't want 2 printers, never mind 5 of them!

Make a windows 7/10 vm just for your printer? 

I had a beautiful huge old hp office laser jet, the big tall multifunction units. Was utterly amazing (and free with many toners) but firmly in the windows 2000 era. 

Once I'd got a vm up, got into it'd web portal and set it up to read from a shared folder it was amazing, drag, drop, printer wakes up! 

Same with scanning (why I got it, was the cheapest way to get an a3 scanner) I could jsut sit there turning pages and it filled up said folder. 

Was a shame when I ran out of space to keep it 😢

Does it not work with generic windows drivers? I've got an early 2000s flatbed a3 scanner now (£140 flipping quid used) and it won't install its drivers in 11 but windows fax and scan works fine with it. Generic pcl print drivers not do the trick? 

 

[riek]

It's possible to get around any checks at all for the food delivery services (deliveroo etc) by signing up as a bicycle and driving your fucked old jazz anyway.

[ProgRocker]

16 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Does it not work with generic windows drivers? I've got an early 2000s flatbed a3 scanner now (£140 flipping quid used) and it won't install its drivers in 11 but windows fax and scan works fine with it. Generic pcl print drivers not do the trick? 

I need to investigate this further. I did consider having the old HP Windows 10 PC set up in my spare bedroom once I can acquire an extra monitor.