The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

I drove over 190 miles today, and saw no twattish driving at all. How odd. I did see the remnants of a shunt on the M40 though.

[beko1987]

I drove over 190 miles today, and saw no twattish driving at all. How odd. I did see the remnants of a shunt on the M40 though.

Luckily I went broken hoover collecting in wycombe on the way home tonight so missed that, the m40 looked a mess by j4

[Matt]

Check this monumental bellend out.

 

This junction has crap visibility looking down through the left of frame at the best of times and this guy parked here to chat with his mate for MORE than ten minutes. Normally I would just think he's a twat and leave it at that but I'm pissed off because once they finished their chat the driver turned around and fucking parked no more than 10 feet away. The potential for a collision to occur between a vehicle turning right out of the junction and another travelling from left to right was genuinely really high. Thankfully it was unusually quiet.

 

[DodgeRover]

High levels of twattery last night on the cubs cycle ride. A new mini decided to carry on overtaking when a space had been left for them into the face of oncoming traffic - who had to stop. Mini then drives into someone's drive.

5 minutes later said mini appears again and does exactly the same thing again but this time with a skip wagon!

Oh for a helmet camera..

 

Anyway grin for the night was someone with a matt black Capri that looked like an extra from MadMax and running a V6 or V8, most polite sensible driver to pass us - quite made my night

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Lots of proper angry bastards around at the moment (posting essays on here about minor motoring transgressions)

[hairnet]

Yeah but mo yer a mong

 

Got to scouse for the boat but i don't have my phone with me

 

Ffs good job I can photo and WiFi with this one

[hairnet]

Check this monumental bellend out.

 

This junction has crap visibility looking down through the left of frame at the best of times and this guy parked here to chat with his mate for MORE than ten minutes. Normally I would just think he's a twat and leave it at that but I'm pissed off because once they finished their chat the driver turned around and fucking parked no more than 10 feet away. The potential for a collision to occur between a vehicle turning right out of the junction and another travelling from left to right was genuinely really high. Thankfully it was unusually quiet

 

Ring number and complain

[Matt]

Lots of proper angry bastards around at the moment (posting essays on here about minor motoring transgressions)

 

Minor or not it is the selfishness about it that annoys me.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

So I see

[Inspector Morose]

Don't worry Bol, it'll be back to Hermes in a day or two.

[Snipes]

ECS/CSCS card is due for renewal. What a load of shit.

Same month as my car insurance renewal, a water bill and I got a reminder letter from the dentist. Fuck.

[Lankytim]

DHL have fired me! But I've found another job a couple of miles away, at another DHL site.... and I can work back at the first DHL site in a couple of months (presumably after they've forgotten I was fired)

[strangeangel]

Lots of proper angry bastards around at the moment (posting essays on here about minor motoring transgressions)

 

Disgraceful. Maybe we should think about having a dedicated thread where people can moan about stuff?

[Guest Hooli]

DHL have fired me! But I've found another job a couple of miles away, at another DHL site.... and I can work back at the first DHL site in a couple of months (presumably after they've forgotten I was fired)

 

I seem to recall you expected that for a while? Still shite mind,

[myglaren]

I've been out and about driving in the Newcastle area, much of it in central Newcastle and Gateshead and in contrast to the previous few posts have been very pleasantly surprised at the standards of driving, even in pouring rain.

And unlike the A1/M1 last Sunday.

[artdjones]

I've seen lots of stupid stuff over the past couple of days, but I'm keeping quiet about them because I did something stupid myself yesterday.

[Hendry]

Sweeping statement that. We're not. Take each person at their merit, rather than tarring an entire force etc. Rotten eggs in every walk of life, but doesn't make me hate a collective of people because of the poor attitide/behaviour of a minority.

 

If theres a decent cop in Scotland, particularly in the traffic division, ive yet to meet them!

[Louise2cv]

Do you meet a lot of coppers???

[twosmoke300]

This is goin down nearly as well as my comment on teachers holidays

[alcyonecorporation]

Read that last post completely wrong. 

[Lankytim]

I seem to recall you expected that for a while? Still shite mind,

 

 

They've been fishing around and monitoring my work for absolutely months, I never quite understood why. In this case it was around a run I've been doing for about 18 months. Maybe once a week there's about 4 hours downtime waiting for my collection book in time, so I park up somewhere on route and wait, usually in the same spot around 20 mins from my collection point. They knew I had a lot of downtime and were fine with it. Apparently the head of the local neighbourhood association has been complaining about my parked truck for months and the complaints have only just filtered down to transport level. 

 

Apparently from what this guy had been saying I was parking there every day, which I wasn't. Other lorries park up in the same place and I think he was confusing my lorry with those, it's in a residential area but outside a large park on a very wide road, as mentioned often with other lorries parked on the same stretch, not obstructing anyone, causing a nuisance e.t.c 

 

After a bit of toing and froing they said they were perfectly happy with my explanation with having to park up for hours (due to poor planning) but as this guy was on the verge of going to the press and the complaint has come down from upper management and has gone via the "compliance department" they had to ditch me to set an example. They're arranging a visit to the guys house to personally apologise and tell him that I've been dealt with. If i'd been told after the first time he moaned the issue would have been sorted with just a word in my ear, but because DHL communications are absolutely shite nobody my end knew anything about it until he'd involved half of DHL's upper management.

 

 

TL:DR

If you work for DHL, eventually you get fired. It's like the tides.

[alcyonecorporation]

Cannot like the above post. Pleased you can has work again. 
 

It would be a pity if you happened to tell of your plight to, I don't know, a journalist or someone, wouldn't it? 

[beko1987]

Cannot like the above post. Pleased you can has work again.

 

It would be a pity if you happened to tell of your plight to, I don't know, a journalist or someone, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it be nice if a magazine did a feature on what commercial drivers have to do on their break, and how DHL shaft them over when they try their best

[alcyonecorporation]

Yes. It would be nice. [roots through contact list] 

[Cavcraft]

Do you know exactly where this house is, Tim? Perhaps start a side line burger bar with a special offer for fridge lorry drivers after 11.00pm?

[Lankytim]

Bearing in mind I still work for DHL but on another contract and 50% of the lorry driving work in the area come via DHL i think it would be a bad idea. I'm a 3rd party contractor and don't want to get banned from every DHL site forever. 

 

To be fair, I could've just parked somewhere more suitable, but to be fair to me had I known that's what I would have done..

[Lankytim]

Do you know exactly where this house is, Tim? Perhaps start a side line burger bar with a special offer for fridge lorry drivers after 11.00pm?

 

 

No I don't, but I could easily find out. I was offered a job the same day by a company that transports brand new JCBs to the docks. Usually a couple run together then they "piggy back" home.

 

I had a brief flash of unloading a 360 excavator and knocking the guys house down, but then I had another flash of reality that razing his home to the ground and crushing him to death would be seen as slightly over the top.

[Cavcraft]

Yeah, but on the internet when offering any 'If I were you, I'd.....' sort of advice, you HAVE to suggest something totally extreme. 

[twosmoke300]

Parked up in Tesco parent and child bit today next to an 06 a3 on 18 inch wheels . Both front tyres completely bald and gone beyond the cords / showing the steel wire on the inside edges !

Landsail rubbish as well ! If I had seen the driver I would have said something - two child seats in the back too !

[twosmoke300]

Exactly my views - this Audi didn't come with 18" wheels so someone has fitted them but now can't afford to fit safe rubber on the car they move their kids around in