The grumpy thread

[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

[3VOM]

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.

and you'd probably lose your driving licence.

[Lord Sterling]

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

Yeah, and not enough angry bastards moaning about people who post moaning about "minor" motoring transgressions on a thread dedicated to moaning eh?

[Hendry]

On the subject of tyres..this is something that gets to me, irks me even. I've seen countless people with high end Audi's/Merc's etc, only to run absolute budget rubber on them. I always tend to judge the owner on this basis that, if they can skimp on rubber, then they can skimp elsewhere with car maintenance. Why bother having such a high end car if you can't really do it the justice it deserves?

 

Because theyre what id say show-offs, they probably spent all their disposable income buying the bloody thing and then putting big wheels on it, and theyve chosen a bad compromise where they spend their money making themselves look well off in other peoples eyes at the expense of not being able to afford to service, maintain and repair the car if it goes wrong.

 

Im not being sexist, but I notice a lot more cars with bald tyres owned/driven by women than I do men, and working in a main dealers years ago my theory was backed up by the numbers of female owned cars coming in needing obvious maintenance or with hard to miss faults/noises/bangs/clunks/warning lights/bulbs blown. 

 

Im not that bothered about people putting budget tyres on a prestige car, to me theres no difference between doing that on a fancy car as a run of the mill car, i wouldnt do it personally on any car, and dont think its good on anything, but some people arent fussed about stuff like that the way we are, a tyre is a tyre to them, but it does piss me off when I see/hear any car with obvious dangerous defects. 

[purplebargeken]

A minor grump in all honesty...... anyone recall the purple Volvo V40 that I sold in Jan/Feb 2016? 

 

Just had a letter come through today saying that although the car is MOT'd and taxed (by someone) it is not showing upon the askMID database.

 

Hmm, why are they communicating with me? That would be due to them believing I am still the owner. I am pretty sure it has gone through two owners since I owned it. They will get a call tomorrow.

 

No doubt they will make me jump through all sorts of hoops to prove I don't actually have the car. Deep joy.

 

The car was sold on a weekend and the form posted on the Monday.

[HH-R]

I don't read much into tyres on cars, the majority of folk simply use them as an A to B convenience and don't know much other than putting fuel in and taking it to a garage to be fixed. If a garage tells them the tyres need replacing, so long as the replacements are round, have tread and hold air, they tend to put the cheapest ones that place uses on to keep the bill down as that's what most people want.

 

My own car has been owned by one previous owner since it was 6 months and old they splashed out on servicing every 5k miles, but when I got it it had some right mingebag tyres on.

[Guest Hooli]

I put el-cheapo tyres on, it's only a car ffs. It's not like they are as important as on a bike, bikes get decent rubber. Mind you due to the bikes I don't drive cars fast so it works out well.

[Kiltox]

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..

I think the worst thing about all of this is that you're a contractor not by choice but by the fact they are at it to avoid employers NI etc

 

I choose to be a contractor in my field because the rates are worth it - I assume that is not the case for you and many others who are told it's the only way you'll get work

[DodgeRover]

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.

I'm sure given some peoples work and financial situation, if they had been sacked with no warning it would be seen as a proportionate response

[D Spares & Tyres]

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

The only Scottish traffic cop I ever met pulled me for speeding on a Sunday outside a rural school..... Wasn't far over the limit but he was very concerned over the children i could have run over. He wasn't very happy when I asked if Scottish schools opened on a Sunday...

 

He also berated me for the crack in my windscreen and told me it was dangerous because ' it was now weakened and could shatter at any moment, covering me in glass'

 

Such a bell end

[Cheggers]

After 10 years on Autoshite, I've just used the Ignore function for the first time.

 

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

Now everyone's trying to guess who you've blocked!