I did a day for Prestons of Potto a few weeks ago, and as I was returning back to the yard I got a phone call from the traffic planner. "All ok? you on your way back? Great! Thanks very much for today. See you next time you’re in. Cheers.
As I said, it was a few weeks ago but the fact that someone actually thanked me still gives me a warm glow because it never happens.
Anyway, credit where it’s due.
cheekymonkey:
I did a day for Prestons of Potto a few weeks ago, and as I was returning back to the yard I got a phone call from the traffic planner. "All ok? you on your way back? Great! Thanks very much for today. See you next time you’re in. Cheers.
As I said, it was a few weeks ago but the fact that someone actually thanked me still gives me a warm glow because it never happens.
Anyway, credit where it’s due.
Every day on tippers if I see him he says thanks and if I’m on recovery every customer thanks me pretty much and the controller will make me a brew while I do the handover stuff which is more important than a thank you lol
Waitrose Maidstone very polite…
Sometimes a customer will phone in with praise - always good.
Pulling out to the next lane for a recovery/tyre fitter on hard shoulder and get acknowledged.
Getting a wave from kids (any age) when I let them cross the road
I’m easily pleased 
4aaaa4dd:
Waitrose Maidstone very polite…
That’s because you’re in a nice area.
Not biased at all
I once bulk tipped sharp sand to a horse trainers yard years ago somewhere around Luton and was given a tenner, I was so taken aback that I was speechless,I still hadn’t thanked him when he wandered off,I had to chase him to thank him for his appreciation.
We don’t need a pat on the back every day,but every now and again is appreciated.
Many times by some lovely ladies … Ohhh ‘thanked’ !! 
lol
I’ve been thanked by someone in a traffic office several times over the past few years, usually when I’ve done a job at short notice because someone in the traffic office screwed up or another driver never turned up for work.
I agree it’s nice that some people occasionally take the time to show some appreciation, especially when you’ve put yourself out for them.
On the other hand I’ve also done jobs at short notice and had to put up with crap from some ignorant idiot in a traffic office because something had gone wrong for them, I’ve had to remind people on more than one occasion that their problems were not of my making 
Job before last, I got a Thank You every day off the boss, he was a decent character.
This job I usually get a thanks for doing a job others don’t want to do, ie a night out.
It does feel nice, but not as nice as the weekly thanks that goes into the bank 
Hiya i worked for a chap in Buxton on the tipper job, he left me to get on with what i wanted to do,
i’d phone in at night telling him what i’d done. his reply was, well done i don’t know how you fit the work
in thanks…it was a load bull really, it worked though it got the work out of me.
another job i did in the 70’s, i’d tip on a farm and leave the weigh ticket in the milking parlour
their was always 50pence to buy a breakfast. that was 4 loads a week with brewers grains.
thank you mr Wallace Day. just think 50pence for brekki at Georges on the A38, is it still there.
John
You do get a lot of thanks on tipper work. Probably because by doing half a dozen shunts and wasting driving minutes has made someones’ job much easier.
When I was delivering flour, it wasn’t uncommon after lugging a tonne upstairs for some lazy baker “because they’re too busy” to barely get an acknowledgement off them as they signed the paperwork. For those familiar with Southport, there are two bakeries there I went to. The Dutch Bakery were a smashing crowd, someone would come out and ask how much help was needed etc. On the other side of town was CH Latham, the most miserable pig ignorant turds you could not wish to meet.
I get a thank you every day, or at least every day that I see the boss.
As an aside, I worked for BT many years ago, and several of us collared the boss one day to complain that he never said thanks whenever we put ourselves out. His reply was that there was only so much money in his budget for rewards, so he had to be sparing. He couldn’t grasp that we weren’t after pressures or dosh, just for him to say thanks every now and then…
My dad had the best customer when he was doing German group age 30 years ago, Klaus Sanders at Meerbusch - used to give him 10 marks every time for a meal. If I was with him he got 20. At the time a jaeger schnitzel at rasthof Geismuehle was 4 marks!
Gary
I once delivered a pallet of 1 gal bottles of paraffin to this old dear in the sticks.
It was about 80 bottles, and it took me 20 minutes to offload them. The old dear (in her 90’s) was helping with this old sack truck taking one at a time.
After I got them round the back for her, she asked me if I could tip them into her tank for her.
It was my last drop, mid afternoon, and a week before xmas, so I thought why not.
Hour later, and the 80 or so bottles tipped, and she thanked me and gave me a Christmas card. (I assumed because she noticed all the cards I had hanging in the cab) I thanked her for the card, put it on the dash, got coat off, and headed back.
On the way home, I hit heavy traffic and was stood still for a while, I saw the card, and was about to put it my bin, but thought I would hang it instead. Opened it, and inside the card was £100. I was so gobsmacked, I didn’t notice the traffic was flowing again.
my boss rang me this morning to ask me if i ship out on Sunday from Portsmouth when i said no he said oh thanks for that 
Used to get a fair few tips in Scotland when delivering gravestones because I’d ask where they wanted them and use my pallet truck to take them there instead of just dropping them at the door. Delivery schedule was so slack it wasn’t like I didn’t have the time to. Some places used to tip a couple of quid, some a fiver.
Shame it was only an agency job and lasted 3 weeks. It was one of the most relaxing enjoyable jobs I ever had in haulage.
I know we are just doing our jobs and that’s what we’re paid to do, but it helps to be thanked once in a while or told you’re doing a good job. Too many places don’t notice if you go the extra mile, but they come down on you like a ton of bricks if you make the slightest mistake. Being positive with staff works for everyone and it’s free.
Over the years I have had clients we worked for take us out for meals and beers, the odd envelope with a few beer tokens in and one time stuck at a tiny tile factory in Italy - weekended for no fault of my own was given the keys to their holiday let cottage for the weekend and invited to join the family for meals ( their house was alongside the small workshop and the holiday let) - I have also been lent cars to go to town to buy food- and one infamous incident - shared with another member on here when a bar owner shut his bar, kicked all the locals out so he could do a shuttle service in his car to take a load of not sober Englishmen back to their trucks - after a good all day weekended session. there are many good people out there that do appreciate the job is hard- and its not always the drivers fault when it goes wrong, and if you pass the attitude test they will do what they can to help you out.
Ahh, you legend Clunk.
Loads of times one tippers and skip work taking a bit of effort to get the bin or load in a convenient spot pays divedends been given a few quid here and there pack of beers etc.
Few of us on the firm get in the pub after work on a friday one of the bosses often pops buy and buys a drink.
Happened on Wednesday,tipped morrisons at banchory and headed to morrisons Aberdeen.When I got there manager says what have you got today,replied I ve got your pallets they couldn’t fit on first load,he says that’s great driver thanks very much.