Ran in this morning off a night out, was down for a local run with a 1200hrs finish however when I got back said run had been changed for a longer run with no notice, anyone else experience this? not good if you’re tryin to makes plans whilst on daily rest.
You expected to finish at one time?
But now it is likely to be a different time?
Can I guess you are relatively new to transport?
In some companies it might be exceptional, but in my experience changing of jobs is commonplace.
In my old job, I experienced this every other day usually half way through my shift.
The best strategy for transport is to always expect the unexpected.
Did you run ever run Iberia? https://youtu.be/K2OW0-_ne64?si=Y1BXi3__-G8-gsLj
Aye never make plans around an early finish. Guaranteed they will go t its up 
Welcome to the world of road haulage.
1 Like
NEVER make daily rest plans, only make IF plans. Only make rest day plans & even then you could end up with an unplanned night out due to break down, traffic etc screwing up the day.
Yes, once when I was still working here I ran into the yard at the end of a run having already rung the wife to put the dinner on, when the Boss said ‘just take this unit over to so and so who’s on a NO at Angouleme with some minor problem on his tractor’.
I couldn’t argue tacho time or anything because I would have had time to do the 2 hour round trip, so protested ‘but I can’t, Fran’s already got the dinner on’, to which the swift reply was ‘ok nip home for your dinner and go up there afterwards, La Gazelle* is there for the night anyway’. No way, I was even more French than he was with regard to sacred dinner times and wine with everything, so I had to ring her to put it on hold, and go. 
*La Gazelle was Philippe’s nickname. He was anything but like a gazelle, massively over weight, rolled as he walked because his legs were too fat to split foreward and back and I always was amazed that he could even get into his Magnum as I watched him slowly climb down the steps from it, wearing his flattened slippers that were never changed. Climbing, descending, driving, pushing pallettes, made no difference. 
But he was a good mate and would do anything to help another one, so I took him his ‘new’ motor with good grace. 