Couple of times I’ve been heading to a suppliers address instead of the customers, then looked again and realised my mistake 
Turned up at a tile merchants in Sandy and then realised I was supposed to deliver the load to a customer and not them luckily it was only up the road and their driver was just about to go there so I followed him and saved me having to find it 
I once went to Shotton on Teesside when I should have gone to Shotton on Deeside… couldn’t find a steel works anywhere…
one word for the numptys POSTCODE no excuses 
topmixer11:
one word for the numptys POSTCODE no excuses
and i bet you are one of them numptys who has only ever used a satnav… as im one of those numptys who had to use paper maps.
Once managed to mix up a farm called Matford,just outside Lymington with a farm called Millards,just outside Cheltenham was 20 minutes from Lymington when the cabphone went asking how far from the farm was I as the catchers were waiting,told them 20 mins and they were happy,pulled into the farm and washed the wheels at which point the farm manager walked over and started to chat away,after a while he asked why was I on site as his chicks were only 4 days old■■? 
just as he said that the phone went again and I had to admit I was muppet of the day
I did try to deliver some Royal Mail vans to the wrong place. I loaded them in Luton and they were addressed to P/mouth. I couldn’t understand why there were 2 sets of vehicle documents addressed to 2 different people.
Never mind Plymouth and Portsmouth are at the same end of the country
jessicas dad:
topmixer11:
one word for the numptys POSTCODE no excuses
and i bet you are one of them numptys who has only ever used a satnav… as im one of those numptys who had to use paper maps.
NOPE i just double check postcodes it aint hard too learn them or look them up 1st is it , if you all had too pay diesel bill i think you may check twice do once !
I remember when i was at an office in Slough, head of a paint company when an artic from Portugal i think turned up with 20 pallets for them, unfortunately he was sent to the office address, the warehouse was in Poland
topmixer11:
one word for the numptys POSTCODE no excuses
Well . . . . . . . . . . .
That all depends on the information you’re given being correct 
We get most of our detail by text.
I can’t remember enough to give the text to let you work it out, so - just the outline details . . . . .
I received a text with a company name, an address, and the postcode.
It was a Tyre Fitting company with a box of imported tyres.
Acme Tyre Co
Johnson Street
Cardiff
TS10 3BH
(The underscore shows actual info, italicised shows vague memory info)
Now then, “TS” is the postcode prefix for Teeside, “CF” is for Cardiff. And bear in mind that some letters sound very similar when spoken over the telephone - particularly mobiles with anything resembling a doddgy line/connection. “f” and “s” being the most common.
No worries, I’ve plenty of time waiting for the box - I’ll fire up the laptop and Goggle it as well as TomTom test it.
Theres a Johnson Street in Cardiff and a Johnson Lane in Middlesborugh-ish
Acme Tyre Co has depots/outlets in both Cardiff and Middlesborough-ish actually on Johnson Lane
Honestly, you couldn’t make it up
Oh - here’s one from my other half. She’s blonde, but she’s really not that dumb . . . .
She had to go to one of her company’s depots in Dublin the other day.
Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin. For a gigle, get your Googlemaps/TomToms out and find that one
i have returned to the wrong depot once after my days work. i was doing regular runs for securicor omega in andover driving a volvo FL6 for ages. one day i got pulled off that job and into maxi haulage driving a volvo FL6 on similiar work. got back to the depot at the end of the day in autopilot and realised my truck was a different colour to the rest
dambuster:
topmixer11:
one word for the numptys POSTCODE no excusesWell . . . . . . . . . . .
That all depends on the information you’re given being correct
We get most of our detail by text.
I can’t remember enough to give the text to let you work it out, so - just the outline details . . . . .
I received a text with a company name, an address, and the postcode.
It was a Tyre Fitting company with a box of imported tyres.
Acme Tyre Co
Johnson Street
Cardiff
TS10 3BH(The underscore shows actual info, italicised shows vague memory info)
Now then, “TS” is the postcode prefix for Teeside, “CF” is for Cardiff. And bear in mind that some letters sound very similar when spoken over the telephone - particularly mobiles with anything resembling a doddgy line/connection. “f” and “s” being the most common.
No worries, I’ve plenty of time waiting for the box - I’ll fire up the laptop and Goggle it as well as TomTom test it.
Theres a Johnson Street in Cardiff and a Johnson Lane in Middlesborugh-ish
Acme Tyre Co has depots/outlets in both Cardiff and Middlesborough-ish actually on Johnson Lane
Honestly, you couldn’t make it up
Oh - here’s one from my other half. She’s blonde, but she’s really not that dumb . . . .
She had to go to one of her company’s depots in Dublin the other day.
Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin. For a gigle, get your Googlemaps/TomToms out and find that one
Link:
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc … 5&t=h&z=19
I am not getting this jolly jape. 
On Safeway we had a guy called George Bremner, old boy fought in the Korian war plenty of tails etc was a nice old boy and would help anyone out …
Well I get plymouth store 1 night so off I trott, get to Plymouth and theres a Sainsbury trailer on the door, so I wander in and find the back door man and ask what the Sainsbury motor is doing here he walked out and said bloody hell the drivers in the canteen so i trott up there and who do i find yeah George silly old bugg3r had been sent into sainsburys to cover another agency driver who was ill…
Better Fox trott oscar George lol your not only at the wrong store but ur at the wrong company Good old George
many moons ago when i worked for a famous london coach comapny we had a driver who had a leeds castle day excursion called in from leeds yorkshire to say he could not find the castle
I know someone who took the wrong trailer once from reading to milton keynes, wasn’t me, although we look remarkably alike
dambuster:
Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin. For a gigle, get your Googlemaps/TomToms out and find that one
I don’t get it either. I know where it is without a map ./Google / Tom Tom anyway… 
topmixer11:
one word for the numptys POSTCODE no excuses
Speaking of postcodes topmixer11, for a laugh i typed in the word ZB into my sat nav to see what would happen?
Anyway’s put the kettle on pal, I’m outside!! 
zoom out a bit on google maps,its 4 different roads all in the same area
Simon 
I knew someone who went to Madrid instead of Milan
two year ago this very week …(reason i know it was this week is cause it was xmas eve and i wanted to get finished kinda sharpish…)…
was on the agency for EVERY LITTLE HELPS… got a nice quick load over to coatbridge… … nae probs to a man of my calibre me thinks to myself… …
only goes to the the bloody ASDA store across the bloody road…
ah well the guy on the gate had a good laugh and let me turn in the yard…
thegeordie:
zoom out a bit on google maps,its 4 different roads
Simon
Ah, that’s par for the course here. I use a paper map for Dublin, and the road from the roundabout to what is marked Seamus Ennis Rd, is actually Jamestown Road, the rest is not, as it’s actually Jamestown Business Park.
It gets worse out in the sticks, where townland names have been assigned to roads by the electronic mappers. It’s much easier to have a phone number and just call them up to find out which cottage/farm it is
For all the talking, they still haven’t got a postcode system in place. An Post doesn’t want it as they have there own Geo-address map database and know where everyone is, but for every other delivery driver it’s a big phone/fuel bill/waste of time finding places. If I see a wee green An Post van, I’ll box 'em in until they can tell me such-and-such a place is. 