Longest waiting time

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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truckyboy:
When i was training to be a mechanic, we had our own boy to train, and now and again they would be sent up to the stores for a long weight

Garage I was an apprentice tried that one on me to. It didn’t work. Then they sent me out for a tin of tartan paint. :wink: I asked if I could use the pickup, was told yes and buggered off home for the afternoon. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: Oh this was in the days before mobile phones.:smiley:

Went back to the garage about 10 to 5. The boss was going mental cause a bus had broken down and cause I was away with the pickup they had to send out the old towing wagon also known as The Last Resort. Shrugged my shoulders told what I been sent out for and I’d tried all the paint places around Ayr and Kilmarnock I knew and couldn’t get any. Boss blew a gasket at the other blokes as I was clocking out and going home. :laughing: :laughing:

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A few years back after a delivery in London I drove down to Brighton to pick up a machine for delivery back up to Glasgow. Arrived at the factory at about 11am on the wednesday,eventually got loaded at about 2.30pm on the friday. It was’nt all bad though it was july at the time so the thursday was spent on the beach :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

and before anybody asks i got payed my basic 10 hours. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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jessicas dad:
bloody hell i thought 11 hours was bad on a bay when on containers but that just seems like a break when reading posts above. :open_mouth:

Was thinking the exact same ! :laughing:

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A missing invoice could hold up customs procedures for a couple of days, this funnily enough only used to happen during the summer & then only in southern europe near a beach, Greece was fairly popular, normally guaranteed a few days laying on a beach in a drunken stupor :laughing:

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I have just looked at the stamps in an old passport. I entered Tangiers on the 25th January 1991 and left in March. I cant read the exact date but do remember having to extend my green card for another month while in Morocco.

Never mind the Flag beer was cheap and the ladies accommodating :stuck_out_tongue:

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I had to wait almost 5 hrs to get tipped at condor logistics in portsmouth bout three weeks ago. Only had 5pallets for them, phoned the office and asked weather they wanted me to wait, cos i was told it would be a long time, and they said i had to stay there untill the pallets where unlaoded, so i watched braveheart and rocky balboa lol :smiley:

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When Iceland in Swindon open many years ago I had a 36 hour wait to get tipped, certainly the longest I have ever had.

They had only just opened when it happened and had a problem with goods in ( heard that before) I had to keep the stuff frozen and just wait until they were ready.

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orys:
So i parked just arround the corner, when soon arrived other trucker and we spent nice evening chatting about some trucker stories. I introduced him to Outher Hebrides and he was talking about Eastern European driving - isn’t it ironic? :slight_smile:

Its a very small world Orys :laughing: :laughing: