When doing a residential drop,I asked a fella outside his house where ****** Lodge was,and he didn’t know…it was next door but one to him 
And be mindful,someone will purposely direct you wrong for a giggle
he has now since retired keeping you updated
thats the issue with roadlords it prompts you to turn off a perfectly good road for no reason.
sounds like either a planning issue or you were on your way back. On of the reasons i hate multi drop
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Alan Shearer, never heard of her! Oh hang on wasn’t he a player for Southampton? 
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Just a guess
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Aaaah yeah got it now…, it’s cryptic.
Maoster is just to God damm clever for me.
(Only some of the time btw )
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Get out and laugh!
How did we manage to deliver anything, in pre satnave days?
I once rang a company I couldn’t find
Woman answered. said I’m outside DPD where are you drove round estate twice can’t see you.
Her response not sure where DPD is and she hung up on me.
Was at a loss so asked a DPD driver coming out
He said it’s building there facing us with no name.on it.
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I had a remote farm somewhere in Devon, looked on Google you had to go through a very narrow village, houses opposite very close together.
Though …nah looks a bit iffy.
Rang farmer got the old…‘We’ve had artics down here before’ routine, and then told me he’d meet me at start of village, and lead me down there to his farm in his van.
Anyway off we went, maybe 200 300 yards down this narrow downhill village, cars parked, tourists walking around, got to a shop on a bend, with cars parked…no chance.
Matey jumps out of his van goes in shop, I’m thinking…gone to get cars moved.
He comes over says, '‘Nah you wont get round mate, can’t find car owners’.
I said ‘Ok, I’ll need all these cars behind me to back up,.as I will have to reverse up that village to top’…thinking he would guide me back.
‘Yeah’ he says, gets in his van…(me thinking to maybe move it or lock it up.)
Wrong…he effed off and just left me .
I’ll leave you to guess the rest,… but I did get out… eventually.
MY fault btw…not Google, not the sat nav.
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one hour later
I had two on the outskirts of Wakefield,3rd drop outside Gainsborough,collection near Roterham,delivery near Rawcliffe that was close to the Wakefield drops,back down near Rotherham…etc. That was the order in which the truck was loaded…
planning issue then probably. I once had 7 drops on the same road along an industrial area. kept going past the same drops to get to the next one. when i got back i asked them about it and what info they had on their screen they admitted they had the full address including door /unit numbers.e
supermarket work was like that as well you would go past one store to get to another then go back to the first one then back again to get the next. However as it was in a rigid doing express stores you could work it properly as it was usually 3 cages max.Best i ever saved was over 100 miles and 3 hours. every time they would question why i was back so quick and moan about the routing that they did but never did anything about it.
In some quarters it seems to be actively frowned upon.
Officially we are meant to phone the office for directions if anything is going to take us off route.
This was followed by a trainer teaching the office staff how to read an atlas…
I think in this case it can be put down to experience. I wouldn’t expect a new driver to be conditioned to the same level as someone doing the job years.
Own the mistake, but I don’t think that necessarily means pay, especially if the company isn’t actually providing navigation.
It is all very well saying truck atlases are available, but the timings given to drivers these days very rarely give time to spend half an hour with the atlas in the morning on company time and/or having to find places to stop to look at the atlas during the day.
I would add that many on here won’t have done class 2 multidrop in an unfamiliar area recently, so take comments with a pinch of salt at best I would say.
Just about says it all really about the job today, some of it’s ‘drivers’ and how little (and bad) some firms think of their drivers.
I mean,.seriously.
Ok, some of you know nothing else, where this type of pi55 poor way of running things is normal behaviour…it aint normal !…
So how did it get to this, WTF has happened to this job,.can it be dumbed down any further?
So why do they think that somebody in an office who only drives something no bigger than a Ford Focus is better qualified to find a better route than someone with x no of years artic experience.
Sounds like a good way of beating them with their own stick when they WILL send you somewhere totally unsuitable onr day.
Follow their route to the letter…even if you know it is wrong.
The planner in most big firms doesn’t even need a car license
It’s all done by the computer, i think all he has to do is imput the amount of pallets or cages and destination and bingo, i think some of the programs even include breaks
Stand to be corrected
I am starting to use Tomtom truck on my phone and add stops up to last delivery/collection
Thx for all the replies guys, apparently I pay max £200 for any damages according to the contract with agency, but as someone mentioned depends how valuable I am to them they might let it slide. We’ll see on Friday
So you must have initially signed up to and/or agreed those terms?
If not, do NOT pay it, tell them to poke it.
■■■■ em…they are trying it on.
Either way go to another agency.
It is a different decision depending on the circumstances.
Paying the £200 and still having work to go to would be better than not paying it and being out of work I suppose. In the grand scheme of things £200 isn’t what it used to be with inflation and everything.
Recovery technically isn’t damage by the way. Just thought I would add that.