The most mistakes in one day?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Ok then drivers, what’s the most ZB up’s you’ve ever seen/done in one day?

Prompted by the poor chap we had in off the agency on Monday to drive one of our little 7.5 Tonners.

0600 - Chap reports for work, the boss does all the paperwork etc and sends him out with the trainer to show him the truck.

0635 - He’s back in the office as the door handle came off while he was getting into the truck.

0637 - Scrapes truck on the corner of the building while turning out of the yard. Building damaged, curtain ripped and buckles ripped off.

0725 - Load transhipped onto another vehicle and he’s out of the yard after a rollocking from the boss and much paperwork.

0930 - Arrives at first drop to find the entire load has shifted and is all over the back of the truck, customer refuses it as damaged and the driver has to restack and secure it by hand, boss tells him to go on to his collection, pick up what he can, then come back to the yard to empty before going back and getting the rest.

1030 - When manoeuvring out of the customers yard (still at first drop) he manages to hit a parked car with occupant in it. Stops to exchange details etc.

1045 - In a rush to get out of the industrial estate our intrepid hero (!) is going a little too fast for a corner, manages to clip the high concrete curb with the front wheel and totally mangle the rim

Time unknown - Hits something so hard with the O/S wing mirror that it slams back against the door and puts a dent in the metal just below the window.

1300 - Arrives back in the yard, reverses the truck into a skip so hard the back door is bent enough to stop it from opening.

1301 - Driver escorted from premises.

Anyone seen any more individual ZB ups in a single day by one person?

I think the current damage bill is running to about £7k, boss is getting a final estimate on the truck body tomorrow morning!

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I see you are at Eastbourne, we have some relations live there, so can you put a poster of this driver up on the road in near the Toyota garage so I can give him a WIDE berth the next time we visit, thanks.

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Scarab:
Ok then drivers, what’s the most ZB up’s you’ve ever seen/done in one day?

Prompted by the poor chap we had in off the agency on Monday to drive one of our little 7.5 Tonners.

0600 - Chap reports for work, the boss does all the paperwork etc and sends him out with the trainer to show him the truck.

0635 - He’s back in the office as the door handle came off while he was getting into the truck.

0637 - Scrapes truck on the corner of the building while turning out of the yard. Building damaged, curtain ripped and buckles ripped off.

0725 - Load transhipped onto another vehicle and he’s out of the yard after a rollocking from the boss and much paperwork.

0930 - Arrives at first drop to find the entire load has shifted and is all over the back of the truck, customer refuses it as damaged and the driver has to restack and secure it by hand, boss tells him to go on to his collection, pick up what he can, then come back to the yard to empty before going back and getting the rest.

1030 - When manoeuvring out of the customers yard (still at first drop) he manages to hit a parked car with occupant in it. Stops to exchange details etc.

1045 - In a rush to get out of the industrial estate our intrepid hero (!) is going a little too fast for a corner, manages to clip the high concrete curb with the front wheel and totally mangle the rim

Time unknown - Hits something so hard with the O/S wing mirror that it slams back against the door and puts a dent in the metal just below the window.

1300 - Arrives back in the yard, reverses the truck into a skip so hard the back door is bent enough to stop it from opening.

1301 - Driver escorted from premises.

Anyone seen any more individual ZB ups in a single day by one person?

I think the current damage bill is running to about £7k, boss is getting a final estimate on the truck body tomorrow morning!

Bugger me, what’s the chances of that? Someone having as crap a day exactly like the one I had! Same times and everything…

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Sounds like a candidate for multi drop parcel driver.

Ken.

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So that’s where Boss & Driver went!

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I think he needs to give up and maybe find a new career, maybe on a fairground ride with bumper cars so he can bump until his hearts content

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the maoster:
So that’s where Boss & Driver went!

:laughing: :laughing:

Nothing like that, I think my record is three - scraped my car on a bit of steel that was laid on the floor (11pm in winter, Black sky, black tarmac, black steel, nice big hole in sill on my beloved focus), that mad over that I overcooked the reverse to the unit and knocked the swing door off with the van, so had to re hang that. Now completely raging, I jumped back into the cab without using the step and hit my head on the door frame, sending the whole world fuzzy for a few minutes.

I had a calm down before I killed myself :laughing:

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Let’s look at the ■■■■-ups from the office side of things - same outside scenario:-

06:00 Chap reports for work. Boss is given some paperwork, but passes it onto the office staff, whilst he goes for a cuppa, without checking the new guy even has a licence.

06:35 Guy walks back into office with truck door handle in hand. This is such an everyday occurance at this particular office, he thinks nothing of it.

06:37 Boss goes to loo, and doesn’t hear the scraping sound from outside.

07:25 Load has been transhipped onto another vehicle, but boss guy doesn’t fancy paying for a premium subbie at this point, so decides to let chap carry on regardless. Gives more of a bollocking to the assessor for “letting chap smack up vehicle”.

09:30 Chap arrives at first drop with shifted load. Trainer for some reason is no longer with him for the standard 2+ hours that assessments normally take. He might have picked up chap’s insecure load before setting off if he had.

10:30 Assessor rushes in own car to re-join chap at customer premesis, but parks outside yard so chap collides with him as he attempts to reverse out of customer yard without a banksman. Because this prang involves a private vehicle, but not a member of the public, there’s no reason to take the guy off the job on the spot, lest the insurers find out and get upset!

10:45 Chap attempts to make up for lost time, clips a kerb (normally ‘instant failure’ on any test) and mangles rim.
Whilst going “Oh Me, Oh My” and looking damagewards, he pranges the mirror at the top whilst looking down below.

13:00 Chap arrives back in yard, having dropped assessor off at Guy’s Hospital for a check-up. Sticks it into reverse-high, and backs into a skip that he coudln’t see, because his mirror is knackered from earlier…

13:01…
Driver escorted from premises at dinner time, instead of 06:40, due to poor risk management. :unamused:

Conclusion of Risk Management Report:

Don’t employ a mate as an assessor, and don’t get the assessor’s mate in on £6.50ph because he’s cheap. :smiling_imp:

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Who said anything about an assessor being out with him?

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Lets not Winseer. :frowning:

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We had an agency driver who at his first drop literally knocked a wall over with his tail swing entering a retail park service yard, then at his next drop reversed at full pelt into a parked car. Both incidents resulted in both rear light clusters on the wagon being totally knackered, but he carried on and did the 150 mile trip back to base regardless with no rear lights.

Never been seen back since.

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I’v never met a driver who aint bumped into something or another. :sunglasses: but this sounds like one extremely bad day for the fella involved …

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rob22888:
We had an agency driver who at his first drop literally knocked a wall over with his tail swing entering a retail park service yard, then at his next drop reversed at full pelt into a parked car. Both incidents resulted in both rear light clusters on the wagon being totally knackered,

but he carried on and did the 150 mile trip back to base regardless with no rear lights.

Fair play to that man . . got the job done :stuck_out_tongue:

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bloody agency drivers… :sunglasses:

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Wat do u expect when firms/agencys pay peanuts, all your going to attract are monkeys :wink:

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I do sort of agree with Winseer though, if I was to ever run my own transport, as soon as he couldn’t make a simple turn in a 7.5t, he would be gone.

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FarnboroughBoy11:
I do sort of agree with Winseer though, if I was to ever run my own transport, as soon as he couldn’t make a simple turn in a 7.5t, he would be gone.

Usually the first clue is when you ask to see their licence :wink:

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Winseer:
Let’s look at the ■■■■-ups from the office side of things - same outside scenario:-

06:00 Chap reports for work. Boss is given some paperwork, but passes it onto the office staff, whilst he goes for a cuppa, without checking the new guy even has a licence.

06:35 Guy walks back into office with truck door handle in hand. This is such an everyday occurance at this particular office, he thinks nothing of it.

06:37 Boss goes to loo, and doesn’t hear the scraping sound from outside.

07:25 Load has been transhipped onto another vehicle, but boss guy doesn’t fancy paying for a premium subbie at this point, so decides to let chap carry on regardless. Gives more of a bollocking to the assessor for “letting chap smack up vehicle”.

09:30 Chap arrives at first drop with shifted load. Trainer for some reason is no longer with him for the standard 2+ hours that assessments normally take. He might have picked up chap’s insecure load before setting off if he had.

10:30 Assessor rushes in own car to re-join chap at customer premesis, but parks outside yard so chap collides with him as he attempts to reverse out of customer yard without a banksman. Because this prang involves a private vehicle, but not a member of the public, there’s no reason to take the guy off the job on the spot, lest the insurers find out and get upset!

10:45 Chap attempts to make up for lost time, clips a kerb (normally ‘instant failure’ on any test) and mangles rim.
Whilst going “Oh Me, Oh My” and looking damagewards, he pranges the mirror at the top whilst looking down below.

13:00 Chap arrives back in yard, having dropped assessor off at Guy’s Hospital for a check-up. Sticks it into reverse-high, and backs into a skip that he coudln’t see, because his mirror is knackered from earlier…

13:01…
Driver escorted from premises at dinner time, instead of 06:40, due to poor risk management. :unamused:

Conclusion of Risk Management Report:

Don’t employ a mate as an assessor, and don’t get the assessor’s mate in on £6.50ph because he’s cheap. :smiling_imp:

10/10

:laughing: :laughing: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiling_imp: :wink: :smiley:

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Wonder if it was his first day.
My first agencies assessment was filling out a short written test about road signs and driver hours and demonstrating how a tacho worked. All of which I had learned from a book. The question ‘are you competent driving something big’ was not asked! The question ‘have you ever driven 7.5t before’ was not asked. Maybe things haven’t changed.
I had thought that my first day must have been one of the worst ever - I was sent to a poor unsuspecting firm and being handed the keys to a 7.5t for a multidrop run to and around central London. I folded the left mirror on a tall hedge within 200 yards of leaving the depot, stopped in a lay by to frantically learn how curtain-sides and back doors worked, left the back doors open leaving a delivery bay and nearly lost the load, got hopelessly lost somewhere near Greenwich on way home, and all day couldn’t work out how to stop the engine (never seen pedal on floor engine stop before).
I thought that was pretty bad. But having read the above I now think it went pretty damned well!
(Better say that this was 15 years ago!)

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Trev_H:

FarnboroughBoy11:
I do sort of agree with Winseer though, if I was to ever run my own transport, as soon as he couldn’t make a simple turn in a 7.5t, he would be gone.

Usually the first clue is when you ask to see their licence :wink:

Loads of people about with 7.5 tonne entitlement on their licences but who have never even sat in one, let alone actually driven it!