The worst part of Class 2 Multidrop for a Newbie

26 , 18, 13, 10 , 7.5… van’s. That’s all they are.

One step up from order picking.

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eagerbeaver:
26 , 18, 13, 10 , 7.5… van’s. That’s all they are.

One step up from order picking.

You left out the 32 tonners. Nice to see you respect those who turn wider than Titanic. :laughing:

Snobby ■■■■■■■■■ the lot of ya! :smiley:

OK, I drive a glorified van, but it was big enough to make a cop car crap itself today, and basically park itself in the hedge! :grimacing:
That was very satisfying!!! :laughing:

Evil8Beezle:
So I made the decision to drive down the side street and find my way out onto the main roads that way. But what i had missed (While on my approach to the store) was the sign to say this was a dead end street. And I didn’t find that out until I was 3/4 the way down it! Bollox! So instead of having to reverse out onto a main road, I now had to reverse the wagon almost the full length of the street with about a foot of clearance on either side, plus the problem of reversing back out onto the main road. Again, Bollox!!!
You live and learn… :unamused:

hahahaha poor Evil, I know ‘exactly’ how it feels as I did the same myself but was with the artic in Germany!

no, not fun I have to say but does teach a lesson :grimacing:

nobodysdriving:

Evil8Beezle:
So I made the decision to drive down the side street and find my way out onto the main roads that way. But what i had missed (While on my approach to the store) was the sign to say this was a dead end street. And I didn’t find that out until I was 3/4 the way down it! Bollox! So instead of having to reverse out onto a main road, I now had to reverse the wagon almost the full length of the street with about a foot of clearance on either side, plus the problem of reversing back out onto the main road. Again, Bollox!!!
You live and learn… :unamused:

hahahaha poor Evil, I know ‘exactly’ how it feels as I did the same myself but was with the artic in Germany!

no, not fun I have to say but does teach a lesson :grimacing:

Thanks, but as a Newbie and Agency as well, I don’t deserve pity, it’s a right of passage…

And as CheckerFloor, or whatever he calls himself says. I’m basically a van driver! :open_mouth: So I’m not in a position to criticise the big boys with their extended caravans in tow. I’ll only be a real man and be able to stand on an equal footing, once I’ve given up doing real work and choose to be lazy git sat on my arse all day. Only then will I be able to moan about how crap the job is, and how we are not appreciated. But most off all, I can complain I’m getting fat! :laughing:

P.S. Is the sarcasm coming across? :open_mouth:

Evil8Beezle:
Thanks, but as a Newbie and Agency as well, I don’t deserve pity, it’s a right of passage…

You’ll learn a lot doing the likes of P&H does your agency do Hovis at Chandlers too? That should prove amusing for you :slight_smile:

Vid:

Evil8Beezle:
Thanks, but as a Newbie and Agency as well, I don’t deserve pity, it’s a right of passage…

You’ll learn a lot doing the likes of P&H does your agency do Hovis at Chandlers too? That should prove amusing for you :slight_smile:

Do you mean brakes? And yes, P&H is an eye opener. :open_mouth:
And as I have to get up for a 5.30 start tomorrow, I’m off to bed. :cry:

It’s the freezer printouts that worry me. :cry:
Although dragging the cages around is a close second! :laughing:

Evil8Beezle:

Vid:

Evil8Beezle:
Thanks, but as a Newbie and Agency as well, I don’t deserve pity, it’s a right of passage…

You’ll learn a lot doing the likes of P&H does your agency do Hovis at Chandlers too? That should prove amusing for you :slight_smile:

Do you mean brakes? And yes, P&H is an eye opener. :open_mouth:
And as I have to get up for a 5.30 start tomorrow, I’m off to bed. :cry:

It’s the freezer printouts that worry me. :cry:
Although dragging the cages around is a close second! :laughing:

No, I mean Hovis :slight_smile:

Don’t worry about the print outs, if the temp wasn’t low enough I was told to drive around for a while until they were before stopping at the store :open_mouth:

Seeing how things work at back doors in a lot of places will change your shopping habits!!!

Evil8Beezle:

Radar19:
You had a go in a 26 tonner yet?

No mate, just 13 & 18 ton.
To be honest, I would know one if I saw one! :laughing:

A 26 has two rear axles.

Radar19:

Evil8Beezle:

Radar19:
You had a go in a 26 tonner yet?

No mate, just 13 & 18 ton.
To be honest, I would know one if I saw one! :laughing:

A 26 has two rear axles.

What about a Chinese Six?

They don’t trust evil in anything biger then a “van” yet don’t panic guy’s :wink:

Evil8Beezle:
Well I’ve done 2 days of the above, so now a fully qualified professional who’s opinion matters! (Yeah Bollox! :laughing:)

Anyway, now with my VAST experience, I’d say it’s not the driving that’s the hard part, it’s the parking when you get to your drop. I’ve been on store deliveries, and these are obviously on main streets with lots of traffic & annoying shop customers getting in the way who park exactly where you want to pull up. Kill them all I say! :imp:
But seriously, as a newbie agency driver your brain is going ten to the dozen as you approach your drop, and you only have a split second to assess the situation and decide what to do. For a start, as you don’t know the route or store, you’ve a 50/50 chance of approaching it from the preferred direction, where the regular driver knows this in advance… Then you have the question of; is it a front or back door delivery? So you could park up in what appears to be the perfect spot, only to find you then need to get around the back somehow. Grrrrr! :smiling_imp:

Then there is the probably fact that you have the regular driver’s full load, and while they can probably get through all the drops in their allotted time, a newbie has next to no chance of completing the drops in that time. I think I was about 30 mins behind schedule before I drove out the yard, simply because it’s all new and I didn’t want to miss anything and screw up!

But my biggest learning experience, wasn’t parking up, it was not considering my exit strategy…

So yesterday afternoon (a few hours behind schedule) I arrived at a store, and as usual there was nowhere to park out the front :cry: So instead of driving past and having to finding to somewhere to turn around, I spotted in the split second I had on approach, that there was a large side street what was as close to the store I was going to get. So in I pulled - Big mistake!!!
Anyway, I did the delivery, got back in the wagon and prepared to get to my next drop. However, I now had a decision to make. Do I reverse back onto the main road, which is obviously Illegal, or do something else… Having no real experience of a vehicle that size, I didn’t properly consider that it’s ■■■■ near impossible in an 18ton truck so see what’s coming on the main road, and finding a gap. Meaning that without a banksperson to help you, you’re very likely to cause an accident. So I made the decision to drive down the side street and find my way out onto the main roads that way. But what i had missed (While on my approach to the store) was the sign to say this was a dead end street. And I didn’t find that out until I was 3/4 the way down it! Bollox! So instead of having to reverse out onto a main road, I now had to reverse the wagon almost the full length of the street with about a foot of clearance on either side, plus the problem of reversing back out onto the main road. Again, Bollox!!!

So in summary, that was a very silly mistake i made and hopefully something I won’t do again. But I’m not counting on that! :laughing: Clearly what i should have done, was stop on the main road and reverse into the side road. And I’m sure that’s exactly what you’re all thinking, and so am I now! :wink:

You live and learn… :unamused:

Have you had the ■■■■■■■ take out their phones to film your “lorry” (sorry, after seeing pictures of your dinky toy, I kept writing van!) as you try a tight maneuver? The look of disappointment on their faces when you don’t hit anything is priceless.

the maoster:
Don’t sweat it Evil, I’ve been driving for what feels like a million years (obviously taking the odd 45 min break) and only last week I turned confidently into a street near the Blackwall tunnel only for it to turn out to be not only residential but also a dead end. I just blindsided back onto the main road safe in the knowledge that I was sat 65 feet away from any pain that was going to happen! :blush:

:laughing: :laughing: done moor miles backing out of wrong adreses :laughing: keep at it it dose get better :sunglasses:

Vid:
No, I mean Hovis :slight_smile:

Don’t worry about the print outs, if the temp wasn’t low enough I was told to drive around for a while until they were before stopping at the store :open_mouth:

Seeing how things work at back doors in a lot of places will change your shopping habits!!!

No then Vid, and P&H is enough for me thanks! :smiley:
Yes I got told to drive around as well, but also worried about finishing the shift at midnight!!! :laughing:

ash 001:
They don’t trust evil in anything biger then a “van” yet don’t panic guy’s :wink:

I was in a bloody van today for P&H, a 5 ton Merc! :imp:
Hated it and just wanted my truck back!

Radar19:

Evil8Beezle:

Radar19:
You had a go in a 26 tonner yet?

No mate, just 13 & 18 ton.
To be honest, I would know one if I saw one! :laughing:

A 26 has two rear axles.

Ahh, I see! - Pretty obvious really… :unamused:
Why do you ask, do they drive much different? :open_mouth:

P.S. Don’t confuse me Muckaway! :laughing: :confused: What the ■■■■ is a Chinese Six? :question:

Captain Caveman 76:
Have you had the [zb] take out their phones to film your “lorry” (sorry, after seeing pictures of your dinky toy, I kept writing van!) as you try a tight maneuver? The look of disappointment on their faces when you don’t hit anything is priceless.

Not had any admirers yet, but I’m sure I will at some point. Let’s just hope I don’t end up on Youtube! :laughing:
And leave my dinky toy DAF alone, i’m starting to get rather attached to her! :blush:

wirksworth rod:

the maoster:
Don’t sweat it Evil, I’ve been driving for what feels like a million years (obviously taking the odd 45 min break) and only last week I turned confidently into a street near the Blackwall tunnel only for it to turn out to be not only residential but also a dead end. I just blindsided back onto the main road safe in the knowledge that I was sat 65 feet away from any pain that was going to happen! :blush:

:laughing: :laughing: done moor miles backing out of wrong adreses :laughing: keep at it it dose get better :sunglasses:

Cheers guys, and I know we all make mistakes, I’d just like to make less of them!
And that will come with experience…

I’m not put off at all by it, as I know it’s a leaning process. But I did see a guy delivering to the same place as me on Friday, he had a W&D and there is no way on this planet I could have maneuvered the way he did in the space available.
I even told him so and he laughed at me.
I think I made his day! :smiley:

Ohh my evil! bet you was super ■■■■■■ to be in a 5T van haha omg you don’t even need a licence to drive that ■■■■ do you?! How embarrassing .

Evil8Beezle:
But I did see a guy delivering to the same place as me on Friday, he had a W&D and there is no way on this planet I could have maneuvered the way he did in the space available.
I even told him so and he laughed at me.
I think I made his day! :smiley:

Sorry, but this came to mind!!! :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

Muckaway:
A 26 has two rear axles.

What about a Chinese Six?
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Some say they were phased out because the term was too easily confused with one of the services on the list of a Thai knocking shop. :smiling_imp: :laughing:

Captain Caveman 76:

Evil8Beezle:
But I did see a guy delivering to the same place as me on Friday, he had a W&D and there is no way on this planet I could have maneuvered the way he did in the space available.
I even told him so and he laughed at me.
I think I made his day! :smiley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJtZ8cPPCJ0

Sorry, but this came to mind!!! :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

Don’t ever apologise! :smiley:
And I’m still struggling to work out if you’re taking the ■■■■ out of me or not! :laughing: