The dafftest drop I do
Two cars of the day:
This Bentley was better in real life and this Range Rover went on and on and on ...........
I went to a regular drop we do In Swiss Cottage London in a ridiculous location.
The shop is here at the end of this tunnel.
We have to park here on these lines. and deliver these.
This is the warning.
and this is the man putting on the ticket.
and this is the ticket.and that's the routine at that delivery every day of the week.
London .
I went to the Heathrow drop again today and then home. A short break on the M1 and a wait for an easy collection and I was done.
I did see a CO-OP lorry stating the bleeding obvious.
Return of the nerds
The blogger wont let me move the pictures around for some stupid reason.
This car was car of the day. An Audi S5,It was matt black and looked fantastic but the photo came out crap, sorry.
This was the M25 at 6.30 this morning while a car was side swiped by a left hand drive truck.
These tippers bullied me out of the way
on the north circular.
This is the world famous city of London, just of the M4 motorway. Somebody's home.
I was back for revenge and armed with a powerful weapon. Knowledge.
I asked the office the procedure regarding this particular drop and I was assured that I didn't have to drag pallets down the bus lane,up the pelican crossing and then to the front door of the shop while several hi fi geeks stood watching.
My manager thought it hilarious to think I had actually done .
I arrived at the shop and armed with my newly acquired knowledge I was ready for them.
9 o-clock came and I gave the paperwork to the head nerd and casually mentioned I was going to put the pallets on the tailfit and then they could take it from there.
Fine, they said and that was that, my battle was over before it had even began.
It was such an anti climax that like a fool I even offered to help them unload.
"No thanks" said head nerd.
I had to deliver each pallet to the back of the truck as they needed them so I was going to be in the back of the truck for a few hours because they tick off every item as they meticiously unwrapped each pallet.
Eventually I was so fed up standing in the wagon, waiting like a spare part, that I caved in and dragged the rest of the pallets down the bus lane,up the pelican crossing and up to the front door of the shop.
Ill add more to this post later including pictures when I get back home.
Round 3
This was my mode of transport today , a double sleeper !!
After checking for visitors and making sure I was traveling alone I was off down south again.
After passing the homeless I arrived at nerds ville
Head nerd had come in for the delivery on his day off and was in is "own clothes"
It was like an off duty policeman , the jeans the hoodie and the baseball cap !
But what made it funny was the Bow bells accent , he was all cockney geezer and lovely jubbly!.
But him being "OFF Duty " made the whole delivery a lot faster than usual and I was gone before Ten.
I was into the city today with lots of delivery's in SW1.
It wasn't long until I saw and heard the car of the dayIt went off , weaving through the traffic and I kept slowly pulling up next to it over and over again.
!st drop in Sw1 was here in "The Mews"
Easy drops today but really difficult to get to through the traffic.
Past Fortman and Masons food store . I was 5 minutes too early to see the clock strike 11.
Two figures come out when it gets to the hour.
Tourists (and lorry drivers) point cameras at it, every hour on the hour!
Past Piccadilly Circus (twice)
Round Trafalgar square (twice)Past this lady on the fourth plinth (yes Twice)
This is what all us truckers will be driving in the future.
Even the JCB's look cool in Central London
These Old mods went past me followed by a film crew in a camera car.Past St James palace and down into this blind ally , where my delivery was.
This
was my last London attraction on the way home although I did have
another 7 drops while I was down there today, and a collection as well.
I arrived home at last , oooh arhhh its good to back up North !!!