Loading containers Tuesday 24th Jan 010
We're loading cast iron into containers for our Indian customer again, 28 tonnes to the box. It gets a bit fraught trying to our own job and take time out to load containers. We've had some interesting driver problems. It staggers me how incapable some drivers are despite driving countless thousands of miles a year for most of their lives. One came up High House Lane (another!) One followed another up there again today and they both got stuck. One took the corner off his cab on Linfit Lane - two hours after he passed the end of the proper road in - two hours lost and he was at the end of our road at 7.30 - then he had to ring and we talked him in. we had to lead two others in from High House Lane. When you get 100 yards up High House lane it's One in four, the road surface is total disintegrated to rubble, the trees and weeds overhang so that it looks too narrow for a transit, the road disappears around a one in four blind corned between walls that a trailer has to be dragged around as the road is nine foot wide, too narrow to drive around. Nobody right in their f.....g head would drive a 44 tonner up it!
Loading containers Tuesday 24th Jan 010
We're loading cast iron into containers for our Indian customer again, 28 tonnes to the box. It gets a bit fraught trying to our own job and take time out to load containers. We've had some interesting driver problems. It staggers me how incapable some drivers are despite driving countless thousands of miles a year for most of their lives. One came up High House Lane (another!) One followed another up there again today and they both got stuck. One took the corner off his cab on Linfit Lane - two hours after he passed the end of the proper road in - two hours lost and he was at the end of our road at 7.30 - then he had to ring and we talked him in. we had to lead two others in from High House Lane. When you get 100 yards up High House lane it's One in four, the road surface is total disintegrated to rubble, the trees and weeds overhang so that it looks too narrow for a transit, the road disappears around a one in four blind corned between walls that a trailer has to be dragged around as the road is nine foot wide, too narrow to drive around. Nobody right in their f.....g head would drive a 44 tonner up it!