11/04/14

First load a single drop at the Helmsley store, easy enough and soon completed, then back to base.  Second load wasn't a full load and compromised three farm drops to the Carlton area, then the sting in the tail.  A collection of fertilizer from Goole docks and a farm delivery.  This dock is nothing near as bad as Dawsons at Teesside but they work to a time scale and in a way that I have never been able to fathom.  The only way to deal with the place is to join the queue, even if there isn't another truck there you still join the queue and wait.  Eventually someone in a loader will come and tell you where to park while he loads you.  All the time you are waiting there are several other loaders whizzing about the yard seemingly busy.  Patience is needed and coffee is essential but at least I have never been left in doubt where to queue.  Got loaded after about an hour and one flask of coffee and off to the drop, still carrying the last tonne of hen food for the third farm drop.  The farm was on the side of the A614 just out of Howden.  The road is dangerous people drive far too fast and take little notice of what others are doing so I was cautious, especially as I wasn't exactly certain where the entrance was.  I approached where I thought it was put my indicator on and started to brake then glanced back in the mirror to check for idiots.  Sure enough they were there, two motorcyclists decided to overtake me as I was slowing down one saw me and hesitated the other carried on.  The second rider clipped the handlebars of the biker who had hesitated and flipped him off his bike, I saw him cartwheel towards the road verge.  I stopped and went to see what state he was in, luckily he was OK his bike was in working order with a broken indicator and a bit of trim.  I'm sure they would both have dearly loved to blame me for their accident but since it had all happened behind me and neither had come into contact with any part of the truck they were unable to even though they seemed to be claiming that I had suddenly come to a complete stop.  If either had half a brain they would have realised that if I had been stopped the biker who came off would have slammed himself into the rear of the truck.  Hopefully two idiots will have learned not to ride so close to anyone again but I doubt it, the ego defence mechanism is a very powerful force.  I am sure that by now it will all be my fault.  See you Monday.