17/04/14

First load was a full load for Malton store, I was loaded and out of the yard just after half past seven only to remember I couldn't get into the store until eight and the journey would only take ten minutes from base.  Another wait!  Luckily I arrived just as the staff arrived and they actually let me in early, by the time they were ready to unload me I had got the loose items off the truck and even managed to get the curtain on the drivers side past the damaged part of the rail.  Better still there was even a coffee waiting for me inside.  Offloaded easily enough and back to base for my second load in good time.  Second load was Carlton store, one household drop then a collection of the silage wrap I hadn't been able to collect the day before, drop two pallets at a farm then back to base with the rest.  The household drop was a little strange, the house had no name on it and there was no one in except the dog.  The only reason I think the drop was at the correct house was that a man in a van who pulled out of a drive two houses away told me it was the correct house, maybe it was maybe it wasn't who knows.  Anyway they will come back and find a neat pile of fencing materials in their drive.  I do wish people would make sure there is a name or number on their property, they may know they reside there but confused delivery drivers haven't a clue.  Its even worse when you come to the entrance to a farm track, the buildings may be out of sight, the map says its there and the sat nav says its there at the end of the track but the only visible sign of habitation is a bin at the end of the drive.  At times like this a driver needs faith and luck otherwise he or she may find themselves backing out of a track leading nowhere.  It has happened.  Bank holiday tomorrow and Monday so we get a four day weekend.  See you on Tuesday, have a good Easter.