02/07/15

Thursday, the day before Friday.  The weekend is on its way!  Theoretically I had two loads, and apart from being told that I should be at Carlton store for as near eight am as possible the order of loading was left to me.  It appears that high command has issued an instructions that runs as follows, "Ye! let it be known that on sundries days all stores shall receive delivery or their allotted goods by eight pm and woe betide any lowly driver that hinders this order."  This is a great instruction, it takes me an hour and ten to reach Carlton store when there are no road works and with he Selby bye pass shut it takes an hour and twenty five.  This means that is only possible for me to reach the store by the pre ordained time if I am loaded and have my tickets confirmed the night before and this is a situation that rarely happens, not even once a month.  So on Wednesday I was informed that the store manager had complained that he wasn't receiving his sundries on time.  This was, at best, an exaggeration and  more correctly a falsehood.  When I asked said store manager if he knew he had complained I received a blank look, which I expected.  He knew nothing of said complaint.  But that's beside the point, I arrived before nine pm, which was good all things considered.  It was a terrible load with no even surface that could be properly strapped even if I had wanted to.  I would have liked to fit another ten bags on for one of the three remaining drops but it was completely impossible.  Apart from that everything went well with the first load but it was still nearly two pm when I arrived back in the yard for my second load.  Of the three drops we didn't have the goods in the yard for one so I asked our TC where I was bound on the morrow.  After consulting his book of works and a suggestion from me it was decided that I would be able to complete the last two drops the next day.  That gave me time to load for Kirkbymoorside store and deliver said load.  Not a bad day.  See you tomorrow.