My Pet Peeve!!!
- Thread starter redytrk
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how about they have moved and still have the old adress in and haven't change it and it's been over a year and you tell people about it and still don't change it
or you go on a military base and they only give you a street adress and no bldg number, or what the command is
and for get to tell ya have to go to truck control first
or you go on a military base and they only give you a street adress and no bldg number, or what the command is
and for get to tell ya have to go to truck control first
Fr8 Shaker
Veteran Expediter
I have to laugh when I read all of these posts. What most of you don't understand is that your all spoiled...LOL. Talk to someone who has been doing this for 15-20 plus years and you will see how much easier it is now. Before computers,laptops,gps and routing software, You just bought yourself an atlas and when you got to the city you were delivering in, you either bought a local map or got on the cb and asked for local information. If you happened to have a phone # for the customer that was just gravy!!! BTW... thats when people used to answer a phone!
Fr8 Shaker
Fr8 Shaker
Fr8 Shaker
Veteran Expediter
But my pet peeve is the city street signs that are so small, dark or weather beaten that you can't read them at night or the one's hanging above the road next to the new l.e.d. traffic signals that are so bright and give off a glare so you still can't see them unless you stop right under them.
This all reminds of going into New Orleans last year where all the signs where gone and the business was set up temporarily else where. Lots of patience required and a good GPS as the cell phone didn't work down there either.
tom tinker
Expert Expediter
Real glad to see I'm not alone on , grip of no signs, numbers,. Felt like an idoit , wasting time over an over un marked businesses. Delived to Oil City Mi. Place next to express way, could see it from hwy., wrong name on bldg. down long drive, supposed to be a st. no signs. Just a sample, ya and pat answer can't miss it !! Before cell phone an GPS, trying to locate a phone, good luck. I had to get my info back from e.o. support I haven't posted sense April. Late on jumping on this , please some body read it. smilie('
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') Tom tinker I like the one's who don't mark the shipping door, so you get to circle the building twice then get out of your truck and trudge around in the snow and 20 degree temps pulling on locked doors until you finally find the one thats unlocked that leads into the middle of the plant and people ignore you as you wander around aimlesly until some foreman yells at you for being in the wrong place,then tells you in that condesending way that you need to be on the other side of the plant. (of course it goes without saying that dispatch has called 12 times and your Q.C. has 3 messages all asking "where are you...they're looking for you" and you want to scream " I'M RIGHT HERE LADY...STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE @#$%! PLANT O.K!
pelicn
Veteran Expediter
>I like the one's who don't mark the shipping door, so you
>get to circle the building twice then get out of your truck
>and trudge around in the snow and 20 degree temps pulling on
>locked doors until you finally find the one thats unlocked
>that leads into the middle of the plant and people ignore
>you as you wander around aimlesly until some foreman yells
>at you for being in the wrong place,then tells you in that
>condesending way that you need to be on the other side of
>the plant. (of course it goes without saying that dispatch
>has called 12 times and your Q.C. has 3 messages all asking
>"where are you...they're looking for you" and you want to
>scream " I'M RIGHT HERE LADY...STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
>@#$%! PLANT O.K!
And to go right along with the above statement....each shipper/receiver thinks you should know THEIR system even if you've never been there before x(
>get to circle the building twice then get out of your truck
>and trudge around in the snow and 20 degree temps pulling on
>locked doors until you finally find the one thats unlocked
>that leads into the middle of the plant and people ignore
>you as you wander around aimlesly until some foreman yells
>at you for being in the wrong place,then tells you in that
>condesending way that you need to be on the other side of
>the plant. (of course it goes without saying that dispatch
>has called 12 times and your Q.C. has 3 messages all asking
>"where are you...they're looking for you" and you want to
>scream " I'M RIGHT HERE LADY...STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
>@#$%! PLANT O.K!
And to go right along with the above statement....each shipper/receiver thinks you should know THEIR system even if you've never been there before x(
Broompilot
Veteran Expediter
No Cheri, that was me.
You gotta Pet Peeve, here is mine just to change the topic a little.
People with Bright Lights, who refuse to dim them. Got any ideas.
You gotta Pet Peeve, here is mine just to change the topic a little.
People with Bright Lights, who refuse to dim them. Got any ideas.
silverdollar
Expert Expediter
How about the company with the big ego that names their driveway after themselves and uses it for a street address. ask someone for directions and they never heard of that street.:-(
