No brains !

scott mcintosh · Oct 28, 2009

Yesterday I ordered a load gravel told them to back in and dump it at the end driveway.Mind you I always have them dump it in the same place several times a year.Get this driver can't follow directions.He drives in pulls above machine shed into the wet grass sinks out site,wife calls me I come home two hours later two 100hp. tractors finally out.Scott

ericlb · Oct 28, 2009

as im in the business, there are 2 kinds or drivers, those who call themselves truck drivers, and those who actually can drive a truck, shame that such simple instructions proved to complicated to that guy to follow

greenbeanman in Kansas · Oct 29, 2009

Sounds like free gravel to me in exchange for services rendered.

railhead · Oct 29, 2009

Definately free gravel...... if not send them a bill also. Last time we had a semi stuck it cost $725 for two wreckers with wenches to pull it out.

rockyridgefarm · Oct 29, 2009

(quoted from post at 04:13:04 10/29/09) Definately free gravel...... if not send them a bill also. Last time we had a semi stuck it cost $725 for two wreckers with wenches to pull it out.

Were the wenches driving the tow trucks or were they just there to assist?

railhead · Oct 29, 2009

got it spelling is bad....sorry

S.Crum · Oct 29, 2009

I get a load of gravel, topsoil or stone just about every year. I have an old orange traffic cone I set where I want the load dumped. The driveway is solid enough to hold a semi no problem the yard is not when it's wet. I tell them when I order, stay in the driveway and back to the cone otherwise they pay the tow.

paul · Oct 29, 2009

I had a fella bring a few loads of gravel over the years. He's done a great job, spread it on the driveway just right out of the truck, put it on a pile just where I wanted it for future uses, etc.

But for one thing. I have a turnaround area in front of the house, and he just never has gotten that I want a load of gravel dumped there in the middle, & I'll spread it with the loader/ blade/ landscape rake. I've gotten the pile dumped on the driveway area, gotten it dumped on the gravel pile area, but never in front of the house where I'd want it.

Kinda funny, no big deal, just humorous to me.

--->Paul

Pat-CT · Oct 29, 2009

send them a bill for the price of your ruined "lawn" and charge them labor and towing fees

Billy Shafer · Oct 29, 2009

Sounds like a customer of mine. Told him do not take the short cut across the field. Guess where his tractor is now sitting. Up to the frame.

JMS/.MN · Oct 29, 2009

That"s why I keep some yellow Fleet Farm store flags- marking rocks, gravel piles, etc.

Case e · Oct 29, 2009

exactly, if you did not have tractors to do the job they would have had to hire someone.

Mike (WA) · Oct 29, 2009

I'll bet the driver's thinking "No way I'm gonna dump this right in the middle of the turnaround, and then have the Mrs. come home and not be able to park (or not be able to get out of the garage, etc.).

dlplost · Oct 29, 2009

I keep 2 yelow traffic cones around. Put them where I want it dumped and Instruct the driver to dump right in the middle between them. Worked everytime so far..

Anonymous-0 · Oct 29, 2009

Last spring I ordered a load of topsoil to fix some ruts in a lawn, well get a dizzy gal on the phone who dident listen to were I said to dump it. I told her go PAST the Mobile station after you get off I88, and dump it at the Pinewood Plaza 1/2 mile up the road.!!!! Next day I see my dirt isent at the plaze,,, a half mile down the road theres my dirt at the Mobil station.
So I call and ask were my dirt is, not telling her I seen it at the Mobil, she says we delivered it this morning, I say well its not here,,,, she gets back to me and tells me were they dumped it. Needless to say they sent out a rubber wheeled backhoe and a 1 ton dump and moved the 20 ton load, after alot of trips. They also never charged me for the topsoil. j

TimMiller · Oct 29, 2009

Crazy dizzy girls , they need to quit giving them spinning office chairs.

Tim in OR · Oct 29, 2009

I deliver lots of retaining wall stuff as well as brick and other masonry products. I am always going to jobsites and trying to figure our where I should put the product. I love the ones like today where the note on the paperwork says "look for the orange cones for placement". When I got done taking the straps off, the mason was standing there saying "the cones are there, but I will spot you". No questions that way.
The fun ones are when they say "put it in front of the LEFT side of the garage". After the delivery, you get back to the branch and they tell you that they got a call that I put it in front of the wrong side. They were looking out of the garage in the direction of the street, I was looking from the street at the garage. I had the wrong left. Better yet, when the customer wants it delivered across a sea of mud that the forklift would never get thru.
Oh well, A driver has to be Psychic.
Tim in OR

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