Back to it

Well the alarm went off too early for my liking this morning, after a week of getting up at a decent time, I had to drag myself out of bed and pull on the fluro orange top again. My eyes were burning, not just from the pretty star track top.

I think I was missed, everyone gave me a good old welcome back. I was given a different truck again, and when I pulled up, it seemed to have a pool in the back. I thought, umm, nice and i opened her up. One of the guys grabbed his broom and a few minutes later, the pool was no longer in the truck, but on the concrete floor. Water Restrictions I hear, let me fill the dam with whats in my truck I was borrowing. Never mind, things can only get better.

One of the bosses was back, seems as though my own truck was just as bad, two dams filled up. :)

I gather my connotes and go and look for my freight, everything is going great guns, I grab a sticker of the connote to sticker the freight, I grab the fork and go and grab more, I come back, I wonder where did I put that connote. Lost!! I jump in the back and pull the freight around to see if I might have dropped it under one of the boxes or pallets, no luck. I explain my loss, but it hasn't been found. 30 minutes later no sign of it, a subdocket might be good, but I remember the Return Authority number is on the connote. I look at the garbage where I threw all the extra stickers, not with them, but I notice a little ball further along. Ah, I unscrew it and hey presto, all is well. Good job Christian, I am thinking.


I'm ready to leave for my first run, and one of the offsiders comes over and says I'm coming with you now, puzzled why I need him. I sign out and the boss tells me I need him for the afternoon. The morning is easy, just 7 deliveries, though we will cover distance. I was amazed at how many planes were lined up on the far runway, at least a dozen ready to go, Looks like a great day for it, to just take off and go.

The second run is seemingly easy, just the two deliveries, I grab a couple more connotes so we dont finish too early, the first drop is a wheel off, I'm loving it. We arrive in chatswood for the next one, a truck park just for me, very easy, i've done something right :) We go to see what the delivery will be like, we can't get to the floor. The boss is called and we get him to ring the guy, we wait for a return call from him, the sun is warm and the breeze just nice, I have a little snooze, 30 mins later we get rudely awoken by a ringing phone, the boss asking if someone had turned up, nope is our reply, but there is a guy strolling towards us and eyeing us off. Contact, we have the right guy, we wheel our goods off, I look and say I don't think it will fit in the lift, we shall try it though.

Hmm, you know how they say about fitting a square peg in a round hole, or vice versa, we thats how we were feeling, we tug it here and tug it there and think it just might go, alas, no a little long and tall, if only those fluro lights weren't there. We should probably leave those intact.

After some complication and alot of hesitation might I add, we decide to strip off as much as we can off the computer rack, we just want a bare shell, all up it weighs close on 130 kg. We get it down to about 100kg and off we go. Three stories to get it where it needs to go. This is a joy. We bend our backs and push on, 1st flight we need a break we have to jiggle it to get it upright. We get it up the three flights and the guy is happy. we go back down and grab the rest of the rack, he's not impressed with the rubbish, but it's all his.

One drop to go, I look at my directory and realise we drove straight past it coming to the rack, just two blocks back, just a measly printer to wheel on up, but the connote has two man job written on it. I go and survey and it seems easy. While the offsider is locking the truck I roll it down the gentle slope on the road, a little up ramp and I'm there. I wait for the offsider and we take it up in the elevator. It wont fit inside the office, I Put on a big smile and say to the four people watching, " You will have to unpack it here to fit it in" They look at me and ask do you take the pallet, nope I reply it's all yours, we dont unpack graysonline, we just dump and run.

Thats it for me were unloaded, I need a little break now, we head to westfields. Pizza and mountain dew for $3, that will do me. We spend sometime sitting and then after the day I've had I think I need something to

Me

A tropical storm, my favourite


Well this was my adventure for the day, hope you enjoyed coming back to work with me.