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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2008 22:49:43 GMT
In my new job, I get to drive cars like this ...  ...  .. but I have to hand over the key to the customer when I deliver it ...  |
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Post by okdoky on Jan 22, 2008 23:18:05 GMT
Hi Nick
Do you then have to stand on the onramps to the motorway to bum a lift? Brother did that for a few years too. Sounded lie great fun,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,unless it pi**ed down with rain.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2008 23:23:44 GMT
Nope ... delivery from the dealership. However, there's a bloke at the same dealership who delivers nationwide and gets the train back. I've had my fair share of exercising my thumb in the past, but that was truck delivery.
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Post by Fatty on Jan 23, 2008 8:09:11 GMT
wooohooooo congrats Nick... if you get to drive an SLR Mc Laren let me know and I'll meet you on the motor way for a play with it  lol |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2008 21:09:19 GMT
I took one of these for a little romp today ...  ... the family Volvo is beginning to look a little tame ...  |
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Post by The Hooded Claw on Jan 24, 2008 22:56:51 GMT
Are you doing accompanied fleet delivery or one off travel to travel back stuff?
We had a guy disapear last year with a top of the range 4x4 doing totb delivery. found him 150 miles from where he was supposed to be following his sat nav to somewhere obscure cos he'd miss programmed it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2008 23:02:22 GMT
Ayup Ian,
I was taking it to the Mercedes Benz facility at Milton Keynes, then got on a train for the return journey, what a car!
On the subject of satnav .. it's a tool like any other, but blindly following the thing because it says go a particular route when your common sense dictates otherwise is verging on the slightly silly.
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Post by modelfrenz on Jan 24, 2008 23:31:17 GMT
Nick.
Too true about blindly following it because it says so.
There was the story in the papers from last week about the lady who had sat nav in her car and followed it down a tunnel which had a clear sign saying it can flood if heavy rains occur.
The police thought she was a bit idiotic.
The picture showed the car up to the bonnet in water.
Ian
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Post by okdoky on Jan 24, 2008 23:42:56 GMT
Hi there guys
Me think the guy managed to pull a fly one and was enjoying the drive too much. Didn't want to hand the car over !!!!!!!! Tee hee!
Nick? You going to try that skive?
Top of the range Merc ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Mrs by your side ,,,,,,,,,,,, end up in Bonny Scotland!!!!!!!!!!!! Ooops I must have put the wrong address in!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will happily take delivery ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, then sell it and buy a reconditioned ww2 Willys Jeep!!!! That is the soft top I want.
Nige
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2008 23:54:41 GMT
There have also been stories about coach drivers finding themselves in a field after blindly following the instructions from their satnav? ... I also seem to remember a story about a driver turning onto a railway line after the satnav told her to turn left at a railway level crossing ... ?
Most folks switch the satnav on at the start of a journey instead of using it to find local destinations near the end of their journey. I have a reasonably good knowledge of the UK and if I'm asked to take a vehicle to a destination, I firstly determine which direction I should be travelling, then look at a map to find the approximate area I'm heading for.
Anyway, I wonder what they'll have for me to deliver tomorrow? ... rumour has it there's something silver and sleek, and a flippin 'Smart' car!
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Post by okdoky on Jan 25, 2008 0:00:39 GMT
You never know,,,,,,,,,,,,,, It could still be a soft top though!!!!!!!!
150 mile journey in a smartie
Good luck
Nige
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Post by The Hooded Claw on Jan 25, 2008 12:46:47 GMT
Smart Coupe, fun, quick and lethal. Had one for a week last year nearly killed me twice.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2008 20:46:56 GMT
I'd fuelled up the loan cars and picked up the service vehicles for the day's work, and thought that I would grab a quick coffee in the staff canteen. As I was walking past the parts department, one of the blokes mentioned that he could do with me fetching a few bottles of transmission fluid a bit sharpish. Well, always willing to do a good turn, and also realising that I could pop out for a sarnie, I agreed to nip up the A52 to Nottingham. I asked if the parts van was available and was told unfortunately the van was out on a job, but I could use the parts manager's new car. ... may I introduce you to the parts van ...  ... later in the afternoon, having enjoyed my sarnie, I was pestering the service managers for a return run of the morning's service work. I must have really annoyed them as they asked me to deliver this dreary little family people carrier ...  ... yes it's a factory 'Brabus' conversion ... well, someone's got to do it I suppose? ... oh I've removed the registration to protect the innocent.  |
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Post by Lonewolf on May 7, 2008 21:22:39 GMT
These run of the mill things are ok mate but wheres the really interesting stuff?? Theres a new company moved in next to us and yesterday he turned up with his silver Porsche uncannily on the same day my motorcycle came to work with me cos the sun has finally returned to North Yorkshire. More folks gawped at the bike by far Gotta be said nowadays, most cars are pretty much an interchangeable much of a muchness, that last Merc is identical to my mams Honda RV summat! Wolfie  |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2008 21:38:45 GMT
Wolfie, the second photo is a 'Brabus', it's not exactly your next door neighbour production line Mondeo. |
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.. but I have to hand over the key to the customer when I deliver it ... 
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