The transport sector isn't just about the haulage of stuff from 'A' to 'B'. It really is also a powerful source of humorous stories that a freight broker will frequently share, given half the opportunity.
Here is a choice - judge for yourself whether you believe they are true or just the item of the over-active imagination of a freight broker one wet and grey day!
Handy with a fuel tank
The driver of rig when had to be rescued by the neighborhood Fire Department when he got his hand stuck in his tank. Ok, possibly not worthy of worldwide headline news but two items come to thoughts: how on earth did he get his hand in there, and why was he attempting?
Now you see him, now you don't
One courier was working with a partner on their way to make a delivery when the partner suddenly noticed that he was alone in the car. A lot as he admired his partner's vanishing trick from behind the wheel, he easily became pre-occupied with bringing the now driverless vehicle to a safe quit. The driver came operating up frantically behind, thankfully somewhat unhurt, having apparently 'fallen out' of the car even though turning a sharp corner. How do you fall out of a automobile even though driving it? It maybe shall remain a mystery...
Round and round we go
One particular freight broker tells an amusing tale of a courier who was asked to take an urgent package to a fairly distant destination. Setting off early, he'd got more than half way there when he received a cell call saying that the shipper had produced a terrible mistake and truly addressed the parcel to a different office in their enterprise rather than to the right delivery address. He was then given the right address - not only back in his hometown but basically his personal private house address. Yep, the package was, in fact, for his wife. Just how unlucky can you get?
Vous parlez français?
One particular freight-forwarding assistant had a outstanding grasp of the French language, painstakingly studied more than many years. However his expertise of geography wasn't quite on the very same level. This came to light when he bitterly complained that he couldn't get an answer to his beautifully constructed emails in French to an overseas workplace. Unfortunately, he was attempting to communicate with Hamburg - a city he believed was in France when, of course, it's in Germany and a location where, perhaps unsurprisingly, they speak German. Did nobody, in the whole freight broker workplace, have a wall map of the world?
Super service
One particular driver arrived home 1 evening shortly ahead of Halloween, to be told his freight broker boss had referred to as and left a message that he ought to go into the workplace the following morning in costume for a team publicity photo. Placing on his skeleton costume, made use of with his young youngsters trick-or-treating, he duly reported in. The boss was much less than amused. He'd truly left a message about the "uniform" (seldom put to use by the drivers on a day-to-day basis) not "costume", as he intended the photo as part of a key advertising campaign.
