Before starting this I am going to base it around a 2 - 10 shift

After spending the morning just chilling out, making butties and sorting all the other mundane things of home life out I set out in my car for the long 5 minute journey into work (coz I can't be bothered to walk!)

Arrive at work and dig out the swipe card to enable me to gain access into the site through a revolving gate, then to get me into the building itself (High security)

Clock card at the ready I struggle as usual to get the machine to actually accept it.

Its 1:30pm time for a brew before starting, a natter and a moan with all the other staff on my shift. Usual moans and groans (heard them a thousand times before) normally about the bad reception on the TV.

2pm time to go and get AMT from the office and fight to find a truck to work on. Log on to the AMT ready to accept first job. Down to the manager on the podium for the first job of the day.

MU tipper to do - full of sugar (63 of them). Paperwork not ready yet so start without it, only need it to scan the goods in later. Can't hang around waiting would be in trouble if I did. Takes me 45mins to complete the tip so the driver can pull off the bay. Go down to the office to pick up the paperwork. Oh no should have only taken 30 off - bad communication from office to TM. Go explain the situation to the TM and get the driver back on a bay. Start to re-load the sugar - have got 16 back on and return to trailer to find only 12 on now - ehhhhh! Ask the guy on bay next to me "who has been on trailer and taken sugar off". He tells me so I wait and ask the culprit when he returns what is he doing I'm trying to load the sugar back on not take it off. He apologises and says the TM told him to come help me - he just assumed that I was tipping it!!!!! Well I then go off to the TM and ask why he didn't tell the guy I was reloading - doh!!!!! "Ooops didn't think about that" was the reply as he laughed his head off. Well brilliant start to the shift and it only gets worse - a wheel decides to fall off my truck so put it in what I call sick bay and get another. Think to myself - might have been a better day if I was in the office today (but seeing as though I'm not really a fan of working in the office anymore maybe not). Finish the loading and GROAN need a battery change now. Trundle down to the battery changing area and struggle to change the battery with inadequate and faulty equipment that is supposed to assist us.

The day starts to improve from this point, get sent for a break. Time to sit back and laugh about what happened. Back to work and it's the usual loading and unloading to do (but without the hitches) The usual pranks when we are a bit slack with work - dart onto someone's trailer while they are away and fasten a few of the straps across an unloaded area of the trailer and then wait for the reaction when they return. Always get their own back though! Yep we do get away with it but only when we work is very slack - it keeps morale up. Then the questions from the TM's about what is going on on VLH which I am more than willing to tell them about - helps to solve a few problems. Have told them to become members and find out for themselves. They know the names so think they are already members lol.

End of the shift is looming and the night crew are on the prowl for the best trucks. Mine is usually one of the first to be claimed. Standing at the clock waiting to clock out - usual banter going with the rest of the shift - it's great that we all get on so well together makes for a pleasant atmosphere. 10pm and the fighting starts pushing each other out of the way to swipe first - all good natured of course.

That's my day in the life of done - have had to condense it an awful lot but hope it's given you an insight and a laugh along the way.