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Original poster

Delivery driver tried to run into me

315 replies

Kazkepper123 · 11/03/2021 21:21

Long and short is that I had a delivery today. Pallet was over 2 metre high and they wouldn’t deliver it to the back of the house. Every other delivery has been delivered this way. He wouldn’t tell me why he wouldn’t do it. It could have been there wasn’t enough space or whatever but he wouldn’t say.

I asked him to take the delivery back as I didn’t want to be liable for a pallet on the main road that wasn’t secured properly (was no wrap at the bottom) and I hadn’t signed the tablet. He refused.

As the driver was closing the back of the van etc I stood at the front of the van and tried to call the company. The driver than tried to drive into me. Had to call the police etc.

AIBU for standing in front of the truck and him trying to run into me? I was on the phone to his company.

OP posts:
Mayonaisepoo · 11/03/2021 22:24

I usually lurk but I made an account because I need to know what the police said???????

Original poster
Kazkepper123 · 11/03/2021 22:24

@majesticallyawkward thing is, had you been walking past and 220kg fell on you, because the pallet wasn’t correctly secured, would you be happy?

OP posts:
Original poster
Kazkepper123 · 11/03/2021 22:24

@Mayonaisepoo police never came.

OP posts:
nimbuscloud · 11/03/2021 22:25

Course they didn’t

AWhisperWillDoIfThatsAllYouCan · 11/03/2021 22:25

What arrangements has you made for moving your purchase from the pallet to your property? Why didnt you just continue with that arrangement?

Veterinari · 11/03/2021 22:25

Fair enough you didn't want it left in the road, but how were you planning on getting it indoors? Couldn't you have just done that?

Nicknacky · 11/03/2021 22:25

How did this terribly dangerous, precarious cargo not fall over en route to you?

What arrangements had you made, knowing it was a kerbside delivery?

Original poster
Kazkepper123 · 11/03/2021 22:25

@shouldistop I’m 153cm tall. The pallet is 2 metre tall... wasn’t secured at the bottom, the pallet was on the road, completely unsafe for me to do it. Hence why every company has delivered to the rear. I don’t mind offloading, just it’s too tall and not secure.

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gamerchick · 11/03/2021 22:27

[quote Kazkepper123]@majesticallyawkward thing is, had you been walking past and 220kg fell on you, because the pallet wasn’t correctly secured, would you be happy?[/quote]
Why do you keep saying the same thing? Hmm it's YOUR job to make sure the goods get from the kerb (what you pay for) onto the property. You need to make arrangements for that. Why havent you? You just sound like an entitled pain OP.

NuclearDH · 11/03/2021 22:27

Drove into you or tried to drive into you? Because you’ve changed your story from first post to subsequent post.

AWhisperWillDoIfThatsAllYouCan · 11/03/2021 22:28

It doesnt need to be secured at the bottom for you to unload it. You would be cutting the plastic anyway to remove each item. Once the plastic is cut, they're not longer held together and to the pallet so it makes no difference if they werent connected to start with. Then you move one item and a time. If you thought they'd be too heavy for you, then who was meant to be there to help you? Why didnt they get on with it?

Homeschoolgetmeoutofhere · 11/03/2021 22:28

Just interested, have all the deliveries you received at the back been packaged exactly as you’ve wanted them, or have you previously accepted wrongly wrapped pallets at the back? Just wondering if you’re applying the same quality checks each time or did you use the fact it wasn’t delivere: to your preferred place as a reason to raise and issue about the packaging?

Sirzy · 11/03/2021 22:28

As you knew you needed it delivering to the back why didn’t you contact the company before delivery?

NuclearDH · 11/03/2021 22:29

If you admit to the police you were trying to stop him driving away just be careful he doesn’t come back and try and get you in trouble for false imprisonment or similar.

AlrightTreacle · 11/03/2021 22:29

I can’t be responsible for 10 items that weigh at least 25kg each falling on people.

...then move them? Kerbside delivery means kerbside delivery, then you're meant to sort out taking it from there.

DianaT1969 · 11/03/2021 22:29

How did you expect him to move the pallet? By lifting it?
Did he have a pump truck?

BakedTattie · 11/03/2021 22:29

But you paid for kerb side drop - AND THATS WHAT HE DID

DianaT1969 · 11/03/2021 22:30

Did you have to buy that quantity in one order?

IndecentFeminist · 11/03/2021 22:30

You're not being unreasonable op. Provided he could actually manoeuvre to the area you wanted him

viques · 11/03/2021 22:30

I am refusing to engage further with this thread until I know what was on the pallet. It’s my constitutional right and I am sticking to it.

Sirzy · 11/03/2021 22:31

And again if it was so insecure how did he get it off the Lorry?

Propagandalf · 11/03/2021 22:31

About 20+ people in this thread have asked what did the police do / say?

"I'll see what the police say when I present the cab CCTV"...?

In other words, you haven't contacted the police yet.

YABU.

Overcastcloudy · 11/03/2021 22:31

What is it with the victim blaming?

OP refused delivery. So he needs to take the goods away. The rest is between her and the company to sort out later.

He does not get to drive i to her!

JamesAnderson · 11/03/2021 22:32

I'm imagining a road giving side/back access to the op's property. So kerbside then has 2 different kerbs.

If this is the case why can she not specify which kerb is used

NuniaBeeswax · 11/03/2021 22:33
Hmm