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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.

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AWhisperWillDoIfThatsAllYouCan · 11/03/2021 22:33

@IndecentFeminist

Have you heard of liability insurance? He isnt allowed. Some drivers will break those rules, and it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye; if an accident happens whilst they are delivering onto property they should never have stepped foot on then they are in deep trouble.

Can I ask why you would feel entitled to a delivery to your back garden if you only paid for kerb side delivery, and had it fully made clear to you that you were only getting kerb side delivery?

DianaT1969 · 11/03/2021 22:34

Where is the palette now? Still out of the pavement?
I'm incredibly invested in this story 🤣

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JamesAnderson · 11/03/2021 22:36

@Kazkepper123 I think a diagram may help Grin

IndecentFeminist · 11/03/2021 22:37

Of course I have 🙄 but without knowing further about the access and where the OP was requesting delivery, you know no more than I do as to whether it was a reasonable request or not.

Kerbside doesn't literally have to mean on a kerb. An unmade road behind a property instead of in front is no different.

WhoStoleMyCheese · 11/03/2021 22:38

Don’t understand - could he not just have seen you? I doubt he drove into you deliberately.
Also even a 2m high item can be laid flat on its side. What did you expect the company to do - resecure the item and send it back to you? V confusing story

JamesAnderson · 11/03/2021 22:38

Kerbside doesn't literally have to mean on a kerb. An unmade road behind a property instead of in front is no different

I suspect this is what the OP was asking for

diamondpony80 · 11/03/2021 22:39

If he'd driven into her then of course the police would've come - he probably just started up his vehicle thinking she'd move. Sounds to me like the delivery driver was the victim here. The victim of a difficult customer who deliberately stood in front of his van to prevent him from getting on with his job because she didn't get her own way.

CantBeAssed · 11/03/2021 22:41

You were hit by a truck and police never came...was it a tonka truckConfused

AlrightTreacle · 11/03/2021 22:42

Kerbside doesn't literally have to mean on a kerb. An unmade road behind a property instead of in front is no different

He would have already made the delivery at this point though? If OP wanted somewhere specific then she should have arranged this prior to delivery, in my experience kerbside is literally dropped at the nearest kerbside to your address.

Also, unadopted roads are often full of potholes, and maybe be didn't fancy bouncing down it with his van full of other deliveries?

NoMackerelInSwindon · 11/03/2021 22:42

Hmmm.... this sounds familiar.

I had a similar incident. Then I found out other customers did. Was the product topsoil or compost @Kazkepper123 ?

majesticallyawkward · 11/03/2021 22:43

[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]
Not really the point though. What was your plan to get the items off if it was at the back? Front or back you've got a large delivery you need to take responsibility for and appear to have had no plan other make demands of a delivery driver.

So the police didn't come? Is there the smallest chance you're adding a bit of drama for the sympathy vote?

rwalker · 11/03/2021 22:45

You got what you paid for but wanted more he advised you he was going and you deliberate stood in front of his vechile.
I suspect he told you he was going to move and you stood in his path expecting him to stop where as he was expecting you to move off the rd

You are completely at fault don't order kerbside if you want it round the back . If you ordered kerbside and he took it round the back damaged something or injured himself he wouldn't be insured as he was not supposed to be doing it.

bamboothrough · 11/03/2021 22:49

What was on the pallet?

What did the police say?

YABU on evidence so far, you can’t stop someone from leaving. If you hadn’t signed for the pallet then you wouldn’t be responsible if they did fall anyway?!

SchrodingersImmigrant · 11/03/2021 22:50

Kerbside is kerbside. Unudopted road is a private property (though with public right of way).
Hence, I would assume that they will count ot as private and not "kerbside". I am sure their insurance company would argue that they were on private land if anything happened and not insured foe it

SchrodingersImmigrant · 11/03/2021 22:51

Even imaginary unadopted road is a private road😁

HopingForOurRainbowBaby · 11/03/2021 22:52

If you were stood in front of his Truck cab and in his blind spot he wouldn't have seen you!! This diagram here will show you. Doubt he tried to drive into you on purpose

Delivery driver tried to run into me
Reinventinganna · 11/03/2021 22:52

He was a knob, you were a knob. C’est la vie

Soontobe60 · 11/03/2021 22:53

[quote Kazkepper123]@Mayonaisepoo police never came.[/quote]
The bastards! After someone attempted to murder you with their van???

cerseii · 11/03/2021 22:55

@HopingForOurRainbowBaby that photo is eye opening - almost makes me wonder how these vehicles are safe for road transit if the blind spot is that wide

lalafafa · 11/03/2021 22:57

so you knew it was kerb side delivery but instead he take it to the rear of you property, then you told him to take iy back? Check yourself, all the cost and effort to get it to you, so fucking rude. Not surprised he wanted to flatten you.

NoMackerelInSwindon · 11/03/2021 22:57

Do you remember this @cerseii

shouldistop · 11/03/2021 22:59

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.

So you hadn't made any arrangements for it to be moved? You did just expect him to deliver to the rear even though you knew that's not what was booked?

Soontobe60 · 11/03/2021 23:03

I have a large pallet of logs delivered every year to the rear of my property. Once I place my order, I phone up the company and remind them that it needs to be delivered to the rear in front of my garage where they are stored. I specify a 1 hour time slot. I pay £20 extra for this service and have a couple of others to help me unload the logs as soon as they’re delivered. That way there’s no danger of them falling onto a baby passing in a pram.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 11/03/2021 23:04

[quote cerseii]@HopingForOurRainbowBaby that photo is eye opening - almost makes me wonder how these vehicles are safe for road transit if the blind spot is that wide[/quote]
I guess they count on being hard to miss. Plus in a front you would absolutely have to JUST step infront of it and I don't believe seeing people would help at that point anyway😳