I’m getting good at this. Here’s another in the series of Whitbread delivery vehicles. This one is delivering milk to the Costa Coffee on Euston Road, the one integrated with the Premier Inn London Euston. God I love how that spells PILE.
All normal? Nothing to worry about? Well, not quite. Can you see those two yellow markings on the kerb just by the rear doors?
Here comes the science. I can’t drive, so this must be really taxing to the poor Costa Coffee delivery driver’s brain. Those two yellow markings on the kerb there, beside the double yellow lines, they actually mean something!
Let’s hot foot over to the Highway Code. It’s not like you have to pay for it still, it’s free online!
There, that’s what those yellow markings mean, from the horse’s mouth itself – the Highway Code. That holy grail of traffic rules that we should all adhere to. Whitbread, Premier Inn, Costa Coffee, whatever you want to call them, have a delivery like this every day in this location.
We’re actually lucky, there’s a big sign at the start of the street which says no big vehicles after 6:30pm or before 8:30am. Today he decided to be kind, and grace us with his presence before 6:30pm.
Whitbread contract out their deliveries to Kuehne & Nagel. I may have mentioned that before. Neither company will take responsibility. I tried to tell Whitbread about their haphazard deliveries after watching some of their other trucks reversing up a ramp, around a blind corner mixed with a café seating area, a church, and other pedestrian attracting features. Whitbread have told me over the last two years on so many occasions that they take safety seriously.
So come on, Whitbread, show us that you’ve got some community understanding. Get your staff to think about how what they do affects those around them.
I’m not holding my breath. After this fire in Euston yesterday, the nearest neighbour to the building (BAM Construction, building a new headquarters for Unison), kindly booked two hotel rooms for two people affected, so they could be near their belongings/home and help to get them back on their feet.
Whitbread/Premier Inn, of course, charged BAM full whack. Yup, that’s the British spirit. Get all the cash you can, even when you’re just a few measly metres away from someone who’s been forced out of their home at 5am because of pretty serious water and fire damage. I know who I’ll turn to if there’s another large scale problem.
Whitbread must have made shitloads from the floods in Cumbria, if that’s their attitude towards helping in a local emergency.
There is a delivery area at the back of the hotel. Everyone else manages to use it, except Costa Coffee.
No, use the delivery area like everyone else.
If the Whitbread staff did their job properly there wouldn’t be glass in the car park.
Two years on, the delivery area is still there, and Costa Coffee still don’t use it.
Where are we suppose to park while we do these deliveries ??
Stuck up idiotical people like you have nothing better to do than pick faults all day long with delivery drivers trying to do the job they are expected to do with minimal fuss…maybe we should fly it in by helicopter and drop it down from above..idiot.
Get a life and do something more interesting and meaningful..like picking that glass up in the car park !!