I received a call at 1400 to attend a mobile phone mast site on a massive hill in the middle of nowhere. Its a mast and building with control equiptment in. Apparently the local area has been effected quite badly by a powerloss recently so the intruder alarm is now showing battery fail. Easy enough I thought so off I go with dnough batteries go power blackpool illuminations.

After an hour of asking as many people as I could find (2) where the mast was I see a broken loose stone path leadin up a steep hill.

Time to test the old Vivaro for pulling power. Foot to the floor and a few scary moments later I reach the summit. LOCKS bundles of them and not a key in site its now 4 oclock and my jolly up in the hills to swap a battery has now become a nightmare. I ring the security response team who tells me that I should have fore warn them that I was attending site and they could have arranged someone to mmet me there. All good and well but the fault report clearly states someone will be on site. I avoided the argument and apologised hoping he could get someone on site asap 2000 earliest he says. Great!! I had a call out at 1.30 this morning got back in bed at 5 and woke at 7 im slightly tired.

I crack the engine and turn the heaters on when disastor strikes I need the toilet and not aomething you can do standing up. For 3 and a half hours I ride the pain like a woman in labour when suddenly theres a knock on my window recovering from almost certain cardiac arrest i open my door to a man ressembling a hobbit. Im here to escort you, I explain that its access I need.

Anyway here I am with stomach cramps, a hobbit and another 1 hour wait for access to a site to carry out a 2 minute job ive another call 2 hours away to because a gas suppression system wont go in normal its stuck in auto preventing the alarm from setting. Then a 2 hr drive home.

Fantastic

Think in that case id have dumped my guts in the hedge.

I received a call at 1400 to attend a mobile phone mast site on a massive hill in the middle of nowhere. Its a mast and building with control equiptment in. Apparently the local area has been effected quite badly by a powerloss recently so the intruder alarm is now showing battery fail. Easy enough I thought so off I go with dnough batteries go power blackpool illuminations.

After an hour of asking as many people as I could find (2) where the mast was I see a broken loose stone path leadin up a steep hill.

Time to test the old Vivaro for pulling power. Foot to the floor and a few scary moments later I reach the summit. LOCKS bundles of them and not a key in site its now 4 oclock and my jolly up in the hills to swap a battery has now become a nightmare. I ring the security response team who tells me that I should have fore warn them that I was attending site and they could have arranged someone to mmet me there. All good and well but the fault report clearly states someone will be on site. I avoided the argument and apologised hoping he could get someone on site asap 2000 earliest he says. Great!! I had a call out at 1.30 this morning got back in bed at 5 and woke at 7 im slightly tired.

I crack the engine and turn the heaters on when disastor strikes I need the toilet and not aomething you can do standing up. For 3 and a half hours I ride the pain like a woman in labour when suddenly theres a knock on my window recovering from almost certain cardiac arrest i open my door to a man ressembling a hobbit. Im here to escort you, I explain that its access I need.

Anyway here I am with stomach cramps, a hobbit and another 1 hour wait for access to a site to carry out a 2 minute job ive another call 2 hours away to because a gas suppression system wont go in normal its stuck in auto preventing the alarm from setting. Then a 2 hr drive home.

Fantastic

your boss wants locking up,carry on like that and he will be soon

I agree goncall

I agree goncall

i forgot to say you will be will be sharing a cell if you cause an accident,depending on what time you get home(safely i hope) you could be looking at around 7 hrs sleep in 48 hrs

Ive done worse pal if i start dropping or feeling the effects i stop at the services for a couple of hours

Ive done worse pal if i start dropping or feeling the effects i stop at the services for a couple of hours

weve all done it in the past but these days its a no no

Your attitude is the right one pal this wasnt planned im kinda stuck by circumstance

 im kinda stuck by circumstance

id be off home tbh you must be really flagging by now the call can wait never mind the other one you have to do,let your gaffer pick it up

Thats why you should keep an emergency bogroll in your ppe bag