Just a freak in Dartford [Archive] - Saxperience

CloVis

26th July 2007, 08:25

OMG im well nervous, ive gotta follow my tomtom to Dartford!!! just know im going to get lost!

wish me luck.

ive got no phone or anything if i brake down.. lol. whoops!!!!!!!:panic: :panic:

AdamW

26th July 2007, 08:25

Why dont you have a phone?

CloVis

26th July 2007, 08:27

No credit.. no money! the ups of work ey!!
Going up there for training, freaking out lol.
Dont have a clue how much its going to cost from Ashford, any ideas???

Scattle

26th July 2007, 08:27

Use the good old, 0800 reverse if you get lost. Shouldn't get lost with a Tomtom though.

AdamW

26th July 2007, 08:28

Surely should of planned your journey....and saved money for essentials

CloVis

26th July 2007, 08:29

I have planned i have a tomtom! and i do have money for the journey! work covers that tut
I was just wondering how much i should ask for...

good thanks for that idea bout 0800 reverse. ta

AdamW

26th July 2007, 08:35

Ask for the company credit card..........is your best bet.....

Its what I do.....

"Adam, whats the deal with this 12oz sirloin steak and 5 pints of stella booked on card"

Matter of life and death sir.....

Robb

26th July 2007, 08:37

CloVis

26th July 2007, 08:38

LOL i would if we had one...but we dont.
Really i should be paying and claiming it back, but ive actually run out money on day 3. lol

Chris

26th July 2007, 08:40

Errrmmm, surely you can't get lost if you've got a TomTom.

Chris :)

Dan-Subtle

26th July 2007, 08:52

petrol will be about £15 there and back.

Kelly

26th July 2007, 08:55

LOL i would if we had one...but we dont.
Really i should be paying and claiming it back, but ive actually run out money on day 3. lol

the whole point of expenses is that you pay the money out then they give you it back. they won't give you it just cos you're skint. All they will tell you is that its your fault you haven't handled your money better.

That's what my boss said to me when I moaned about our petrol money expenses cos my car was broken.

Vinny_VSX

26th July 2007, 10:44

Errrmmm, surely you can't get lost if you've got a TomTom.

Chris :)

My tom tom on many occasions has gotten itself lost and I have ended up in a dead end and it is still telling me to turn left or right. It is madness. Just the other week, it took me off the M5 for no reason then told me to go down these country lanes and then rejoin the motorway on an emergency slip road. In the end I just turned off the f*cker and found the way myself :y:

Danhunt

26th July 2007, 10:45

Oh no not a tom tom, should have bought a garmin, have fun in the middle of nowhere :y:

Chris

26th July 2007, 10:47

I'm aimig to get a Garmin for Xmas me thinks.

Chris :)

Vinny_VSX

26th July 2007, 10:51

It's not really that far away from Christmas actually. Quite a scary thought

saxophone

26th July 2007, 10:51

Ashford to Dartford cost ya bout £15 in petrol if ya drive carefully. should only take ya bout an hour too.

VTS_16v_Boy

26th July 2007, 11:37

Very straight forward drive as its almost just two straight roads really

M20 or M2/A2 (depending on where you start) and M25

Make sure you have a £pound coin handy as if you miss the junction for Dartfort and miss the next one to come back on yourself you could end up at the Dartford Crossing with out a £pound to cross :p

You shouldnt miss the exit for Dartford it is very clearly marked.

**EDIT**

One thing I will say, is that there are alot of very heavy roadworks at the A2/M25 Junction so keep your wits about you and listen to Mr TomTom, like I said if you get to the tolls for the Dartford crossing then you have gone to far :oops:

Chris

26th July 2007, 11:51

Make sure you have a £pound coin handy as if you miss the junction for Dartfort and miss the next one to come back on yourself you could end up at the Dartford Crossing with out a £pound to cross :p

Make that £2... as you will need one to go through to Essex and another to come back to Kent.

Chris :)

VTS_16v_Boy

26th July 2007, 12:29

Well yes two would be handy but you could always get cash at lakeside or buy something at services etc but if you get to the tolls and you aint got one, you stuff'd

I got in the wrong lane once and only had a fiver but went upto a autotoll which dont give change, I had to get out and ask the bloke behind me if he had change of a fiver :oops:

He didnt but just gave me a pound, I even offered him the whole five pound note in exchange but he just waved me away, I was so embrassed

Scattle

26th July 2007, 12:32

Lol, luckily never forgot £1 when I go into or out of Kent/Essex. Shouldn't still be paying for it anyway.

VTS_16v_Boy

26th July 2007, 13:10

You wouldnt believe the amount of people that do tho, and the person in the box has to get out and take registration details and tax disc details so they can bill you via post.

Dan-Subtle

26th July 2007, 13:11

for a pound its ridiculous, that thing was supposed to be free once it had payed for itself!!

Chris

26th July 2007, 13:15

But then a German company took it over and they could see it as a brilliant money maker, so kept the tolls.

Chris :)

Kelly

26th July 2007, 13:47

for a pound its ridiculous, that thing was supposed to be free once it had payed for itself!!

But then a German company took it over and they could see it as a brilliant money maker, so kept the tolls.

Chris :)

Does the crossing/tunnel not require maintenance? Thats probably what the fee goes towards

Chris

26th July 2007, 13:52

Does the crossing/tunnel not require maintenance? Thats probably what the fee goes towards

Yeah, but then what about the Blackwall Tunnel, Rotherhythe Tunnel, Eltham Tunnel etc etc etc.... they would need maintaining as well, but you don't have to pay to go through them.

Chris :)

VTS_16v_Boy

26th July 2007, 13:57

Chris I think your find its a French company (might be wrong but Im almost 99.9% sure its French), and How'd you think they pay for all them smart looking Land Rovers?

Oh and did you not hear that the prices are set to increase maybe later this year or maybe next year I think to £1.50 for cars and other vechiles increasing aswell, there is talk about if you live in the local area I imgain Dartford (Kent side) and Purfleet (Essex side) they will give a discount to about £1.20

If you have a DartTag like suppiled to my missis via her work place she gets a very small discount per crossing, when I looked into it was a single figure discount which amounted to about 7p off each time and you had to remember to top up the bloody thing so I desided it wasnt worth it

Kelly

26th July 2007, 13:58

Yeah, but then what about the Blackwall Tunnel, Rotherhythe Tunnel, Eltham Tunnel etc etc etc.... they would need maintaining as well, but you don't have to pay to go through them.

Chris :)

I assume that they are smaller passings so would be funded from our taxes etc. Bigger structures like the Dartford Tunnel/Crossing and the Humber Bridge are surely more costly to maintain.

Doesn't affect me much anyway cos we only use the crossing and tunnel once a year at the most.

Chris

26th July 2007, 14:01

I assume that they are smaller passings so would be funded from our taxes etc. Bigger structures like the Dartford Tunnel/Crossing and the Humber Bridge are surely more costly to maintain.

Doesn't affect me much anyway cos we only use the crossing and tunnel once a year at the most.

The Blackwall Tunnel is about 4 times the length of the Dartford Tunnel and it's also about 100 years older and in need of desperate repair IMO.

Plus, what the hell do we pay Road tax for if they make us pay to use certain roads anyway!?!?!?!

Chris :)

Scattle

26th July 2007, 14:39

Exactly, just another way of getting money of us, with the amount of Viechles(sp) that must pass through the QE2 bridge and tunnel, must make so much money.

CloVis

26th July 2007, 16:45

the whole point of expenses is that you pay the money out then they give you it back. they won't give you it just cos you're skint. All they will tell you is that its your fault you haven't handled your money better.

That's what my boss said to me when I moaned about our petrol money expenses cos my car was broken.

What? they would and they did!!!!
They no my circumstances so whatever really.

CloVis

26th July 2007, 16:48

Oh btw i madeit saftly there and back!!
Lots of traffic and very heavy winds, but i made it! I put £15 in my tank and still got alot left so alls good in the hood....

Dan-Subtle

26th July 2007, 16:49

youve still got alot left you must have been preserving that petrol.

CloVis

26th July 2007, 16:51

Lol not really but i think the fact the roads were moving so slow helped. I got lost once, and that was actually in Darftford town hehe... tomtom helped me all the way. Part from when i had the music to loud and missed my lane. *whoopsy*

Kelly

26th July 2007, 20:20

What? they would and they did!!!!
They no my circumstances so whatever really.

No need to sound aggressive is there? I was just saying that's usually what happens with expenses. If your company are good enough to do otherwise then bully for you but don't go mouthing off just cos your circumstances are different to what I said

CloVis

27th July 2007, 08:43

MOuthing off? wtf. lol think you must of read that in the wrong way or something tbh!

Chris

27th July 2007, 08:56

Stop bickering please.

Chris :)

VTS_16v_Boy

27th July 2007, 09:43

Glad you made it Dartford a ok and got back ok, what did people do before sat nav . . .

. . . Oh yer, we used to get lost lol

Chris

27th July 2007, 09:46

Glad you made it Dartford a ok and got back ok, what did people do before sat nav . . .

. . . Oh yer, we used to get lost lol

Pull over on the hard shoulder and get the map out the boot.......... ans still get lost.

Chris :)

Kelly

27th July 2007, 10:18

MOuthing off? wtf. lol think you must of read that in the wrong way or something tbh!

the excessive use of exclamation marks etc made it appear you didn't like my comment and were 'mouthing off'

Stop bickering please.

Chris :)

I'm not bickering please read the above. If someone makes their comment look that way then its not my fault is it?

CloVis

27th July 2007, 13:28

lol, well if you put it that way then your comments could be seen as very 'blunt'

As I said no offence was meant, so end of discussion yep

Kelly

27th July 2007, 13:39

lol, well if you put it that way then your comments could be seen as very 'blunt'

As I said no offence was meant, so end of discussion yep

Example via pm maybe? What I posted in here was an opinion and view on how expenses usually work so tell me how I made that blunt... when it was straight to the point?

Chris

27th July 2007, 13:43

I did ask for this to stop.... it hasn't, so the thread is now locked.

Next time please take note of my request and stop being so stubborn.

Chris :)