Biggest tip you received

Many companies don't want drivers accepting tips, gifts, etc. from customers...and some will even take disciplinary action against you if they found out that you did. Not sure their reasoning behind that, but I've seen that policy at more than one place I've worked. Often times around the holidays, a "reminder" is sent out not to accept gifts from customers. Cheap promotional items (hats, etc.) are generally OK...but not money or expensive items.

Generally speaking, I'm more likely to offer a tip than to accept one.

 

It was, parts of it anyhow. The load ended up in Connecticut after a tour through NY state beyond a stop in Jersey.

 

I got a 60 buck tip from two business mention, while driving Yellow Cab in Denver.
I picked them up at Stapleton and took them downtown. They were supposed to be somewhere at a particular time to put on a sales presentation. Their plane was late, so they were running behind. They asked me to"hurry." I hurried, they actually made it on time, and were grateful of it.

I got #####ed off by Wheeler CAT because I happened to be wearing my John Deere cap when I made a pickup from them! How petty and chicken #### some people are.

They should have prosecuted him as well!

 

I don't ever get tips hauling fuel but when I drove a concrete mixer I got $10-$20 tips semi regularly. One time a finisher was pouring sidewalk by himself and as soon as I got to the job he handed me the amount due for the concrete plus $140. I suspect he might have accidentally given me more then he intended. I tried to be the absolute best most useful mixer driver I could be but stopped pushing wheelbarrows for the guy after I almost tipped one over. You forget how heavy a wheelbarrow full of concrete can be when your not the one driving it

 

My company would say "cool that's less we have to pay you" lol

 

Two biggest tips ever were from my Dad.

A) 7 years old - Son you don't ever give a good God #### it about what anyone thinks of you, and you don't take any #### off anybody. - Word.

B) 19 years old - Son if you marry that girl, you not only marry her, you marry her family. - Word.

 

i worked at a rental car place when i was younger, received $60 from the Spurs assistant coach for giving a jump start. $100 during christmas season for giving a family a ride to their luxury hotel.

 

Ive gone out of the way to offer a dollar here and there but as of 1998 seriously rolled back on that little tidbit. We had a man ask us for money claiming to have resurrected his dead truck with bare hands in the last fast food joint stop before Arkansas in Ok. We saw him as a parasite. It was a really seriously bad timing going in while fueling to purchase food with him there. But we got clear of it as the fueling was completed and paid for in good order.

In Ready mix once in a great while you pick up a couple dollars dumping the last little bit left in your drum into someone's hole punched swimming pool or something a couple blocks away. When a parade of concrete trucks show up pouring a house and someone sees the left overs of that quality and strength, it's a oppertunity they cannot pass up. I have reinforced my own driveway which was at the time more than 500 feet including two curves in it that constantly sank until about 6 yards of concrete was delivered to it as waste but cured perfectly to stop it from sinking. (There was a french drain under it, a nat gas line, plus a drainage pipe. With the rains we got sometimes had a gravel dump truck pour stone throughout once a year.)

I forget how much I benefited from a dallop of this or that, but I can tell you it's not that much. Would I have been fired? Er no. No one really cared. In fact it was good that leftover is reinforcing someone's pool rather than being treated as a lump of something to be busted up and disposed of.

 

50. Back when I did Triple A roadside I got lots of tips. Nary a one truck driving lol