What to photocopy before you climb to Level 6

Visitors sometimes arrive at Level 6, 39 Marjanishvili Street, Tbilisi 0102 with a brand-new notebook and no week of doors. We can drink tea. We cannot quote a route study from tea.

Photocopy or scan:

• one ordinary week of drop lists, including the ugly Friday
• kilometre logs or fuel slips for the same dates
• a line on van length and height, even if approximate
• streets or courtyards you already refuse, with the reason (stairs, ice, a quarrel with a guard)
• the name and telephone of someone at the depot who can unpack nicknames the same day

If the lists live only on a phone, sit with a printer before you come. A glowing scroll around a table of three people becomes a performance. Paper lets us mark.

You do not need a covering letter about your ambitions. You need the number of vans and the towns. If work leaves Tbilisi municipality, say where the driver sleeps. That single sentence decides whether the estimate includes an overnight.

Telephone +995 32 555 7690 if the lift on Marjanishvili Street is being serviced — it happens — and we will meet you in the lobby rather than leave you with a crate of photocopies on the stair.