Drivers will continue to be placed in ‘custody suite’ style waiting rooms for as long as they put up with it. Newbuild RDC’s are designed to actively prevent visiting drivers from accessing customers other site facilities. The only effective course of action is to seek alternative employment that doesn’t expose you to waiting rooms like these.
The same goes for drivers needing to access random facilities particularly during tramping. To be brutal, the amount of regular trampers in operation compared to the amount of shift working drivers (and other similar patterns of ‘day’ work) is small. The infrastructure requirements needed to keep trampers happy is far greater than those needed to keep shift workers going.
Customers know they can keep providing poor quality facilities because the quality of facilities alone are not a major contributing factor to drivers resigning or quitting the industry. For as long as drivers keep returning the facilities will remain as they are.
The same goes for tramping. Tramping is a lifestyle and how far poor or no facilities impact on that lifestyle is an individual choice. How poor is enough to pack in tramping altogether? Not even zero apparently. In Norway for example, for years there have been no driver specific facilities yet there are still a few trampers including some Brit ex-pats.
In cases where drivers have no choice other than their current employment to endure poor facilities the choice to keep enduring is a personal one. The customer that provides the facilities has done all they can to influence the driver’s decision to accept or reject the facilities on offer by providing them for the driver sit in. If the lived waiting room experience isn’t powerful enough to motivate a driver to leave and never return then nothing is.