nickyboy:
Feeders doing the night trunking are hands off, they don’t touch anything, trailers are loaded and unloaded by the depot/hub staff. The hubs and the newer depots have extendable conveyors to load/unload, you can walk to the front of the trailer and press a button and the conveyor will extend the full 40ft. Pre-load shift at the depots starts around 3am, first trucks arrive anytime from half 2 onwards.
That sounds like it’s all gone back to how it was when it was just a case of drive to Nuneaton swap the trailers and get the tele on during the sort and then drive back and drop the trailer and do the post trip and go home.Also back then we were lucky to leave Nuneaton much before around 3 am.It would be interesting to find out what caused the change.