Pallet Network drivers must be amongst the worst out there for flounting the rules.
Why are they so ignorant of the fact that loads must be secured.
I hope more of them get pulled over and fined, it’s about time the pallet network got their house order.
cav551:
Both pallets look to be moderately heavy, the front one clearly has shsrp edges and the rear one looks as if the conents can roll. Putting a strap over either pallet is hardly going to do much.So I blame the driver who collected it. He should have refused the goods as unsuitable for carriage as packed. ‘That’s not going on my wagon like that mate’.
Why’s this so hard? I used to work as a porter for a removals company. We carried everything in box vans, obviously, but individual items still had to be restrained to stop them toppling and causing damage.
Everything that was a potential risk was strapped. If the item could damage the strap, or the strap could damage the item, then it had a blanket or two put over it before it was strapped. We never broke anything due to a fall in the van. Yes it takes a (short) time, but there’s no point in delivering something that you’ve damaged.
Officially, ordinary curtainsides are not a means of load restraint or containment. So if the item can’t be restrained, then it can’t go in a curtainsider, and needs repacking. I’ve sent a car engine by pallet network. We scrounged an old pallet, strapped the engine on it, and then knocked together a timber frame to hold it all in place. The driver who picked it up complimented us on our packing.
Thing is we all know the score nowadays, any excuse to extort cash out of you.
So I just strap every ■■■■ thing these days, …why give the ■■■■ s the excuse and satisfaction to do you?
Extra hour on job extra hour’s pay, so I win…not them. 
Just one of those drivers who think the rules dont apply to them…glad he was taught a lesson ( if he was ) strap it or pay the price.
This increasingly ridiculous over zealous insecure load campaign makes me really glad I’ve just taken a job pulling tankers.
And to think of the thousands of on-end reels of paper I’ve dragged the length of the country in a curtainsider out of Tilbury without a single strap to be seen… 
Just been sat at a haulage firm waiting get tipped.
Was an expo trailer there being loaded a double deck curtain sider he collected a full load.
Had some ibc tanks. Some builders bags full of God knows what.
2 coke vending machines strapped to a pallet
Anyway he had a full load of all sorts.
Pulled curtain closed and drive off.
Unbelievable.
And just to make it worse the driver was sat in his cab for about 30 mins while being loaded.
Didn’t get out to check or watch just sat there on his phone.
Got out shut curtains and drove off
Unfortunately it’s all to common in pallet distribution
Buck stops with driver but it’s a plague within the industry. Warehouses that are organised chaos. Transport offices that just want all drops done. Leads to corners being cut on a daily basis.
AND
Coming across ratchet straps that are jammed in mechanism as too many don’t know how to use them. ( Apologies another daily pet hate of mine)
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^^^^^^ this. I hate pallet network with a vengeance
It’s ok blaming pallet network types but where’s the collective backbone of the workforce? You know the workforce that will ultimately carry the can for it?
If they did the job properly, took the time then it would have to change as jobs get missed and so on. Problem is not enough numbers will do it so the ones who do will be made to look like the bad ones.
Yes it’s endemic but so is the “I must get done by 5pm regardless” culture.
I don’t mean that I hate those that do it, although each has their own staff hero’s. I mean I have done the job and I detest it.
johnteller:
I don’t mean that I hate those that do it, although each has their own staff hero’s. I mean I have done the job and I detest it.
Yeah I get that and I wasn’t pouting the finger at you, it was more a general thing of everyone getting swept into a cycle of corner cutting.
I too have done and still do some pallet network type work, and yeah I too detest it lol
switchlogic:
This increasingly ridiculous over zealous insecure load campaign makes me really glad I’ve just taken a job pulling tankers.
What happened with Eating more chips Switch? Notice you’ve bee fairly quiet with the videos of late, most of the others not in the same league so get the camera cracking!
short walk:
switchlogic:
This increasingly ridiculous over zealous insecure load campaign makes me really glad I’ve just taken a job pulling tankers.What happened with Eating more chips Switch? Notice you’ve bee fairly quiet with the videos of late, most of the others not in the same league so get the camera cracking!
Ha, thank you! I’ve had a few health issues the past year so decided the best way to get better was to slow down a bit and stop living in lorries! So rented a house up near parents and now work for Mansel Davies on milk tankers on 4 on 4 off and loving it so far! Enjoyed working for Broughton, genuinely one of the best companies I’ve worked for but life needed a charge of pace
I’ve been saying for a while now we need consignor liability as they have in Germany.
switchlogic:
short walk:
switchlogic:
This increasingly ridiculous over zealous insecure load campaign makes me really glad I’ve just taken a job pulling tankers.What happened with Eating more chips Switch? Notice you’ve bee fairly quiet with the videos of late, most of the others not in the same league so get the camera cracking!
Ha, thank you! I’ve had a few health issues the past year so decided the best way to get better was to slow down a bit and stop living in lorries! So rented a house up near parents and now work for Mansel Davies on milk tankers on 4 on 4 off and loving it so far! Enjoyed working for Broughton, genuinely one of the best companies I’ve worked for but life needed a charge of pace
OK Switch nice to know, MD also a good firm I think, are they still using the odd F12 on locals?
WOW
So glad I dont drive trucks ANYMORE !!!
WHY do you put up with this BS
short walk:
OK Switch nice to know, MD also a good firm I think, are they still using the odd F12 on locals?
Yup they’re a very good company. My very fickle father has been there for 3 years so they must be doing something right! No none quite that old still running but they do have a fair few elderly but well maintained FH’s. I’ve been lucky, my two allocated trucks are an 18 and 19 reg Dual Clutch FH
edd1974:
Just been sat at a haulage firm waiting get tipped.
Was an expo trailer there being loaded a double deck curtain sider he collected a full load.
Had some ibc tanks. Some builders bags full of God knows what.
2 coke vending machines strapped to a palletAnyway he had a full load of all sorts.
Pulled curtain closed and drive off.
Unbelievable.
And just to make it worse the driver was sat in his cab for about 30 mins while being loaded.Didn’t get out to check or watch just sat there on his phone.
Got out shut curtains and drove off
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
good man.
no messing ■■■■■■■ about then.
rally it round to the gate and if it dont go on on its side by the time the barrier lifts,then itl be fine till you get to where your going.
if your working for a normal type comppany and can talk face to face with the main man,then theres 2 options.
1.will i waste time and spend extra hours strapping things to death that dont need strapping…or
2.just syrap as required using your brain and crack on.
if as and when i get stopped,then you ( employer) are paying my fine. deal done and everybody gets on with the job…win win for everyone in reality land.
same as working for the hooligans…crack on,and the company pays all fines except for speeding…no messing there either.
Harry Monk:
And to think of the thousands of on-end reels of paper I’ve dragged the length of the country in a curtainsider out of Tilbury without a single strap to be seen…
Daren’t say how we used to haul packs of bricks on flats with only a rope across the back to keep the ministry happy. Think people on here would have a fit how loads were held on 25+ years ago. Don’t think there was that many more shed loads than they is now, With lorries being as powerful as they are now, drivers drive them like cars and don’t read the road ahead like you had to when we had crap brakes and a average of 290hp at 38 tonnes