This is why you are 4 hours at Bedford…
BrettRE:
PremiumTrucker:
Yet we go to Aldi / Lidl etc and can have yourself tipped in 1hr. Worlds gone madLidl in Belvedere Kent. Busy’r DC. No system there even tho they give you a pager it’s just lucky dip. Seems each door is for one type of load which is bollox. Get it off any door then the screamers inside on there FLTs can take it to where it needs to go. I’ve spent 4hrs there just waiting to get on the bay. Let alone self tip then wait for them to check of the loads. (That’s what takes them a week)
Not that bothered on hourly. But there system could do with a kick up the backside
some time in Lidl must wait for pumptruck 40 minut
trubster:
This is why you are 4 hours at Bedford…
aye to busy racing each other on there trucks doing doughnuts
Does 15 plus hours at Argos Bridgewater count!
A few years ago I went there once a week, with 52 pallets, they used to take one lift at a time and handball them onto “ARGOS” pallets! Was always booked around midday and always went straight on to bay!
However they did allow us to drop try on bay, park up solo for daily rest and full access to canteen n toilets!
Company we hauled for went bankrupt so not been there in 10 years so don’t know what it’s like now!
Just been in and out of Waitrose, Aylesford in 25 minutes with 10 pallets, gate to gate, and I’m not even booked until 1100 tomorrow. 
Wonder how much money rdc’s cost the transport industry every year through lost productivity because a driver and wagon are parked on a bay doing nothing for hours?
We have to respect their time… if your late or early forget it but once we are in there your basically a few foot of extra warehouse space for as long as they like.
It’s nowhere near as bad as it was ten years ago when four hours was the norm for tipping at an RDC. They seem to have got a lot better now that eastern Europeans do the job.
I arrived at a Lidl RDC at 0700 recently and wasn’t tipped until 1300 because somebody had forgot to book me in but was paid £200 demurrage, I would quite happily do that every day. 
“£200 demurrage”
And there is the answer - more firms need to charge demurrage and stick there guns “no pay = no stay”. But it’s just wishful thinking.
I regularly do shifts on nights and spend 7+ hours in a 13/14 hour day waiting at Super Market DC’s, how the haulier ever makes any money is beyond me quite honestly.