Now, I’m all for safety etc , but this definitely took the u.ine
Was delivering to Spade Lane cold store, on the A2 near Sittingbourne today, pulled up in the yard and opened the doors, to reveal a pallet of cardboard, forkie comes over, I show him the delivery note and I tell him just the one. He looks at me with that official look that they have and says…
" Keys please ".
Now as I said I’m all for safety but really. ■■
By the time I had actually walked back to the cab , grabbed the keys and walked back, he could’ve taken it off and shut the doors for me, but there he was waiting.
So I pass him the keys, he takes of the one pallet, gives me the keys back and I then give the note for him to sign.
Now I agree that if your delivering a full load to be side tipped, like at Sainsburys, Asda, or Morrisons, to name but a few, but this has to be over-zealous to the extreme
Ok - rant over.
Yep definitely OTT but to be fair the forkie was covering his own arse, by not mucking him about arguing about how ridiculous this was you might get some good treatment when you have a bigger load on.
H & S and common sense don’t go hand in hand and the trouble with common sense is that its not that common.
I deliver to a builders merchant in Glasgow quite regularly. A new rule is that all drivers need to wear a hard hat upon entering the yard. What cracks me up is the fact the forkies, yard staff, customers etc don’t need to wear one! The forkie that normally tips me can’t even understand why its one rule for drivers and one for everyone else.
Delivering to Norberts at Easton the put you on the bay shunter come along takes red air line off puts air line lock on and clears off wait for 10 mins warehouse staff come out can we have your keys driver!!! where do you think iam going then
Ok, you said beat this, so here goes.
This was sent to me by text today.
What you do is you kind of drape it over the steering wheel and, er kind of padlock it on and that’s that you hand in your keys and you will not be able to pull off the bay.
Frickin genius.
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Anyone care to explain?
damoq:
I deliver to a builders merchant in Glasgow quite regularly. A new rule is that all drivers need to wear a hard hat upon entering the yard. What cracks me up is the fact the forkies, yard staff, customers etc don’t need to wear one! The forkie that normally tips me can’t even understand why its one rule for drivers and one for everyone else.
They don’t have the initials TP by any chance do they?
They tried to bring in the taking keys rule in at arvinmeritor cwmbran. The forklift drivers refused to do it. They couldn’t see the point and got on well with the drivers, There had never been an incident to justify taking someones keys.
Management caved in and accepted it.
rokeen:
Delivering to Norberts at Easton the put you on the bay shunter come along takes red air line off puts air line lock on and clears off wait for 10 mins warehouse staff come out can we have your keys driver!!! where do you think iam going then
they have relaxed things since I was last there two yrs ago then, I had to drop trailer. pull forward six inch, air line lock on, hand keys in and wait in canteen until called for on tannoy
damoq:
I deliver to a builders merchant in Glasgow quite regularly. A new rule is that all drivers need to wear a hard hat upon entering the yard. What cracks me up is the fact the forkies, yard staff, customers etc don’t need to wear one! The forkie that normally tips me can’t even understand why its one rule for drivers and one for everyone else.
They don’t have the initials TP by any chance do they?
Ken.
They don’t trade under the TP name but they are owned by them.
use to load bottled fizzy drinks to asda rdc at didcot, done several loads there, the forkies use to like our walking floors as we backed in the doorway and they just took them straight off the back.
got there one day and was just about to start tipping and the forklift driver said, “I bet you the new manger will come running out in a minute when he here’s your engine running”. sure enough taken 2 pallets off and out he comes shouting “stop what you doing”,
I look at him and say “tipping why”? but but your engine running!!! my answer was yeah and without it I can’t tip!!! he was totally baffled by the whole concept of a walking floor bless him, just had to humour him, then he bought a load of suits out to watch us unload the whole lot, its amazing how small things amuse tiny minds
pierrot 14:
Now, I’m all for safety etc , but this definitely took the u.ine
Was delivering to Spade Lane cold store, on the A2 near Sittingbourne today, pulled up in the yard and opened the doors, to reveal a pallet of cardboard, forkie comes over, I show him the delivery note and I tell him just the one. He looks at me with that official look that they have and says…
" Keys please ".
Now as I said I’m all for safety but really. ■■
By the time I had actually walked back to the cab , grabbed the keys and walked back, he could’ve taken it off and shut the doors for me, but there he was waiting.
So I pass him the keys, he takes of the one pallet, gives me the keys back and I then give the note for him to sign.
Now I agree that if your delivering a full load to be side tipped, like at Sainsburys, Asda, or Morrisons, to name but a few, but this has to be over-zealous to the extreme
Ok - rant over.
Ditto Exxon Refinery, Fawley and some TP yards now have barrriers placed around the truck and you’re not allowed up on the bed to help unload, either.
It will never end. Imagine the scenario in a blue chip head office. Health and safety director: “right oh Fred, we’ve done everything possible, it’s safe as houses here at ascoburysons. If someone has an accident it will be just bad luck”. MD of ascoburysons: “right oh Charlie, leave the keys to your merc with reception, thanks for all your help, your p45s in the post”. Not bloody likely
The office staff at the large oil/gas refineries ask all drivers to take a breath test in Northern France.
If you fail they park you up for 8 hours.But will load you later.
I am surprised this does not happen in the UK.The security on the gate doing the testing.
There are no hi viz being worn on the trailer for the new Bbc drama Truckers .Starts October 10th.
Palletline Hub, Solihull, is a bit of a Bum Ache aswell.
Hard hats, hand keys to Forkie, PPE , hazards whilst moving, speed limit (obviously) strap ‘every’ pallet, then they won’t let you on the trailer to sort your straps without someone being there to watch you ! (In case you fall off & hurt your ‘Wittle Self’)
Then when they load it, you’re not supposed to strap it whilst they are loading it, making it impossible to strap high pallets at the front when you’ve pulled all the straps to the back !!!
So many rules & very little common sense !
I went on a risk assessment course & you are encouraged to look at risks from the lowest common denominator, so take the 'Fikest, Dopeyist, (has trouble remembering how to breath) stoopid’est, Brain Dead driver on the fleet (every company’s got one !)
Times his Stupidity by 2 & think of him as an infant & then assess the risks involved with every task. Then treat every body the same !
No wonder we get ‘Peeved’ off all the time with OTT H&S !
We load our boxes out of certain Chep sites from time to time. They need all the usual, hi-viz, hard toe caps, hard hat, keys from your ignition, PLUS all lights must work in the box trailer (even in daylight), the pallets can only be stuck in length-ways, and no more than 15 high (yes, we can only get 330 empty pallets on), and their pallet trucks to pump them up the trailer have a really tall frame on to stop us idiot drivers from knocking the top pallet off and hitting us on the heads. All in the name of health and safety, allegedly.
Although, I have noticed that they’re not overly fussed about health and safety when they’re ramming pallets in the back doors, 2 wide, and maybe 3-4 pallets deep. It’s amazing. If a driver was to have heart attack, or any other issues in the trailer, they’d not be able to get him out. Well done Chep. Real smart.