Fellow truckers
I’ve been enjoying this forum for a long time now and found it interesting, rewarding and educational. And a shed load of fun… 
Would someone please explain what the chalk and RDCs is all about?
Much confused here
Cheers
Paul
Paul…Cover your ears and get ready for it! 
Sensible answer
It’s a well worn tale about the driver who runs out of hours at an RDC, normally because they have kept him there for much too long and he refuses to move off the bay.
The RDC call the police and instead of making him move, they chalk round the truck and tell the RDC that they must not disturb him for 11 hours.
There are many variations, to include the RDC having to move any noisy fridge trailers away from him,feed him free meals from the local KFC/MacDonalds/Burger King, pay for a night in a 5 star hotel, dancing girls, a local tom at their expense etc etc.
Basically, the tale improves in direct relation to how full of crap the bloke telling it is.
The same driver has almost certainly had a career in the SAS and survived the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise.
So far, I have had the story told to me twice, once by a Dutch driver and once by an English one.
Regards,
Nick.
well done that man…well volunteered
Don’t mention it.
there is no fee for a copy and paste for the next time.
Regards,
Nick
ncooper:
Sensible answera local tom at their expense etc etc.
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A local tom? I won’t have no dirty Doncaster broad. When I got the police to chalk my astra van, I got the RDC to provide genuine Swedish girls for my pleasure.
Mind, with me being ex-SAS, they weren’t going to argue with me.
After all, I had survived the…
cieranc:
ncooper:
Sensible answera local tom at their expense etc etc.
.A local tom? I won’t have no dirty Doncaster broad. When I got the police to chalk my astra van, I got the RDC to provide genuine Swedish girls for my pleasure.
Mind, with me being ex-SAS, they weren’t going to argue with me.
After all, I had survived the…
Thats nothing …I had the same problem at Aldi RDC after I had refused to unload myself the Chinese lanterns that I had personally drove back to the UK from China. I told the Police that I was delivering on an international delivery note and that CMR meant Chauffer Must Rest so I couldnt unload it. 
Chinese Lanterns? Pah, I was pulling Northern Light Fireworks from the North Pole when I got grounded.
One of the blokes at our yard reckons he run out of hours at Iceland Swindon. The Police were called and four bays either side of him were cleared so that he could take the obligatory eleven hour break… I reckon he was full of the lumpy green stuff too!
lumpygreenpoo:
One of the blokes at our yard reckons he run out of hours at Iceland Swindon. The Police were called and four bays either side of him were cleared so that he could take the obligatory eleven hour break… I reckon he was full of the lumpy green stuff too!
One of the rumours doing the rounds at our yard is that a chill delivery driver ran out of hours and was asked to drop the trailer, leave site for the night and come back and collect it after the required amount of rest. All was well till said driver returned and his trailer had been placed in the overflow car park which was locked until 07:30. had to wait another 3 hours before he could get the trailer. This may, of course, be just as true as the chalk, HoFE, SAS etc. 
Happened at a depot I know off as I was asked for advice on what to do.
Driver arrived for a load and was live loaded at his hauliers request rather than use one of their on site standvans.
On arrival on site the driver was given a H&S driver’s sheet indicating there was no overnight parking.
Driver sat and waited to be loaded collected his keys and went back to his vehicle which was on a green light.
Driver makes no effort to move and lad goes out to ask why?
Driver replies he’s out of time and he’s not moving, further more he’s ex plod ad knows the law backwards.
Lad consults his warehouse manager and he agrees that they ask the guy to move across the yard and he can stay on site by exception.
Driver refuses to move starts demanding they call the police to “chalk his wheels”
Driver also refuses to get out of cab or hand his keys back in “he’ll go when he’s good and ready”
Driver settles down knowing full well he’s blocking one of three goods out bays
Warehouse manager rang us for advice.
- Drop ramp back on trailer - light changes back to red.
- Reverse a trailer up to the front of the cab.- We’ve no chalk.
- Hold driver on site for a minimum 11 Hours - Driver gets his legal rest.
Had driver informed the staff he was short of hours he could have dropped the trailer and left site to park outside.
It would have been loaded and dropped for him to pick up when he was ready.
They would even had let him get a shower and some scoff if he had the time.
As it was he woke up claimed he only needed 9 hours but couldn’t get out because some ■■■■ had blocked him in.
His boss rang to ask what the delay was loading him and we explained he was loaded last night and we were only complying with the drivers request to chalk his wheels and hold him on site for 11 hours.
We offered to ring plod and identify his wagon so they could check the driver has the required rest if need be.
By the way we’ll let the driver go but due to H&S violations i.e. keeping his ignition turned on whilst on a bay and sleeping on site he was banned from all our sites.
I’d have loved to have heard that in cab conversation.
What a nob head.
I’d have parked a unit across the cab then ‘lost the keys’. “Sorry drive, shunter driver has gone off shift with the keys in his pocket and he’s not answering his phone”.
Then put a weeny hole in his red line, 'cos I’m a ZB like that. Half an hour down the road that pin hole will have opened up.
What else■■? Oh aye, a teeny bit of grit inside a midlift valve dust cap, just big enough to hold the valve open when the dust cover is screwed onn, nice, slow puncture.