I heard a new one the other day. Did a load into Sainsbury at Worcester the other night. The security bloke slowly read out a list of site rules. He cited 4 in this order,
Hazards on (yep ok)
No shouting (ok)
No swearing (erm, yeah I can do that)
No losing your temper, you need to be patient and calm ( )
So not losing your temper is a site rule at Sainsbury Worcester. Youâre to show no frustration or resistance whatsoever! Crying and screaming in your cab because your life is meaningless and crap, shouting "arrghh this is the darndest thing!" at another jammed container door, or feeling somewhat agitated waiting 4 hours being tipped is a big no no at Sainsbury, Worcester. Remember NO SHOUTING, NO SWEARING, and NO LOSING YOUR TEMPER! No! No! Bad driver! No!
I thought he was having a bit of a giggle with me, so I asked about drink and drugs in a disappointed tone of voice. But he wasnât having a laugh, because he took it seriously, and asked if Iâd been drinking. Bizarre encounter. But he let me in, and thatâs the most important thing.
Whatâs some of the weird or comical site rules youâve experienced, that you thought might have been a wind up, but were serious? Iâm sure there must be some howlers out there.
Went to a quarry in Buxton.once.
Was in a curtain sider.
Was only going to collect some. pallets of bricks. So wasnât going into the quarry.
Got there was days before covid weather was red hot.
Went office.
Had hi viz top over t-shirt and hard had on.
Was told need wear long sleeves.
So went back to truck put jumper on hi viz over it went back
Was told no need wear a hi biz long sleeved top.
So went back hottest day the year wearing my hiviz coat.
Filled some.forms.in then the woman looked over the counter. O you need hi viz pants as well.
Didnât have any they wouldnât lend me a pair.
After half hour of phones calls and stuff work paid over the phone ÂŁ20 to buy a pair of them.
Then I was aollwed on site. Hottest day the year in hi viz.padferd jacket and pair of hi viz waterproof pants that go over your normal pants.
I just donât get the hi viz trousers as was only in a builders yard really.
edd1974:
Went to a quarry in Buxton.once.
Was in a curtain sider.
Was only going to collect some. pallets of bricks. So wasnât going into the quarry.
Got there was days before covid weather was red hot.
Went office.
Had hi viz top over t-shirt and hard had on.
Was told need wear long sleeves.
So went back to truck put jumper on hi viz over it went back
Was told no need wear a hi biz long sleeved top.
So went back hottest day the year wearing my hiviz coat.
Filled some.forms.in then the woman looked over the counter. O you need hi viz pants as well.
Didnât have any they wouldnât lend me a pair.
After half hour of phones calls and stuff work paid over the phone ÂŁ20 to buy a pair of them.
Then I was aollwed on site. Hottest day the year in hi viz.padferd jacket and pair of hi viz waterproof pants that go over your normal pants.
I just donât get the hi viz trousers as was only in a builders yard really.
I got turned away from Brenntag in Trafford park for wearing shorts.
The bloke at the gate actually said âwe have explosive chemicals in here mate, you canât wear shortsâ.
But tracksuit bottoms are allowed, as apparently they protect you from the EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS. Good to know
Spent 20 mins at a recently built multi million waste incineration power station doing an induction. Usual what speed ? What ppe? Keep 2m from tip edge etc and the obligatory obey stopping on red lights. After completing questionnaire and getting my pass lady tells me into tipping hall bay 8 driver. Get to tipping hall entrance there is a red light. I stop. Shovel driver pipping on horn. I stay put. He comes over â â â â â â and jeffing saying come on driver we are busy. I point to red light. He says ignore that itâs not worked for weeks.
the old timer:
Spent 20 mins at a recently built multi million waste incineration power station doing an induction. Usual what speed ? What ppe? Keep 2m from tip edge etc and the obligatory obey stopping on red lights. After completing questionnaire and getting my pass lady tells me into tipping hall bay 8 driver. Get to tipping hall entrance there is a red light. I stop. Shovel driver pipping on horn. I stay put. He comes over [zb] and jeffing saying come on driver we are busy. I point to red light. He says ignore that itâs not worked for weeks.
the old timer:
Spent 20 mins at a recently built multi million waste incineration power station doing an induction. Usual what speed ? What ppe? Keep 2m from tip edge etc and the obligatory obey stopping on red lights. After completing questionnaire and getting my pass lady tells me into tipping hall bay 8 driver. Get to tipping hall entrance there is a red light. I stop. Shovel driver pipping on horn. I stay put. He comes over [zb] and jeffing saying come on driver we are busy. I point to red light. He says ignore that itâs not worked for weeks.
Had nearly same thing at Sealy beds at Aspatria. They made a huge thing of telling me I must comply with the on-site traffic lights - no problem. Drove round the back to the trailer park and there is a traffic light system to allow FLTs between 2 warehouses either side of the road. Light was on red so I waited. 5 mins goes by and still on red. After another 5 mins still on red. Walked back round to the office to them - âoh yeah, sometimes they donât work, just ignore them and drive through.â
Site inductions and their silly rules are not there for our benefit. Its so the company can cover their arse when a compensation claim is made or if they are hauled in front of a judge on a corporate manslaughter chargeâŚâYes your honour, driver Joe Bloggs did an induction on the 12th March and was instructed to never jump the red light. We dont know why he ignored the red light!â
idrive:
I got turned away from Brenntag in Trafford park for wearing shorts.
The bloke at the gate actually said âwe have explosive chemicals in here mate, you canât wear shortsâ.
But tracksuit bottoms are allowed, as apparently they protect you from the EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS. Good to know
Its the same at XPO Europort no shorts allowed, but they will lend you a pair of the BIGGEST and filthiest they have spare in the gatehouse.
They also insist on a hard hat/bump cap, but that`s only needed if you go around the back, but is pointless for us as we only drop/swop trailers and collect tins of paint
the old timer:
Spent 20 mins at a recently built multi million waste incineration power station doing an induction. Usual what speed ? What ppe? Keep 2m from tip edge etc and the obligatory obey stopping on red lights. After completing questionnaire and getting my pass lady tells me into tipping hall bay 8 driver. Get to tipping hall entrance there is a red light. I stop. Shovel driver pipping on horn. I stay put. He comes over [zb] and jeffing saying come on driver we are busy. I point to red light. He says ignore that itâs not worked for weeks.
Viridor Runcorn ? Same thing made me laugh.
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Ferrybridge FM2 as well , they also only allow Euro 6 lorries in but i have been in with an ejector trailer with a very smokey donkey engine they were more concerned about the noise. Sainsburys Sherburn , you must fasten your high vis vest up otherwise no entry even though their own workers dont
Some building sites I go to ask how far have I travelled. All to do with them being eco friendly etc .
So I tell the truth. Sometimes can be 100 miles plus.
And they put down 20 on there sheet to make it look good
When youve passed the one way threshold whilst parking up to go and see goods in, and bay 18 you want youâve just passed and itâs about 2 trailer lengths away, but got to circumnavigate the entire site to get back to it.
Unless your a shunter of course, in which case your perfectly safe, must be the life saving flashy orangey beacony thingys
Alfa1M:
When youve passed the one way threshold whilst parking up to go and see goods in, and bay 18 you want youâve just passed and itâs about 2 trailer lengths away, but got to circumnavigate the entire site to get back to it.
Unless your a shunter of course, in which case your perfectly safe, must be the life saving flashy orangey beacony thingys
Argos Kettering Im looking at you.
TP at Brackmills is similar. Theyâve eased off slightly, only slightly.
Alfa1M:
When youve passed the one way threshold whilst parking up to go and see goods in, and bay 18 you want youâve just passed and itâs about 2 trailer lengths away, but got to circumnavigate the entire site to get back to it.
Unless your a shunter of course, in which case your perfectly safe, must be the life saving flashy orangey beacony thingys
Argos Kettering Im looking at you.
+1âŚ
B&Q Worksop Iâm looking at you. (unless of course itâs changed in the ten years or so I havenât been there)
Anywhere that insists I wear my hi-viz in the cab.
Anywhere that insists on steel toe caps when all Iâm doing is walking to an office and back.
Loaded waste out of a site in Washington, part of the induction was no defecation on the grass verge, with lots of signs around the place reminding you not to take a dump on the grass verge.
Asked the bloke about it, and they were sick of banning drivers for it, and if I needed the toilet there is one at the weighbridge⌠and they let these morons share the road with usâŚ
I am not going to say where, as I still go there around 1-2 times a week.
Itâs a delivery that is a back door tip. We donât go into the office, but back on the bay, and put our keys and paperwork on the dock once parked, and retire back to the cab. Once they tip it, they put the keys and paperwork back on the dock, and away we go.
So once we have parked, we go to security, check in, and they take our details and temperature for their covid record. No problem. The guys in goods in work in shifts, and we may or may not get the same person over the week, depending on whoâs on.
While nobody else bothers, one â â â â â â â comes out with the same line, âGot to wear a mask driver.â This is the same guy that has no interaction with us, doesnât wear one himself, and doesnât bother to go into the security office to ask security to wear his. And all of this while we as drivers, are outside.
He also stopped me from going into the building at the side last week, to use the toilet. âGot to use the one at the rearâ he said. âWhat forâ I asked. âCovidâ came his reply.
I see. So covid is not at the toilet at the rear thenâŚ
idrive:
I got turned away from Brenntag in Trafford park for wearing shorts.
The bloke at the gate actually said âwe have explosive chemicals in here mate, you canât wear shortsâ.
But tracksuit bottoms are allowed, as apparently they protect you from the EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS. Good to know
Its the same at XPO Europort no shorts allowed, but they will lend you a pair of the BIGGEST and filthiest they have spare in the gatehouse.
They also insist on a hard hat/bump cap, but that`s only needed if you go around the back, but is pointless for us as we only drop/swop trailers and collect tins of paint
Why do they have the no mobile phone policy is it security or some faint risk of causing an explosion aka petrol station forecourts?
idrive:
I got turned away from Brenntag in Trafford park for wearing shorts.
The bloke at the gate actually said âwe have explosive chemicals in here mate, you canât wear shortsâ.
But tracksuit bottoms are allowed, as apparently they protect you from the EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS. Good to know
Its the same at XPO Europort no shorts allowed, but they will lend you a pair of the BIGGEST and filthiest they have spare in the gatehouse.
They also insist on a hard hat/bump cap, but that`s only needed if you go around the back, but is pointless for us as we only drop/swop trailers and collect tins of paint
Why do they have the no mobile phone policy is it security or some faint risk of causing an explosion aka petrol station forecourts?
Years ago, the first mobile phones ran on or around the 900mhz mark, and it was thought that the radiation from them, would cause an explosion. It was totally unfounded.
Nowadays, most phones run higher up the frequency in the main, iirc, the microwave band, so the chance is even less. Few use the 900mhz frequency for voice calls.
Think of it this way.
Phones donât have aerials now. The lower down the frequencies the bigger the aerial. the higher up, the shorter the aerial.
Alfa1M:
When youve passed the one way threshold whilst parking up to go and see goods in, and bay 18 you want youâve just passed and itâs about 2 trailer lengths away, but got to circumnavigate the entire site to get back to it.
Unless your a shunter of course, in which case your perfectly safe, must be the life saving flashy orangey beacony thingys
Argos Kettering Im looking at you.
Not long ago mate of mine was delivering to Tesco someware. Was given a baye. He was parked.about 3 bays away so reversed onto it.
Some jobs worth watched him do it. He walked to office jobs worth was then behind the glass and refused delivery beacusev he reversed back.
So he left . Then tesco weâre complaining they wanted stuff back. He went back the next day
njl:
Why do they have the no mobile phone policy is it security or some faint risk of causing an explosion aka petrol station forecourts?
It used to make me smile when they got all twisted out of shape on forecourts about mobile use, yet they wouldnât bat an eyelid at the fat family in Shell suits waddling around resembling a Van Der Graph (sp) generator!
Re mobile phone aerials itâs a well known fact that the satellites orbit at 100 miles and two inches. Theyâve since altered the orbits to two inches closer, ergo no need for external aerials. FACT (itâs in capitals which means itâs unquestionably true )
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