I think the no mobile phones rules on most sites that have them are more to do with not wanting folks wandering round in some sort of zombie trance among moving MHE etc while blethering into a phone than with sparks/explosion risk.
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fridger:
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 us…
Reminds me of the ones I see in Stobart depots reminding people to sit on the toilet, not stand on the seat and squat over it. And also to use their hand to flush toilet handles, not their foot.
Quinny:
njl:
peirre:
idrive:
I got turned away from Brenntag in Trafford park for wearing shorts.
The bloke at the gate actually said “we have explosive chemicals in here mate, you can’t wear shorts”.
But tracksuit bottoms are allowed, as apparently they protect you from the EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS. Good to knowIts 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 paintWhy 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 don’t have aerials now. The lower down the frequencies the bigger the aerial. the higher up, the shorter the aerial.
Ken.
The mobile phone scares are likened to the covid vaccine, yes several fuel stations blew up, but they would have done anyway as they had a blocked vent, a broken valve or a leaking pipe, much like many people who have supposedly died from covid.
But WiFi, 4G, Bluetooth is everywhere now, the latest scaremongering is 5G and probably 6G. But now I fill my car up with petrol using a mobile phone to select the pump, turn it on and pay for it!
Some of our drivers delivered to a Warehouse in Corby a few weeks ago. Site rules: Hand in your paperwork and keys before we unload you. Trouble was the foreign drivers were all parked up on bays with engines and air con running. When one driver questioned it he was told he was banned from site. When the company questioned it they were told it was for the benefit of those drivers because it was a hot day.
I’m now remembering loading from a fruit shoot place (?), can’t remember where, Magna park maybe…
Gate tells me I need a hard hat so he hands me one and tells me to wear it. I say thanks and put it down next to me. And he just stares at me. And says I need to put it on now. And I said are you joking mate. And he said no. And I drove across the yard in a hard hat. I’m ashamed that happened
I went to a building site somewhere in t’north many years ago. (Probably mid '90s coz I was delivering tiles from Italy).
Guy on the gate says “You have to wear hi-viz and hard hat” OK no problem, and puts on my well worn hi viz, more stain than viz and hard hat.
“have you got another hard hat mate” says the security.
“Nope just this green one” says I.
“Cant let you in then mate”
“Why not”
“Only supervisors can wear green hats”
Refused entry, went back to the yard in Stoke.
Load got delivered 2 days later.
njl:
peirre:
idrive:
I got turned away from Brenntag in Trafford park for wearing shorts.
The bloke at the gate actually said “we have explosive chemicals in here mate, you can’t wear shorts”.
But tracksuit bottoms are allowed, as apparently they protect you from the EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS. Good to knowIts 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 paintWhy do they have the no mobile phone policy is it security or some faint risk of causing an explosion aka petrol station forecourts?
Bear with it, and watch right to the end… 
When I drove for Tilcon back in the 80’s/90’s we had to wear hi-viz yellow vests all the time, not a problem as they were not restrictive at all. We also had yellow jackets for cold/wet days which were rather bulky so didn’t drive in them. Anyway my train driver brother gave me a railway issue orange jacket, padded but nice and lightweight. I was wearing it one day while watering up the body floor for loading tarmac when the quarry manager came over and told me that orange jackets were not permissable in the quarry and asked me to remove it pronto. “You stand out like a sore thumb in that, I could see you a mile off” he said but couldn’t understand the irony of the situation when I laughed at him! I never wore it again but now orange is the recognized colour in quarries. 
Pete.
There is a place where i deliver containers.Security told me no banks man today.Was given a bay and went in reversed and waited for their shunter to come and cut the seal.He did and threw them into the bin.Some busy body comes and says sorry cant tip you ,you reversed without a banksman.No problem can you put my seal back please am taking it back .He just stood there like a dummy the shunter came round and told him there was no shunter.
Back in my early driving days (don’t get excited, that was 2 years ago ) I went to some major logistic company’s yard to deliver 2 pallets (can’t remember the name) and the gatehouse guy asked ‘How much driving time have you got left?’ I looked at the tacho - 4:28, so I said ‘Only a couple minutes’ and he said ‘Sorry, I can’t let you in’, - Why? Because you have no driving time left, you can’t sleep here overnight; I then explained that I still have 5:30 left in that case and he let me in. Or maybe they don’t want drivers committing infringements on their site, who knows but I’ve never been asked about my driving time since anywhere else
WheelsofCardiff:
There is a place where i deliver containers.Security told me no banks man today.Was given a bay and went in reversed and waited for their shunter to come and cut the seal.He did and threw them into the bin.Some busy body comes and says sorry cant tip you ,you reversed without a banksman.No problem can you put my seal back please am taking it back .He just stood there like a dummy the shunter came round and told him there was no shunter.
Did the shunter disappear in a puff of logic?
edd1974:
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
I had that in Inverness, where are going next drive, home, where that, nine hours south, what now, no, staying at Perth tonight, the rest tomorrow, that’s good, we can put Perth.
toowise:
I went to a building site somewhere in t’north many years ago. (Probably mid '90s coz I was delivering tiles from Italy).
Guy on the gate says “You have to wear hi-viz and hard hat” OK no problem, and puts on my well worn hi viz, more stain than viz and hard hat.“have you got another hard hat mate” says the security.
“Nope just this green one” says I.
“Cant let you in then mate”
“Why not”
“Only supervisors can wear green hats”Refused entry, went back to the yard in Stoke.
Load got delivered 2 days later.
Had the same in Eastbourne with Hi Viz, went to the office, have you a Hi Viz, Yes, must be worn on site, went back to the cab, got a yellow hi Viz, no you can’t were a yellow one, only our Fork Loft drivers wear a yellow one, no problem, back to the cab, got the orange one, no, you can’t where that colour, warehouse staff wear orange Hi Viz, you have to wear Pink here.
ETS:
Back in my early driving days (don’t get excited, that was 2 years ago
They don’t actually mean driving time, they mean working time. We know the terminology as it’s our job, they don’t because it isn’t.
Daftest one ever, radgy-gadgy on building site in East Yorkshire during the height of summer - “I can’t let you in until you put some sun block on, over there in the cabin beside the wash basins” 
I thought it was a wind up, it wasn’t, alongside the dispensers for handwash and barrier cream etc was another dispenser full of “factor 1000” sunblock 
Building site in Rotherham wouldn’t let me on without full PPE including gloves.
Only gloves I had were leather ones, felt like Alan Partridge driving around with my leather driving gloves on