A billion percent I’m not a Walt. I even used to have Airborne tattooed on my leg and just recently got 2 cover ups as they look ■■■■ after a lot of years
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Securing is implied as it’s your responsibility to ensure the load is safe. I use chains from Liverpool on the steel but usually ratchets and straps for most stuff. I have only ever had to rope and sheet twice as that was what the load demanded on a flat. But all in all my securing is part of the job. I certainly never loaded myself or unloaded myself. I work now in general haulage doing a lot of cash and carry work booze mainly. But still do supermarket rdc’s the steel is the big one as were freighted usually around 43 tons and that’s only 6 steel coils
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@Mickki401 , again vastly different to Carryfast’s brief inter course with the industry, where he squealed like a stuck pig when expected to interact with the load.
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Several life lessons I’ve learnt over the years….
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honesty is optional
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have more answers then they have questions
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protect your own interests before getting involved in others
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trust but verify.
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(the most recent) know the rules of the game so you can use them to get out of something you don’t fancy…. usually limited to the bigger more “safety conscious” outfits.
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Last year I had a similar “technology” issue with a firm that I did a few weeks for on agency.
They wanted me to download & use an app for daily checks, vehicle registration, start/end mileage, trailer numbers etc.
Then came the request for WhatsApp messages to the office for PODs, pallet counts, delivery times, and the last minute shift start times, all sent to the most incompetent clerk who was trying to do the job of 3.
So there’d be the inevitable screw ups in comms, lack of addresses, being told to start at 7am, when the load was scheduled to tip at 5-6am
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Wrong. It was expected at both ends. I had to strip the tilt to load in UK and again in the Gulf, by my UK employer.
They don’t stone women in the Gulf BTW.
Depends which country you worked in the gulf
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Yemen isn’t in the Gulf
this is getting silly!
The gulf isn’t a country it’s the Persian gulf and a lot of countries border it
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To be pedantic: It has already.
Yeah I heard people go to the gulf but never hear of a country called “the gulf”
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sticks head in because it looks like a popular thread….realises it’s actually more like a dock queue circa 2001, where there’s always one bloke who’s cat is blacker than everyone else’s. and another who doesn’t have a cat but knows more than a vet about how they work…realises she’s told old for this ■■■■■■■■….withdraws, chuckling
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OOOHHH miaowww..
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I thought everybody knew, if you follow the silk road it’s the 6th turn on the right and that leads you to the gulf
Id much rather sit on my ass in a tesco
Waiting room than be in a Lidl / Aldi etc warehouse tipping the load
Every time. Although it can get busy and the chairs aren’t the most comfortable, my boss goes nuts that we’re not allowed to get our healthy breakfasts in our cabs with the microwaves and get an actual rest in our bunks. It’s just another way that companies impede drivers getting decent rests and food etc. during COVID it didn’t seem to be a problem to be in a cab on a bay.
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I think some do 
Lots do, but the most important thing is that it impedes drivers having rest or healthy options. This is What’s wrong. The most basic of things are not legislated for. Where’s the minister for transport telling companies that they can’t stop drivers from having a proper rest. There’s ways of ensuring that drivers don’t drive away whilst being tipped etc . Wheel locks is just one example. I take a break prior to going into these places to make sure I get decent rest. And decent food. But as all drivers know it’s not always possible due to time. If you said to companies that for the first 15%of their employees working day that they should just be allowed to sit about doing nothing and they have to pay them, they’d think you were nuts. Yet it’s allowed to do that to another companies employees. If it was legislated that Tesco for example pick up the cost of a driver after one hour has elapsed after booking time and that driver was on time Tesco would tip you in a flash. Where’s the RHA looking after hauliers ? Nowhere, if ever there was a useless organisation it’s that one
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Only time I’ve ever been pulled out of tesco was by britvic , tesco Thurrock , told no End of times by them to pull the lorry out and tesco could pay for re-delivery , they even ripped into my company for saying you cant pull out , normally a lass and she would say any issues drive ring me , but pull that lorry out now
Same as Lidl where I’d been 3 hrs and still not on bay , pull it out now drive , ballsy lass was she 
, I loved her
Where as the company were a bunch of wet wipes , give it another hour 
Yeah I know what you mean. Frustrating for the hauliers and the drivers at the same time. Yet nothing from the RHA or government to tackle the problem