How often do you get refused to use the customers toilet and what do you do and / or say?? I was refused the use of a customers toilet today as the ‘’ client does not like it’’ was the excuse, along with things like we don’t have one, when I know full well the employment law states employees must have use of toilet facilities.
Once got refused to use toilets at a tesco, the security guard seemed to think I couldn’t possibly be a lorry driver. I said that’s fine I’ll take a dump in the car park, suddenly the manager was interested. 
Iceland Livingston used to ban supply drivers from using the toilets. Made you walk all the way to the main entrance. I took advantage of this and used the staff canteen and availed myself to the ‘free’ wi-fi and a Sky TV.
You must protect the safety and health of everyone in your workplace, including people with disabilities, and provide welfare facilities for your employees and visitors.
Basic things you need to consider are outlined below.
Welfare facilities
For your employees’ and visitors well-being you need to provide:
toilets and hand basins, with soap and towels or a hand-dryer;
drinking water;
a place to store clothing (and somewhere to change if special clothing is worn for work);
somewhere to rest and eat meals.
gezt:
You must protect the safety and health of everyone in your workplace, including people with disabilities, and provide welfare facilities for your employees and visitors.Basic things you need to consider are outlined below.
Welfare facilities
For your employees’ and visitors well-being you need to provide:toilets and hand basins, with soap and towels or a hand-dryer;
drinking water;
a place to store clothing (and somewhere to change if special clothing is worn for work);
somewhere to rest and eat meals.
When I was doing union work, it was stated that a visitor to your premises, should be classed as one of your own workers as far as health and safety including the use of toilets.
Used to go to a drop that wouldn’t let you use the toilet an was an all round pain. Owner of my firm took the lorry up one day to see what it was like an promptly fell out with them too. After that we were told not to accept any deliveries for them after that.
Couple of weeks later i was at our customer picking up a trailer and it had 2 pallets on for them. Get them taken off and head up with the rest of the drops.
Was a sweet phone call when the guy who wouldn’t let us use the toilet phoned to ask where i was with his stuff, told him i was on my way home and his stuff was 400 miles away.
Just go to any MSA truck park during the summer months, it only takes a few seconds to smell the stench and to conclude that some truck drivers don’t understand the basics of sanitation, and don’t even want to use toilets even when provided 
Never been refused anywhere or even had a problem when asking to use them in over 30 years.
Slackbladder:
Never been refused anywhere or even had a problem when asking to use them in over 30 years.
Same here, although I’ve only been driving 12yrs.
Just realised your username there. How appropriate for this topic.
I see this thread has been cleaned up overnight. I like a laugh as much as the next guy, but imagine if any non drivers viewed the forum out of curiosity, and came across the thread, it didn’t do anything to refute the perception that we are all low intellect knuckle draggers did it 
,… and just out of interest why would anybody visit a bog, and take the time to get their phone out and photograph the contents after they had finished 
, or worse photo the evidence of the previous guy’s visit . I reckon if the guys on here in question looked hard enough you would find “specialist sites” to cater for your …errr tastes
robroy:
I see this thread has been cleaned up overnight. I like a laugh as much as the next guy, but imagine if any non drivers viewed the forum out of curiosity, and came across the thread, it didn’t do anything to refute the perception that we are all low intellect knuckle draggers did it
it`s a different thread
They treat us like ■■■■ so treat them like ■■■■ too! many moons ago at bellshill when it was safeways/ kwiksave I turned up at the gatehouse! In them days you could go in and speak to " £2:50 an hour, adolf on the gate! 
" anyway it was Monday morning early doors and I’m bursting for a Douglas! 
Me " please may I use your toilet pal? "
Adolf " sorry, no DRIVERS allowed "
Me " no probs! " so I proceed to whip SUNDAY SPORT OFF THE COUNTER
ADOLF " what you doing? "
Me " ■■■■■■■■ here pal! Turtle heads here! Be a good chap and get us some toilet roll quick! 
"
Que big ■■■■ and LOG DEPOSITED ON HIS SUNDAY SPORT!
Adolf " yer dirty [zb], what do you do that for? "
Me " well, it’s the twentieth century AND YOU DIDNT LET ME USE A TOILET "
Adolf " I’m going to report you! "
Me " how can you? You’re the HIGHEST HUMAN BEING GOING! "
commonrail:
it`s a different thread
I knew that!.. I was just testing you!!! ( 
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Still stand by what I said though 
Excuse me PLEASE, could you tell me where the toilet is PLEASE. THANK YOU!
Never been refused but it not what or who you ask but HOW!
Slackbladder:
Never been refused anywhere or even had a problem when asking to use them in over 30 years.
Same here never been turned down but some make it difficult by making you fill out health and safety forms and signing in and stuff like that or telling you the nearest toilet is round the front of the building and will take you ages to get there.
facebook.com/#!/pages/Truck … 35?fref=ts
This is who you need to get onto. Gillian Kemp is doing a fantastic job of fighting for the rights of truckers and all drivers to get decent facilities. Take a look at her page and I am sure when she joins us here she will make some replies to your concerns.
I remember back in 1995, I was driving for Murfitts and delivering to IKEA in Croydon, I needed the loo bad, so I asked to use theirs please, I was told “No”, no reason given, so I asked if the yard was covered by video, he said yes, so I said watch the camera then cause I am going to have a ■■■■ in the middle of your yard, he let me use the toilet after that.
Sapper
I never leave home without it:
Its beggers belief that any civilised person would even have the inclination to actually prevent someone from going to the toilet, what kind of depraved society do we live in?!
My only personal experience with this kind of thing was in around 2007ish when I was doing a lot of ferry trailer work out of Immingham Dock. Now they had a “dedicated” driver toilet, the only problem with that was, by whatever, or whoever it was totally wrecked, there was no toilet seat so you’d either have to hover, hold the rim or fall in, there was no blind/curtain etc over the window so anyone walking past could see in, there was no hand soap, no towels or dryer and no toilet paper. In light of this many of us would use the toilets in the adjacent portacabin that was for the tug drivers / yard shunters, which were well maintained. One day one of said tug drivers took exception with me doing this and said I’m not allowed to use their toilets because it meant walking through their locker room and I, or any other truck driver doing so could be up to no good and stealing their things. Which I suppose is a fair concern on his part.
However, just because the drivers toilet wasn’t fit for a Nigerian prison and the tug drivers toilets were now off limits, that doesn’t mean my digestive system comes to a stop to suit DFDS Nordic Terminals ferry unloading times and as such I marched over to the main office by the terminal gate. The girl behind reception asked what I wanted, I simply and with a very serious and straight face proceeded to tell her that all I wanted to do was have a ■■■ but I was being prevented from doing so and that I took serious exception to that and wanted to speak to someone in charge. With a red face she called someone from upstairs who came down minutes later. He tried the usual line of “other drivers have destroyed it, therefore its your own fault” type thing. I’m not other drivers, I’m me and I’ve never destroyed any toilet facilities and as a driver I don’t require special “driver toilets”, I may be a driver but I have the same shape arse as himself and his toilets will suit me perfectly fine. After much mumbling and embarrassment on his part of backed down and gave me full use of the toilets in their head office from that time onwards.
The worst thing was that none of my other colleagues present at the time would say anything, they all put up with it with things like “ahh well, what can you do?” Apparently my fellow drivers said that I’d get banned from site for doing what I did. I didn’t get banned and I did use the toilet. They didn’t use the toilet and continued to moan about it amongst themselves for months and years to come every time they were waiting for trailers. Spineless bar stewards.
Why did the other thread get locked?! We’re all adults for ■■■■■ sake! It was one of the funniest threads for a long time and the prudes who run this show have locked it 
I know it’s my choice to visit this website etc, but come on, this is hardly a website for blue rinse daily mail readers or nuns is it!