First of all may i apologise for the quality of the photo it was taken by a friend of mine who shall remain nameless because there are people who frown about drivers taking photos whilst driving !
This is a DHL colleague of mine who you all might know…
In his defence the roll cages stayed in place all the way from Berlin him untill a car cut him up and he had to brake a bit lively .You also need to know this is the first time this has happened.The Germans normally strap and " bar " the load properly and you are not allowed in the warehouse to secure your own load (which is another can of worms ).
( That is not him standing in a NON hi viz grubby jacket !!! )
So if you are not allowed to check the load, why would you move the trailer, if them cages would have come out of the back of the trailer it could have been very serious. if it is an ongoing problem you have, then why take the load if drivers stuck together ( never happen ) and refused it, then it would be sorted over night
Great to see proffesional drivers doing a proffesional job.
I await to see the 60ft wind turbine sat on the side of the road with the driver saying its not his/her responsibility to check their load.
Its lazy minority of nuggets that cant be bothered to take 2 mins to check their load and security that is their overall responsibility, that stuffs the CPC and its cost up the majority of us that do try to make the pinnicle of our industry.
Hope they remove the idiots licence to be fair. for the sake of 30 seconds, he/she could have wiped out a whole family.
Dafman:
So if you are not allowed to check the load, why would you move the trailer, if them cages would have come out of the back of the trailer it could have been very serious. if it is an ongoing problem you have, then why take the load if drivers stuck together ( never happen ) and refused it, then it would be sorted over night
Bit of a no win situation this one
yes according to the law the driver is responsable for the load security.
yes theoretically the driver can refuse to take the load.
In practice if you do refuse to take and stick up for your rights you will in all probability lose your job or never be allowed to pull for the company agin
My sympathies to Neil on this. Have had similar myself a couple of times with different companies, but for the same reason, cages, sealed trailer not allowed to remove seal etc. Have been lucky that none came through back door though. One company learned in the end it was best the driver was able to look in the back before taking out trailer. Perhaps Neil’s will learn now, sometimes it takes something like this before these companies do realise where they are going wrong.
Dafman:
So if you are not allowed to check the load, why would you move the trailer, if them cages would have come out of the back of the trailer it could have been very serious. if it is an ongoing problem you have, then why take the load if drivers stuck together ( never happen ) and refused it, then it would be sorted over night
Bit of a no win situation this one
yes according to the law the driver is responsable for the load security.
yes theoretically the driver can refuse to take the load.
In practice if you do refuse to take and stick up for your rights you will in all probability lose your job or never be allowed to pull for the company agin
Wouldn’t there be a case for unfair dismissal if they did this though? As you are only at the end of the day trying to do your job the safest way possible and within the rules.I bet in the company handbook it mentions load security somewhere, and if the company is not allowing drivers to check then surely the company in this case DHELL are in breach of their own rules.
ironstipper:
Great to see proffesional drivers doing a proffesional job.
I await to see the 60ft wind turbine sat on the side of the road with the driver saying its not his/her responsibility to check their load.
Its lazy minority of nuggets that cant be bothered to take 2 mins to check their load and security that is their overall responsibility, that stuffs the CPC and its cost up the majority of us that do try to make the pinnicle of our industry.
Hope they remove the idiots licence to be fair. for the sake of 30 seconds, he/she could have wiped out a whole family.
Totally agree, and he never noticed they were loose all the way from Berlin■■? Yeah right…
surely the driver could have pulled off the bay and lifted up the sliding rear door a little to see if the load had been secured. i have had empty cages loaded by the warehouse but always check before i leave the premises after all it is not their licence on the line when it goes ■■■■ up. unlucky though for him to have got so far without any mishap.
JB:
Wouldn`t the cages have shot to the front under heavy braking?
To start with mate, if they haven’t been all strapped and barred up tight and then any acceleration and or if the trailer slopes backwards or you’re on an incline at all they all run backwards. What I’ve known happen is for the load of cages pack itself tighter to the front if not loaded properly, then a strap can drop off, then you can have loose cages. If they’ve loaded it so, say there’s straps every so many rows, for example and it hasn’t been loaded tight or right, then they can roll to the front then bunch up tighter and usually the back strap(s) will loosen off and depending how they fix can drop off altogether. So at least the back cages are then loose to roll back and forth. Hard to explain.
Those cages can be a right pig to transport sometimes. Luckily when i have transported them they havent moved too much. I do strap them down but all its takes is for one sudden movement and they become loose.
