Come on m1cks you must be nodding 
matamoros:
m1cks:
If there were cages on the tail lift, put them back inside the wagon.
I do hope the fire and rescue service send an invoice for the time spent retrieving your colleague. Lets just hope they weren’t sent away from something more important like saving somebody in real peril.Please read my earlier post, a tail lift with 6 ft high cages on, 6 inches down so unable to get cages off.
What and health and safety stopped them breaking it down and putting it back in the truck just to empty the cage?
People keep asking why no new blood wants to join this industry - it’s because of stupid companies that stop anyone from trying to think for themselves.
nick2008:
Come on m1cks you must be nodding
Not napping, just cant believe drivers are so incapable of finding a simple solution to a tiny dilemma.
To think that a man can travel to the moon yet a Tesco’s employee can’t get down from a tail lift.
If Tescos, or any other companies policy is that no one jumps down from a tail lift etc etc, fine. But you DO NOT call out the chuffing fire brigade. Get the donuts that dreamt up the HS policy to send another qualified driver to “rescue” the poor soul stuck 4ft in the air.
I hope someone caught on a smart phone and it gets on YouTube. That company deserves any and all bad press that results from it!
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
I’ve heard it all now. Calling out the fire brigade out to get a driver down from about 2 foot up!
did they specify aone with a cherry picker on the back? What the [zb] hell is this country coming to?
You might well ask steve the mind boggles,unbelievable.
regards dave.
I’d love to believe this thread is a wind up but I can well believe it, I would die of shame at the thought of the fire brigade being called to lower me down from the trailer, I’d do anything I could to prevent that scenario from happening.
I’ve had the battery guard kick in when Ive been doing a delivery before, I just asked the backdoor man to start it up and leave it running for a couple of mins, not supposed to do that but it gets the job done so it’s fine by me and most importantly no children got hurt 
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
karl67:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
karl67:
F-reds:
This thread highlights everything wrong in the world today.If you can’t get down safely from a standard trailer tail lift without assistance once in a blue moon, then said driver isn’t fit enough to leave the sofa.
And who’s going to pay his wage if something does go wrong ?
Something could go wrong just getting in and out of the cab, maybe he could ring the fire brigade every time he exits the vehicle.
Now your being stupid
No just being sarcastic
Just how the lads who did the middle East and old heads got on in the old days of flat trailers roping and sheeting etc I’ll never know
the lads.in the good old days got on just fine,basically because the were drivers and not complete fannys…its a different world for the Tosco brigade,but if he worked for me,he would be invited in for a "debrief " once he returned,then beaten to a pulp,or just put on the worst garbage runs I could find to sicken him into leaving if he was a big lad,
another perfect example as to why nowadays there is no british car industry,no shipyards,no mines,no commercial enterprise or industry because complete nonentity ( insert your favourite derogatory comment about how much of a complete cabbage this dude has to be),have ran Britain down the drain to the abysmall state its in now…the sad thing is that Tosco traffic office probably commends him and gives him a gold star for doing the right thing…defies description. I just told my misses this and she didn’t believe me till I let her read it…sad but true.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
I’ve heard it all now. Calling out the fire brigade out to get a driver down from about 2 foot up!
The fire brigade probably loved it, being as they are fully tooled up with h/s bell ends themselves nowadays. See that poor woman in Scotland who fell down the hole for details…
Oh, you can’t…
Maybe Tesco cant recruit enough women to fulfil their equality quotas so they’ve ended up employing a load of fannies.
Just imagine a Tesco store being built by these guys.
‘Operational Reasons’ over-ride anything in the rule book at Tosco. Every little bean matters.
So, the learning curve from the op`s posting is :
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- Should all tail lift equipped vehicles carry a suitable ladder internally in-case of tail lift power failure for the driver/operative to use
(after suitable training of course ) for such emergencies - Do all operatives of said tail lift equipped vehicles need to be trained / designated for working at heights
- Given they are working at heights , should the operative be wearing a safety harness with zip-line whilst performing lift operations
- I
m thinking of cooking some scones , do I preheat the oven to 150 or 180' oC :question: :sunglasses: (its an electric fan oven ).
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My experience with Battery Guard is that there is a reset button on the dash. All a backdoor man would have to do is reach in the cab in press it and you’d have enough juice to get the lift lowered.
Although I suppose the backdoor man would have to be trained to board the cab with three points of contact etc. The mind boggles.
The fire brigade should issue drivers who get ‘rescued’ from the trailer a bill for time wasting.
I bet the fire brigade laughed there bloody heads of rescuing some fanny off the back of a truck. They keep talking about charging the pie eyed who waste hospital time . They should also charge over zelouse drivers / HS officers who waste time on calling them out on crap like this or claim on the company’s insurance . Remember the cost of this call out comes out of our pockets. It pretty much sums up every thing that is wrong with this industry these days
I hope the fire brigade bill the company. Id die of embarasment when yhe fire engine turned up.
The way large companies fire off risk assesments is partly to blame as any militant workshy idiot will lap it up. Back in the 70s they would be the ones striking as the bog roll was the wrong colour.
We got a couple where i work one said he needed four ratchet straps to secure two empty skips inside each other on a skip lorry and waited in the yatd for an hour until office staff come in to get more straps.
Another fell off the back of a skip lorry this week and got took off in an ambulance called up yesterday to say he was going to see a solicitor as he suffered major injury. When TM said you completed a safe load securement and restraint course which was part of cpc and signed that you understood three saftey briefing about all skips should be sheeted and unsheeted on the ground why was you unsheeting bin on the lorry.
He was back in this morning.
Fred Dibnah saw this country for what it had become
“The thing is nowadays, you’ll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them ‘You can’t do that, you ain’t got a tin hat on’”
I say fair play to the driver. It’s the company’s game, he’s just playing by their rules.
If it’s OK to leave the engine running while you finish the delivery WHY can’t you leave it running in the first place?
Terry T:
I say fair play to the driver. It’s the company’s game, he’s just playing by their rules.
In this case Terry I agree with you 100%.
I’ve always worked things my way and if any Co wants to inundate me with their petty rules and regs then I’ll happily use THEIR rules as a big stick to beat them with!
If he jumped down and hurt himself, he would not get paid, simple, but sad…