the maoster:
Smarty pants? That’s vicious
You know me. “Old but Bold” 
simcor:
Utter dozy tosh again. I have done fridges for 10 plus years. The only interaction I have with the load is self tipping at Aldi. Darlington never had to tip a load yet, they always bang it off for us. Usually get some help even at other aldis tipping most times. Athestone have always tipped us on the chilled bays as well.
You weren’t saying it was another dozy utter tosh post, you were claiming that what he said was utter tosh. And now you’ve been put right by pretty much everyone else you’re now trying to wriggle out of the fact you were proven to not know WTF you’re talking about which seems to be a theme in your posts to the point I question whether you’ve actually progressed beyond a Mercedes Sprinter.
Conor:
simcor:
Utter dozy tosh again. I have done fridges for 10 plus years. The only interaction I have with the load is self tipping at Aldi. Darlington never had to tip a load yet, they always bang it off for us. Usually get some help even at other aldis tipping most times. Athestone have always tipped us on the chilled bays as well.You weren’t saying it was another dozy utter tosh post, you were claiming that what he said was utter tosh. And now you’ve been put right by pretty much everyone else you’re now trying to wriggle out of the fact you were proven to not know WTF you’re talking about which seems to be a theme in your posts to the point I question whether you’ve actually progressed beyond a Mercedes Sprinter.
That’s rich coming from you.
So I haven’t progressed from driving a van have I? Wonder why I go to work and keep getting in trucks and hooking up to trailers to deliver the stuff in them then [emoji2955]
Funny but I did a thread on my training progress with Peter Smythe transport and also spoke to the man himself at his business before he sold it, so obviously I am making it all up and it was a pipe dream.
I also never did my class 2 back in 2003 either in a G reg Merc artic that had been stretched and turned into a flat bed, by a husband and wife team in Redditch I believe it was at the time. Never did the emergency stop/ reverse exercise at garrets green test centre in brum either in the rigid.
I also never passed my C+E in 2016 in the Tango orange Iveco they have at PSTT, and passed with a clean sheet either.
I’ve also never worked for my boss at the time who had his own haulage business, that he sold a number of years ago and is still running under his business name in Coventry either.
So yep I’m making it all up.
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Bays 63 to 69 for standard trailers at Darlington.
Round the back for chilled at Athestone forget the bay numbers offhand. 11 to 16 springs to mind but could be wrong.
Bays 63 to 76 for Goldthorpe and they have 2 double pallet, electric pallet trucks if you’re lucky and they have any charge in them.
Oh and Sawley 63 to 73 from memory can never seem to find those pointless connector plugs that plug Into their pallet trucks to get them to work half the time either.
Tossco with their useless booking in screens and unhelpful staff, taking hours and hours to tip you thank God I don’t go there anymore. The only one I didn’t mind as could generally get in early and got reasonable tip time most the time was Goole. Reading, Magor and Litchfield all god awful places to deliver to.
Morrisons with stupid rules of unloading box fridges under a canopy and having to pump truck heavy pallets to the back of the trailer, putting 2 at time side by side for the fork lifts to take them off 2 at a time. When they have bays for box trailers. With the crappy small yard and trucks all arriving at the same times and having to find somewhere to park in a queue at times. Wakefield a god awful palace same as Swan Valley and Bridgewater.
I’m sure there are more I couldn’t even be arsed to think about but I like to get there get it delivered and get out of there in a decent time rather than being imprisoned in crappy waiting rooms.
In fact been to Goldthorpe yesterday and had 2 pallets with damaged stock on the bottom layers where the warehouse had mashed them into each other, stuck them in line A with the rest of the stock apart from the ambient bagels and stuff that comes from Warrens (aka Culina/Stobart/Great Bear/Warrens/Fowler Welch and whoever else they bought out) at Dirft. Never had any issues just left it with them and if they reject any it will get out on another truck when we deliver another load. Often her rejected pallets for short life dated products from Arlington chucked back on us, usually when we have a 26 pallet collection. Also got there just after 7 when the cut off time for us at least is supposed to be 7pm or we get fined.
Never ever done any flat bed work with a sheet delivering fibreglass skylights that had to be sheeted to protect them from the weather in the winter, forget the name of the place over Coventry as it is sometime ago now. Also Amtico flooring deliveries. Oh and running from various small engineering companies to land rover at Solihull either with hardly any parts on the vehicle for just in time before the lines stop.
Oh and before I passed my C used to collect from a printing company over Binley industrial estate 1 pallet of printed material as that’s all the 7.5.ton could take due to the weight of paper.
Never delivered to Ashbourne near Hulme end forget the name of the place again as a long time ago, from SCA packaging at Hinckley Dodwells industrial estate. Did quite a lot of work for them back then.
Or Hepsec (part of the Metsec group I believe) at Bayton road industrial estate with wooden bearers and straps and metal edge protectors, delivering to Sheffield Insulations and CCF mostly and building sites and having to handball stud wall metal sections either.
Hmm what else is there, dunno forgot a lot of the places and stuff I’ve delivered over the years.
Never went to Measham auctions with my old boss to buy a new Iveco van and cut the body down into a flat bed in the yard. Or cut down one of the 7.5 ton bodies into a flat bed, or left to deal with the company phone while he was on holiday and make sure all jobs were done. We also bought an ex JDR transport M.A.N 224 silent, which I loved that 18 tonner at the time. He also never had a Ford Cargo 12 tonner when I first started with him that was not limited and he used to moan about my speed traces being off the charts when I was out in the 7.5 tonner. Yet he used to fly around in that thing all the time. Or the 12 ton Fl7 I think it was he bought that was great and overtook everything as it did about 60mph unless you hit a hill and wouldn’t overtake naff all. Day cab with a pod on the roof.
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dozy:
toonsy:
Let us know how filling up with red goesI know a ball ache , I’m hoping the previous bloke fills it then I don’t , obviously I will fill it !!
I don’t think you can fill with red diesel anymore. The Government banned it for certain users!!!
Stephenjp:
dozy:
toonsy:
Let us know how filling up with red goesI know a ball ache , I’m hoping the previous bloke fills it then I don’t , obviously I will fill it !!
I don’t think you can fill with red diesel anymore. The Government banned it for certain users!!!
Good point yes red diesel was banned on the 1st of April. Only white now for fridges amongst other users of it. Although they have labelled the pumps in our yard up as unit fuel only and fridge fuel only. Presumably to avoid any contamination of traces of red dye if people use the ex red diesel pumps for unit use.
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Was not just fridges that had these problems, Sainsburys at Buntingford made you restack pallets if they were slightly out of shape.
Stephenjp:
dozy:
toonsy:
Let us know how filling up with red goesI know a ball ache , I’m hoping the previous bloke fills it then I don’t , obviously I will fill it !!
I don’t think you can fill with red diesel anymore. The Government banned it for certain users!!!
Bingo 
toonsy:
Stephenjp:
dozy:
toonsy:
Let us know how filling up with red goesI know a ball ache , I’m hoping the previous bloke fills it then I don’t , obviously I will fill it !!
I don’t think you can fill with red diesel anymore. The Government banned it for certain users!!!
Bingo
you can still use red diesel in your fridge, they would just have to pay the duty on it thats all
Of course but in reality its not economically viable unless there happens to be a load sitting in the yard somewhere still.
first year I was driving (25 years ago ) I ended up at some RDC somewhere with 4 pallets of chicken . Problem was There were about 30 different kinds of chicken on those 4 pallets and the driver “had” to split the pallets down . On entering the warehouse I started moving 4-5 boxes to one pallet then 4-5 boxes to another , so on and so on until one of the "warehouse people " who had been standing watching me came over and asked what I was doing .
"Splitting thes pallets down mate "
“But you put Kievs here , fillets there , chunks there” so on and so on
I said " Thats going to be a problem them "
“Why”
"I can’t read never finished school mate " in my best irish accent
Turned back and started shifting boxes round again
I was asked to leave and never return
Result
Never had to strip a pallet down in all my years of pulling them. Some are just trouble magnets
switchlogic:
Never had to strip a pallet down in all my years of pulling them. Some are just trouble magnets
Not a suprise as your loads ended up in ditches rather than at the Rdc !!
dozy:
switchlogic:
Never had to strip a pallet down in all my years of pulling them. Some are just trouble magnetsNot a suprise as your loads ended up in ditches rather than at the Rdc !!
dozy:
switchlogic:
Never had to strip a pallet down in all my years of pulling them. Some are just trouble magnetsNot a suprise as your loads ended up in ditches rather than at the Rdc !!
Just the one, and technically the load wasn’t in the ditch, it stayed in the trailer. Besides, I’ve probably delivered more fridge loads more successfully to more places in more countries than you ever will so there’s that. Nice try tho.