Getting locked out

Rikki, you’re welcome :wink: :sunglasses:
I’m guessing someone took it too far - didn’t get a chance to look today, as the wagon locked me out whilst the engine was running :angry: If you got a Volvo with remote locking - don’t let the door slam whilst the key is in the ignition :exclamation: Took two hours and £45 to get in, and then a five hour drive home. Today sucked…

The Sarge:
the wagon locked me out whilst the engine was running :angry: If you got a Volvo with remote locking - don’t let the door slam whilst the key is in the ignition :exclamation: Took two hours and £45 to get in Today sucked…

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I had a daf LF do that to me! luckily id left the window down a smidge and was able to use a wire coat hanger to press the leccy window button to drop the window down! :laughing: :laughing: ive NEVER left a set of keys in as ive got out since!

B…

Yup, I won’t again :laughing: Key out every bloody time from now on.
Been a ■■■■ week all round - got back to the yard to find a note from the office saying I’ve been done by a Scamera on the A15 somewhere round Lincoln. Should have had the week off instead of the 2 days to have a lump removed from me arm…

The Sarge:
Rikki, you’re welcome :wink: :sunglasses:
I’m guessing someone took it too far - didn’t get a chance to look today, as the wagon locked me out whilst the engine was running :angry: If you got a Volvo with remote locking - don’t let the door slam whilst the key is in the ignition

Volvos are notorious for unrequested driver lock-outs… it happened at least four times at the last firm I was employed at.

The Sarge:
Rikki, you’re welcome :wink: :sunglasses:
I’m guessing someone took it too far - didn’t get a chance to look today, as the wagon locked me out whilst the engine was running :angry: If you got a Volvo with remote locking - don’t let the door slam whilst the key is in the ignition :exclamation: Took two hours and £45 to get in, and then a five hour drive home. Today sucked…

I once did that in my Mitsi Evo VI years ago (when i was single and could afford it lol) it used half a tank of super in the 2 hours i had to wait for RAC to come and “break” into my car and it was snowing to top it off haha

had this happen to me, and seen a fowler welch driver take 5 bays out at asda lutterworth with the same thing, i automatically wind the window down now if leaving the keys in, would be easier to take em out but hey why not :slight_smile:

The first premiums were shocking for locking you out ,they had the same locks my old house had with the ex wife :cry: :cry: :blush: :blush:

I had this happen with my volvo a few months ago in the goods in lane at DHL in Doncaster. The catch tends to go across when the door shuts, I’ve even had it happen when on the latch so don’t take any chances, I always take my keys out or leave the passenger door unlocked just in case.

Office weren’t particularly pleased, hopefully you didn’t have your phone and everything else inside when it happened like me? :stuck_out_tongue:

This thread has somehow given me a horrible flash-back to once getting locked IN the back of a Merc 307 van; the wind blew the back door shut, the side door had a padlock on the outside, the handle had come off the one back door, and the little chain that was supposed to exist to pull the other door release wasn’t there. Then I heard my phone ringing in the cab. I was lucky that a nice chap saw it happen, stopped and let me out.

Involuntary cab lock-outs only ever happen on trucks where the door opening handle and the door lock are combined. It’s well known as being a problem which particularly affects post-2004 Volvos.

i know if i ever get a truck of my own, ill be “hiding” a door only key somewhere, just incase it ever happens again! them little magnetic key boxes are ideal for this sort of thing!

B…

A15 camera outside of lincoln showground is a weight sensor one set at 40mph.

Bungle666:
i know if i ever get a truck of my own, ill be “hiding” a door only key somewhere, just incase it ever happens again! them little magnetic key boxes are ideal for this sort of thing!

B…

Why not get into the habit of just taking the key out of the ignition every time you get out?
Lock outs have happened several time at my local DHL depot to visiting drivers, usually when the truck is at the gatehouse. When it happens it blocks the site entrance causing chaos.
Now the security staff insist you have the keys in your hand when you get out to go up to the window to book in

I suppose it could happen with a truck as well but during the last winter a young man nipped into the paper shop one morning near me. He was less than a minute - when he came out van and all tools gone :unamused: Phone, jacket poor lad was frozen!

Just a thought. IF I’m out of site of drivers door I lock it.

I drive cement mixers and for obvious reasons they aren’t turned off all day. Only once have I turned one off and that was in a bad area and I had to wander round to find someone.

dri-diddly-iver:
I suppose it could happen with a truck as well but during the last winter a young man nipped into the paper shop one morning near me. He was less than a minute - when he came out van and all tools gone :unamused: Phone, jacket poor lad was frozen!

Just a thought. IF I’m out of site of drivers door I lock it.

mate of mine ( a rather large / handy lad ) came out of the chippy to find some scrote helping himself to the contents of his van , rather than shout he strolled casually up and downed the [zb] he then proceeded to stamp all over his hands much to the delight of the small crowd crowd that had gathered :smiling_imp:

keep the fob seperate so many advantages!

I had this happen to me a couple of years ago at Comet in Harlow. My mate had tipped and I was just shutting the doors before I pulled off the bay. Luckily I had turned the ignition off but still ended up locked out. My mate was laughing his head off and took great delight in lending me his phone to ring in. This changed when they told him to go and fetch a backload from Milton Keynes (which I should have been doing!) Bearing in mind it was Friday morning at about 10am and a 4hr drive back home I was in no rush!
I sat tight for an hour in their waiting room then went straight home when door was unlocked.
When I saw my mate on the Monday he was fuming - he had to wait 2hrs at MK and then hit all the traffic after dinner time.
I had a lovely weekend…
Karma

This has happened a couple of times at our depot with Renault premiums, my solution was to get a spare key cut for a fiver. Ok no transponder so wont work ignition but it will get me in. Just keep it in my pocket just in-case.

Scanias in the frame for this too.