Today i come to one cash @carry with 26 pallets.Start tipped me and ready taked 4 pallets.Come another good in checker and check load around and talk who missed one product.It is some 120 boxes.I said may be but please check pallets what you taked ready.He show me look.I said here 3 pallets but you ready taked 4 pallets.Oh,ah in some language.It is another flt drivers move pallets to somewhere.He don t go check this pallets and sign paperwork .So if i agree first that they can ''stolen" .One pallets it is 900 boxes of juice.Wholesale price can be about 500-700pound.It ot first time when good in staff count not correctly.
I had something similar when I first went back to the lorries in the 90s. There were two of us (both agency) together delivering during the night to a warehouse in Runcorn. There was only one guy there and he told us to wait in our cabs while he tipped us. We backed onto adjacent bays and settled down for a couple of hours.
Eventually, he came out and said that the load was short…? It was a big warehouse and there were pallets and brown boxes all over the place; he said that although we had 52 pallets there were 20(?) boxes missing. I said that I wanted to do a count myself and he said that some boxes were already on shelves etc. The other driver was all for signing his note accepting the shortage but I wanted him to sign for 52 pallets, not 2,000 boxes or whatever. Anyway, we had a discussion…
and I refused to sign unless he got his manager out of bed to sort it out.
We left without agreeing that the load was short and AFIK he never reported it as our office told me that there was no query. I still believe that he was just trying it on and if we had signed, those boxes would have ended up in the back of his own van.
What colour?
Had this tried with me a few times when delivering to certain cash and carrys starting with dha.
I’ve had it tried on with me, everything from parcels to pallets. There was a common denominator with all of them, blowed if I can remember what it is though.
Another they sometimes pull is remove all the pallets, then spend ages “checking” them and find something damaged at the bottom of the pallet. Always the bottom.
Of course they’ll write on the paperwork about x bixes damaged and wont be paying the supplier for that pallet (we were 3rd party) but we’ll keep it here to save you taking it back. Hmm…of course it didn’t end up on the shelves used.
Sure one place was Red Bull and one can damaged.
Andrejs:
Today i come to one cash @carry with 26 pallets.Start tipped me and ready taked 4 pallets.Come another good in checker and check load around and talk who missed one product.It is some 120 boxes.I said may be but please check pallets what you taked ready.He show me look.I said here 3 pallets but you ready taked 4 pallets.Oh,ah in some language.It is another flt drivers move pallets to somewhere.He don t go check this pallets and sign paperwork .So if i agree first that they can ''stolen" .One pallets it is 900 boxes of juice.Wholesale price can be about 500-700pound.It ot first time when good in staff count not correctly.
Crown Road Enfield by any chance?
Not far from Enfield.Some place in Totenham
I do often think that suppliers could do a lot better job of picking/palletising deliveries to make them easier to check off or these days would be very easy to print labels with how many of what on each layer and stuck on the side.
“Bestway” is to make them count them off the back, would’nt trust em as far as I could squirt them.
Wheel Nut:
What colour?
Nuff said…
I’ve had the this pallet is out of date, so can you take it back,
Me. “no”
Them “why not”
Me “because that date on the product doesn’t match any dates or codes on the delivery note”
Them “it was second pallet off”
Me “well it’s thawed out bloody quick”
Them" you take anyway"
Me “can do, but you won’t get credit for it”
Them “we keep then”
I leave with signed notes, also get lots of damage after they’ve signed, and the amount of shortages, they try. And yes 99% of them are our colonial friends.,
With Tankers we had several colonials who didn’t have a weighbridge but they always had a dipstick or flowmeter. I reckon the 100 litres a time with the amount of deliveries earned the night shift £500 a night.
My best result was 2 damaged pallets of dog food, a few dented cans on the bottom row, “we don’t want them, take them back”
After a phone call and me refusing to sign anything I took them away. My dog and my mates dog ate for free for 18 months. [emoji23]
Chuck them in the corner of the yard near the skip. I said that’s where my car is parked, the office said “chuck them in your car then”
Andrejs:
Not far from Enfield.Some place in Totenham
That’ll be our colonial friends, or Turks,squeaks, A-rabs, even Nord sfricans, but our colonial friends are the worst offenders, for trying the damage fiddle/shortages, I find the squeaks and Turks are very good for a brew and getting you unloaded.
I once was called to the office at a bonded warehouse in "the peoples republic of british Columbia …(delta ) " it was manned entirely by Chinese and the girl in the office spoke English,well I was backed on the bay had a part load on already just picking up 10 skids for home.The girl was unusualy chatty about nothing in particular and the little voice in my head went somethings fishy here ,so I near ran back down stairs to the trailer and yup the fkrs had a couple of skids OUT of the trailer WTF . 
I ran and stood behind the FLT stopping him taking them away and yes they knew fine I was there to load as my skids to collect were lined up at the side… after a lot of no speaky English and the girl coming down and with a totally different attitude towards me and I made a call to my dispatch,telling me not to leave until the local company we used/got the load off sent a guy in to recheck my load! From then on any motor that went in the driver did not leave the back until the skids were loaded on and you pulled of the dock before going for paperwork. 
To be fair, the guy from Runcorn who tried to diddle me was a local who looked and spoke like a regular from Two Pints and a Packet of Crisps.
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Andrejs:
Not far from Enfield.Some place in TotenhamThat’ll be our colonial friends, or Turks,squeaks, A-rabs, even Nord sfricans, but our colonial friends are the worst offenders, for trying the damage fiddle/shortages, I find the squeaks and Turks are very good for a brew and getting you unloaded.
I think they are Turkish but it is not very improtant.Last years i bring load in Watford where all just English.And i was same problem.
If its a big place with cameras you could suggest that they check the recordings? If a big place with legitimate management, then maybe only the FLT driver is on the fiddle. Probably though its a smaller place where the FLT drivers are all family, or mates, and any camera will be “broken” or recording not available or similar. Harder to deal with.
Maybe start making a phone call?
You started off with 26plts on the truck? Only 25 were off loaded?
Therefore you have been robbed.
Now, if I discovered I had been robbed I wouldnt move until I had reported it to the authorities. Ticket not correctly given a clear signature? Im not going anywhere. No need to shout or make a fuss. Just get your phone fired up.
Stand in front of goods in chap and phone the police. Report the theft. See if the FLT driver makes a sudden search of the premises or not?
Ill bet he will. Ill bet he finds the lost pallet.
my uncle worked in the shipyards in glasgow where at one point there was a big undercover operation into theft.
he was one of the main suspects and the cops got a warrant to search his house.
they arrived in the van all tooled up and upon opening the door my auntie asked them who they were looking for.
she told them if it was my uncle,then he was round the back working in the shed,but just to wait before unloading all their gear out ov their van and he would bring the forklift truck round to unload it for them… 