Had the same issues as Goldfinger 15 years ago… Customer weren’t allowed to drive the machine off the low loader because they weren’t insured and we weren’t allowed to drive the machine on site because of site safety etc… had a bit of a stalemate when you got to the bottom of the ramps 
Eventually sites came up with a " no mans land " not classed as the site … just a coned off area within the site… H&S gone mad and more boxes ticked by those who live in a bubble 
Muckaway:
Is it h&s why container drivers don’t help unload, or just not their job? I always think fair play when I see the driver putting his curtains around and leaving the customer to it.
I do a mix of containers & full loads on curtainsiders. Can’t remember the last time I helped unload anything, nothing to do with H&S just that it’s either being tipped on a bay/through the side by goods in staff, or theres a workforce on hand to handball off the 1000 boxes of loose tat from China the companies imported.
Your just not expected to get involved & I wouldn’t want to risk knackering the job for others by offering.
rob22888:
Muckaway:
Is it h&s why container drivers don’t help unload, or just not their job? I always think fair play when I see the driver putting his curtains around and leaving the customer to it.I do a mix of containers & full loads on curtainsiders. Can’t remember the last time I helped unload anything, nothing to do with H&S just that it’s either being tipped on a bay/through the side by goods in staff, or theres a workforce on hand to handball off the 1000 boxes of loose tat from China the companies imported.
Your just not expected to get involved & I wouldn’t want to risk knackering the job for others by offering.
Just the sort of answer I was looking for mate. I wish my ex employer when on the flour had that view. Instead we had to drop it where the customer wanted it, even if it was upstairs. It ruined what could and should’ve been a great job.
Went on a site near Cambridge taking in a tower crane the other week and the h&s plank kept hovering and telling the riggers not to climb on the trailers even with a harness .it took quite a few phone calls from crane company to point out that if the riggers can’t get on to get the chains on these tower blocks ain’t going to raise above the first floor
Muckaway:
Is it h&s why container drivers don’t help unload, or just not their job? I always think fair play when I see the driver putting his curtains around and leaving the customer to it.
Not getting in the container, goes back long before elf n safety back in the 70`s,it was when containers where just starting to get popular,and Dockers thought it was their job to fill and empty them,on the dock not at customers premises.
Unions eventually after common sense prevailed that it was more practical to deliver / collect from customers, deemed it to be the Drivers job to collect and deliver a box to premises not to load or unload its contents
F-reds:
And really, what is thing about no shorts? They don’t say you have to wear long sleeves do they?? Same bloody thing. Swamp donkeys…
Yep afraid they do…Arms covered at all times due to the possibility of cement burns… 
Dipper_Dave:
In reality they have covered their arse but know drivers will ignore this rule to get the job done thus leaving them wide open if things should go wrong.
What they dread is a driver following this rule and causing em grief by either asking for permission in writing to get on the back of the truck or the load dont move as it cant be secured properly from ground level or upsetting customers by not mucking in.
Precisely the crap I deal with at work, Sign this please, ink isn’t even dry and they are expecting me to do what I’ve just signed not to do!!!
I’ll go out and do as I’ve signed to do, but most drivers just sign without reading and go about their business as usual.
Does anyone know what you get called when you do as you’ve been asked/signed to do?.. a trouble maker!!!