Handing in your Keys, to get unloaded, gets worse

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Rob K:
What’s with the rainbow colours, like :question:

I remember now must have took ages to post that. :laughing: :laughing:

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DAFMAD:

Rob K:
What’s with the rainbow colours, like :question:

I remember now must have took ages to post that. :laughing: :laughing:

Are you bored Steve :question: . What you doing raking up topics that are over a year old just to tell me that it must have taken ages to type a thread :question: :confused: :confused: .

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it seems that there are a lot of drivers on this thread after my own heart…good luck to all of you for sticking to your guns…i`ve been fighting the cause without much success for a lot of years…but seems it was a one man war…but its catching on…drivers today wont put up with what we had to put up with in the past…and why should they…as i always say…if we were all united…and in one union…we could have this industry sown up…and all to our own advantage…and let us be the bosses for a change…keep on fighting the fight…and we will all be better off for it…

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How did Rainbow get this thread restarted its over a year old :stuck_out_tongue:

There is another thread running with the same subject, just shows nothing changes :open_mouth:

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:smiley: Blame that RobK :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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I spent ages reading this thread then saw the Big ‘A’ and thought ay-up Mal’s back? Then I looked at the date. Should have been April 1st :blush:

Salut, David.

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:unamused: :unamused: This is in my mind a steeeuuuuupid method of so called ‘Health & Safety’ as they like to call it. Its not just at RDC’s either.
Now the growing trend is to tell the driver he can’t sit in the cab now as well as hand in the keys.
Apart from the fact that it is not at all Healthy or safe for the driver to have to hand in the keys and sit in a completely inadequate area, with little or no facilities.
They don’t check that the handbrake is on.
They don’t check that the doors are locked, someone else could get in and let handbrake off etc.
They don’t check that you have handed in the Unit keys, could be the keys to anything, or another Truck.
They cannot check, whether or not the driver has a spare set of keys.

  • Many more reasons why this is such a stupid idea. Handing in the keys to your truck means nothing and does not in any way make it any where near safe to unload. Whereas if the driver is allowed to stay in the Truck whilst off-loaded it would be safe.
    If there needs to extra safety, then, they need to use trailer locking equipment. Seems to me that having your keys is a comfort thing, it does little else.
    :unamused: :angry: :unamused: :angry: :unamused: :angry: :angry: :imp: :imp: :imp:
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In the US, many docks have a “bumper grabber” that hooks the trailer bumper. Do these exist in the UK?

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Do a lot of places ask for the keys DAFMAD? Do they check you are not in the cab?
Because of the amount of personal stuff kept in my cab I would have to refuse to leave the truck unattended. If they are worried about it moving why not just drop the trailer.

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I’m banned from Morrisons at J41 because I refuse to sit on a hard plastic chair in their cold and windy warehouse without any facilities whilst they spend 4hrs unloading a 20ft box full of tinned tuna.

Of course, because all the other do-gooder drivers were happy to do the same they didn’t see what the problem was I had.

Sorry, but they don’t zebidee me about.

Doesn’t bother me if I get banned. Plenty more jobs out there.

My current banned list consists of :

  • UPS Haulfast at Shaw Cross, Dewsbury - allegedly drove the wrong way round the one-way system.

  • Fyffes at J41 Ind Est - because of >>

  • LIDL at Middleton - I refused to pick up all the bananas that went over using one of their 4-pallets-at-a-time-turning-circle-required-the-size-of-Kent electric pallet trucks. Took the wagon back to Fyffes and dumped it in the middle of their yard as they said I wouldn’t get paid if I didn’t pick them up.

  • Morrisons J41 - see above.

  • SOCL at Trafford Park - no-one gets away with jumping the queue and getting in front of me when I’ve been sat there 2hrs already. Blocked the entrance and exit off.

  • Nisa Scunthorpe - when I asked to use the toilet they said it wasn’t working. Fine, show me where your staff one is says I. Can’t use that, it’s not for drivers says the lady. So you’re telling me you haven’t got a toilet anywhere on site I can use ? No. No problem. I went to the wagon, picked up my emergency bog roll, went behind a bush in the yard and emptied myself out there. This was a good few years ago. The TM came out and all hell broke loose. He refused to tip the wagon, gave me the notes back and told me to get off site immediately. I wrote to their MD about it and the total lack of facilities but typically, never got a reply. I’d do exactly the same as I did there anywhere else if they said they didn’t have any facilities. I just won’t put up with treated like a turd, so I gave them a few of my own.

  • Royal Mail at Whitwood - reasons I can’t go into yet.

  • Safeways at Tamworth - I refused to get in the container and “help” them unload it so they banned me.

:sunglasses:

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If they want me to sit on a cold plastic chair in the warehouse for 4 hours, then they can take a running jump. No way :imp:
And if they hqave no loo facilities for drivers when I need them? Fine, I’ll take the truck to the nearest place that has them, and i’ll come back when I feel like it. Too bad if they’re wanting to unload in the mean time.

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we need to know about the royal mail else i aint gonna sleep 2nite
:laughing: :laughing:

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AlexxInNY:
In the US, many docks have a “bumper grabber” that hooks the trailer bumper. Do these exist in the UK?

I’ve been to a few places with them Alexx so they do exist but I’m not sure how common they are as I don’t do that many UK deliveries.

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Coffeeholic:

AlexxInNY:
In the US, many docks have a “bumper grabber” that hooks the trailer bumper. Do these exist in the UK?

I’ve been to a few places with them Alexx so they do exist but I’m not sure how common they are as I don’t do that many UK deliveries.

I’ve seen them used at a few places but the names escape me.

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AlexxInNY:
In the US, many docks have a “bumper grabber” that hooks the trailer bumper. Do these exist in the UK?

I’ve done a couple of drops where they took the keys, chocked the wheels but let me stay in the cab. Just a bit OTT I thought :smiley:

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AlexxInNY wrote:
In the US, many docks have a “bumper grabber” that hooks the trailer bumper. Do these exist in the UK?

Won’t work on my trailer :frowning: , ripped it off in a farm lane this week :smiley:

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sainsburys at hams hall make you wait in the waiting area while they tip you .if you return to your truck they stop tipping :open_mouth: and they also take the keys off you.

kwik save put you on a bayyou get a red then when they finish tipping you they give you a green,when you go up to the office you have to sit there for another hour because they haven’t checked it and won’t give you the keys to move your truck off the bay.why not leave it on red until everything is done then you don’t have to look at there ugly mugs gossiping about crap for a hour :smiling_imp:

cossco at magna park have the things that grap your trailer wheel as you back onto the bay and can only be released from the inside by staff.

jon

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dont mind at sainsburys stoke well looked after there in rest room.coffee machine cold drink machine food machine really nice toilets and friendly

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hollywood:
Do a lot of places ask for the keys DAFMAD? Do they check you are not in the cab?
Because of the amount of personal stuff kept in my cab I would have to refuse to leave the truck unattended. If they are worried about it moving why not just drop the trailer.

Walkers in Leicester do exactly yhis, you drop your trailer on the dock and park your unit outside the canteen. Spot on :laughing: . Costco at leicester have these bumper grabber thingies which lock the wheels in place. A good idea until you go in and get stuck on them :unamused: . Then a man has to stand with his shoulder against the truck and a bar to leaver the thing straight whilst you move foreward. Health and safety gone mad :open_mouth: :unamused: :wink:

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I had to tip at one of those RDCs at Chelmsford (ALDI or LIDL, cant remember!) but i got refused because they use those grabbing devices and the wagon i was driving at the time had “side fairings” and would have been damaged, so i said " o.k. just get the forklift and put the pallets on the bay that way!!". The look on the guys face was a picture. I asked to see his supervisor and went to the office, there i saw drivers doing the warehouse bods jobs for them, unloading their own trailers with those electric carts and putting the pallets down various lines, then drivers who have tipped were waiting ages for their notes. While i was waiting i noticed that one poor sod was reloading his wagon so i wondered over to him and asked him what was up? the jist of it was there was a discrepancy with the order and so it was refused I said " what happened to once its off it stays off ? he said " dont work like that here!". I m glad that my visit to an RDC such as that was a one off and i don`t envy the guys who put up with it day in day out, they could never pay me enough to treated like that.
rgds,
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