Best way is to strap it as u go along we have to cross them which is more of a pain in the ■■■ don’t get any greif from forkies as long as it isn’t health and safety crap ie salt or oil etc then you just do your best.
tachograph:
Win-Stone:
Tris:
I’m getting a bit browned off going to pick up loads that have been loaded only to find it two pallets high and/or the internal straps buried. I do make the fork truck driver unload what needs unloading, but the whole process ends up taking about an hour and I’m sick of it. The fork truck drivers attitude is I’m the only one that moans and I’m just a pain in the arse.So, let me see if I’ve got this right:-
You’re complaining because you’re being professional enough to do the job properly??
Strange person!
Don’t you think that’s a little unfair, if you’re the only one on a company trying to do the job right and getting grief for it you’re bound to get a bit brassed off with it.
+1
I have the same feeling…and I think its something that maybe puts you at the front of the line for reduced hours/pay/let go etc
hahaha
45 trollies in a fridge don’t need strapping
because there in a fridge
tachograph:
Win-Stone:
Tris:
I’m getting a bit browned off going to pick up loads that have been loaded only to find it two pallets high and/or the internal straps buried. I do make the fork truck driver unload what needs unloading, but the whole process ends up taking about an hour and I’m sick of it. The fork truck drivers attitude is I’m the only one that moans and I’m just a pain in the arse.So, let me see if I’ve got this right:-
You’re complaining because you’re being professional enough to do the job properly??
Strange person!
Don’t you think that’s a little unfair, if you’re the only one on a company trying to do the job right and getting grief for it you’re bound to get a bit brassed off with it.
Only one in the Company? No, all the OP says is that the “forkies” are moaning: if his manager was complaining because he was doing his job properly - that’s a different ball game, like him, most of us would then be looking for an out asap.
The forkies is a different matter. I’d be more tempted to simply, and politely, point out to the forkies why I’m asking them to do what I’m asking them to do; stick to your guns and, after half a dozen times they’ll almost certainly get the message - after all, it’s in their interest to get it right so that you don’t have anything to complain about!
Radar19:
I like strapping, its like a puzzle.
Loaded by Monkeys on Fork Lifts, so it’s a Monkey Puzzle !
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Win-Stone:
tachograph:
Win-Stone:
Tris:
I’m getting a bit browned off going to pick up loads that have been loaded only to find it two pallets high and/or the internal straps buried. I do make the fork truck driver unload what needs unloading, but the whole process ends up taking about an hour and I’m sick of it. The fork truck drivers attitude is I’m the only one that moans and I’m just a pain in the arse.So, let me see if I’ve got this right:-
You’re complaining because you’re being professional enough to do the job properly??
Strange person!
Don’t you think that’s a little unfair, if you’re the only one on a company trying to do the job right and getting grief for it you’re bound to get a bit brassed off with it.
Only one in the Company? No, all the OP says is that the “forkies” are moaning: if his manager was complaining because he was doing his job properly - that’s a different ball game, like him, most of us would then be looking for an out asap.
The forkies is a different matter. I’d be more tempted to simply, and politely, point out to the forkies why I’m asking them to do what I’m asking them to do; stick to your guns and, after half a dozen times they’ll almost certainly get the message - after all, it’s in their interest to get it right so that you don’t have anything to complain about!
+1
Stick at it they will soon have your load on correctly first time round, the way it should be. I have a constant battle at my place with lazy loading
martinviking:
Radar19:
I like strapping, its like a puzzle.Loaded by Monkeys on Fork Lifts, so it’s a Monkey Puzzle !
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The lads at my place aren’t too bad, as long as you don’t leave the straps all over the bed of the truck.
tango boy:
Tris:
Contraflow:
Tippers mate, tippers.Chuck 30 tonne of stuff in the back, forget about it. Arrive at your destination, pull a lever.
Repeat.
Doesn’t pay enough mate. It’s gotta be class 1.
Really■■? LOL I’m on bulk tipper class 1 and i’m on good money
And me
I feel for the OP, as a similar thing is going on in my place of work…
All the “Management” are looking at is times, who is the quickest and who is the slowest. Wondering why it takes him 15 mins to get out the gate and wondering why it takes me 30-45mins… Because I start exactly on my time not 10-15 mins early with out getting paid. I check and clean every light and bulb. I check every tyre tread, including every inside tyre on a decker. I top up all the levels before leaving the yard. He how ever left the yard with a flat tyre on a trailer!!!
Wondering why he takes 10 hours o do a run and it takes me 12 to do it…Because I take my break in the bunk, not in the back of a trailer or on a tail lift. Because I drive at the speed limit, he doesn’t.
Wondering why it’s my name all over the defect book and not his… Because I check the vehicle and report defects, he doesn’t.
They know why he always gets infringements and I never get any… because (in their opinion) I’m on break all the time, I’m work shy and always in the bunk (In reality) I take the legally required breaks as and when required.
I’m wondering why he is knocking his pan in, running bent and risking his licence, doing the same job I am for £80-£100 a week less than me 
On my last ever driving job, mine was loaded overnight… well loaded was a bit over the top really as some nights it was just chucked on. I went in one day for a 4.00 am start only to find that over width pallets had been put on against the headboard, with the gates turned round the wrong way and the curtains bulging out, looking close to tearing. The night shift had gone home so I phoned the boss 
That was the last time they made such a bloody mess of it, but I still checked every day.
Bottom line is to do the job right because you’re the only one that carries the can.
every load on a curtainsider etc should be treated as if it was a flatbed, if it could fall of a flatbed it could fall off a curtain, it may not come through the curtain but it causes a danger for the person opening the curtains, that is straight from Mr VOSA mans mouth, a fridge/box van should be secured with 1 or 2 load bars amoungst and behind the load.
I collected a load of construction gear last Friday and while fastening down, it was mentioned that : “you put plenty of straps on, don’t you?”. My reply was my usual - " it takes a lot less time to restrain a load securely than it does explaining to the police, DVSA and my gaffer why it fell off!"
Tootling my merry way back up the A1 with said load on, I had to stand on the brakes due to a Fedex artic’ that had obviously been stolen and was being driven by a blind, one-legged, mentally unstable hobbit 
. Surprise, surprise, the load didn’t move…
Hiya…just thinking…ouch that hurt…these Vosa men go on about insecure loads…theres nothing as insecure
as hanging beef even when it is secure… they’ll not know about that will they better shut up see ya.
if the beef is hung properly then its no problem , its just like a tanker, going easy on corners, braking etc, worst case is one of the beasts will fall to the ground, but in a fridge its no big deal. vosa will never say anything about hanging beef not being secured.
After 4 years on those crap DHL teardrop curtainsider trailers, in the wind snow and rain, strapping every pallet, I now have a new job with a 2 month old Schmitz fridge, and it’s great!!
It takes longer to pull the ladder out and climb up into the trailer than it does to put 2 bars in!!
Walking floor is what you want , bulk , dumpy bags , palletised goods , you name it & we carry it , never had a load move yet
mackemflan:
Walking floor is what you want , bulk , dumpy bags , palletised goods , you name it & we carry it , never had a load move yet
Surely every load moves on a walking floor 
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