STRAP EVERYTHING DOWN TIGHT!!!
Quick to load once you are on the door, but some of the bottles are not well shrink wrapped to the pallet and can move and WILL be refused if it is leaning over.
And make sure the pallets are put on tight front to back and side to side.
Double check the consignment weights as they like to fill the trailers…
If staying over night, drop the trailer in the yard and bobtail down to the next town, plenty of takeaways, but a bit pricey because it is so close to Gleneagles.
Water is free from the warehouse, just ask the forklift drivers.
Overall not a bad place to load.
I only strap the back ones, NEVER had a load move! They load quick when on a bay, a mate was in the queue for 4 1/2 hours last week!
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Right who said it was a quick tip■■?
Am here the now 14th in the que !
Almost out the access road on to the main street .
Fallmonk:
Right who said it was a quick tip■■?
Am here the now 14th in the que !
Almost out the access road on to the main street .
No one mentioned tipping, they all said it was a quick load 
Wasn’t even a quick load , !
To be fair I was in and out in 3hrs , getting in was the problem , the loader was quiet quick , don’t know if it was busier because the Easter holiday ?
pete-b:
Nextdrop:
heard stobarts are offering to move it down to daventry on rail for nothing as long as they can deliver it from there of course, coulthards will be [zb] if that happens.
It makes perfect sense to me in a way - Scotland is a dreadful place to get backloads from I was once told there is five trucks delivering for every one coming out ! if you have 30 train wagons which have taken stuff for Tesco north you might as well try to fill them with something rather than send then south with fresh air !!
Maybe if people stopped offering to take loads out of Scotland for free, on the premise they get to deliver it once it reaches an English railhead, things would start to improve!
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Imo distances in the uk arn’t great enough to make the carriage of consumer/finished goods economical by sticking a rail leg into the mix.Maybe “merrygoround” coal trains to the Power Stations and Petroleum Products but thats about all,possibly some aggregate movements as well.Fair enough,the balance of “common sense” can be up-set in the case of Highland Spring if “the fast one” offers to do a certain amount of the movement F.O.C. using empty Tossco rolling stock returning South.But the pallets still have to carried to the railhead from the bottling plant,and handled,then they have to be handled and stored at Daventry then handled again when they are called off for final delivery by road to the customer.No,the economics don’t add up to me.How can loading the pallets straight onto the trailer and then delivered directly to the RDC be less cost effective than trying to weave a rail journey into the job ? And lets face it,a decent overnight trunk service from Scotland could have a trailer on the “doorstep” next morning anywhere in the UK !! IIRC Freightliners used to “■■■■ about” trying to get traffic that had a rail leg in the middle with road haulage at each end,it wasn’t economical or cost effective 30/40 years ago and still isn’t.If all the subsidies were removed from Rail you’d see these crazy rail movements disappear over night,believe me ! Cheers Bewick.
wheelnut wrote----get all your mp’s back north----WTF has this got to do with haulage ? and we all know that scottish water is the best in the world, that is why it is sold all over the world no matter what disguise it is in