I’m glad I came home with no stab wounds. I do store deliveries by myself at night to all sorts of places (everything closed, not a soul around) but London is the only place that gives me the chills. In the morning, nn my way out of the city I couldn’t help but think how many people must be laying in hospitals now recovering after having been assaulted last night, or worse. Maybe I’m just a big coward, lol. I mean the odds are pretty slim but getting knifed and bleeding out is pretty low on my list of favorite ways to die.
Have a laugh with your firm and ask them what their procedure is to protect lone workers at night on what is a high risk situation, even if just for the unloading alone , never mind some oink turning up with a blade.
Bet pound to a penny it’s a bollox answer back you’d get [emoji4]
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Have a laugh with your firm and ask them what their procedure is to protect lone workers at night on what is a high risk situation, even if just for the unloading alone , never mind some oink turning up with a blade.Bet pound to a penny it’s a bollox answer back you’d get [emoji4]
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The procedure consists of instructing store staff to leave the external lightning on when they lock up in at the end of the day. I’m serious, I read it on the risk assessment sheet. Also you’re supposed to ring the transport office when you arrive at a store and then once again when you’re done unloading and about to leave but virtually no one does that and what I did to test them was call them when I arrive at my first drop but then don’t call them again and just go on with the rest of the deliveries and return to the yard, no one said a thing 
Unless your a black teenage boy your chances of been stabbed are pretty low ffs.
How many millions of people go about there business day and night in London with no problems
kr79:
Unless your a black teenage boy your chances of been stabbed are pretty low ffs.
How many millions of people go about there business day and night in London with no problems
I’d be worried.
Even years ago, a mate of mine reckoned that doing off-licence deliveries of high-value spirits for Grants of St James in South London was the most dangerous thing he’d done…and that was in shop hours and mostly daylight.
His hobbies are hang=gliding and motorcycling, so not a complete wimp.
Can’t believe that in this day in age of health and safety lone store delivery’s at night carry on.
It’s like they say sod it it’s only the driver.
It’s not the crime aspect it’s also the scenario of what if he had an accident unloading etc.
One store near me gets night delivery’s and I’m weary walking to my car in that area at night never mind unloading in to the shop on my own.
years ago I used work for neweyayre think there rebranded now.
anyway job was delivering cages and pallets to electrical shops /units on nights.
used be given sets keys alarms codes etc let your self in deliver lock up and move onto next one.
most were on industrial estates .
but one was in stoke. just a unit alone on a main road with pubs take aways clubs along it. I hated going there on a tur or fri never felt safe . used usually get there around 11pm trying unload cages on a road pushing them into a shop as all the drunks were going past
I never felt safe. lots of banter and abuse aimed at me . although used see some sights of women some nice some were stuff of nightmares.
edd1974:
used be given sets keys alarms codes etc let your self in deliver lock up and move onto next one.most were on industrial estates .
but one was in stoke. just a unit alone on a main road with pubs take aways clubs along it. I hated going there on a tur or fri never felt safe . used usually get there around 11pm trying unload cages on a road pushing them into a shop as all the drunks were going past
I never felt safe. lots of banter and abuse aimed at me . although used see some sights of women some nice some were stuff of nightmares.
Ouch yeah I know what you mean, lols. Some of the stores are near “entertainment areas”, it’s so sad to see middle aged men and women wasted on a weeknight around 10-11 p.m. already.
Survived a 2nd night in London, but I cheated this time - I left the yard late and took my break early at the services so when I arrived it was nearly 6 am. already. As I was making my last turn into the industrial area I saw what looked like the typical club-goers gathered in small groups waiting around for taxis, mostly young kids in their late teens/early 20s; most of them had this kinda hipster-y look about them, not really the violent type. There must be a disco or three nearby, will keep that in mind 
Being a moped driver (delivery or just commuting) seems to be one of the most dangerous occupations in London as gangs will target you for your moped to use and dump in their little gang-missions. I doubt one would attract much attention as a ragged truck driver and if they want my load I’ll help them move it onto their van if they will allow me to 
When was the last time anyone saw a movie where the hero is a truck driver? Yeah, me neither. Ok, MadMax Fury Road maybe but Furiosa was no ordinary driver with the setting being an apocalyptic, surreal, lawless future and all that. The only one I can remember is the nameless truck driver in The Fast and Furious (the 1st one) where he shot at his highjackers causing one of their cars to crash and I think they still ended up stealing his truck/load. 
Convoy?
Smokey and the Bandit?
Truck driving was cool back then, and strangely most UK truck drivers are ‘of an age’ where they would have seen those in their formative years.
Perhaps that’s the way to solve the driver shortage: get the RHA to fund a movie with a truck-driver hero. Maybe a remake of Smokey and the Bandit with Dieseldog as the Bandit and PC Angus Nairn as Smokey?
Or Dozy as Rubber Duck, forming a convoy of trucks to get home to his place for a Friday steak?
“Steaks alive, looks like we’ve got us a convoy.”
Nah for some real truckin hero stuff, its got to be White Line Fever for looks, Duel for old school tough wagon, Hell Drivers for old school tough guys, and a minor mention to Smash Up On Interstate 5 for the hero trucker who saved and won the girl 
I see a lot of routine “bad driving” by car drivers around London at night, but seldom “skuffles” or “alternacations” starting up, that could become violent.
The biggest “situation” I ever witnessed was when behind a bus in the New Cross area just turning into Loampit Vale, when a gang pulled the emergency stop on the bus, and then boarded it in numbers to drag some other teenager off before letting the bus go on it’s way… “Gang Related” - I was thinking.
You’re not going to see people get “mugged” - as they do that when “absolutely no one else is around” other than the gang members.
Moped “■■■■■■ and grab” seems to be the commonest crime perpetuated by criminal gangs against innocent bystanders, with the “violence” being between rival gang members, hence the so-called “Black on Black” aspect of it.
ETS:
When was the last time anyone saw a movie where the hero is a truck driver?
Duel!
Watching a car-driving sales rep get completely terrorized by a truck driver for half a day is my antidote. I live vicariously through that hero truck driver! When he tries pushing that car under the train, that’s me pushing Doris through the roadworks in her Micra!
ETS:
The procedure consists of instructing store staff to leave the external lightning on when they lock up in at the end of the day. I’m serious, I read it on the risk assessment sheet. Also you’re supposed to ring the transport office when you arrive at a store and then once again when you’re done unloading and about to leave but virtually no one does that and what I did to test them was call them when I arrive at my first drop but then don’t call them again and just go on with the rest of the deliveries and return to the yard, no one said a thing
How do you get a signature for proof of delivery on that job ?.As for London I’ve never been that bothered about being attacked but the place is just gbh of the senses in general.If it was me I’d bulldoze the whole place and put it back as it was when Southwark was still rural countryside. 
ezydriver:
Duel!Watching a car-driving sales rep get completely terrorized by a truck driver for half a day is my antidote. I live vicariously through that hero truck driver! When he tries pushing that car under the train, that’s me pushing Doris through the roadworks in her Micra!
Yeah, 1971. Not very recent. Rubs salt in the wound. We’re unworthy successors of glorious truck drivers of old.
We are all pretty bad at assessing risk. The biggest risk you were taking was ending up on your back with a cage on top of you, or being squished by your own truck because you didn’t put the park brake on.
Santa:
We are all pretty bad at assessing risk. The biggest risk you were taking was ending up on your back with a cage on top of you, or being squished by your own truck because you didn’t put the park brake on.
That’s not risk - that’s being stupid. The biggest risk is getting crushed in your cab by another large vehicle - something you have no control over, like the poor fellow who was killed on the A14 a few months ago.
GasGas:
Convoy?Perhaps that’s the way to solve the driver shortage: get the RHA to fund a movie with a truck-driver hero. Maybe a remake of Smokey and the Bandit with Dieseldog as the Bandit and PC Angus Nairn as Smokey?
We’ve already got one on the Travis Perkins building deliveries wagon v horse topic.Sort of a Brit trucking and western movie all in one.Just find out where it was and rename it Once upon a Time in the East/West/North/South whichever job done.
Don’t forget the essential theme song.East Bound and Down loaded up and reversing he’s gonna do what they say can’t be done.She’s got no where to go and lots of time to get there let’s all wait and see if that horse will run. 
Thing is trouble can happen anywhere at any point. Doesn’t have to he getting stabbed, could be punched on a night out in an unprovoked attack and that’s it. If you let stuff worry you then you’ll never go anywhere/do anything. Just self preserve and then hope for luck.