ytrehodluap:
Staines M&S up a ramp on top of shopping centre also with a multistorey carpark next door… what were these architects thinking!!!
That lorry drivers would obviously be able to tell the difference■■?
Simple solution would be to get some instruction from the planning team and information about tricky drops actually being communicated to drivers to tell them where to go.
At our place we normally get a written list of collections by email. If we arrive and note any problems we can tell the office who should put notes on that file for the next driver. (ex: north of low bridge/inside weight limit/don`t go in weight limit/reverse in only) This relies on the office updating addresses, etc, and drivers taking the trouble to tell the office too!
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Telling the office where to go is part of the job.
But surely regardless or all this if you arrived there and looked and thought, but that ramp doesn’t look like an artic will go up, you’d stop and have a walk first?
Generally, yes, I would.
I can imagine getting into a situation where the wide road leads to a narrower one, then a difficult corner, cars parked, cars up your arse end, then a tighter corner, cars queuing behind…
Yes, you should stop and walk, you should stop before you get around a corner you cant reverse back around, but it is a situation even experienced drivers get into. Be it cars parked, dragging a trailer around a blind bend with a hedge, be it whatever, there are pitfalls aplenty. Ive known of some experienced and savvy drivers who ended up in such situations. Sitting here now we may think wed never get into such a position.....I know Ive escaped by luck more than judgment in the past.
The ramp at Touchwood is unremarkable - the main problem, just as at most shopping centres, is finding the right delivery bay/door/lift.
I used to deliver to a big store in Birmingham city centre with a spiral ramp. There was a turntable at the top so you could manually push the truck round to get back down.
Santa:
The ramp at Touchwood is unremarkable - the main problem, just as at most shopping centres, is finding the right delivery bay/door/lift.
I used to deliver to a big store in Birmingham city centre with a spiral ramp. There was a turntable at the top so you could manually push the truck round to get back down.
They had a turntable at Harrods in Knightsbridge as well.
It’s pretty funny.
I feel a bit bad for him but oh well hgv drivers are not allowed sympathy.
Which is a shame because it may well have been his first day on the job with no previous experience. Panic and frustration can make people do silly mistakes.
Used to deliver cars for air freight to a company in that building at hatton cross in Heathrow, ridiculous place for a 6in off the ground car transporter…
The only place i refused to take the truck and was actually backed up by the boss.
But we had to do the auction in the Grand Palais in Paris every year no matter how tight or how much damage other drivers did
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