When the trailer is on a loading bay and the green light means they have finished unloading and you can pull off the bay .
Dont . Walk to the back of the trailer to check if they have tied off the internal straps against the wall or a hook in the bay door .
Never ring the office to say you are empty as soon as the green light comes on.
The unloading staff may have rejected a pallet or a few and put them in the trailer and the reason will be written on the paperwork .
Too ■■■■ right, could be an hour or more before you get your notes back.
I often wonder if Sainsburys Tamworth have ever accepted a whole load? And Hoddy aren’t far behind. Morrisons Sittingbourne and occasionally Bridgewater like to send back a bit of gear, as do Nisa Scunthorpe and the Co-op at Coventry used to be swines for it. Apparently they hadn’t ordered it.
Funny that, because out of all the places that our place delivers to, it’s always those two that ends up with us just banging them in some random gear.
And if you ever have the misfortune to deliver to a Bestway, and they say there’s a shortage, ask to double check it off with them. The stock miraculously was there all along. This particularly happens when the goods in staff have just returned from an exotic holiday. Well I’m assuming that they have, as they seem to be well tanned. No idea why they keep doing that Apoo off the Simpsons voice either.
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PaulNowak:
Too ■■■■ right, could be an hour or more before you get your notes back.I often wonder if Sainsburys Tamworth have ever accepted a whole load? And Hoddy aren’t far behind. Morrisons Sittingbourne and occasionally Bridgewater like to send back a bit of gear, as do Nisa Scunthorpe and the Co-op at Coventry used to be swines for it. Apparently they hadn’t ordered it.
Funny that, because out of all the places that our place delivers to, it’s always those two that ends up with us just banging them in some random gear.
And if you ever have the misfortune to deliver to a Bestway, and they say there’s a shortage, ask to double check it off with them. The stock miraculously was there all along. This particularly happens when the goods in staff have just returned from an exotic holiday. Well I’m assuming that they have, as they seem to be well tanned. No idea why they keep doing that Apoo off the Simpsons voice either.
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I’ve been lucky and not had anything rejected from Tamworth, Sittingbourne or Scunthorpe (may just have jinxed myself there). Waitrose Milton Keynes seems to be the worse one for that in my experience. Constantly rejecting pallets that are supposedly broken, I’m sure they break them half the time.
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Do you not observe the unloading? Or do you need to use it as rest period rather than other work?
spacemanZ10:
Do you not observe the unloading? Or do you need to use it as rest period rather than other work?
How many places allow you to observe the unloading unless it’s a side tip job?
You’re either stuck in your cab or a stinking waiting room
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spacemanZ10:
Do you not observe the unloading? Or do you need to use it as rest period rather than other work?
Stuck in waiting room unfortunately.
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PaulNowak:
spacemanZ10:
Do you not observe the unloading? Or do you need to use it as rest period rather than other work?How many places allow you to observe the unloading unless it’s a side tip job?
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Quite a few places for me, I’m normally only got one or two for them.
When you have slept over night in the cab , my tip is get out of the cab to check for punctures and check the lights work.
Then if everything is ok , then.put the digi card in to show a safety check.
The reason for this, if you wake up to find a puncture or another problem to stop you driving and have to wait hours for a call out to arrive and fix it, you then have more time in the day.
For example, wake up at 6 Am, card in 6 am to show 15 minute check.
You then find a fault that needs a call out.
The second option is put the card in once the mechanic has got you going again.
No way would I be sitting around waiting for a fitter in my own time. However, I do for some reason seem to notice that every single time one has to come out to me, it always takes just over 3 hours to fix the problem. And as I’m free to dispose of that time exactly as I wish…
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Radar19:
PaulNowak:
spacemanZ10:
Do you not observe the unloading? Or do you need to use it as rest period rather than other work?How many places allow you to observe the unloading unless it’s a side tip job?
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Quite a few places for me, I’m normally only got one or two for them.
I suppose that’s the difference between class 1 &2 I guess I’m just used to being a customer and checking what I sign for and if we don’t get it verified by the driver it’s not creditted.
spacemanZ10:
Radar19:
PaulNowak:
spacemanZ10:
Do you not observe the unloading? Or do you need to use it as rest period rather than other work?How many places allow you to observe the unloading unless it’s a side tip job?
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Quite a few places for me, I’m normally only got one or two for them.
I suppose that’s the difference between class 1 &2 I guess I’m just used to being a customer and checking what I sign for and if we don’t get it verified by the driver it’s not creditted.
Once you back onto a bay, that’s it, you’re either in your cab with no keys, or stuck in a waiting room. There have been tales on here from drivers that have fastened up their curtains and strapped up their load, knowing full well that it’s 26 pallets, then some RDC twunt has tried to say the delivery is a pallet short.
Tesco Purfleet once tried to tell me I had left a strap around a pallet and when they tried to pull it off it had gone over. Funny that, as I was pulling an XL trailer and the only straps I’d used were the 2 across the back, and the rest were in the bunker in the headboard.
When I pointed this out, needless to say the entire delivery was accepted with no shortages or damages. (They’d actually taken a strap from the back of the trailer and put it into one of the side hooks to imply that’s where it had been all along)
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