jessicas dad:
also the lorries you see from scotland or a way away from the hubs are often than not picking up the 48 deliverys and not the next day plus if the lorry has to far to go ive seen them double manned.
Yep,some have two Drivers,but other go just down to Carlisle,give the Trailer a other Tractor and go back to Glasgow,for exemple.
So each one can do it in his Shift.
jessicas dad:
ive done some of that night trunk with the parcels and its very cushy not all rush rush you get to the main hub join a very long queue that goes down quite quick then when empty you park up sometimes for 4/5 hours then they fetch you and load you and on your way.
And cheap Restaurant
paul@midway:
it’s Amazing anyone survived that …
That unit !!Not one to tar anyone with a brush though , is it just me noticing this or are pallex driver’s under immense pressure all the time .
Flyer’s and all that , never really happy to let you overtake and will roll back down the inside of you if they can …
Just seem to look like there under pressure…Given some of there questionable driving habit’s …And i have to agree with rob k . Pulling fully loaded moving load trailer’s every night (liquids) the only time one falls over is when the driver has driven beyond the vehicle’s capabilities …
All of our driver’s are given a fair investigation when a rollover occur’s , but the outcome is that they were driving too fast and thus dismissed …
You don’t have really Pressure,but,if you don’t notice at wrong Time a Trafficjam is it always bad.
I will point out that i already anoye some since Weeks with complains about wrong Balance loaded by stupid Forkliftdrivers who don’t mind your need’s.
But i am not really sure how the Accident happened.
Anywhy,he’s from Purfleet,and you can apply there for his Job. 
As the Tractor looks will you by sure get a new Unit.
fred Kanka:
Anywhy,he’s from Purfleet,and you can apply there for his Job.
As the Tractor looks will you by sure get a new Unit.
bloody hell fred thats a bit heartless 
Fred in English when someone has died we use “past tense” so you should have said "he WAS " from Purfleet…
jammymutt:
Fred in English when someone has died we use “past tense” so you should have said "he WAS " from Purfleet…
We also use grammar and punctuation, Jammy…hence:-
Fred - In English, when someone has died, we use Past Tense (proper Noun, therefore should be capitals, not lower case with speech marks).Therefore (more grammatically correct choice of phrasing) you should have said: (colon to indicate example follows) “He was from Purfleet” (capital for “He” in this case optional, although sits better IMHO as the start of a statement which is complete in itself).
It may, of course, be different in Scottish. 
Of course none of us are perfect Fered and you could always srtick to the pigoen English and we can guess what you mean.
Lucy:
It may, of course, be different in Scottish.
No, I think that pretty much covers it. 
Whatever happened to Stanley Unwin■■?
Before I got a “proper” job , I did agency work for a while. One job that came up occasionally was a night trunk for Woolies with double deckers. This was when Exel had the contract (although I think that Wincanton had already taken over the warehousing part of the contract). I ran from Glasgow down to Chesterfield (I think), did a trailer change and took my break before running back up to Glasgow.
On the second occasion of doing this run my trailer back up the road wasn’t ready for me, so I waited in the drivers rest room for them to call me when it was loaded. After about an hour and a half the shunter came in and told me I was loaded ready to go. As it was getting a bit late by now I hooked up, did the usual checks (including checking the backdoor seal), revved up and disappeared from the yard in a cloud of dust . Happily, I had to slow right down to turn out of the yard, because as I pulled away again, the inside wheels of the trailer started to lift. I very gingerly drove down the road, round the roundabout and back to the yard.
The gaffer wasn’t very pleased to see me back, but when I insisted that we had a look at the load before I would move it any further he stomped about but agreed to check with me. When we opened it up we saw, 20 or so pallets of canned drinks on one deck and another 20 or so pallets of crisps. Which deck do you think was loaded with the crisps 
Ill put you out of your misery 
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That’s right, THE BOTTOM DECK
I was lucky, I would have been going a fair bit quicker when I reached the roundabout. It was a straight section of road and at after 2:30 a.m. there would be very little traffic so it would be easy to time driving onto it at a reasonably quick rate of knots.
I also did several weeks of nightshift when I was with Andrew Wisharts. They are part of the Palletline set-up. I was running down to the northern hub in Leyland with a double decker. The forkies in Kirkcaldy and Leyland knew their job and would listen to the drivers preferences. I had no heart stopping moments when I was doing that run and ran at, near enough, full weight most nights.
FRED
Quote ( or words to this effect) " trailer pushing you …
Exhaust brake and foot brake’s before the trailer get’s a chance to control you …
Obviously in extenuating circumstances you can’t effectively do this , and your left to fate . But as i posted i have noticed that pallex driver’s seem to have no fear and plough on regardless . Maybe it’s just me i don’t know , i have a moving load so i,m always aware of whats going on if possible and ready to react because at the end of the day that moving load in the wrong circumstance’s has the potential to kill me …
I,ve been pushed almost into a jackknife by one our 29T trailer’s at 10mph in a yard in the wet , so i do know what you mean …
I,ve done parcel’s , i know parcel work is light …Very light compared to what i do now …I sometimes pull an double decker gunneled to the limit with wine’s and spirit’s I hate it, the [zb] thing scare’s me . But i drive to well under the vehicle’s limit’s on roundabout’s and curves and leave a good gap ( cars do jump in ) and just take my time …
I see pall ex with double deckers driving like there in a go cart …
Just my opinion !!!
Too obvious. L.
When i passed my test, i worked for a firm that was in wps at Saltley,doing parcels. and for us it was the easiest job ever,but now all the parcel firms seem to drive like maniacs now .
I see pall ex with double deckers driving like there in a go cart
i know what you mean paul i [zb] myself everytime i go past that turn for fradley on the a38 because they stop for no one ther coming out into your lane like it or not.
and they hate the fact i do forty between bassets pole and the balfrey. sitting on your back door giving it the lights (yer that will make me speed up …not)
jon
Your better off doing 40 mph down there jon …
Two reason’s …
( great bear pulling can’s from the ndc 4 wks rolled over on that road )
paul@midway:
Your better off doing 40 mph down there jon …
Two reason’s …
( great bear pulling can’s from the ndc 4 wks ago or more rolled over on that road in a nice spanking new shiny scania , just up from the belfry at the piddly uber camber roundabout … )
Also are the M42 at the A446 roundabout roadworks that dont advise you of diversion’s and if they do choose a diversion they choose the longest diversion known to man getting right on your ■■■■■■’s
Every night the diversion is unworkable ,ridiculous and uncalled for … I CHOOSE MY OWN DIVERSION
Meant to edit !!!
not reply … oh well
When I worked for Norbert Dentressangle, we had the Pallex contract covering Newport, the Eastern Valleys & Hereford. I would be out all day in my 17tonner delivering & collecting pallets, then it was a mad dash back to the yard to cram all the pallets onto the trunk trailer for that evenings delivery upto the hub (I think it was up in Nottingham) It would have to be up there ASAP, so as soon as you got back in the yard, the FLT drivers would pounce on you & whip off your pallets & put them on the trailer. No thought would go into the loading at all, & quite often things were shoved on, then the curtains done up quickly to stop it all falling back off again!
The return trailers that we would get back in the morning were equally as bad, & I can remember there being an accident near by Symonds Yat when a load of pallets shed themselves all over the carridgeway, no doubt partly due to poor loading.
The worst time was when we opened up the curtains, only to have a huge sheet of metal come flying off a pallet stacked right up on the top deck…it very nearly decapitated the FLT driver!
Pallex were also very good at hiding pallects that needed ADR certification in with all the other pallets too…they would be shrink wrapped with black shrink wrap, & all the paperwork inc the trem card would be in a sealed envelope, so you would hae no idea what you were carrying!!
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paul@midway:
FREDQuote ( or words to this effect) " trailer pushing you …
Exhaust brake and foot brake’s before the trailer get’s a chance to control you …
Obviously in extenuating circumstances you can’t effectively do this , and your left to fate . But as i posted i have noticed that pallex driver’s seem to have no fear and plough on regardless . Maybe it’s just me i don’t know , i have a moving load so i,m always aware of whats going on if possible and ready to react because at the end of the day that moving load in the wrong circumstance’s has the potential to kill me …I,ve been pushed almost into a jackknife by one our 29T trailer’s at 10mph in a yard in the wet , so i do know what you mean …
I,ve done parcel’s , i know parcel work is light …Very light compared to what i do now …I sometimes pull an double decker gunneled to the limit with wine’s and spirit’s I hate it, the [zb] thing scare’s me . But i drive to well under the vehicle’s limit’s on roundabout’s and curves and leave a good gap ( cars do jump in ) and just take my time …
I see pall ex with double deckers driving like there in a go cart …Just my opinion !!!
Too obvious. L.
Just wait i come back,but in case of Emergency will you kick the Brakepedal to the Metal and not start with Philosophy
And in english that mean’s …
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don.t be silly fred i have already a driver that exists in burton, a town not far from depot , maybe a left turn , maybe a right i don 't know …
But driver’s both like not A38 fradley turn off , pallex truck. come out on road slip and go
BOOM … on the faster truck pedal …
HIill down roll they try !!!
Yoda ■■?
