The plant you are talking about RobK is I think Ciba Geigy on the Low Moor Industrial Estate.
They have 2 or 3 plants on the estate.
NEJ:
The plant you are talking about RobK is I think Ciba Geigy on the Low Moor Industrial Estate.They have 2 or 3 plants on the estate.
That’s them, yeah. I remember them much better as Allied Colloids, as our house was one of the ones in the evacuation area when the place went up in smoke on 21/7/92 
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Well, Tesco, Didcot, were a nightmare yesterday.
Apparently their computer system went down for some four hours so, although they could still ‘intake’ goods, they couldn’t ship it out to the stores in their own vehicles.
Which was fine until the ‘floor’ got full. Which meant that although they had delivery vehicles on bays, and delivery vehicles parked up along the back road by the pumps, they couldn’t actually ‘tip’ them until they could make space within the warehouse.
Typically, it was a three hour wait.
Certainly I, and I’m sure a number of others, having been booked in and the problem explained, would have welcomed the opportunity to provide a mobile number and then disappear off site until needed. 
But no. We were expected to sit there like coralled sheep.
And what was worse was that the Lamb and Veg pie on offer in the canteen was totally naff. 
Rob K:
NEJ:
The plant you are talking about RobK is I think Ciba Geigy on the Low Moor Industrial Estate.They have 2 or 3 plants on the estate.
That’s them, yeah. I remember them much better as Allied Colloids, as our house was one of the ones in the evacuation area when the place went up in smoke on 21/7/92
Handy load for me. My Grandad lives over their back fence. Has done for years. Consequently, I still think of it as “Colloids” too. 
Well “Krankee” they could have been decent and given you some facilities like free meals or you could be like me and be a “Veggie” then the pie wouldn,t bother you 
Seriously though the problem is what they call “shelf life” of the product that is why they store it “on the floor” instead of on racking like the old days as they then get “free” storage by virtue of using the wagon as a free warehouse for their stock 
The problem is that when things go ■■■■ up like this then they have no storage space left and so the haulier has to wait and gets no standing costs for waiting but when you are late for your time slot they push you to the back of the qeue and to hell with your other deliveries 
Chris DB:
I can’t remember where, but one newly built RDC I was at last year, has what appeared to be the only failsafe system to stop trailers being moved whilst still being loaded or unloaded.After backing on a bay, a mechanical locking mechanism attached to the offside steel guide bar on the ground, moves forward of the front trailer wheel and wraps around it. This is done electrically before the bay’s loading ramp can lowered onto the trailer.
Unfortunately, handing over of keys is no guarantee that the trailer can’t be moved, and as has been said earlier, neither is the emergency airline lock.
I had the misfortune to be a witness last year at the new Dunelm DC in Stoke, when a visiting driver attempted to drive off a bay on a red light, leaving a ride-on pallet truck and it’s operator hanging off the back of the trailer in the 4 foot gap which resulted. Luckily in this instance the operator escaped with only a sprained ankle, but it could so easily have been fatal had the 2 tonne pallet truck landed on top of him. Needless to say, from then on keys had to be handed in by visiting drivers, but the potential for mishap remained, as detached trailers could always be moved by a Dunelm unit or shunter.
Cost Co has this system was that where u saw it ?
seams quiet a good system, works well
Fallmonk:
Cost Co has this system was that where u saw it ?
seams quiet a good system, works well
Saw it for the first time on Saturday when I delivered to Costco in Chingford.
Can’t see most RDC’s investing money when they can just ask for the keys.
This is the system at Culina in Milton Keynes.
Biggest problem with handing keys in is deciding whether to leave your window up or down when the weather looks dodgy on a warm day, electric windows are not always a good idea.
Dairy Crest at Nuneaton you have to put the trailer brake on, legs down and pull out from the pin. I think it was Salvesens also in Nuneaton that was another where you had to drop the trailer and park across the yard and the shunter put a lock on the red line coupling on the trailer.