Silver_Surfer:
Winseer:
There’s a cold store near Charing, Kent where you back on the bay, don’t bother to hand your keys in, but you get clamped into place by actual wheel immobilizers that squeeze around your back wheels/axles…I never saw that system anywhere else though.
I was driving for Langdons at the time, where I’d be picking up some stuff from Peterborough or Luton, - or running into this cold store (from Dover), and taking it out TO those depots…
Yeah them’s the yokes they have at Costco Crick
So basically, you drive up to the gatehouse, loads of room, 3 lanes in and no bloody barrier. Hand your notes over , they give you a bay number or a waiting bay and a pager.
Back on the bay, you get clamped, don’t have to hand your keys in. You can sit in the cab or go to the canteen. Smoking hut is close to goods in. Pager vibrates when you’re done.
Drive to gatehouse for notes then you’re Oscar Mike. Loads of room everywhere. Slight downer is you have to open your back doors before backing on a bay as there’s a rizla between them which slows things slightly if it’s busy.
Was in there for 20 mins total for a full shoot last time.
Loads of room.
If I ever have to bribe a Banksman - to get on a bay - then I reckon I’d be ready for retirement at that point.
I tried bribing a Banksman once - but it was at Barclays to let me off my overdraft…
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I know, just pointing out that a lot of places we go to are pretty tight. Nice to see how the Yanks do it.
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I do a lot of RDCs for my sins and drivers waiting rooms have mostly been consigned to the bin by this pandemic, it’s fantastic 
Had 2 hours flat out on the bunk whilst being loaded at an Amazon site yesterday, set off on my next leg well rested instead of having been sat uncomfortable on a wooden chair for that duration.
At the moment it’s working well at all the RDCs so it’s up to drivers now not to ■■■■ it up by doing dumb stuff like pulling off on a red light with the spare set or congregating in the middle of the yard with your mates etc. If there are no incidents there is little justification for them to bring the waiting room arrangement back in.
Rob [emoji108]
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If anyone thinks they will not get this virus, should remeber that
A: lockdown is not to kill the spread of the virus, is just to slow it down so the health system doesnt get overloaded with everyone sick at the same time.
B: Only through heard immunity a pandemia stops, one way or another.
By the way, I would prefer eating a bat soup from that lab in China, than to get injected with the botched vaccine they gonna rush out with no proper safety testing.
elsa Lad:
Sit in your lorry while unloading? Thing is it always used to be like that until health and safety went mad. There wasn’t mass deaths or people getting hurt. Really all that is needed is a Susie lock then the lorry couldn’t be moved anyway.Luckily I don’t do many RDC deliveries, if I did I think it be time to call it a day. I’m first to say I’m little bit of a loner, I don’t want to have to listen to some stranger talking crap. So I am one of these people who hide behind my phone so hopefully I will be alone.
So I might seem a bit of a sado but if there is any good coming out of this is first we are treated like humans second, the health and safety people start looking at what is needed and not to just looking to change something to justify their job.
Also on a happier note, its nice to have people waving and clapping when you drive under a motorway bridge instead of throwing rocks. Don’t think it last long though
[emoji23] A fellow introvert. Anyone seen that [emoji3590] HGV flag hanging off the M25 bridge near Waltham Point anti clockwise. Made me blush as I drove past.
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