Turbo:
Is that where you have to back up the ramp to reverse on an unloading bay and then sit on a chair in the ‘drivers waiting area’? If so good riddence and throw some petrol at it!
Haha I’d forgotten about that place.
Thanks for the memories 
What they using to put it out a fire extinguisher?
I have just watched the video and it looks like at least 3 maybe 4 of the lorry’s on the bays could have been saved so why didn’t anyone try and move some of them
atlas man:
What they using to put it out a fire extinguisher?
I have just watched the video and it looks like at least 3 maybe 4 of the lorry’s on the bays could have been saved so why didn’t anyone try and move some of them
probably because the keys weren’t in them and were still loaded and the lights still on red and the drivers locked up somewhere in a waiting room.
you gotta follow the written procedures you know
Could some of the lorries’ ve been moved prior to the fire spreading? I expect health and safety nonsense stopped any sensible behavior?
green456:
probably because the keys weren’t in them and were still loaded and the lights still on red and the drivers locked up somewhere in a waiting room.
you gotta follow the written procedures you know
Or perhaps you get all people away from the fire and don’t put anybody at risk. Lorries and stock can be replaced, people can’t.
I can’t believe some of the stupid comments made in this topic by what obviously must be hero drivers 
peterm:
Fair old blaze. Sounds like the old Ralph Hilton yard. I worked for him in the 60’s.
So did I, mainly on the handball Brandy run from Sheerness docks to the bonded store near Lime St station in Liverpool. Had to have specialised equipment with you to do that job
M1 used to end at Leeds then and across to Liverpool on the old East Lancs rd.
interlog:
Could some of the lorries’ ve been moved prior to the fire spreading? I expect health and safety nonsense stopped any sensible behavior?
green456:
probably because the keys weren’t in them and were still loaded and the lights still on red and the drivers locked up somewhere in a waiting room.
you gotta follow the written procedures you knowOr perhaps you get all people away from the fire and don’t put anybody at risk. Lorries and stock can be replaced, people can’t.
I can’t believe some of the stupid comments made in this topic by what obviously must be hero drivers
That’s it exactly, if it was noticed when the fire was small then yes someone would probably have moved them but likely no keys in them and as soon as the alarm goes off anyone not evacuating would likely end up out of a job. Even with firefighters spraying water on it still spreads fast.
Please please please may it have been one of those wheel-lok things that went up in smoke and caused this.
Would love a bit of the health and safety equipment to actually have caused it. Maybe over use of hazard lights caused combustion. Perhaps one of the thousands of H&S signs stuck to the building walls fell onto someone’s steel toe caps, creating a spark which set his hi viz alight. The driver attempted to fan the flames using the laminated sheet (with the site rules on) but the inferno raged, setting light to all the painted lines on the floor.
Maybe one of the security guards caught alight through anger. Please please please…
atlas man:
I have just watched the video and it looks like at least 3 maybe 4 of the lorry’s on the bays could have been saved so why didn’t anyone try and move some of them
The drivers were out of hours and the VOSA had drawn chalk lines around the trucks so they were immovable.
Actually. Thinking about it. Has anyone heard from Dozy recently?!..
Come on Dozy, man up and admit you were cooking on a gas cooker in your truck, witnesses reports said an odour of spaghetti Bolognese was drifting from your cab.
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Could some of the lorries’ ve been moved prior to the fire spreading? I expect health and safety nonsense stopped any sensible behavior?
green456:
probably because the keys weren’t in them and were still loaded and the lights still on red and the drivers locked up somewhere in a waiting room.
you gotta follow the written procedures you knowOr perhaps you get all people away from the fire and don’t put anybody at risk. Lorries and stock can be replaced, people can’t.
I can’t believe some of the stupid comments made in this topic by what obviously must be hero drivers
No common sense. If these places didn’t have these stupid “hand your keys and sit in the naughty room for three hours” rules, then perhaps some lorries might’ve been saved and less damage to the building. Sorry but if I’m parked somewhere and the lorry next to me catches light, I’ll attempt to move my lorry clear.
Muckaway:
No common sense. If these places didn’t have these stupid “hand your keys and sit in the naughty room for three hours” rules, then perhaps some lorries might’ve been saved and less damage to the building. Sorry but if I’m parked somewhere and the lorry next to me catches light, I’ll attempt to move my lorry clear.
You’ll probably find that these vehicles were on dock waiting to be loaded with drivers gone off duty long ago - in other words there were no drivers responsible for these vehicles when all of them caught fire.
No drivers were waiting in the naughty room for any length of time.
Bottom line - in reality none of the vehicles could have been saved and any hero stupid enough attempting to save them most probably would not be able to tell the tale.
atlas man:
What they using to put it out a fire extinguisher?
I have just watched the video and it looks like at least 3 maybe 4 of the lorry’s on the bays could have been saved so why didn’t anyone try and move some of them
Yes it’s a shame to see the trucks going up in flames when there was loads of time to move them out the way, but I expect once the fire alarm goes off it’s everybody out to the assembly point and nobody allowed back in.
Cosmic:
Yes it’s a shame to see the trucks going up in flames when there was loads of time to move them out the way, but I expect once the fire alarm goes off it’s everybody out to the assembly point and nobody allowed back in.
It is quite a simple principle - once there is a fire you evacuate. Sod stuff that you can replace - life is more important than that.
But of course, this is Trucknet, the place for hero truck drivers that in reality most probably would be the first ones at the fire assembly point looking to change their soiled underpants.
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But of course, this is Trucknet, the place for hero truck drivers that in reality most probably would be the first ones at the fire assembly point looking to change their soiled underpants.
+1
Everyones a hero from the safety of their living room. Me personaly,if I heard the fire alarm id be out the cab and off. Only a fool gives it the “Id have ran over and moved the trucks to safety” speel.
Might be off at a tangent here, but I think as much of Sainsburies as Daily Wail thinks of Tescos… 
People who’ve “stopped shopping” at Sainsburys, but don’t want to admit they’ve done so - are like the other side of the coin to those who “Vote Conservative” and treat their visit to the polling booth or even slipping that postal vote into a letter box - like visiting the clap clinic or brushing to the front of the queue in Boots and asking for a packet of Mates from the most mincing guy there… 
Aslong as there’s no risk to yourself why not move your vehicle? If you’re in a services and the wagon next to you catches light, do you just bail out or move your vehicle to a safe distance away?
That fire could’ve been contained to just 2 vehicles with very little threat to anyone’s safety
Muckaway:
Aslong as there’s no risk to yourself why not move your vehicle? If you’re in a services and the wagon next to you catches light, do you just bail out or move your vehicle to a safe distance away?
All depends on the wagon, if it is a crap Merc like Sainsbury’s use just let her burn……
Winseer:
Might be off at a tangent here, but I think as much of Sainsburies as Daily Wail thinks of Tescos…Sainsbury’s predicted as next big company to go bust
People who’ve “stopped shopping” at Sainsburys, but don’t want to admit they’ve done so - are like the other side of the coin to those who “Vote Conservative” and treat their visit to the polling booth or even slipping that postal vote into a letter box - like visiting the clap clinic or brushing to the front of the queue in Boots and asking for a packet of Mates from the most mincing guy there…
Not a very scientific way of investigating the state of a company - ask the public, who have no inside info, which they think might go bust next (out of a choice of how many?). I do so some of my shopping at Sainsbury’s, some of it at Waitrose as that happens to be the most convenient where I live, but there are some things you can’t get there. Sainsburys’ big mistake was to start selling lots of cheap rag-trade clothes, even in medium-sized shops, when they’d been associated with good quality food. My family just switched their online shop from Ocado to Sainsbury’s.