Rob K:
If you want an easy life, Morrisons is the only supermarket you should drive for out of choice, or perhaps Asda at a push. The rest are all hell holes. Morrisons because you don’t touch the load. Just pick up trailer, take it store, put it on dock, go to the canteen for a brew and relax, then take it back to the depot once the store minions have tipped and reloaded it with empties.
Asda (ambient at least) requires you to get in the back, but it’s all on pallets so you can soon make light work of it with a pallet truck.
Tesco and all the others use cages and trolleys which will chop your fingertips off at any opportunity you give them and will predictably have at least 1 square wheel from drivers losing their rag with them trying to move them over rough ground because the RDC chumps have loaded them with 2 tonnes of booze and pop (like Ady says above). The cages only have 3 sides on them and because of the way they get loaded, you can virtually guarantee that a pack of something sticky/messy will have fallen out and smashed on the floor of the trailer enroute. Then you have all the cages and trolleys to load back on to take back. And don’t get me started on all the ratchet straps being rusted to [zb] and seized up
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+1…
I’ll add to that if I may. One or two of your cages will have dog food or something heavy on the top whilst the lower section will have bog rolls or cotton wool. Almost guaranteed to tip over as soon as you undo the strap holding it in. Uneven floors in trailers and trailers which haven’t been washed out for months if not longer. Trolley wheels that are seized, missing or have only one direction of travel (90 degrees to the one in which you want it to go).
Sooner or later, you will trap a finger between cages and even with good gloves on…you will know about it.